Nova Dust

How to play

Nova Dust is an original survival game set in YOXI's Cosmic Heights. You are a small explorer alone on a luminous grid while crystal dust closes in from every side — and you never press an attack button. Your star spark fights for you, so your whole job is to move well and choose well. How to play: drag anywhere to move — a stick appears under your thumb. Shattered dust drops light; collect it to level up, then choose one of three upgrades. Ten upgrade families, each with three tiers, and the one you pick changes what the next two minutes look like. Tap the burst button when it charges to clear the screen. How you progress: a run is ten minutes split into five two-minute phases, and each phase adds a genuinely new kind of enemy rather than more of the same — drifting dust, then chargers that telegraph and dash, then clusters that split when you shatter them, then orbiters that circle at range and have to be chased, and finally the Nova, whose expanding rings turn the arena itself into the danger. A Prism Warden guards the halfway mark. Surviving to the end unlocks Endless, where the density never stops climbing. Your progress is kept. Every phase boundary saves, so a run interrupted at minute seven resumes where it left off. Score earns stardust, which unlocks the other five YOXI companions — cosmetic only: every companion is exactly as strong, and nothing you unlock ever makes you more powerful. Nothing dies here; the dust shatters into light.

Controls

• Drag anywhere to move — a stick appears under your thumb
• Your abilities fire by themselves; there is no attack button
• Tap the burst button when it is charged to clear the field
• Desktop: WASD or arrow keys to move, Space for the burst, Esc to pause