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NEONHIVE
Your weapons fire themselves. Your only job is where to stand.
Survive twenty minutes against a swarm that gets smarter the tighter it
packs — alone, or with a friend on the same screen.
Works on phones, tablets and desktop. No account, no ads, no in‑app anything.
Play together, in the room or across the world
Same room: grab a second controller, share a keyboard, or hand
someone half your phone. Stay near each other and you share one camera;
drift apart and it splits into two panes, locking the layout so it
cannot flip about while you fight.
Different rooms: pick a three‑letter call sign, hit HOST, and
read the four‑letter code to a friend. They type it in, a countdown
runs on both screens, and you drop into the same run.
There is no game server. The two browsers talk directly to each
other, sending only what each player is doing — a few bytes a
frame rather than six hundred enemies. Both machines run the whole
simulation and stay in step, which is why it costs nothing to run and
why nobody is ever “the host” in the sense that matters.
Level‑ups never pause anything online: your three choices appear as
a small strip while the fight carries on around you. And going down means
bleeding out, not dying — your partner has a window to reach you.
Somebody opened the door
You are Te’ariki, and the run opens with your
squad holding station outside the drift — six hulls, each drawn in
its owner’s colours — before you fly in alone.
Sejaydez commands. Haizen runs ordnance, Ivyson reads the sensors,
Blessing handles medical. They talk to you across the whole twenty
minutes, over comms, without ever stopping the fight.
And Einolia is helpful. A little too well‑informed
about a corridor nobody has surveyed, and oddly keen on where you should
not look. The reveal waits until the Tyrant is dead.
She is in the opening line‑up, sitting slightly apart from the
formation. Nobody mentions it. You will only notice the second time.
