01 // MOVEMENT

Move like you mean it

Everything in the kit cancels into something else. The dash is ten tiles long and can be steered four times before it runs out. Jumping out of a dash keeps its speed and turns the jump into a front flip.

Pressing down mid-flip drops you into a ten-tile slam. Dodge cancels the dash, and any action cancels the dodge — you are never locked into a recovery you did not choose.

RUN

Hold a direction and accelerate to three times walking speed.

TRIPLE JUMP

The third jump becomes a front flip.

DASH

Double-tap left or right. Ten tiles, steerable and cancellable.

SLAM

Press down while dashing or airborne. Bursts on impact.

LEAP DASH

Up, then down. Hop, burst at the apex and slam on the way back.

SPIKE

A backflip in place that leaves a spin trail and spends no jump.

GRAPPLING ROPE

Swing, pump the line and re-hook while spinning from the recoil.

02 // SHRINE WARFARE

Take them. Hold them. Use them.

Every infected shrine is both an action encounter and a strategic objective. Smash through its defenders and drain the shrine itself to purify it. The same structure then becomes your healing point, checkpoint, upgrade station, vision source and steady Salt income.

03 // SHRIMP

Six shrimp. Six combat identities.

Choose a shrimp before the run starts. Your choice changes the look of every hit, adds a distinct trait to the shared moveset and gives you a different ultimate. Raising Skill strengthens that identity instead of merely adding the same damage to every shrimp.

Blue repeats Blink Assault on a lone target; if no visible target remains, the remaining strikes still fire at the casting point. Orange burn damage affects creatures, not buildings. White can also fully heal allied shrines and soldiers caught inside its aura.

04 // RUNES

42 runes. Six slots.

Enemies drop carved stones that can be equipped in a six-slot hotbar. Seventeen are active abilities with cooldowns; twenty-five are passive and work simply by being worn.

• Active damage scales with your current attack.
• Passives include extra jumps, crit, lifesteal and reflection.
• Other effects include revival and stacking attack per kill.
• The same rune can be worn in multiple slots and will stack.
• Drop a rune with Shift + its slot key.
• Tier 3 enemies begin dropping runes; tier 5 reaches a 12% roll.

05 // THE DEEP

What is down there?

Five enemy families

Sprint melee, sprint ranged, heavy melee, drift ranged and dive melee — spread across Swamp, Deepsea, Amethyst, Crimson and Golden tiers. Every tier has its own colour ramp, so danger can be read at a glance.

Five bosses

Thornshell Lord, Ink Tentacle King, Storm Jelly Queen, Hydrothermal Eel and the Ancient Armored Leviathan.

Heavy attacks telegraph on the floor before landing, every pattern leaves a recovery window, and bosses enrage below 20% health. Enrage makes them faster, never stronger, and telegraphs never fall below 0.3 seconds.

Infected shrines and enemy structures

Defeat an infected shrine and it transforms into its purified form on the spot. Destroy hostile nests, spawning grounds and shell fortresses to cut off reinforcements and advance the map's phases.

Salt

Salt is the growth currency. Spend it inside growth zones to improve attack, health, defense and skill.

07 // CONTROLS

Controls

09 // TECH

Made with

Plain ES modules and Canvas 2D. No engine, no bundler and no runtime dependencies — the complete game is readable source.

Bosses, shrines, glowstones, rune glyphs, block-edge lights and underwater biome tiles are drawn by Node scripts at their final pixel size. A one-pixel crack in a 16-pixel tile does not survive being resized.