BattleCourt

BattleCourt is a horde-survival shooter where you fight waves of enemies, collect loot and build a stronger character. You choose a level and its difficulty and challenges, then defeat its bosses to complete it. Levels range from Fields to Dungeons, and some contain hazards you can avoid or use to your advantage.

Weapons and modifiers

The game has over 300 base weapons, including Pulses, Waves, machine guns, SMGs, railguns, directed energy beams, missile and grenade launchers, freeze and confusion rays, flamethrowers, Gassers, shotguns, flak launchers, electric and electro guns, crossbows and joke weapons such as Bass Pulse and Banana Wave. Each weapon can receive millions of combinations of modifiers, depending on its rarity, which ranges from Broken to Unique. Modifiers can change how a gun behaves: bullets might bounce, curve, use gravity, home in on targets, set them on fire, freeze enemies or confuse them. Guns also receive randomly generated names from a large pool.

You can build your own guns in-game, combining weapons and modifiers into unusual or powerful combinations. Coins let you buy permanent guns for your loadout; these stay available across levels, and you can unlock a second, third and fourth gun slot to start levels with more weapons.

Levels and challenges

Levels can have difficulty settings, gun challenges and enemy challenges. Your choices affect how many coins you earn for completing a level, and some difficulties and challenges require character upgrades before they can be attempted. Daily Level Challenges combine difficulties and enemy and gun modifiers with a starting and ending wave; completing one awards coins.

Enemies arrive in waves, each lasting around a minute and having its own musical score. A 20-second break between waves gives you time to clear any remaining enemies. Foes range from Zombies to Biomancers, and their states can change how they behave: Fire and Poison cause damage over time, Lightning and Freeze can slow or stun, and Weaken applies a status effect. Defeat the bosses to beat levels.

Character progression

You earn coins by winning levels, completing Daily Level Challenges, collecting coin drops and scrapping unwanted guns. Spend them on character upgrades that boost stats such as Health, Loot Chance and Scrap amount; early upgrades cost less. You can also collect power-ups for temporary boosts with a range of effects.

As you play, challenges such as dealing base damage and collecting loot level up and improve relevant stats. Each level of the Deal Base Damage challenge increases base damage by 2.5%, while each level of Collect Loot increases Loot Drop Chance by 1%. Combining challenge progress with upgrades can strengthen your character over time.

Costumes and achievements

Costumes can be available by default, unlocked through enemy drops or earned through achievements. They include casual outfits, memes and pop-culture references. The game also has in-game and Steam achievements, including some tied to secrets and others to extended play.