Caveman vs Everything

You have a spear. They have a tank. Hold your totem through forty stages of escalating history, from hungry wolves to riot police, carving the arena apart as you go. Die, and you start again at the beginning, but the gear you took off a boss stays yours.

One spear. Forty stages. Everything else.

You are a caveman. Behind you is a totem you need to protect at all costs. Coming at you, in this order, are the wild, a rival tribe, an army with gunpowder, and eventually a tank. Caveman vs. Everything is a top-down arena roguelite about holding one small piece of ground while history turns up to take it off you.

Hold the middle

Enemies arrive from every edge, and most of them want the totem, not you. You have a spear to throw, a spear to stab with, and whatever the run has handed you. A thrown spear is a spear you no longer have, so wait for it to recharge or go get it!

Break the map

Bushes, logs, stone, concrete. Each act brings a tougher material, and cover comes apart from both sides, so the arena you finish a stage in is never the one you started in. A wall buys you seconds. Nothing chews slower for being important.

Four acts, four eras, four bosses

The Wild - wolves, bears, and a sabretooth that lunges

The Tribes - rival cavemen who brought friends, and a chieftain

The Powder Age - muskets, cavalry, and a general with a cannon

The Modern World - riot shields, drones, snipers, and the tank at the end of it

Lose the run, keep the gear

The upgrades you draft during a run die with it. Equipment does not. The first time you put down each act boss, it leaves something behind, and you wear it on every run afterwards. Piercing gloves that open up tougher terrain. Goggles. A headdress. Sandals cut from tank tread.