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Fact sheet

Game	RuneShot
Developer & publisher	Layernative
Platforms	iPhone and iPad
Release	Coming soon
Price	Free to play, with optional in-app purchases and ads
Genre	Turn-based tactics · roguelite · bounce shooter
Languages	English
Website	layernative.com/runeshot

Short description

RuneShot is a turn-based dungeon brawler where every shot is a puzzle. Read the enemy's next move, bank your rune ball off the walls, break their armour apart and fuse a wild arsenal of balls across 50 hand-built dungeons.

Long description

It looks like a brick breaker, but it plays like a tactics game. Each turn your enemies show you exactly what they will do: which lane the archer is aiming at, when the warden will sweep, when the bison will stampede. You get one free action, to step aside, drink a potion or raise your guard, and one shot.

Every bounce adds power to the hit, so the best shots are long bank shots. Enemies are built from parts with their own health: break the sword arm and the sweep is gone, break the lantern and the lure stops, come down on a skeleton's back for a double-damage backstab.

After each room you can fuse two of your balls into something stranger. With 19 base balls and 33 fusions, there are splitters, bees, orbiting moons, drills and ghostly echo twins to discover, and elements that play off each other: water conducts lightning, fire lights oil, frost makes armour brittle.

Each chapter is one roguelite run of ten dungeons where health and potions carry over. Eight heroes, sixty charms, daily challenges and optional curses for double rewards keep every run different.

Features

Turn-based bounce combat with visible enemy intents and three lanes to dodge between
Breakable enemy parts, backstabs, weak points and bounce multipliers up to x2.5
52 balls: 19 base balls and 33 fusions, plus elemental combos
50 hand-built dungeons across 5 painted chapters, with 80+ enemy types
8 heroes with their own skills, and 60 charms to collect and level
Roguelite chapter runs, a campfire shop, curses, Hardcore mode and daily challenges
Made for one thumb, on iPhone and iPad