Fire from above

Defend the burrow. Rally the village. Hold the line.

A pompous Empire has flown in to dig up the elemental stones beneath your village — and it treats wiping the village out as routine pest control. You're the slime who says no. Grab a weapon, rally your neighbours to the barricades and feed them stones until the invasion breaks.

Fire from Above is an action platformer, tower defense and roguelite on a single screen: you jump, shoot and haul loot in the middle of the fight while recruited slimes hold their posts around you.

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How it plays

• Defend the hatch — the entrance to your village sits at the bottom of the screen. Survive 20 waves; if the hatch falls, the run is over.
• Fight in person — run, double-jump between floating islands and aim with your mouse. Fall in battle and you're back at the hatch about ten seconds later, minus your backpack.
• Recruit your neighbours — give a slime a weapon and it holds a post for you. Recruits never fall, but crowding them together costs extra.
• Grow your arsenal — merge two identical weapons into a stronger one, from level 1 to 5. At level 5 a weapon evolves, and you choose one of two evolutions.
• Elements and hybrids — Lightning, Curse and Ice stones power your shots, and two different stones fuse into a hybrid.
• Level up — every level offers four upgrade cards, and rarer cards show up as the waves get tougher.
• Carry the loot home — Materials only count once you bring them back to the hatch. Spend them on recruits, upgrades and repairs.
• Every run is different — a new map every run, randomly rolled waves, minibosses on waves 10 and 15, a boss on wave 20, and optional portals that release hunters for extra EXP if you dare.

In this test build

• 4 weapon families: Archery, Scattergun, Laser and Sniper Rifle.
• 3 elements — Lightning, Curse and Ice — and their hybrids.
• 3 heroes: the Slime, plus two you earn by winning — win Normal as the Slime to unlock the Cyborg, then win Ascension 1 as the Cyborg to unlock the Cyclops.
• 2 difficulties, Normal and Ascension 1, each with its own final boss.
• 4 minibosses: the Twins, the Jumper, the Colossus and the Minelayer.
• Supply drops, loot goblins and spark relays in the middle of a wave.
• English and Polish.

You start with a bow, the Slime, Lightning and Curse — everything else is earned by playing. The full game adds more weapons, elements, heroes and Ascension levels.

Feedback

This is an early test build, so balance, visuals and text are still changing. Found a bug? Tell us in #feedback-ideas on our Discord, with a few words about what happened. In the downloaded version, pause the game → 🐛 Open the log folder and attach tester_log.txt; in the browser, tell us which browser you used.

Controls

A / D — move · Space — jump (hold to keep jumping) · S — drop down through ledges · Left mouse — shoot · 1–9 — weapon slots · E — interact · T — Workshop · B / F — build mode · R — take a weapon back from a recruit · C — stats. Rebind keys under Controls in the main menu (weapon slots 1–9 stay fixed).

Playing

In the browser: press Run game above. The first start downloads about 50 MB; the button in the corner switches to fullscreen, and your progress is saved in that browser.
Windows: unzip and run the .exe. SmartScreen may warn you — click More info → Run anyway.
macOS: the build isn't signed yet — right-click the app → Open, then confirm.

Made with Godot by AlienTail.