CONTROLS & ABILITIES

WASD / Arrows / Swipe — Move
E / F — Carry or place the Ruby Core (pick up within 2 tiles)
SPACE — Heal nearby Ruby (if no enemies close) · or Teleport (if on ✦ pad)
Left-click — LASER — beam forward, pierces enemies
Hold-click — WAVE — charged ring blast (hold ~1s to auto-fire)
Shift — SPEED — brief speed burst
Q — BOMB — place first, press again to detonate. Its blast also hurts you if you're still in range (the Ruby is never damaged by it)
Right-click — BULLET — fast low-damage burst
1–4 — Select teleport destination after menu opens · ESC to cancel
Mobile — on-screen joystick (move) + ability buttons replace keyboard/mouse; same abilities, same cooldowns

RUBY CORE & HEALING

Carry it — movement slows but enemies only target you.
Place it — enemies can attack the ruby directly.
Stand near the ruby with no enemies close, then press SPACE to slowly heal both yourself and the Ruby Core.

STAR ENERGY ✦ & TELEPORT

Kill enemies (not meteors) and collect energy crystals to fill your star gauge. When full, your next ability is POWERED UP for extra damage or range.
Each chamber has a ✦ teleport pad at its center. Step on one and press SPACE to jump instantly between any of the 4 chambers. Opening the destination menu pauses the game — enemies, timers, and the meteorite/boss clocks all freeze until you pick a chamber or cancel.

METEORITE ☄

Every ~30 seconds a chamber is targeted, cycling clockwise (ALPHA → BETA → DELTA → GAMMA → repeat). You have 5 seconds to escape — watch the minimap and the warning banner! Every enemy in the struck chamber is wiped out (all boss types instead lose 75% of their max HP — dying outright if already at or below that, except the Soul Devourer who a meteor alone can never finish off below 5% HP).

★ HINT

Meteorite and teleportation could create a good synergy!

ENEMIES

■ NORMAL — Standard attacker. Fast and fragile.
■ ARMORED — Tanky with a damage shield. Slow but hits hard. Drops more energy.
■ FAST — Extremely quick and fragile. Don't let it swarm you.
■ BOMBER — Self-destructs in a wide blast on arrival. Keep your distance.
■ SNIPER — Long-range shot with windup telegraph. Kill it for a 5s electric chain buff.
■ HEALER — Heals nearby allies. Prioritize it. Kill rewards +20 player HP.
■ CHARGER — Locks on and charges at high speed. Kill rewards a speed burst.
■ GHOST — Phases through walls. Semi-transparent and hard to track. Kill restores +15 ruby HP.
■ SPLITTER — Splits into 2 Mini Splitters on death. Tanky stacked-box design.
■ MINI SPLITTER — Spawned from Splitter death. Small and fast.
■ SHIELDER — Shields the most-injured ally, halving all damage it takes. Kill grants ~2.5s invincibility.
■ FIERY KING — High HP, high damage, speeds up the longer he's alive.
■ SHADOW QUEEN — Teleports between chambers and leaves a decoy behind that keeps attacking.
■ STORM REAPER — Fast, only hunts you (never the ruby), can seal a hallway shut to trap you.
■ SOUL DEVOURER — Eats nearby enemies to grow bigger, tankier, and stronger — don't let her feast.
■ FROST WARDEN — Never attacks directly. Chills her chamber (slows you and your attack speed), scatters freezing ice tiles, and shields nearby allies.