HOW TO PLAY

• Move (desktop) — WASD or arrow keys. Press P to switch to cursor mode, where your orb simply follows the mouse. Keys always override cursor mode while you hold them.
• Move (phone / tablet) — drag anywhere on the screen, or use the on-screen thumbstick in the bottom-left corner.
• Dash — Space or right-click on desktop, the DASH button on touch. Every dash triggers a brief slow-motion pulse, and dashing is the only way to damage a boss.
• Fire — tap SHIFT for a single shot (hold it down with the Ion Blaster upgrade), or the FIRE button on touch. Aim tightens the closer the target is.
• Power-up — ALT on desktop, the POWER button on touch.
• Quit a run — press ESC on desktop or tap the QUIT button in the top-right corner on touch, then confirm.

Glowing capsules drop into the arena every so often. Grab one and trigger it with ALT (or the POWER button):

• Electro Surge — a huge electric ring wipes nearby enemies.
• Cryo Field — freezes the arena and crawls every enemy to a slow drift.
• Pulse Nova — throws every enemy off the screen and clears incoming shots.
• Auto Barrage — your orb fires non-stop on its own for a few seconds.

Every near miss fills the Overdrive bar by 1, every clutch escape by 2. At 30 the arena is purged: time crawls, every enemy is destroyed, all incoming shots vanish and your hearts refill. A boss loses one heart instead of dying.

Fragments you bank between runs also buy run upgrades from the menu — single-run loadouts like the Ion Blaster (hold-to-fire), extra shielding, faster fragment income or a guaranteed power cell. They apply to your next run only and can be bought again. Banked fragments, records and cosmetics are tracked for signed-in players.

You start each run with 3 hearts. Every hit costs one heart (shields absorb hits first). When your last heart drops to zero, the run ends. Rarely, when you're missing a heart, a glowing ♥ heart pickup appears — grab it fast to refill one heart.

Golden ◈ fragments raise your score, fill your perk bar and are your currency mid-run. Every 2 waves the game pauses and the upgrade board opens: spend fragments on speed, dash, shields, magnet range, score multiplier and more. Prices rise with every purchase, shields are limited to 3 per board, and everything resets next run — every run builds differently. The action resumes in slow motion so you can get set.

Skim past danger for NEAR MISS bonus points and combo. Extremely close calls trigger slow motion — use the moment. Keep the streak alive to multiply your score.

Every 30 seconds a warning sounds and everything becomes extremely fast and dangerous for 6 seconds. Survive it for a huge score bonus and extra fragments. This is where records are made — and where runs end.

• Blackout — the arena goes dark.
• Gold Rush — fragments flood the arena.
• Gravity Well — the arena centre drags you and every enemy inward.
• Time Freeze — everything slows but you.
• Chaos — spawn rates spike.

The arena has no walls — you can fly in any direction forever and the view follows your orb. Enemies, hazards and fragments keep appearing around you wherever you go, so running is a real tactic.

Every 2.5 minutes a boss appears with its own shape, colour and attack patterns, and the arena locks — the view stops moving and a glowing border holds you inside until the boss falls, then you're free to travel again. The first boss has 3 hearts and each following boss gains one, up to 10 — after that they simply get meaner. Only dashing through a boss damages it: shots and power-ups do nothing. While it lives, fewer other enemies spawn — it's you versus the boss, and killing it pays out big.

One modifier per day, same for everyone — check the daily challenge on the menu. Banked fragments unlock cosmetic orb skins on the cosmetics screen: 12 designs, purely visual, never a gameplay advantage.

• Chasers (triangles) — lock onto you and accelerate. Outrun them or bait them into walls and lasers.
• Orbiters (satellites) — circle you and slowly close the ring. Break out before the circle tightens.
• Drifters (diamonds) — bounce around the arena unpredictably. They're slow but easy to forget — check your blind spots.
• Shooters (hex turrets) — hold position and fire purple projectiles every few seconds. Their shots are slow; never get cornered by two at once.

• Play close. Near misses and clutch escapes are the biggest score source — and they charge Overdrive, your get-out-of-jail card.
• Save a dash for the boss. Dashing is the only thing that hurts a boss, and each hit has a short cooldown — don't waste it panicking.
• Spend fragments early. Upgrade prices rise with every purchase, so the cheapest upgrades first give the most value per fragment.
• Use the endless arena. There are no walls — running away in a straight line is a legitimate tactic when the screen gets crowded.
• Respect the LAST SECOND warning. When the siren sounds, stop chasing fragments and find open space before the six-second storm hits.
• Grab heart pickups fast. They only appear when you're missing a heart, and they don't wait around.

Is the game free? Yes — completely free, supported by ads. No download, no install.

Do I need an account? No. Guests can play everything. A free account adds cloud-saved records, the leaderboards, fragment banking between runs, skins and run loadouts.

Do skins make me stronger? Never. All 12 skins are purely cosmetic — the leaderboard is decided inside the arena only.

Does it work on mobile? Yes. Touch controls include drag-anywhere movement, a thumbstick, and DASH / FIRE / POWER buttons.