Shadows of the Bloom

Defend your tower against waves of plant-like creatures. Earn upgrades after every wave to increase your power. Can you defeat the final boss?

Basic Controls:

• Firing: Hold mouse to charge a shot and release mouse to fire, you can click to fire a short-range shot
• Movement: Press A and D keys to pan the camera
• Pause Menu: Press esc

Upgrades: After every wave pick one of three random upgrades 

Modules: Add on a layer to your tower which adds a special effect. 

• Shield Generator: Press the W key create a force field on the mouse cursor
• Auto Loader: Doubles every third shot fired
• Auto Cannon: Shoots at the nearest enemy
• Robot Factory: Builds robots which shoot at nearby enemies

Projectiles: Replace current shot with an new shot with a special effect

• High Explosive: Causes shot to deal area of effect
• Timed Fuse: Gives shot the ability to detonate by pressing space bar
• Piercing Sabot: Allows the shot to penetrate multiple enemies and bounce
• Frag Shell: Gives the ability to burst into smaller shots by pressing space bar

Buffs: Grants a basic upgrade to damage output

• Crit Chance: Increases the chance for a critical hit
• Crit Multiplier: Increases the damage for a critical hit, default is 1.5x
• Damage Up: Increases the damage of all projectiles
• Reload Up: Increases the firing and charge rate of the main gun
• Special Up: Improves the special effect of each shell

Tips and Tricks:

• If enemies are too close to the tower, shoot upward at a high angle to arc the shots down on them.
• Damage Upgrades and any Crit Buffs improves ALL projectiles including those fired by robots and auto cannons.
• Robots do not deal damage on death, making them poor in a close quarter fight and against fast and unpredictable threats.
• Shields will destroy the faster explosive enemies on contact and will block all other enemies. This is best used with robots.
• Timed Fuse shots will get stuck into the ground and be detonated later. This effect can be done as many times as desired.
• Airborne enemies will occasionally spawn with a plus symbol. Shooting these down heals 25% of your HP.

Assets Used:

Kronbits FreeSFX: https://kronbits.itch.io/freesfx