Pick a turret on the left, place it on a glowing build tile, then press START. Kill enemies for gold, upgrade your best towers, cleanse bad tiles, and prepare before the next wave.

After a wave ends, the next wave starts after the intermission. Press SKIP to launch early and gain a short damage/fire-rate bonus plus extra gold. Skipping is useful when your defence is stable.

Turrets have different jobs: single-target, chain, cone slow, beam, splash, poison, sniper, support, drones, and traps. Select a turret to upgrade it, sell it, or change how it targets enemies. Most turret types have build caps, while Pulse Spindle has a higher cap for basic coverage.

Each turret has 5 upgrade tiers. Every tier offers two choices, so build toward the role you need: more damage, more control, better shields/armor answers, or wider coverage.

Build tiles can be blocked by Corruption; cleanse them with gold. Locked Power Tiles can be bought later and boost turrets placed on them. Power tiles are gold, corrupted tiles are red, and normal build tiles are the safe places to expand.

Each level can roll a special feature: Amplifier Nodes boost turrets built on cyan pads, Cryo Patches slow enemies on blue lane tiles, Salvage Relays add bonus gold on kills, and Phase Lanes speed enemies up through violet track sections.

Clearing a level awards power-up tokens. Use the small plus signs on the ability HUD to upgrade EMP Pulse, Pulse Burst, or Overcharge. Higher ability levels cost more tokens, so saving them can matter.

Physical is reduced by armor. Energy is strong utility but shields absorb it first. Chemical damage-over-time is good into armor. True damage ignores defenses.

Watch for armor, shields, flying enemies that avoid traps, stealth enemies that need reveal, splitters, regenerators, shield drones, blinkers, minibosses, and final bosses. Larger enemies can disrupt nearby turrets, so avoid packing every tower into one tight cluster.

EMP Pulse sends an electric wave from the map center, damaging and disabling shields. Pulse Burst boosts a selected turret for focused damage. Overcharge speeds up your turret network. Keys 1/2/3 trigger them.

Levels can add optional objectives such as timed assault, boss intercept, combo goals, or defensive challenges. Completing objectives improves the run and gives the level a different strategic rhythm.

Each level has its own enemy mix, and waves get harder inside that level. Survive the main boss to move to a new map with a new level style.

The music HUD controls play, pause, previous, next, repeat, shuffle, mute, seek, and volume. The battlefield grid reacts to the current song. Press V to cycle visual modes.

Use PILOT to create or load your pilot profile. The global leaderboard tracks run progress, levels cleared, score, and high combo streak so other players can compare runs.