Quorum

The orbital city of Meridian fell, and its drones kept flying. You reboot as a colony mind: a flock of 1 to 200 drones whose count is your health, your damage and your hitbox.

In development: this is a pre-release. Act I, Act II and the road to the Choir are in. Acts III and IV are coming soon.

Formation is the verb. You never aim. The flock fires on its own, and you answer every threat with a shape:

• Tighten to drill: radius 18 px at most, 1.6x damage, pierces armour, fires a lance.
• Spread to shield: radius 70 px, shotgun bursts, and the rim drones shoot enemy bullets down.
• Split half the flock onto an anchor that fights as a turret, or holds a second switch while you hold the first.
• Nova: spend a few drones to blast everything close and clear the bullets.

Count is everything. Every lost drone is a hit point you can see fall. Fallen drones become husks; fly the centre of the flock over them to reboot them. Below 8 drones a NO QUORUM countdown starts: rebuild within 20 seconds or dissolve.

One core at a time. The flock carries one swappable weapon core, and it changes what all four verbs do. Bolt fires straight, Seeder plants mines, Motes home in, Shard banks off walls. Four item families stack on every drone, with ten named items and two synergies to find.

What fights back. Sixteen kinds of machine, each asking for a different shape: turrets to drill, fan batteries to spread under, snipers with a locked red line, leeches to split away, divers under water. And eight bosses that each test a verb: the Bulwark, Cantor, Twinlock, the Last Train, the Pump Crew (a rival quorum to out-number and absorb), the Turnstile, the Comb, and the Echo.

Two acts and a road. The Upper Ring's docks, arcades and sky gardens, then the Underline, a flooded transit district whose currents push the flock. Zones run in stages: rescue stranded drones, hold a relay, haul a data cell, throw twin switches. Between them:

• slip eight drones into a pump tower past sentries' light cones;
• hack an archive as a packet stream while the trace climbs;
• haul salvage to build a walker that fights beside you;
• call down an orbital lance on a shielded boss.

The story at the Relay. Between zones the flock docks at a Relay: a route map of Meridian, portrait dialogue with Tally, the custodian Oda, the last engineer Ines Varga and the archive mind Precentor, and one choice per stop that changes the next zone. Every rival you absorb joins the Chorus and tells you what it lost.

The Choir. Every thirty seconds the city wrote you down, and at the end it plays you back. The Echo is your own flock, flying the path and formations you flew, carrying the items you carried. There are two endings: break it and take its husks, or find the other way home.

After the credits. Full Run unlocks, one clock across the whole campaign. Results grade each zone, with your best chain and best score. Acts III and IV are on the way.

Painted golden-hour backdrops at 640x360, with the drones, lightning and light drawn in code on top, and an adaptive synthesised score that thickens as the fight does.

Controls

Action	Keyboard	Gamepad
Steer the flock	Arrows / WASD	left stick / d-pad
Tighten (hold): drill and lance	Z / Space	A
Spread (hold): shield, shotgun and flak	X	B
Split (tap): anchor turret	C	X / Y
Nova (hold, then release)	C	X / Y
Pause	Enter	Start
Menus: move, pick, back	Arrows, Z / Enter, X	d-pad, A, B

In the infiltration and the hack, A and B change meaning: hold A to hush the squad or sprint the stream, hold B to mask it. Options cover volume and screen shake (off, half, full). Progress saves in your browser at the start of each act.

Plays in a desktop browser (Chrome, Firefox or Edge) with a keyboard or a gamepad. No touch controls.