Deflect

Deflect is a bullet hell parry roguelite where you never fire a shot. Catch enemy bullets on your shield arc and send them back; reflected shots seek their owners. Catch a bullet dead center for a PERFECT parry that slows time, and build a clean streak to ignite FEVER, where every catch is flawless.

Read, parry and punish

Fight nine bosses and make your way through 100 waves to the OMEGA finale. Bosses use distinct attacks, including telegraphed body-slams, ricochet GUARD windows that you can PERFECT-parry, spiral storms, crossing HELIX weaves and closing SURROUND rings with one gap to dash through. Dash through fire with i-frames, trigger a Burst when a wall closes in, and build PERFECT parries into an Overcharge lance that destroys what it hits. Attacks are telegraphed, so hits are preceded by something you can see.

Build your Reaper

After each wave, draft upgrades such as Scattershot, which splits shots; Arc Lightning, which chains; Chrono, which deepens your slow motion; and Executioner, which finishes wounded enemies. Bosses award run-defining relics. Find ARPG loot with rarity tiers, set bonuses, named legendaries and gear that scales with the Threat you take on. Stack these effects into a reflect multiplier that can turn one caught pellet into a screen-clearing lance.

Golden HOARDER enemies carry loot. Kill one before it reaches the edge and it erupts into a LOOT FOUNTAIN of hearts, Essence and gear; if it escapes, it takes everything with it.

Seven Reapers

Each Reaper has a signature ability, an exclusive draft card, a unique Mastery and a Specialization fork:

• VANGUARD: an all-rounder.
• BULWARK: a walking fortress with a shield-panel Phalanx.
• PHANTOM: a glass razor with two hearts.
• WARDEN: a loot magnet.
• TEMPO: hits harder the faster it moves.
• REVENANT: cheats death and is strongest at its last heart.
• RONIN: a counter-duelist who turns the whole screen into one Riposte.

Game modes

The campaign runs through 100 waves across six sectors, ending with OMEGA. You can replay it at higher Threat, where new rules stack onto each rung, or enter ENDLESS mode, where named Corruptions accumulate mutations. Daily seeds let you race against other players. In BOSS RUSH, you fight every boss back to back, then continue past OMEGA into an endless gauntlet of HYBRID bosses.

HYBRID bosses are procedurally spliced combinations of bodies, movement and attack kits, including SENTIVOURER and WARVIATHAN. They arrive in packs of up to five. Random events also change waves, including GOLD RUSH, ELITE PARADE, BOUNTY bosses and FRENZY duels.

Progression and play

Earn Essence by playing to unlock permanent upgrades in the Arsenal, cosmetics and an Ascendancy tree with progression measured in millions of Essence. The game also includes over 80 feats across its modes and a Threat ladder that unlocks through demonstrated skill. Two Reapers can play in local split-screen, either together or in a race. The game uses a replay-deterministic engine and includes an original synthwave soundtrack, an in-game Jukebox and a beat-reactive visualizer.