$4.99Botwave
A fast arena roguelite where your war machine gets stronger the harder you push it. Weapons fire themselves, waves keep escalating, and Overdrive is a gamble against meltdown. Build a new loadout every run from 24 weapons and 60+ stacking upgrades.
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YOUR MACHINE HAS A LIMITER. HOLD THE THROTTLE DOWN ANYWAY.
Botwave is a fast arena Roguelite where the big question isn't what to shoot, it's how hard you're willing to push. Kick your machine into Overdrive and it runs way past its specs. Push too far and it locks up mid-wave, right when the swarm is thickest. Stay cool and you survive. Get greedy and you get burned (but sometimes greedy wins).
Your weapons fire on their own. You choose the loadout, move around the arena, and keep an eye on the heat.
How a run plays out
Fight through 20 increasingly nasty waves of rogue bots. Runs are short, about 20 to 30 minutes.
Every cleared wave gives you an upgrade to pick. You also earn XP as you go, which levels you up mid-run and opens higher weapon and upgrade tiers.
Weapon crates drop during waves. Grab a new gun for one of your 4 slots, or merge duplicates to climb the tiers, all the way up to Tier 5.
The Heat Gamble: Overdrive boosts everything you do, from raw damage to crowd control, but heat keeps building the entire time. Ride the redline for maximum output, vent early to stay safe, or get hit with a Thermal Lock that shuts you down at the worst possible moment.
And there's more
24 weapons: 18 ranged and 6 melee, with blades that swing and thrust exactly where the edge is.
60+ stackable upgrades across 5 tiers. Crit, control, speed, glass cannon: build your own way to fail spectacularly.
7 heat levels: beat a run to unlock the next, deadlier roster.
Keyboard and gamepad support, with full English and Arabic localization.
Built to keep growing. Botwave is a living project from a solo developer. Expect regular free updates with new weapons, upgrades, and heat levels, shaped by what players tell me they want.
