Brambleblade

Brambleblade is a top-down action run through three overgrown floors where the blade is a living bramble. Every swing that lands grows it one thorn longer, with more reach and bite. A dash flings every thorn forward as a volley that bites hard and pierces a foe, leaves the blade short again and drops the spent thorns where they stop, and every hit you take snaps half the thorns onto the floor; walk over thorns on the floor before they wither to grow them back. So each moment is a choice between keeping reach and spending it. Clear five rooms on each floor and its boss (the Bramble Matron, the Bog Toad and Thornheart); after every room graft one of three cards onto the blade: rooting, splitting or hooked thorns, sap, kill grafts, a briar crown, a whip dash and more. One life; the run autosaves at every room. A daily thicket has the same rooms and foes for everyone. It plays in the browser with a keyboard, mouse, touch or gamepad.