Thornwood Raiders

❔ How to play

Tap to move. Your raider runs the shortest path to where you tap — a measured pace.
Double-tap to sprint 💨 (burns stamina — the blue bar — and stops when it's empty). Swipe to dodge-roll 🤸 in that direction with brief invincibility (also costs stamina).
Open the 🗺️ map (button or tap the minimap) to see all points of interest — the Keep, Market, Hollow, Vault — and tap anywhere to set a route there.
Tap a chest / door to walk over and interact. Chests take a few seconds — stay close.
Tap an enemy to approach it. Reaching one from behind unseen = backstab (massive crit).
You spawn somewhere safe — no enemy can reach you at first. But suspense builds: patrols drift, and the longer you linger the more they close in.
You echo-sense PvE creatures — pulsing sonar blips and their gaze cones even in the dark, so you can weave between them. Rival raiders 🥷 stay hidden in the fog.
Creatures juke side-to-side to stay hard to hit — keep your fire on target. A clean backstab from behind is your hardest-hitting strike, and it's silent.
They fire rarely but hard, with a red charge wind-up before each shot — swipe to dodge-roll it. Getting hit (or caught by the converging pack) HURTS. Stay out of the cones.
Combat is loud. Gunfire, cracking chests, and especially deaths ping the map 🔊 and draw mobs and raiders to investigate. Backstabs are silent — the stealthy way to thin a patrol.
It's a living, 3-way world. Creatures hunt raiders too, not just you. Rival raiders 🥷 loot chests, flee from danger, and call their own portals — when you see a portal you didn't summon, rush it: a loaded raider is boarding, and their haul drops if you drop them.
Raids last 10 minutes. Heed the warnings: a Wildmagic Storm consumes Thornwood at the end — anyone still inside is lost.
If an enemy sees you, you both open ranged fire automatically. Backstabs ignore the Power check, so stealth beats brute force.
Hide in bushes 🌿 and behind walls to break line of sight.
Every floor has a guardian. A Gatekeeper (or the floor-5 👑 Boss) guards the Descent Portal 🌀 — beat it to open the way DOWN to the next floor (and bank your haul).
Two ways out. The Descent Portal takes you deeper (progress); plain Safe Exits just bank your haul and leave (no descent). Either way you keep what you carry.
Build sets (Hunter / Stalker / Bulwark): 3 matching pieces unlock a bonus. Spend 📜 blueprints to upgrade gear.
Boarding is loud and slow. Stand on a portal to board — it pulses noise that pulls enemies in, and a hit pauses it. Hold the area clear to get out.
Die and you only lose this raid's loot — never your gear, and never your floor progress. So push your luck.