Scarletide

Hold the arena. The floor keeps the score.

A fast top-down twin-stick survival shooter in the spirit of Crimsonland: one arena, swelling swarms, and a body count you can read off the ground. Kite, aim, and decide fast — because every gun lying on the floor will replace the one in your hands.

The loop

• Mow down swarms that grow denser and meaner by the minute — up to 400 enemies on screen at once.
• Weapons drop where enemies die. Walk over one and it swaps in, no take-backs: is an unknown gun worth losing your minigun?
• Level up and pick from 32 stackable perks — or deliberately walk away from a bad hand.
• Golden elites hit harder, soak more damage, and always drop a weapon.
• Grab Freeze, Nuke, Slow Motion, Health or Reflex Boost when the swarm closes in.
• Blood and corpses soak the arena floor and dry into lasting stains — every run paints its own history.

Details

• 22 weapons, from the humble pistol to chain lightning, ricochets, homing rockets and splitting shells
• 8-bit pixel gore with screenshake and hitstop, tuned for punch
• Local top-5 highscore list, seeds included
• Keyboard + mouse or full gamepad support
• Runs in your browser — the whole game is a ~200 KB download

Controls

• WASD / arrow keys move, mouse aims, left button fires
• Gamepad: left stick moves, right stick aims and fires
• 1–6 picks a perk on level up, ESC pauses (or skips the perk choice)
• Q / right-click swaps weapon slots (once you own the Alternate Weapon perk)
• R / M after game over: restart / main menu