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Build and rotate a circular space fortress, buying weapon modules and upgrades to hold off incoming enemy waves.
Released 02 Apr 2025
Build a Circular Fortress
Rotate to Face Enemies
Combine Elemental Upgrades
Craft Your Ultimate Circular Fortress! Dive into SHOOPER NOVA, where you choose props and components to build a unique fortress. Unlock combos to shape your strategy and battle style. Become an unstoppable barrage machine and obliterate waves of enemies from all directions!
Developed by Jamesika · Published by Gamersky Games
You play as Earth's super-intelligence, defending against incoming enemies from a circular fortress at the center of the screen. Rotate the fortress to bring its weapons to bear on threats approaching from different directions.
Destroy enemies and mines to earn resources, then spend them on components and props that change the fortress's weapons and abilities. Combine upgrades—including fire, ice, and lightning effects—to shape each run's strategy.
Runs progress through 20 waves, with tougher enemies as you advance, and continue into endless modes after a clear. The game also offers multiple difficulty levels and unlockable components and props to expand your build options.
Players who enjoy SHOOPER NOVA often point to its unusual circular fortress defense and the fun of assembling weapon and upgrade combinations into a screen-filling barrage. Some also like its accessible, low-pressure runs and presentation. Reviews are mixed on how long that appeal lasts: recurring criticisms describe limited build variety, repetitive later play, and little progression beyond individual runs.
SHOOPER NOVA combines rogue-lite, tower defense, and bullet hell elements in an intense space combat experience.
In the year 5202, after achieving global unity, human technology soared to new heights. Earth is fully digitalized, and new super-intelligences have emerged.
But with great progress comes great peril, as countless enemies rapidly approach...
Play as Earth's Super-Intelligence, harness your advanced tech to unleash relentless barrages and fend off the incoming horde.
Destroy enemies and mines, purchase new components, and construct your unique circular fortress.
Let your imagination run wild and transform into a merciless barrage machine!
Rotate your fortress to strike enemies from all directions.
As you advance, encounter a variety of enemy types.
Beware! The challenges get tougher as you progress!
Unlock over 30 different components and 100 unique props for endless combinations.
Build and enhance your strategies to face the onslaught.
Unleash creativity and witness your components' outrageous effects!
Thunder, ice, and Flame!
Use props to enhance your elements. Each elemental offers unique gameplay and limitless possibilities.
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| Platforms | Windows |
|---|---|
| Achievements | 66 |
| Age ratings |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
