STARLIFT
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Starlift

A puzzle game where matches lift off. Out now on iPhone and Android, with two-player play across the fold of iPhone Duo.

Download everything (27 MB) support@banjtheman.xyz

Starlift key art: a row of matched blocks ignites and lifts a stack off a blue planet

Fact sheet

Release
15 October 2026. Two-player Duo play from 23 October, when iPhone Duo goes on sale.
Platform
iPhone, iOS 15 or later, optimized for iPhone Duo. Android 10 or later.
Price
Free to start. The full game is a one-time purchase, US$4.99. No ads, no subscription, no account.
Players
1, 2 at one iPhone Duo, or up to 8 online
Genre
Action puzzle
Language
English
Made with
Godot Engine
Contact
support@banjtheman.xyz

The game

Blocks rain down. Line up three and they don't disappear: they ignite, and everything stacked on top lifts off with them. Too heavy to fly? Match again in mid-air and boost it the rest of the way into orbit.

Starlift is a fast portrait puzzle game built for thumbs, played in short runs. It is an independent game with no ads and no account, and solo play works offline.

  • Eleven worlds, each with its own gravity, lift and rain.
  • Voyage, a branching story in three acts with twelve keepers to beat and three endings.
  • Endless, Time Attack, Versus and an eight-player Royale.
  • Daily Launch: one run a day that is the same for everyone, with a global board.
  • Online: Quick Match, or rooms by code for friends. Computer players fill empty seats.
  • Every block has its own shape as well as its own colour, and flashing can be turned down.

On iPhone Duo

  • Two pages, not one big screen. Open the phone and the sky, your rival or the boss takes one page while your field takes the other.
  • Duo Battle. Two players sit face to face with the phone flat between them. The fold is the net: every stack you launch flies over it onto the other player.
  • Two co-op modes. Side by side with a field each, against the clock in Team Time Attack or against a keeper in Team Boss.
  • It follows the hinge. Layouts change as the phone opens, and a two-player match pauses when it shuts.
  • One app. Closed, or on any other iPhone, it is a one-handed portrait game.

iPhone Duo goes on sale the day Starlift comes out. Its Duo support was built ahead of the hardware, in Apple's simulator.

Video

iPhone Duo, 27 seconds. Download (35 MB)
iPhone, 29 seconds. Download (37 MB)

Screenshots

Straight from the game, with nothing added. Each opens at full size.

iPhone Duo, open

Duo Battle on Halcyon: two fields turned to face each other across the fold, a launch crossing between them Team Boss on Glint: two players' fields side by side, both launching at the same keeper A boss fight on Brine on an open iPhone Duo: Dr. Sargasso on one page, the field on the other Team Time Attack: both players launch together and a LINK bonus appears Choosing a world on an open iPhone Duo: the planet on one page, the modes on the other The Voyage star chart beside a boss briefing Royale: seven rivals' fields on one page, your own on the other Duo Battle on Cinder A boss fight against Forgemaster Brask on an open iPhone Duo

iPhone

A matched row ignites under a stack A boss fight against Forgemaster Brask Royale, with seven rivals' fields above your own The Voyage star chart Choosing a world: Halcyon and its ratings A Versus match with the rival's field at the top A 29-block lift leaving for orbit

Downloads

You may use everything on this page in coverage of Starlift. For a build to play before launch, or a question, write to support@banjtheman.xyz.