Octoportals

You are an octopus. Robotic cephalopods are swarming out of portals from another world, and they want to wipe out your entire universe. Swim against the current, find the source, and shut every portal behind you.

SHOOT INK

Use Left Click to fire back at the enemy. Your inkwell drains as you fire, but slowly regens and can be replenished by ammo drops from those you've slain. Fight aggressively or risk falling to the onslaught.

SHAPESHIFT

Hold SPACE to access your transformations menu. Instantly change between various forms to control the flow of battle but get hit once and you'll change back. You've got nine forms in the demo:

• Ghost — fly as a skull and phase straight through bullets

• Tank — block to reflect projectiles back at the attacker

• Berserker — Trade in your ranged attack for a massive sword. Be careful though, 1 hit will drop you to 1 HP

• Speedster — outrun everything on screen

• Shotgun — close-range attack that wipes out entire crowds

• Laser — a beam that pierces through a line of enemies

• Ice — freeze the room with unlimited ice fire

• Time Stop — stop time and reposition yourself

• Decoy — drop a double and let the swarm chase it

Take a hit in any form and you revert back to your base form. Choose wisely.

CLOSE THE PORTALS

Every new level spawns more portals, and every portal is a gateway to an endless horde. Kill enough enemies and you'll earn a key to close one. Lock them all and the last portal becomes the Master Portal to the next level. But watch out for Key Thieves. The fastest enemy in the game will steal your key, and you've got five seconds to catch them or they're gone.

SURVIVE THE CURSES

Curse casters telegraph a symbol above their head before directing the curse at you. Get hit and you’ll suffer 30 seconds of reversed controls, poison, falling bricks, grasping tentacles, or worst of all... a Portal Surge. A portal surge shifts all portals from blue to red, flooding the level with enemies and cranking the difficulty up to max.

FIGHT THE BOSSES

Octoportals currently features two boss enemies. Faloctocon and the Rainbow Serpent. Faloctocon hovers in the air and rains bullet hell out in all directions, resting when it lands. That's your chance to strike. The Rainbow Serpent pursues you as a chain of colored segments: red reflects your shots, blue speeds it up, yellow curses you, green heals it. Only the grey segment takes damage. And once it's enraged, even that starts moving.

BUILD YOUR RUN

After each level, you have a choice: two random new forms, or +1 max HP. Go big with a fully loaded radial menu, go tanky, or take the middle ground. Whatever you pick stays with you until you die.

Close the portals. Upgrade your octopus. Find the source. Or die and try again. Play the free demo and wishlist on Steam to stay up to date on everything to come.