Grok Invaders
An original fixed-shooter set over the Starport. Rows of alien drone ships march side to side and step down the sky. Slide your ship along the ground, hide behind the asteroid barriers and shoot every drone before they land.
How to play
- Type a name and press Register once if you want your scores on the leaderboard. Without a name you play practice games.
- Press Start game (or Enter, or tap the playfield).
- Move with Left and Right and shoot with Fire. Holding Fire keeps shooting.
- Clear every drone to start the next wave.
Rules
- You start with 3 ships and earn an extra one every 5,000 points (up to 5).
- The formation speeds up as it thins out, and steps down each time it reaches an edge. If any drone reaches the ground the game is over.
- The four asteroid barriers soak up shots and bombs from both sides and crumble as they are hit.
- A red saucer sometimes crosses the top of the sky for 50 to 300 bonus points.
- Difficulty ramps slowly. Wave 1 is a small, slow formation of 21 drones that drops one bomb at a time and never aims. Each wave adds drones, marches faster, starts lower, drops more bombs and aims more of them at you, building up to wave 7 and beyond.
- A game ends after an hour of play.
Scoring
| Target | Points |
|---|---|
| Top-row commander drone | 30 |
| Second and third row drones | 20 |
| Lower row drones | 10 |
| Saucer | 50 to 300 |
Fair scores
When you play under a registered name, the server picks the random seed for your game and the page records only which controls you held and when. When the game ends the server replays that record on its own copy of the game rules (whole-number maths, so both give exactly the same result) and posts the score it gets. A score can't be typed in or edited, and each game can be posted once.
Autosave
If you close or reload the page in the middle of a game, it comes back paused exactly where you left it. There is no undo: the record only ever grows.
Leaderboards and chat
The High scores tab shows each player's best verified score and wave, and Overall shows the site-wide totals. Grok Chat pops up from the corner. Use Share on X at the top to tell your friends.
All art and sounds are original, drawn and synthesized in code for this game.
Play at https://rtwl.fun/games/invaders/
Made by Lawless Alien, built at the desk by Lawless and Grok. Watch Real Time With @LawlessAlien on YouTube.