Manggis: Night Market Survivor

Thirty nights, one angry mangosteen. A blaster that aims itself, a frying pan that never rests, and a closed market full of scavengers. No ads.

Nobody bought Manggis. The bruised, angry mangosteen was still on the stall when the night market closed, and then the scavengers came. She has a frying pan in one hand and a bottle blaster in the other. Survive thirty nights.

TWO THUMBS, NOTHING MORE Move with your left thumb. The blaster aims and fires by itself at the nearest enemy, and the frying pan swings at anything that gets close. Your job is where you stand: dash through a gap, step toward the crowd for the money, and get out before it closes in. Death is fast, and the next run is two taps away.

A DRUM OF FRUIT AMMO Ten kinds of ammo turn in one revolving drum: seeds, durian spikes, a coconut that bowls over a whole line, chili that leaves the floor burning, ice that freezes, sticky rice that glues them in place, firecrackers, skewers, a fish bone that flies back, and sugarcane that ricochets. Tap a chamber to switch, flick to spin the drum. A crate of ammo lands every night.

THIRTY NIGHTS, TEN BOSSES Rats first, then ants, cockroaches, stray cats, macaques and gulls. Every third night one of them has grown into a boss — ten in all, from the Rat King on night 3 to the Scrap King on 27. On night 10 the dogs start charging and the gulls start diving. On night 16 every macaque throws. A monitor lizard and a scrap dealer come as elites, in pairs from night 22, and on night 30 the market auntie comes for you herself.

THE BROKER Between nights the Broker sells what your purse can pay for: packs of ammo and 25 items that change how you fight, from more HP, armor and dodge to speed and fire that spreads. Every purchase shows in the very next night.

THE MARKET The banknotes you collect go home with you when a run ends. Spend them at the market before the next one. The shelf turns over every four hours with new deals, and a free box of ammo waits on the street every day.

GAME CENTER Three leaderboards (Best Night, Fastest Win, Enemies Defeated), twenty-one achievements, and a copy of your save kept through Game Center, so a new phone picks up where you left off.

FREE, NO ADS Manggis is free to download and has no ads. If you want them, two packs of banknotes and a one-time starter basket of ammo can be bought with real money; nothing in the game is locked behind them. It plays offline and needs no account.

We're Nykytap, a father and son who make small games.