Cosmic Dash

Cosmic Dash is a retro pixel-art space runner built for short, one-finger sessions. You steer a growing fleet: rescue little green aliens and fly through +/x gates to grow it from a single ship to as many as 999, shoot down invader swarms, and take on a mothership boss every 45 seconds or so. Every ship fires, so a bigger fleet hits harder, but anything that touches it costs ships, which makes every gate choice and every dodge count. Beaten bosses rain aliens, and rescued aliens buy permanent upgrades (starting fleet, firepower, magnet, alien value), so the fleet visibly grows stronger from run to run.