✦ Free Browser Game ✦

Arcane Citadel

Dark creatures hunger for the Citadel. Choose your element, move through the arena, and survive wave after wave a boss lurks every five rounds.

⚡ 6 Elements 💀 7 Enemy Types 🏰 Boss Every Wave 5 ✨ 48 Upgrades 🎮 Works on Mobile
Move WASD or joystick
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Aim Auto stays on nearest enemy
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Upgrade Between each wave in the shop
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Sound 🔊 button top-right inside game
W A S D Move
👆 Drag Virtual joystick on mobile
🏰 Protect the Citadel don't let them reach it
⚜ Spend gold between waves to upgrade

⚔ How to Play

1
Pick your element each has unique mechanics, upgrades, and a different way to kill things.
2
Move around the arena your mage auto-fires at the nearest enemy. Position matters.
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Enemies march toward the Citadel if they reach it, it takes damage. Citadel falls = run over.
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Kill enemies for gold spend it between waves on upgrades at the Arcane Stall.
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Every 5th wave is a boss fight the boss targets the player directly. Survive or fall.
6
Rare relics drop from enemies permanent buffs that alter your whole run.

👻 Enemy Types

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Shade
Fast and numerous the front line of every assault.
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Golem
Slow and tanky. High damage when it reaches the Citadel.
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Wraith
Phases through the arena immune to damage while phasing.
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Hexblade
Carries a directional magic shield. Hit it from the back.
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Voidling
Splits into two Imps on death kill it fast.
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Cultist
Fires ranged bolts at the Citadel from a distance.

🔮 The Six Elements

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Lightning
Instant chain strikes. High damage, jumps between enemies.
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Fire
Ignites on hit. Burn spreads, scorch pools linger.
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Water
Piercing bolts that slow and split on kill.
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Poison
Miasma clouds that linger and spread infection.
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Wind
Knockback gusts. Three-way spread, vortex traps.
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Ice
Freezes solid. Shatter for double damage.

✨ Relics

Rare relics drop randomly from enemies. Each one permanently changes your run you can hold up to 8 at once.

🩸Voidheart triple damage every 5th kill
👁️Twin Gaze 20% chance to fire twice
💀Death Chill kills slow nearby enemies
⚡Wrath Brand +50% damage below 30% HP
🏃Bloodrush speed burst on every kill
🛡️Ward Sigil reduces Citadel damage taken

💀 Boss Waves — Every Round 5

Wave 5
Malgrath
The Hollow Warden. Summons shades and charges the player.
Wave 10
Severeth
The Plague Duchess. Spreads poison fields across the arena.
Wave 15
Drakthorn
The Ashen Colossus. Walls of fire and golem bodyguards.
Wave 20
Xal'vareth
The Void Sovereign. Phases in and out, summons voidlings.

⚠ All bosses enter an enraged phase at 50% HP faster, harder-hitting, and more dangerous.