Inkfall Defense

Browser Controls

• Start a run: Tap BATTLE (a short 5-wave tutorial run starts on your first visit)
• Upgrade: Tap a card in the Attack, Defense, or Utility tab to spend cash on it — a thumbs-up marks the best card you can afford
• Speed: Tap − / + next to the x1 label for x1.5, x2, x2.5, x3 (unlocked by your best wave)
• Menu: Tap ☰ for sound, music, and retreat
• Everything else: Tap or click — there are no keyboard controls, no aiming, and nothing to place

Special Rules

• The Hero Shoots on His Own: Every falling meteor is auto-targeted (the Sniper always picks the boss first). There is no placing, aiming, or building — you only decide what to buy. A run starts with $50 of cash; cash is spent in that run and resets when the hero's health hits zero. Coins, gems, and XP are kept.
• It Rains Ink: Enemies don't walk in — they fall straight down at the hero and burst on impact for three times a normal hit (a boss lands for twelve). Six meteor types: plain rocks, fast shards from wave 2, shard clusters from wave 3 that hover and throw shards at you, armored boulders from wave 9, ringed rocks from wave 14 that halve the damage of everything near them, and comets that dive for six times a normal hit on dedicated bomber waves. Up to 220 meteors can be in the air at once.
• 25 Upgrades in Three Tabs: Attack (10): Damage, Attack Speed, Critical Chance, Critical Factor, Range, Damage/Meter, Multishot Chance, Multishot Targets, Rapid Fire Chance, Rapid Fire Duration. Defense (8): Health, Health Regen, Defense %, Defense Absolute, Thorn Damage, Lifesteal, Knockback Chance, Knockback Force. Utility (7): Cash Bonus, Cash/Wave, Boss Loot, Boss Bonus, and Free Attack/Defense/Utility Upgrade chances. You start with Damage, Attack Speed, and Health; the rest unlock one card at a time up to player level 12, and the Utility tab itself opens once your best wave reaches 70.
• A Boss Every 10 Waves, a Mini-Boss Every 5: Four bosses rotate — the Boss at wave 10, The Brood at 20 (sheds 3 runners at half health and 6 more when it dies), The Warden at 30 (4 seconds open, 3 seconds shielded, only 20% damage through the shield), and The Hive at 40 (hovers at the edge of your range, shoots, and hatches 2 runners every 3 seconds). From wave 50 the cycle repeats. Every boss drops a gem. Waves 5, 15, 25… bring a mini-boss: kill it for a third of a boss payout, or a 25% heal.
• Raids, Swarms, Bombers, Events: Each 10-wave window has one raid (an Ambush column of runners from wave 6, a Siege row of shard clusters from 16, a Convoy of boulders and ringed rocks from 26), one Swarm wave where the camera pulls back for three to six rings of weak enemies, one Bomber wave of diving comets, and one event — a Lucky Wheel or a treasure chest.
• Lucky Wheel: Eight segments: Cash, XP, Heal 30%, +10% HP this battle, +10% Damage this battle, a free upgrade, Coins (half a boss payout) — and an Ouch segment that costs 15% health. One free spin per event; the battle waits while the wheel is open.
• Idle Rewards (Player Level 8): The hero keeps shooting while you're away: the game banks coins, gems, items, and XP for you — up to 24 hours per claim, claimable after at least 10 minutes away. Coins per hour are 8% of the boss reference payout at your best wave, gems per hour are 0.25 plus your best wave ÷ 400, and you get 1 to 4 items per day. Every new record raises the rate.
• Checkpoints: Once a run ends past wave 30, the next BATTLE tap asks: wave 1 with $50, or your last 10-wave floor (30, 40, 50…) with all the cash that run had earned. A checkpoint run starts paused so you can spend it first, then GO.
• Speed Unlocks: x1.5 at best wave 30, x2 at 60, x2.5 at 100, x3 at 200. The tutorial run is locked to x1.
