The Face Invaders app icon: a green alien against a purple sky

Face Invaders press kit

Everything you need to write about the game.

Fact sheet

Title
Face Invaders: Defend Earth
Platform
iPhone and iPad
Price
Free, with optional gem packs
Release
Out now
Developer
Solo indie developer
Languages
English, German, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Norwegian
Contact
via the support page

What it is

An arcade brick-breaker where the invaders wear your friends' faces. Pick a photo, the game finds the faces in it, and they become the aliens — named, and announced as bosses when they turn up.

The face detection runs entirely on the device. The game has no photo-library permission at all, so iOS never even prompts for one: it receives only the individual pictures the player hands it through the system picker. No photo is uploaded, there are no accounts, and there is no third-party tracking — unusual for a free game that asks for your photos.

Features

Download

Icon, ten screenshots at device resolution, all eleven ship hulls and all twelve galaxy bosses as transparent PNG, the trailer, and a plain-text fact sheet. Everything here may be used freely when writing about the game.

Download press kit (ZIP)

About 20 MB

A level in play: rows of aliens wearing picked faces above the player's ship A galaxy boss wearing a picked face, with its health and shield bars draining The Invader Studio, where picked faces are named and managed The Shipyard, showing ship hulls for sale with their gem prices The Armory upgrade tracks, each priced in gems that are earned by playing The galaxy map, with cleared levels marked by earned stars