Horde-Survival Roguelite · Free on iPhone & Android

IonstormOutfly the living storm.

Touch anywhere to move; your weapons fire themselves. Draft an upgrade every level, claim Relics from bosses, and forge a stronger ship between runs.

Free to start on iPhone and Android · $4.99 one-time to own · No ads, ever.

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One-thumb flight

Storm Surges

Fair rankings

How it plays

Move with one thumb, auto-fire wild weapons, and survive the living storm.

Fly with one thumb while six auto-firing weapons do the shooting. Collect gems, draft upgrades, evolve your kit, and fire Relics when a Storm Surge fills the screen. Daily Storm and Open League give every pilot the same starting build, free or Pro.

  • One-thumb control — weapons fire themselves
  • Six weapons, paired evolutions, passives, and build-changing Catalysts
  • Storm Surges, boss caches, tactical Relics, and fair fixed-start rankings
Ionstorm: Weapon evolution during gameplay

The loop

Every run follows one honest loop.

  1. 01Move
  2. 02Vacuum XP
  3. 03Draft an upgrade
  4. 04Survive a Storm Surge
  5. 05Face the Collapsar
  6. 06Trigger a Relic
  7. 07Collect Reactor Cores
  8. 08Forge a stronger regular flight.

What is inside

Inside Ionstorm.

01

One thumb, full storm

Touch anywhere and a floating joystick appears under your thumb. Your weapons fire themselves — your only job is to move, survive, and choose what to build.

02

Build your loadout one level at a time

Every level offers one of three upgrades — new weapons, passive modules, Catalysts, or late-run overdrives. The run you survive with is the loadout you drafted on the fly.

03

Break the storm. Keep flying.

Face the Collapsar, then rotating bosses that change the pressure. Destroy a boss or outlast it to earn a relic cache. Reach the Collapsar finale, break the storm, and take your build into overtime.

04

Relics from boss caches

Outlast or defeat a boss, or clear a rift, to earn a cache — choose one Relic to hold. Nova Bomb clears the screen, Aegis Cell shields your hull, Chain Storm chains lightning through clusters, Magnet Surge vacuums every pickup instantly. Your relic bar holds three; tap any slot to fire it.

Fair unlocks

Play free. Own the rest when it earns it.

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  • Unlimited regular flights and one ranked Daily each UTC day

Free to start on iPhone and Android.

$4.99 one-time

Unlimited flights. Optional Pro.

Unlimited regular flights, the ranked Daily Storm and Open League are free, with no ads or energy. Pro opens every Forge and Reactor upgrade for regular flights, three saved loadouts, and 2× and 3× play speed. Pro never changes a ranked starting build.

Play Pass

One pass, every StackForge game

$2.99 a month or $14.99 a year unlocks Pro in every StackForge game, plus One Good Thing.

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Ready when you are

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Free to start on iPhone and Android, with no ads, ever.