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Cinderwing is a portrait roguelite shmup. Survive five-minute runs against an alien swarm, build an arsenal from level-up cards, beat the boss, and spend your scrap on permanent upgrades for eight ships.

Description

An alien warlord called Vesper has come to our solar system, and his replicators on the gas giant Ostra build ships without end. Anyone who can fly is scrambled to meet the swarm, and you fly Cinder: one of the few ships that take the cores out of what they kill and grow on them, until the hangar drops you back to baseline for the next sortie.

Cinderwing is a vertically scrolling bullet-heaven shooter made for a phone held in one hand. Your weapons fire on their own; you weave through the bullets, collect crystals and pick a card at every level-up. Take a weapon to level 6 and it becomes its ultimate form. At five minutes the boss arrives, with its own parts to shoot off and its own phases.

Every run, won or lost, pays scrap for permanent ship upgrades and new ships. Clearing stages adds weapons and passives to the pool.