Sporewright press kit

In one line

Grow a glowing fungal spire and hold back endless waves of Blight in an idle tower defense built for one hand.

Description

In a pitch-black fungal hollow, one living spire is the only light left. You are the Sporewright, its keeper.

The Blight crawls in from the dark: rot beetles, mold crawlers, spitting pods and hulking bosses. The spire aims and fires glowing spores on its own. Your job is to decide what it grows into. During every run you spend Nectar across three upgrade trees: THORN sharpens its attack, BARK hardens its defenses and ROOT spreads its reach and income. Every purchase changes the spire you can see, and it rises through five growth stages, from a sprout to a crowned world-tree.

Waves escalate without end, and every run ends by design. When the spire wilts, the Spores you gathered go into the Mycelium Workshop for permanent levels, so the next run pushes one wave further. Reach wave milestones to unlock eight tiers of Blight, from Leaf Litter down through the Spore Caverns, the Blight Heart and The Dead Canopy to Glimmer Deep and The Rotheart Maw, where the Hollow Sovereign rules. Close the game and your mycelium keeps harvesting Spores for up to 8 hours, longer with research.

Around the runs grows a long game of six systems that open one by one. The Sporeries run timed research on a real clock, even while the game is closed. Luminite, earned from bosses, elites, milestones, missions and rank-ups, opens pods of Mycelial Cards to collect, level and equip. Mycelial Rites are ultimate abilities you call down mid-run. Daily and weekly missions, achievements and a 100-rank Sporewright Rank reward everything you do. When a cycle slows, the spire can Rebloom: it resets the Workshop and the tiers for Mycorrhiza, spent in a 24-talent tree. Six spire skins are earned along the way. On the game's pacing simulator, a player who checks in four times a day first Reblooms after 10-13 hours of play and opens the seventh tier after 160-167 hours.

Key features

Idle tower defense: the spire fires by itself, you choose its upgrades
22 in-run upgrades in three trees: THORN (attack), BARK (defense), ROOT (utility)
A spire that visibly grows through 5 stages, and shows your build on its body
8 tiers of Blight with their own look, 15 kinds of Blight including 3 bosses (Rot Colossus, Blight Matriarch and Hollow Sovereign)
Mycelium Workshop: permanent levels and 14 unlockable stats
Sporeries: 19 timed research lines in up to 5 culture vats, running even while the game is closed
Mycelial Cards: 24 cards in 4 rarities, opened from pods bought with Luminite, levelled 1-5, up to 7 equipped
Mycelial Rites: 6 in-run ultimate abilities, up to 3 equipped, with auto-cast
Daily and weekly missions, 16 achievement families (65 steps) and 100 Sporewright Ranks
Rebloom prestige with a 24-talent tree in 3 branches; Tiers 7 and 8 open only after Reblooming
6 unlockable spire skins: 3 glow tints and 3 new spire models
7 wave milestones per tier with Spore rewards, and Luminite the first time
Offline harvest for up to 8 hours, up to 16 with research
Game speed from 1x up to 6x, unlocked as you go deeper
Portrait, one-handed, no aiming

Trailer

A 50-second vertical (9:16) trailer. It opens with one short generated establishing shot; everything after that is real gameplay and UI captured from the game: a new player's first minutes, the spire growing, the Tier 7-8 bosses and the long-game systems.

Download the trailer (MP4, 720×1280, 10.2 MB)

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Key art

Promotional artwork in the game's style. It is not gameplay; for gameplay, use the screenshots below.

Screenshots

Real, unedited 1080×1920 captures from the game.

Store screenshots

The framed set used on the App Store: real captures under a headline.

Renders

Transparent renders of the real in-game models.

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