CHAIN NOVA

Chain-reaction roguelite

CHAIN NOVA is a PC action roguelite built around herding enemies into chain reactions. You control movement and NOVA, which detonates where you stand. There’s no aiming: gather the swarm into a tight group, then set off a blast at the right time. Each popped enemy sends out a ring that can pop nearby enemies, so a large swarm can fall in a sequence of linked blasts.

Runs last about 10 minutes, with seven waves and a boss. Enemies that pop display their scores where they die. The chain is deterministic: the same situation produces the same result, so its outcome depends on how you gathered and detonated the swarm rather than a physics simulation.