Pull. Spin. Wake them up.
You are Gravlo, a tiny star seed with a big pull. Rocks, bolts, fruit and crystals fly to you and start to orbit, and that orbit is your only tool. Drag to move, swing your ring into the sleepy creatures and wake them up in bursts of sparks.
In the beginning the cosmos spun because someone was singing. Lumina, the first star, sang a note so deep that everything around her began to orbit: planets, dust, seeds. To spin is to be awake. To stop is to sleep.
On the far side of the sky lives Nil, a huge, soft cloud of piled up sleep. For ages Nil listened to that song without being able to rest. One day, exhausted, Nil let out the Great Yawn, a yawn so deep that it pulled the silence back into everything. The song stopped. Lumina burst into a million pieces that scattered across five regions, and every creature nearby fell into a heavy sleep inside a bubble.
Gravlo is the last seed of Lumina, a little piece of her heart that still keeps the deep note. Gravlo is too small to sing, but it hums, and every piece of Lumina that hears the hum recognizes its mother and rushes close. Stones, scrap, fruit and crystals orbit Gravlo because they are coming home. The more pieces spin together, the louder the hum and the stronger the pull.
Every level, Gravlo relearns a memory of Lumina's song: one note doubles the ring, another stretches the orbit, another fuses pieces together. Mutations change the rules because they change the music.
Creatures are never defeated, only woken up: the orbit pops their sleep bubble, they stretch and fly away as sparks. When Gravlo runs out of health it simply gets dizzy and drifts out of orbit, with little stars spinning over its head.
The menu sky is the map of the story: a dotted outline of Lumina. Every guardian you wake lights a part of her constellation (the Meadow lights the outline, the Harbor her eyes, the Orchard her smile, the Reef her rays and the Crown her full glow). Woken guardians stay in their worlds as happy background friends, proof that waking up is a good thing. And when Nil is finally calm, the song comes back.
There is no attack button, no dash and no special skill. You move, and physics does the rest: your orbit is your only tool.
Drag anywhere on the screen to move (a floating joystick appears under your finger or mouse). On a keyboard, use WASD or the arrow keys.
Gravlo's pull draws loose debris close. Slow pieces that reach your ring snap into orbit and spin around you. More pieces make a bigger, stronger ring.
Swing the orbit into the sleepy creatures. Each hit pops their sleep bubble; awake creatures fly off as sparks. Collect the sparks to fill your level bar.
Every level offers three mutations. Pick one and your orbit changes its rules. At 4:00 the world's guardian arrives: wake it up to relight a piece of Lumina.
| Action | Touch | Mouse | Keyboard |
|---|---|---|---|
| Move | Drag anywhere | Hold and drag | WASD or arrows |
| Pause | Pause button, top left | Click the pause button | Space or P |
| Pick a card | Tap the card | Click the card | 1 to 4, or arrows and Enter |
| Reroll | Reroll button | Click Reroll | R |
| Banish | Hold the card | Right click the card | B, then the number |
| Skip (+10 health) | Skip button | Click Skip | S |
When Lumina burst, her pieces fell across five regions. Each world has its own debris, its own family of sleepy creatures and a guardian who has been napping for a very long time. Beat a guardian to unlock the next world.
Lumina's crust became a meadow of floating stones over dark green grass. Closed white flowers dot the ground, and they open wherever Gravlo passes with a full orbit.
A port of old ships that moored here to dream. Rusty hulls, idle cranes and dark signal lights that switch back on one by one as the run goes on.
Where Lumina's light fell, trees grew without gravity. Fruit floats on slowly spinning branches under a plum sky. Very juicy. Very sticky.
Lumina's tears froze into a reef of blue green crystals. Light bends here, and so do the rules.
The edge of everything, where Nil sleeps. Almost pitch dark, with giant floating pillows, blown out candles and Nil's silhouette covering half the sky. Only star shards light the way.
