THERMAL RUNAWAY

One room. One hundred waves. There is no map and nowhere to fall back to. Chamber 7-A is a single reinforced floor, and everything that happens to you happens on it. The only thing that changes across a run is what you have become.100 waves across 10 levels — a full run is 35 to 50 minutesWaves are generated rather than scripted: the same rules, a different fightA run can be suspended and resumed, but never checkpointed. Death ends itThe build is the game.

An upgrade every three waves, an experimental Protocol every ten. Almost nothing is a flat damage increase — the numbers that matter come out of what stacks into what.62 upgrades and 13 Protocols that combine rather than addRicochets that split on every bounce. Lightning that conducts through frozen targetsEchoes of yourself that keep firing your weapon after you have moved onIt escalates on eleven axes, and health is the smallest of them. Enemy health barely triples across a hundred waves.

What changes is how many arrive, how fast, from where, and how much of the floor is trying to kill you.4 enemy archetypes, promoted to Elite and Prime ranks as the run goes onThe chamber itself turns against you: the floor is not neutral by level 9Difficulty you can out-build is difficulty worth havingTHE OVERSEER is at wave 100. It is the reason the chamber exists, and it has been watching the whole run.…