Bug Alliance

Bug Alliance is a fast-paced, top-down action roguelite set in a world reclaimed by insects. Humanity transformed bugs into food, tools and weapons, but the insects survived, evolved and took back the world. Now new threats are rising beneath Volucris. You lead bug heroes against swarms, build up their combat abilities and uncover what happened to humanity.

The world of Volucris

In Story Mode, you fight through a chapter-based campaign across dangerous regions, encountering hostile factions and powerful bosses as the Bug Alliance searches for the truth behind humanity’s disappearance. You can play the campaign with any hero you have unlocked, discover new characters and hidden story details, and unlock records in the Volucris Archives.

The Archives contain Chronicles, hero records, enemy archives, region histories and classified files connected to humanity’s experiments. Their discoveries reveal pieces of the history of the old world, the Queens and the threats buried beneath Volucris.

Game modes

Bug Alliance has two modes: Story Mode and Chaos Surge. In Chaos Surge, you face an endless battle that grows more dangerous with each Chaos Level. Chaos Fog spreads across the map, consuming the battlefield and leaving you with less room to survive.

Every three Chaos Levels, you choose between two mysterious portals to a random battlefield, each with its own bonuses and penalties. As you raise your Chaos Level, you charge the Puristal’s three energy slots; fill them and defeat the boss to unleash a purification wave that temporarily clears the fog and gives you room to recover. You can also buy power-ups from the Merchant, and compete for the highest Chaos Level and kill count.

Build your arsenal

Each run starts with a weapon and a signature ability. As you level up, you add abilities, Tactical Gear, Glyphs and stat upgrades, combining effects to suit your approach. Builds can focus on poison, fire, critical damage, automated machines, crowd control, survivability or firepower. Synergies can transform fully developed equipment into powerful final forms, so the same hero can play very differently from one run to the next.

• Weapons: define your main method of attack.
• Abilities: provide offensive, defensive and utility effects.
• Tactical Gear: adds tools and battlefield control.
• Glyphs: improve your core attributes.
• Synergies: transform fully developed equipment into powerful final forms.

Bug heroes

Each hero has a distinct combat style, arsenal and set of abilities:

• Pruver — The Engineer: controls the battlefield with firearms, turrets, drones, mines and advanced technology.
• Kazi — The Chemist: uses poison, acid and toxic creations to destroy enemies over time.
• Octavius — The Hunter: traps enemies with webs, defends himself with barriers and attacks from range.
• Brogar — The Vanguard: takes heavy weapons into the swarm and crushes enemies with overwhelming force.

You can unlock additional heroes and discover new combinations of weapons, abilities and Synergies.

Progress and challenges

Progress carries beyond a single run. You can increase the Rank of heroes, weapons and abilities, unlock bug warriors, complete challenges and in-run tasks, and earn skins and progression rewards. You can also discover more story and archive records, climb the Chaos Surge leaderboards and try new builds and Synergies.

The game features multiple regions, factions, elite enemies and bosses, along with detailed pixel-art visuals.