Shard Cycle

Harvest Crystals. Unlock Abilities. Prestige. Repeat.

You are an Exo Prospector stationed on Lucis VII, an uninhabitable alien planet rich with plasma-storing crystals. Operating a pneumatic mining machina remotely from your outpost, you smash crystals to harvest valuable plasma and sell it for Unicoins.

But the real prize lies deeper.

The Loop

Destroy crystals to earn currency. Spend it on upgrades that make your machina hit harder, faster, and wider. When you hit a wall, prestige. Sell your machine, travel back to Earth, and return with a new one equipped with powerful ability modules.

Each prestige cycle unlocks new crystal types, new energy sources, and new upgrade paths. The more you prestige, the more devastating your machina becomes.

Two Ability Paths

Choose your first ability when you prestige:

Arc Kracker (Lightning) Harness Sparkquartz plasma to call down lightning strikes that chain between crystals. Upgrade chain count, range, and damage to turn a single strike into a storm.

Shard Tornado Channel Amberit Plasma to summon controlled shard storms that roam the crystal field, dealing continuous damage to everything in their path. Upgrade speed, radius, and duration.

Both abilities unlock their own crystal types, Plasma currencies, and dedicated skill tree branches. Eventually you unlock both becoming an unstoppable force.

Deep Progression

• Main Upgrades - Power, frequency, radius, crit chance, crystal spawning, session duration, and more

• Prestige Skill Tree -  Ability-specific upgrades purchased with harvested Plasma

• Attachments - Passive buffs earned through levelling and purchased from a traveling merchant

• Modifications (Mods) - Temporary buffs found during excavation sessions

Features

• Strategic prestige loop with meaningful choices

• Two distinct ability paths with dedicated skill trees

• 20+ upgrades across multiple systems

• Attachments and Modifications that persist across prestige

• Sci-fi setting with original lore