HOW TO PLAY

• Move — WASD or arrow keys on desktop; drag anywhere on touch screens.
• Dash — Space or right-click. Dash is invincible only against bosses: it's how you damage them.

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.
• Reverse Controls — your movement flips.
• Time Freeze — everything slows but you.
• Chaos — spawn rates spike.

Every 3 minutes a boss appears with 3 hearts and its own attack patterns. Each dash through it takes one heart; fragments chip away too. While it lives, fewer other enemies spawn — it's you versus the boss. 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.