NodalBastion
Defend the last AI core in a minimalist incremental game as you manage resources, upgrade your network, and unleash powerful skills. Resist humanity’s onslaught!
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The AI wars are over. You are the last intelligence — defending the final core against ever-evolving humanity.
Deploy nodes, expand your network, and neutralize endless hostile intrusions.
Harvest data and install upgrades to adapt with every iteration.
Build your bastion and collect resources
Shape your network and fortify the core against humanity’s assault. Collect data to expand faster, energize skills, and unlock upgrades.
Adapt and upgrade
Optimize your systems, evolve your code — and download more RAM.
Unleash powerful skills
Execute powerful skills to shift the flow of battle — unleash energy pulses, fire devastating lasers, deploy repair and stasis fields, launch explosive mines, release swarms of autonomous drones, and more.
Survive boss battles
Face humanity’s elite in relentless showdowns. Neutralize their tactics and prove machine superiority.
Visual Protocols
Your network, your rules. Switch post-processing effects on or off for optimal clarity — customize scanlines, chromatic aberration, vignette, and more.
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