ShardFall

Nothing you kill stays dead.

Shardfall is a geometric ball-breaker roguelite built on one rule: enemies do not deplete, they fracture. Hit a big shape and it splits into smaller ones. Hit those and they split again. Only the smallest fragments ever leave the board — so raw damage isn't the answer, it's how you lose.

You are a single hull holding a line against a crystalline collapse. Your balls aren't ammo, they're objects: they have HP, they wear out, they shatter, they come home and queue up behind each other. Every launch is a loan against a board that is already too full.

WHAT YOU'RE ACTUALLY DOING

- Reading shapes, not numbers. Sides tell you the tier, colour tells you the kind, and a thick orange plate welded to one side tells you that angle is armoured. Hit the bare side, or spend shots breaking the plate off.

- Choosing what NOT to break. A tier-5 shape you can't afford to fracture is sometimes best left alone.

- Moving. XP only comes from drops you physically collect, so standing still and firing is the worst build in the game.

IN THE BOX

- Six elements — WATER, GROUND, FIRE, AIR, LIGHT, DARK. Every ball carries up to two. Fusion blends them: water + water stays water, water + fire is even, and a third element pushes the weakest out. 21 identities, each with its own behaviour — STEAM slows, burns and scalds an area.

- A fusion tree where every pair of the 14 base balls combines, and a fusion merges its parents rather than replacing them. PIERCE + PLASMA is a SOLAR PIERCED PLASMA, and it genuinely pierces AND leaves damage zones. Lineages climb to a FINAL FORM.

- 54 level-up cards, 13 power-ups weighted toward board control, and eight counter-balls that answer specific threats — AUGER drills through armour, SUNDER shatters plates and shields, HUNTER curves toward welders.

- Six bosses that punctuate every wave from wave 5, with telegraphed attacks you have to dodge — sweeping beams, aimed snipes, spiral streams, expanding rings with one gap, proximity mines, and a committed charge.

- Unexpected events mid-run: CROSSWIND, HAZARD ZONE, TOXIC WASTE, NUCLEAR FALLOUT. Each with its own music.

- Attackers that ignore your board and come for your hull: DROPPERs that bomb you, SPITTERs that track your column, SAPPERs that latch on and drain.

- LAN multiplayer, including CO-OP: two ships on one board, one shared hull, one XP pool, but you each pick your own upgrades.

- Ten game modes, three difficulty tiers, a daily seeded run everyone shares, custom music support, and English/Slovak/Czech.

CONTROLS

WASD move · mouse aim · hold click to fire · E the Forge · ESC pause · R restart. Full gamepad support.

HONEST STATUS

This is 0.12.0 and in development. The difficulty is still being tuned and I'd genuinely rather hear it's too hard or too easy than have you be polite about it. Windows only, portable — no installer, unzip and run.

Feedback on difficulty and on which balls feel useless is the most useful thing you can send me.