Starfend

Starfend is a 3D sci-fi tower defense roguelite where you build a fleet, pilot your own drone, and defend against endless waves of meteors. Every run is built from scratch, your choices before the first wave determine how the next thirty play out.

Build Your Drone Before Each Run

In the Prepare Phase, you build your main drone from the ground up. Pick a body, attach arms, and equip guns by color. The colors you choose determine your available synergies, your base firepower, and the upgrade paths open to you during the run. There's no default loadout, every run starts with a decision.

Pilot It Actively

Your main drone is not a static turret. You fly it across the battlefield and keep it alive. Three active abilities give you control under pressure: Teleport (blink out of incoming fire with a short cooldown), Shield (manually block damage when you need a hard stop), and Repair (spend gold to restore hull integrity at any time). Ambient meteors actively hunt your drone between and during waves. Stay mobile or lose it.

Wave Buff Cards

After each wave, choose 2 upgrade cards from 5 random options. Cards are split into two groups: Cannon upgrades (crit chance, attack speed, attack power, attack range, tied to the gun colors you own) and Utility upgrades (drone speed, pickup range, shield cooldown, teleport cooldown, instant repairs, and more). With 48 cards in the pool and no fixed order, each run builds differently.

Giant Meteors

At the start of each run, 10 massive meteors enter orbit around the map, each with its own radius, direction, and trajectory. They orbit constantly, and if one touches your drone it kills it instantly. Each Giant Meteor has color-coded defense: projectiles of the matching color deal significantly less damage. Kill one and it drops a Skill Reward based on the meteor's color. The colors of the meteors match the enemies in that run, so before the first wave, you already know which skills are reachable.