Nova Pilgrim
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rated 2.4 stars, 74 ratings.
Posted November 1, 2025. Updated November 5, 2025. Played 1034 times for a total of 307 hours.
description
Nova Pilgrim is a minimalist arcade space shooter game, offering high replayability through a variety of weapon upgrades. This game inspired by old school retro space shooter, like DoDonPachi, Ikaruga, and Raiden. The game is mobile optimized, but is suitable to play on PC as well.
latest update
accuratecat83 v0.0.3 November 5, 2025
v0.0.3 - 6-Nov-2025
- Added Pause mode.
- Allow Stage Select after you cleared them.
- Fixed mobile players moving off-screen.
- Minor visual upgrades.
newest comments
last boss guide:
bombs level 10
orbs level 10
use orbs to absorb bullets, bombs will eventually kill it.
if u take hits it feels like it lets u do more damage, but you get damaged too. i was on my last life so i just tanked hits from time to time up to 3% slime and spent 15 minutes killing it.
final score 42899360
10/10 game
developer response: Its quite hard to avoid getting oozed with the boss alive with the 3 minions also throwing ooze. If you have 3 extra credits to spare, you can always crash into those 3 minions and remove them, then you can slowly grind the main boss with ease.
4.3M on my second try, if the upgrades say what they do i can prob have an strat that hits 10M eazy and sadly it takes a lot of time for 1 run so i cant really go for improving myself a lot
and for some reason everytime i respawn the site just crashes so i cant use respawning for more score.
oh yeah i forgot to add my score of 6.482.000
developer response: congrats, i think you've got the highest so far
lowkey one of the best shooters that ive had played in forever, i had so much fun for this bullet hell and maxing rockets really makes you ultra strong (except the laggy stages)
this has talent and i love it 9/10
basically impossible to beat. even with super easy mode, max everything it was incredibly frustrating to fight the last stage and the last boss. Took me about 100 credits (i changed it in dev console). Stage 5 very laggy as well. Doesn't feel fair or fun.
developer response: to beat the last boss quickly, you just need to get Oozed to the point where you enter Rage Mode and the boss will receive 10x damage
top comments
1st run, picked orb and got rekt shortly after... 2nd run picked laser...and then lock on... and game turned into something else... 200k score in the end
fun game, feels similar to space invaders. end score 54940.
54130 was my score. I agree with some comments that this feels like a mobile game, there are some mobile games out there with a similar gameplay loop, the very slim vertical screen also adds to this effect, but I'm not saying it as a negative. Mobile games exist, they can be fun or they can be crap. This is OK. It's not something I'm likely to return to very often. Given this website is primarily incremental games, the first thing I'm thinking of is how you could inject incremental elements into it, permanent upgrades, a prestige system, progression, things like that. But as it is, it's a fine game to play a little bit when you want something that's not too demanding, a little bit challenging, but also you're not looking to dedicate a half-hour to it. That said, that does sound like something that might have a better life on mobile than on browser.
clearing stage 4 might be impossible unless you need to memorize where enemies was about to spawn or just need more dps, end score is 5,808,500
developer response: From bottom left you can see which weapon you have contributes the most damage to your overall play style, you can focus on them on your next run.
Both orbs and ice can help you to overcome stages with too many bullets
Sadly, this doesn't load for me. I'm on firefox, if it helps.
developer response: I've tested on firefox (v142 to v144), seems to be able to load without issue.