Top-down arena where every player IS a number. Shoot anyone ranked equal or above you to steal a point. Every round, last place explodes. Survive three levels and chase the highest score.

• Made for the Stop Killing Games Community Jam 2026 — theme: High Score Chasers

Ten players enter the arena (you and nine bots), each assigned a unique value from 1 to 10. Shoot someone whose number is equal to or higher than yours and you steal a point: you go up, they go down. But be carefull and react fast: Nobody is ever safe. Points only change hands and you will loose them just as fast if you not pay attention.

Controls

• WASD — move
• Mouse — aim
• Left click — shoot (has a cooldown)
• Shift — dash (short burst with invulnerability frames — use it to dodge shots, not just to run)
• Esc or P — pause

Your crosshair turns green when you're aiming at a valid target (someone you can actually steal a point from). Valid targets are ringed in green too.

FOUR CHASES AT ONCE

• Chase the rank. Hunt the players above you. But every point you take makes you a bigger target for everyone below.
• Chase the score. Your run score carries across levels — that's the high score you're really after.
• Chase the drops. Points scatter across the arena and vanish in seconds. Grabbing them means leaving safety. Bots don't hunt them, but they'll destroy them by walking over them.
  
• Chase de Crown. If you have the higher rank, you wear the crown. This means a lot more points. But be careful, everyone will try to get you.

Don't be last. Every 25 seconds the player at the bottom of the ranking explodes and is out. You get a warning countdown and the target blinks red in real time, jumping to whoever is last at that exact moment. Steal a point in the final second and you can shove someone else into the blast.

RUN STRUCTURE

Three levels, 100 seconds each. Every 25 seconds the last-place player is culled, so you fight the ranking and the clock at once.  Survive a level to advance. Get eliminated and the run is over.

Beat Normal to unlock HARD, where surviving isn't enough, you must finish in the top 3 of every level to move on.

End-of-life plan

Rank Rush is built to outlive its host.

• No servers, no accounts, no online dependencies. The game is fully self-contained and runs entirely on the player's machine. Nothing calls home; nothing can be switched off remotely.
• No DRM and no launcher. Progress (unlocks, best score, audio settings) is saved locally on the player's own device.
• The web build is the whole game. If itch.io ever disappears, the exported build is a plain folder of standard files (HTML + WASM + data) that anyone can host on any static web server, or run locally, forever.
• Downloadable and archivable. The build is offered as a downloadable ZIP, not only as an embedded player, so anyone can keep a personal copy.
• If the game is ever abandoned, this ZIP remains fully playable as-is with no patch, no server and no permission required. There is nothing to shut down.

Credits

• Game design, art, animation: imateria
• Code: Claude Code
• Engine: Godot 4
• Tools: Godot, Claude Code, Aseprite, Spritemancer
• Fonts: Silkscreen and Press Start 2P (Open Font License)
• Music and SFX:
  • Sidearm Studios (Ultimate Sound FX):
    • Coin Pickup 22 (collectible)
    • Hover Over Button Sound 50 (hover)
    • 8-Bit Click Sounds 7 (click)
    • Game Over 54 (defeat)
    • Sci-Fi Blaster 7 (stun)
    • Buff 3 (point steal)
    • Game Starting 10 (victory)
    • Victory 17 (final victory)
  • Freesound (CC0):
    • Heavy Blaster.ogg by Sean Secret (shoot)
    • automatic door close.ogg by saangosu (door)
    • Woosh_Low_01.ogg by moogy73 (dash)
    • Explosion (Lo-Fi) 2.ogg by FullMetalJedi (explosion)
    • bottle ping.aiff.ogg by Sound Collectah (tick)
  • Ovani Sound (from Ovani Multiverse of Music/chiptune music pack):
    • Chiptune – The Run (Main) (level music)
    • Chiptune – Action Mysterious (cut, 30s) (menu music)

• Made for the Stop Killing Games Community Jam 2026 — theme: High Score Chasers