Card Invaders – shoot the creatures, win the cards

CARDINVADERS

The invaders are creature cards.
Shoot them. Win them.

Drag anywhere to fly. Your ship fires by itself: shoot the beasts, grab the glowing power-ups (they last a few seconds), and chip enemy bullets away to carve a gap when it gets busy. The first 7 waves are free.

Music by Skeleton House Collective · All Skeleton Games

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Put your name on the title screen before you play. Your country flag is shown next to your score.

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Goal: shoot the flying beasts and survive as many waves as you can. Every fifth wave a boss arrives. Beat it to win the card it guards (the 🎯 card at the top).
All-round turret: a small turret on your ship automatically shoots at beasts beside and behind you, so nothing can sneak up from below. Your forward guns do the rest.
Shoot the bullets too: it takes three hits to knock an enemy bullet down (rocks take five). You can carve a gap, but you cannot clear the screen, so keep moving.
Power bar: every hit drains it. At zero you lose a life (you have 3). Collect the green F fuel cells to refill it.
Your gun grows: it levels up every third wave you clear (up to level 6: more guns, a spread, then stronger piercing shots). Lose a life and it drops a level.
Wipe out a whole formation before it leaves the screen and it pays out a power-up and 250 points.
Power-ups last about 10 seconds: T twin guns · S spread · L laser · R rapid fire · W wingmen · M missiles · B bomb · ◉ shield (rare).
Card shards ◆: elite beasts drop them. Collect 6 for an extra card at the end of the run.
Coins 🪙 are kept between runs. When your last life goes you can spend them to continue. It costs more the further you got, and more each time.
Cards: the further you get, the more cards you win. They are exclusive to this game and join your collection for card duels. The first 7 waves are free, with up to 3 free cards. To fly on past wave 7 and keep winning cards you unlock the game once.
Leaderboard: your score, name and country flag go on the daily, weekly and all-time boards.
Wave twists: from wave 4 a wave can be Darkness, Frenzy, Armoured, Turbo or Surge. Every seventh wave is a Coin Rush where nobody shoots back. A gunship mini-boss turns up every five waves. From wave 6 beasts attack from below and the sides, and purple-ringed aces circle you.
Hazards: falling rocks, lightning strikes, thorn vines and cliff walls that close in. Shoot the rocks.