HEATSINK

One gauge. No health bar, no ammo, no timer. Fast shooters all need an engine that forbids waiting. This one uses thermodynamics. Your core heats up when you fire, and the only heat sink in the game is the air moving over your body. The consequence needs no tutorial: take cover to shoot in peace, and you melt in eight seconds. The ground is where you burn Walking doesn't cool you. Sprinting doesn't cool you. [b]Standing on solid ground dissipates nothing at all[/b] — and the faster you fly, the harder you cool. Every weapon's recoil is a thruster. The starter pistol pushes back exactly as hard as gravity pulls, so holding the trigger holds your altitude. You do not shoot [i]and[/i] move. Shooting [b]is[/b] moving. The red zone pays Damage scales with your own temperature. At 92% you hit nearly twice as hard, so the whole economy of the game pushes you to the edge of an explosion and keeps you there. Overheat and you spend a cycle. Spend your last one, and the core melts. Three ways to play - LA DESCENTE — the campaign. Five sectors, five rooms each, a boss at the bottom of every one, and an ending. Each boss makes one rule compulsory that the rest of the game only rewards: the red zone, flight, weapon rotation, a deliberate overload. Learn one, and the next one sends you back to school. - LA COULÉE — endless waves, one arena, one score. - LA VOLÉE — twelve movement courses, no enemies at all. A launch pad, a void, a gate and a clock. Two ways to lose: the void, and your own core. And a foundry between runs Ingots earned in a run buy permanent upgrades — and every one of them can be refunded at any time, in full. A meta-progression you can permanently get wrong is a trap, not a system of choices. Six weapons. Twenty-two species. Five bosses.