It features a variety of gameplay styles, from overhead shooting to Asteroids-esque sequences, and a pre-rendered ray-traced intro.

The first sequence has the player's spaceship, the Elapidae, in hyperspace en route to a planet, but the voyage is interrupted as space pirates and meteors threaten it.

The player controls the forward and backward thrusts of the Elapidae and rotates it left or right while the action is viewed from a top-down perspective.

Upon clearance of the area, the Elapidae returns to hyperspace, and the player has the option to allocate the ship's energy to its shields and firepower and select any of the weapons they have purchased before continuing its voyage.

Upon reaching the destination planet, the game transitions into sequence two as the landing-craft forward of the Elapidae detaches and the camera switches to a 3D perspective.

The player must destroy a certain number of alien spacecraft and then find and dock their craft on a landing pad before exhausting their oxygen level.

The fourth and final sequence begins with the remaining oxygen from the previous segment, in which the player controls their crew and must find the entrance to the location's underground complex.