Nil's sleepy "pillows" sleepwalk after anything that spins, trying to make it stop. The little Yawnlet chaser appears in every world and is the first creature you will ever wake.
Every core is a seed of Lumina that Gravlo wakes along the way. Same friendly face, different rules.
Small, round, stubborn and optimistic. Keeps more debris after the yawn.
Available from the start
A kite shaped seed, fast and a little distracted. Orbit always stretched.
Unlock: last 3:00 in one run
Chubby and heavy, hugs tight. Tough, and bonks foes on touch.
Unlock: wake 2,500 sleepies
An electric seed with spiky hair. Every hit zaps a neighbor.
Unlock: wake Captain Rustle
Twins that never let go. Two cores, one orbit shaped like an 8.
Unlock: discover 5 evolutions
The contrarian: pushes instead of pulling, sending foes into a huge slow orbit.
Unlock: wake King Pit
The motherly one. Starts with a moon in her lap that grows every level.
Unlock: discover 30 mutations
The oldest seed, half light and half shadow. Two rings, no healing.
Unlock: beat Yawn Crown with 3 challenge stars
There are 46 mutations, and each one bends a rule of your orbit. A few examples:
On each level up you can Reroll the cards, Banish one for the rest of the run, or Skip to heal 10.
Own the right pair of mutations at the right level and the next level up offers a golden evolution card. Evolutions add to your build instead of replacing it, up to 4 per run. There are 14 to discover.
| Evolution | Recipe | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Cosmic Scissors | Double Ring + Counter Spin | Foes between rings take 2x |
| Comet Tail | Elliptic Orbit + Whip x2 | Orbit becomes a blazing tail |
| Stellar Cycle | Fusion x3 + Fission | Giant pieces burst into 6 |
| Fireworks | Pop! x3 + Chain Reaction | Every burst sparks 3 more |
| Pulsar Breath | Magnet Flip + Strong Magnet x4 | Flips vacuum up everything |
| Blizzard Ring | Frost x2 + Fast Spin x3 | Slowed foes freeze solid |
| Tesla Cage | Static x3 + Fast Spin x3 | Lightning links your orbit |
| Avalanche | Snowball + Heavy Rocks x4 | Huge debris crash and splash |
| Solar System | Moon Maker + Satellite x3 | Moons get satellites |
| Black Hole | Vortex + Tug x2 | Every 10s: pull everything in |
| Bastion | Orbit Shield + Shell x3 | Block a hit, pulse back |
| Heartbeat | Echo + Pulse Orbit | Echo ring beats outward |
| Star Boomerang | Rhythm Throw x2 + Slingshot x2 | Throw 3 piercing boomerangs |
| Fire Wheel | Ember x3 + Tailwind x2 | Moving fast lights your orbit |
Every run earns stardust, so no run is wasted. Spend it in the Constellation, a tree of permanent upgrades in four branches: Core (Thick Crust, Light Feet, Warm Glow, Second Wind), Orbit (Pocket Pebbles, Wider Lane, Spin Up, Magnet, Tough Stuff), Fortune (Stardust Sieve, Bright Sparks, Second Look, Not Today, Lucky Star) and Discovery, which adds new mutations to the pool.
Prisms come from waking a guardian for the first time, trophies, codex milestones and the daily gift. They only buy looks (core skins and visual themes such as Cute, Neon Arcade and Brute), never power.
The Codex has 103 entries and fills in as you play: mutations, evolutions, creatures, guardians, cores and short stories. Each creature entry counts how many you have woken, and completion milestones pay out prisms.
The five worlds in order, each a run of about 5 minutes ending with its guardian.
The guardian does not end the run: pressure keeps rising and old guardians come back to visit. Unlocks after waking any guardian.
A new challenge every day, the same for everyone: world, core and modifiers set by the date. Your best run returns as a ghost to race.
All five guardians in a row. Unlocks after waking all 5.
Win a world, then replay it with 1 to 8 challenge stars. Each star makes it harder and pays more stardust.
