An arcade survival roguelite
300 Spartans. Blood. Glory.
Hold the line. Trigger charges. Every death is permanent for the run. Survive the waves and spend what remains against the God King.
“300 men. Endless waves. One final race against the God King.”
PHALANX is pure action: your line auto-fights while Persians flood in from the right. You decide when to hold and when to unleash a brutal charge that clears enemies fast but burns through your own Spartans. Every loss is permanent for the run.
Between waves, choose one of three boons to shape your build: damage, rage, sustain, or risk. Reach the final battle, dump everything into the Persian God King, and post a score worthy of bronze.
Moment to moment is simple: HOLD for stable survival, CHARGE for explosive kills. Every charge is power now for lives later.
Lose a Spartan and he is gone for the run. The number only moves one direction. Your best moments are expensive.
After each wave, pick 1 of 3 boons. Stack rage gain, crit blood, sustain, or glass-cannon charge and chase absurd runs.
Your Spartans form a living wall on the left. In HOLD mode they fight efficiently and bleed slowly. Use it to stabilize and set up your burst windows.
The line holds — until you spend it.
When the line starts to buckle, trigger CHARGE. Your Spartans surge forward and erase lanes in violent bursts — at a brutal cost to your own count.
Power now. Survivors later.
Between waves, choose one of three boons. This is where your run gets its identity: rage engine, sustain wall, or reckless charge-machine.
One pick. One direction.
At the end of every run, he is waiting. The Persian God King is not a fight — he is a damage check. Whatever you have left of your phalanx, throw it at him in a single, escalating exchange. Survive, and your score is written in bronze.
Xerxes-That-Was. The wall at the end.
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Hold the line to stabilize, then trigger charge windows for burst kills. The core decision is always power now versus casualties now.
The run ends — even before reaching the God King. Your high score reflects how far you marched.
Yes — a combat-first prototype with waves, boons, and a God King finale is the first milestone.
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