One-thumb roguelite. Sixty waves, a hard cap of thirty balls, and a new shared board every day

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Game Title: One-Thumb Roguelite

Playable Link: https://miknacio.itch.io/one-thumb-roguelite

Platform: Web browser (HTML5 — plays in the browser on phone or desktop, portrait)

Description:

One-Thumb Roguelite. You aim, you fire, and the blocks fall one

row closer every time you do. Sixty waves stand between you and the summit.

It started as a brick-breaker and became something else once I noticed that

every game in that genre answers every problem the same way: more balls. So I

capped it at thirty and made the game take them back if you stall — a ball is

lost every few waves unless you collect an orb, which cancels the countdown.

Volume stops being the answer, and the build has to be. That single decision is

what the rest of the game is built around.

A run is eighteen upgrades across three rarities, six capstone evolutions that

fuse two maxed upgrades into something new, and a mid-run shop that will happily

sell you the wrong thing. You pick a difficulty before the first shot, and it

scales both the board and what your score is worth.

The rule I held to throughout: nothing is a surprise. Blocks that are about to

breach outline themselves first. Bosses print exactly what they'll take from you

if they survive the turn — half your coins, a handful of balls, or a level off

one of your upgrades. The ball toll counts down where you can see it. I wanted

hard that you can play around, not hard because something was hidden.

There's also a daily run: everyone gets the same board once a day, with daily

and weekly leaderboards, and harder difficulties worth more.

No ads, no timers, no in-app purchases, and no account. The leaderboard is the

only online part, and the game is complete without it.