Zodiac Orbit: Star Defense

The sky is going dark.

From the dimmed stars of the zodiac a horde of shadows pours like a river towards Polaris. The wanderers of the night sky stand guard.

Zodiac Orbit is a defense game of growing planets and linking constellations. The wanderers circle Polaris and fight on their own. After every wave you pick a card to grow one of them, and decide which constellation to complete.

Watch them grow
• After every wave one card raises one wanderer. With each level it grows larger, its attack reaches wider and its light runs deeper.
• New wanderers join along the way: pick one of three.

Link the constellations
• Grow two partners together and a constellation lights up between them: Orion, Cygnus, Cassiopeia, Aquila, Lyra, Pegasus…
• A lit constellation gathers its light in its own true shape and sweeps the horde in one stroke. Each strikes its own way: lightning that leaps, shadows that freeze, stars that burst one by one, a spear that runs to the edge of the screen.
• Grow it further for ★2 and ★3 and its stroke grows stronger. Fourteen constellations wait in the book.

A journey across twelve constellations
• From Aries to Pisces, every constellation has its own shadows and its own boss.
• Your first run is a short one of ten waves, led up to the moment your first constellation lights.
• From then on a run is twenty waves: at the tenth the boss strikes at Polaris, and the second act brings strange guest shadows and the boss in its true form.
• Five difficulties.

A little every day
• Ranks: spend the Stardust you earn to raise a wanderer's stars, and it starts every run at a higher level.
• In your first days a new wanderer joins each day. Eight wanderers, twenty-four runes.
• A daily gift, today's tasks, the observatory and the Star Pass.

Made for short sessions
• Close the game in the middle of a run and pick it up again at the same wave.
• Auto skills cast for you if you like.
• Larger text, softer light, and screen shake and damage numbers that can be turned off.
• Played in landscape. In English and Korean.

Purchases and ads
• Free to play. Stardust pouches, First Starlight, Monthly Light, the Star Pass and the Supporter are sold. Nothing paid for is left to chance.
• Ads only play when you tap for a reward (a revive, Stardust twice over, one more card, one more swap, the daily gift and others). The Supporter gives those rewards without ads.
• The first screen asks your age and your agreement to the terms and the privacy policy. Play records that help us improve the game and measure our ads (how runs go, the cards picked, what is done in the shop and with ads, errors) are sent, and can be turned off in the settings at any time. Nothing is sent and no ads play on a child's device. No names, accounts or contact details are collected.

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