Covenant: Defense

Description

Shatterlight: Covenant is a high-octane sci-fi tactical tower defense game. Take command of the human resistance’s Sovereign Flagship drydocked at the edge of an unstable asteroid field, and hold the line against relentless alien raider fleets.
🌌 Key Features
Tactical Orbital Grid Deployments: Anchor specialized escort hulls around your flagship—including Point-Defense Vulcans, Piercing Railgun Corvettes, Cryo Tachyon Emitters, Heavy Flak Frigates, Cluster Mortar Platforms, and Tesla Swarm Destroyers.
Autonomous Mining Economy: Command autonomous mining drones to extract ore from drifting asteroids. Balance immediate defense construction against economic industrial upgrades to fuel your fleet.
Sensor Radar Expansions: Upgrade your flagship’s radar sensors (Mk I → Mk III) to pierce the fog of war, detect hostiles earlier, and unlock wider orbital deployment rings.
Roguelite Card Drafting: Choose game-changing overclocks between waves—shatter frozen hulls, magnetize kinetic rounds, or supercharge drone thrusters.
Commander Rank & Naval Masteries: Level up your Commander Rank to unlock advanced hull classes, tactical fleet stances, and permanent passive upgrades in your Command Deck.
Hardware-Accelerated 60 FPS: Custom zero-garbage-collection physics and object pooling engine deliver crisp, stutter-free performance even during massive screen-clearing battles.
Ages: Everyone
AI: No Generative AI was used.

How to Play

Left Click & Drag (Shipyard Tray): Drag available defense ships from the bottom deployment bar onto valid orbital defense rings around your flagship.
Left Click on Any Deployed Ship: Opens the Tactical Telemetry Panel to inspect weapon stats, purchase Mark upgrades, or scrap the ship for an ore refund.
¹ – ⁶ Number Keys: Quick-select ship classes from the deployment tray.
Spacebar: Quick-pause or resume the battle simulation.
Anchor Cluster Presets: Click the Anchor icon on the HUD to drag pre-built multi-ship tactical defense formations directly onto the grid.
® Key: Recalibrate / Quick-retry current defense sortie.

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