STAR AGAINST THE DARK

Your worlds are your weapons.

You are a newborn star in a dying universe, and the worlds you kindle into orbit are your weapons. Moving whips the orbits around; when worlds line up through the star, an alignment beam fires down the whole line. Survive five epochs of the encroaching Dark, evolve the star, and put out the thing that is putting out the universe.

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How to play

1. You are a star, and you have no gun. Your weapons are the worlds orbiting you, and they damage whatever they touch. Survive wave after wave of the Dark; a boss ends each of the five epochs, and beating the last one wins the run.
2. The orbits follow you with inertia, so moving swings your worlds out and snaps them back. The faster a world flies, the harder it hits. Turning, reversing and surging are how you swing your weapons as well as how you dodge.
3. When two worlds line up through the star they arc lightning between them. When three or more line up, an alignment beam fires down the whole line. Watch the forecast above the action bar and drag lagging worlds into line by moving.
4. Every level-up offers cards. Kindle a new world, strengthen an old one or take a passive. A world's last level is its Ascension, which changes how your build plays. You can reroll, banish a card or skip the offer.
5. Surge dashes you through enemies without harm and whips the orbits. Nova charges as you kill and, when released, erases shots and hits hard. Bosses and vaults drop relics, and twice during a run the star itself evolves.
6. Win or lose, the stardust you gathered buys permanent upgrades in the Observatory, and achievements unlock new stars, worlds, weapons and relics. A defeat names what landed the last blow. Entropy tiers raise the challenge.

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What is in it

• 13 worlds with ascensions, 8 star weapons, 25 passives, 29 relics
• 22 enemy kinds, elites and 5 multi-phase bosses across 5 epochs
• 6 playable stars, 7 stellar evolutions, 61 achievements
• Entropy tiers 0-10, a seeded daily run and an endless mode