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• Announcements·22 Sept 2026Official

  Demo 0.4.0 — Eye of the Storm, heal pods, the Clinker, 40 routes

  Eye of the StormA new hazard. Every so often a storm sweeps the whole field, and everything outside one drifting green circle takes damage until it passes. You get a warning first, and an arrow points to the circle when it's off screen. It's the first hazard that tells you where to go instead of where not to stand. Healing on the fieldHeal pods: while your ship is hurt, enemies sometimes drop a small green cross. Fly over it to heal 5% of your health. At most two lie on the field at once, and after you take one, no new pod drops for a few seconds. They don't drop in boss fights.Repair Bay, a new planet perk: when your health drops below half, a repair kit warps in near you. Fly over it to instantly heal 40% of your health. One per stage, boss fights included.Both are logged in the Starlog.New mini-boss: the ClinkerShooting it heats it up. Once it glows red it always finishes the job: it locks a lane onto where you're heading, lunges there and explodes around itself. Ignore it for 7 seconds and it lights itself. While it waits it sheds small Spalls that chase you. Planet 3 now sends exactly one mini-boss pack, never two at once and never one after another. Two new itemsHeadhunter: everything you fire deals 20% more damage to elites and mini-bosses, at a small cost to move speed. One per run. Bosses are not affected.Triage: heal pods drop 50% more often and heal 50% more, at a small cost to attack speed. It stacks. There are still never more than two pods on the field.Mini-bosses in EndlessMini-bosses now come to Endless and Daily. The first arrives at 2:30, then they come more and more often, one every 40 seconds by 15 minutes in. From 10 minutes two can arrive at once. Every mini-boss shows up once before any repeats. Ships and bossesThe starter ship now flies with a half-power wingman drone from the start. Its luck gain per stage drops from 7% to 5%.The Palimpsest lifts its pen between strokes in its first two phases, which is your window to shoot back. Its pull to...
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• Announcements·14 Sept 2026Official

  Demo 0.3.0 — mini-bosses, three new bosses, sixteen new items, a radio

  Mini-bossesPlanet 3 stages now spawn mini-bosses. A mini-boss is a large elite with its own health bar that arrives during a stage. When it arrives, most of the enemies on screen are cleared out. Killing it pays a gold bounty. A stage can get one, two, or none. There are twelve, and a stage never spawns the same one twice. Torc: two bodies that orbit each other and take turns dashing at you.Trident: three bodies in a line. They aim, show their charge lanes, then charge one after another.Anvil: a block that stays put while its hammer swings at you. Kill the block first and the hammer bounces loose around the arena.Crux: teleports in, fires a spinning X of beams across the arena, then teleports away.Bagatelle: bounces off the walls like a pinball. Every wall hit fires a ring of shots.Bombard: keeps its distance and fires mortars at you.Rondel: three bodies in a ring that close in on you at once. Escape through the gaps.Tumulus: burrows underground. A marker moves toward you, then it erupts and knocks you back.Scissor: two blades that charge at the same time from two sides.Lantern: turns the screen dark for a few seconds and plants mines while you can't see.Revenant: follows your flight path and lunges at where you just were.Bellows: blows a cone of wind that pushes you toward the wall while firing into it. Move out of the cone sideways.Mini-bosses can't outrun you. They wait a couple of seconds after arriving before attacking. One that arrives late in a stage has less health, so it can still be killed before the timer ends. Three new bossesPlanets 2 and 3 have three new bosses. Each one is a giant version of an enemy from the last update. The Astrolabe is a huge Radian. It draws a big arc on the ground, then sweeps through it. Between sweeps it fires beams across the arena. In its final phase its Radian escorts spread around the arena and fire beams between each other. The Mosaic is a huge Tessera. The arena becomes a grid. Rows and columns of tiles light up and then ...
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• Announcements·1 Sept 2026Official

  Demo 0.2.0 — five new enemies, meaner bosses, smarter gold

  The bestiary just grewFive new hostiles now roam the three demo planets. The Cursive carves flowing patterns straight through your dodge lane. The Tessera teleports along an invisible grid, so it's never where you last saw it. The Radian hops in sweeping compass arcs. The Saltire drifts in lazily, then bursts bullets in a big X. And on planet 3, look up: the Perseid is a meteor you cannot shoot, streaking across the screen aimed at where you're about to be. Keep moving. Dead shooters shoot backEvery projectile enemy now fires one last volley the moment it dies. Killing a gunner early still pays, but it's no longer free. Check your angles. Area damage means it nowGas, blast zones and boss attack fields hit about 2.5× harder from the very first tick. Standing in the bad stuff was always a mistake. Now it's an expensive one. BossesTwo bugs that let curse and thrall builds melt the Murmuration in seconds are gone. Planet 2 and 3 bosses now start with a bit of armour, so a strong build has to actually fight them. Gold that rewards comebacksEvery stage clear now pays a small bonus that's biggest when you're broke and shrinks as you get rich, so a rough start isn't a lost run. Flat kill gold thins once you're sitting on a pile, so late-run banks stop ballooning. Shop prices climb about 15% less over a run. ItemsBullet speed now grows a little with attack speed and can never drop below 60% of your ship's base. The pile of "minus bullet speed" downsides has been spread onto luck, crit and pickup range instead, and three new items help you recover bullet speed, luck and magnet range. Waves and hazardsOpening stages are fuller.Nettle packs spread out instead of stacking in one heap.The Cordon no longer drops cage after cage on top of you.Enemies off screen can't be killed and don't pay gold, so the fight is what's in front of you.Magnetic Storms surge half as often.The Siege hazard no longer piles Sentinels on top of its own turrets. Quality of lifeThe star map now shows each ...
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