• Time Bubble (Late Game): A 5-second field that slows every enemy within 22 meters by 55%, on a 90-second cooldown, firing automatically when ready. It needs player level 50, and its tab opens at best wave 150; the four Ultimate Weapons talents extend its duration, strengthen the slow, shorten the cooldown, and widen the radius.
• Player Levels and Unlocks: Runs pay XP by wave reached; levels go 1 to 60 and each one adds a permanent +2% damage and +2% health. Levels 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, and 34 also drop a chest. Equipment unlocks at level 2, Talent Draw at 3, Store at 4, Milestones at 5, Daily Tasks at 6, Awards at 7, Idle Rewards at 8, Profile at 9.
• Equipment, Merging, Chests: Six slots — weapon, armor, shoes, necklace, gloves, belt — in Common, Rare, Epic, and Legendary, each upgradable to level 60 with coins. Two identical items merge into one of the next rarity. Wooden chests (coins, price follows your best wave) give an item and a talent card; Silver chests give a Rare-or-better item and two cards; the Golden chest (50 gems) guarantees an Epic-or-better weapon plus a second item and two cards, one of them Epic.
• 28 Talent Cards: Four families: Attack 8 (Damage, Attack Speed, Crit Chance, Range, Crit Factor, Dmg/Meter, Multishot, Rapid Fire), Defense 8 (Health, HP Regen, Defense, Flat Defense, Thorns, Lifesteal, Knockback, Death Defy — a chance to survive a lethal hit once per wave), Utility 8 (Cash Bonus, Boss Loot, Cash/Wave, Boss Bonus, Free Attack/Defense/Utility, Interest — cash earns a percentage every wave), Ultimate Weapons 4 (Time Bubble). Each card goes to five stars with 1, 2, 3, 5, and 8 copies; a 10-card draw guarantees at least one Rare, and spare copies refund coins.
• Milestones, Daily Tasks, Daily Cards, Awards: Milestone rewards sit on Fibonacci waves — 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987, 1597, 2584, 4181 — with a reward on each side; the weapons live on this road. Nine daily tasks (play 3 battles, reach wave 20, kill 400 enemies, beat 2 bosses, buy 50 upgrades, claim idle rewards, draw a card, upgrade equipment 3 times, open 3 events) fill a 100-point track with coins, gems, and chests at 20, 50, 80, and 100 points; targets grow with your level. The store's Daily Cards offer three items or talents for gems, refreshed every 8 hours. Twelve awards with four tiers each — Slayer, Survivor, Boss Hunter, Veteran, Tinkerer, Banker, Treasure Hunter, Collector, Blacksmith, Scholar, Star Power, Time Lord.
• Store and Profile: Free Coins and Free Gems can be claimed every 3 minutes; coin packs cost gems; Coin Bonus x2 (20 gems, 10 minutes) and Head Start (20 gems, +$100 next battle) are the two boosts. The profile page has 50 avatars to buy with coins and 14 preset names (Doodler, Inkling, Sketchy, Pencil, Quill…). Nothing is sold for real money.

Weapons

• Pistol: Your starter sidearm. Every hit knocks the meteor back up the sky.
• Shotgun (wave 13): A fan of pellets. Short range, shreds packs.
• Vampire (wave 21): Twin SMGs. Every hit heals the hero.
• Assault Rifle (wave 34): Three-round bursts, armor piercing: extra damage to boulders and ringed rocks.
• Machine Gun (wave 55): Triple fire rate in bursts, then a short cooling pause. Extra damage to fast shards.
• Sniper (wave 89): Slow, huge hits that pierce up to four meteors. Always shoots the boss first.
• Dagger (wave 144): Close combat: anything that gets near the ground bleeds every second.
• Cannon (wave 233): Shells explode on impact and knock everything nearby back up.
• Rarities and Names: Every weapon is guaranteed on the milestone road (Rare up to wave 21, Epic to 89, Legendary from 144) and can also drop from chests, Daily Cards, and idle rewards. Each one has four ink names — the Pistol runs Pencil Pistol → Ink Pistol → Quill Revolver → Doodle Magnum, the Sniper ends as the Horizon Lance, the Cannon as the Doodle Titan. Weapons swap on the Equip page, not mid-run.