u/Head_Opposite6954

[TOMT] Can anyone help me identify this game?

I'm trying to find an old PC game I played around 2008, though it might be older — I got it from a stick full of games a family friend brought over.

What I remember:

You control a spaceship, viewed from a slightly 3D/isometric angle (not straight top-down)

You never leave the ship — all combat is done by flying and shooting

The setting is space, with a very dark, almost pitch-black background, and random asteroids floating around

There were different "zones" you'd fly through/explore

Enemies were dark-colored, alien-looking creatures with tentacles, sometimes with smaller creatures near them (not exactly waves/swarms, more like a big one with little ones nearby)

I don't recall fighting any bosses

It was NOT pixel art — it looked fairly "realistic" for the time, kind of dark and unsettling/scary

There was a lot of blood/gore when you killed enemies (enough that my mom didn't want me playing it as a kid)

I played it on Windows XP

Not sure if it had a story

I've already ruled out Alien Shooter and Starscape. Any ideas would be hugely appreciated — ive been trying to find it with claude for the past half an hour with no luck...so he suggested this draft for a post on this subreddit so were am i :))

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u/Head_Opposite6954 — 2 days ago