How to play Last Bastion

Quick start — your first run

• Sign in with OMEN (one tap — no password, no seed phrase) and hit PLAY. Your first campaign mission is free, like every campaign mission after it.
• The Omen Core is the glowing heart at the center. Rift forces breach from the purple gates and march down the corrupted lanes toward it. If the Core's HP hits zero, the run ends.
• Pick a turret from the COMMAND dock (or press 1–5) and click open plating between lanes to build it. Shift-click places several in a row.
• Press SPACE (or LAUNCH) to send the wave. Kills pay Salvage ◈; cleared waves pay Energy ⚡ for more construction.
• Every few waves you'll draft one of three upgrades — exact stat changes shown on each card. This is where runs are won.
• Survive, expand, adapt. When the run ends you bank Shards ◇ for permanent upgrades — every run pays, win or lose.

Reading the battlefield

The Bastion is a ringed fortress. Enemies path inward along lanes; you build in the plating between them. The wave strip along the top previews exactly what's coming next — armor, speed, fliers, bosses — so you can rebuild your line before it's tested.

The five turrets

Every turret upgrades through six Mk levels (damage ×1.6 per level) and supports three targeting modes — first (default), strongest, and closest. Tap a placed turret to upgrade, retarget, or salvage it.

PULSE TURRET

BACKBONE DPS

Rapid single-target fire. Your economy pick — cheap enough to be everywhere.

DMG 82.9/s70⚡

BLAST MORTAR

AREA DENIAL

Slow, lobbed splash hits. Devastating into slowed or clumped waves.

DMG 26SPLASH 55140⚡

GRAVITY WELL

CONTROL

No damage — slows everything in range by 40%. Multiplies every other tower.

SLOW 40%AURA110⚡

RIFT LANCE

ARMOR BREAKER

Piercing line shot that ignores armor — hits everything along its path.

DMG 44PIERCE170⚡

DRONE HANGAR

SEEK & DESTROY

Launches homing interceptors — insurance against fliers and leakers.

DMG 20HOMING160⚡

Enemy compendium

Baseline stats — competitive profiles scale HP and speed by difficulty and by how deep your Bastion has expanded (outer rings breed tougher, faster enemies). Armor reduces every hit by that fraction, so big single hits beat rapid chip against armored targets. Flying enemies ignore ground layouts — keep tracking coverage inside.

Rule of thumb: Pulse for cheap chip & chaff, Blast for armor & splitters, Gravity to hold fast runners in the kill zone, Rift for priority snipes, Drone for locked focus fire and fliers. Kill Menders and Disruptors before the tanks they escort. Tier 2 (scored windows from Sept 7, Campaign from Mission 161): the Juggernaut wants constant chip, the Leech wants priority, the Herald wants Lance, the Husk wants a MIXED line, the Riftborn wants to die far from your Core, and the Anchor wants raw damage — no single build answers all six.

Map hazards — the battlefield fights back

Some battlefields carry a hazard: a feature of the ground itself, announced in the mission briefing and pinned to the HUD for the whole run. In the Campaign about half of the missions past Mission 10 roll one from their seed (never on onboarding, sector-core boss missions or the last five). In Ranked each weekly season carries one hazard for the whole week, set by the server alongside the weekly modifier — everyone in the season plays the same one. Tournaments and the War never have hazards: paid arenas stay pure standard.

Band hazards are drawn as a tinted ring on the battlefield with dashed edges, labelled. The HUD pill shows the active hazard all run; hover it for the rule.

Battle spells

Equip three spells per run (competitive runs choose them at run start) and cast with Q W E or the spell bar. Every cast costs Energy ⚡ — there are no free spells — so a cast is always a trade against construction. Each spell has six upgrade levels.

Drafts — where runs are won

Every few waves — and after elites, bosses and ring unlocks — the run pauses and deals you three upgrade cards; you keep one. Cards show exact stat changes before you pick: turret damage, fire rate, range, Core armor, Energy income, spell power and rarer hybrid effects.

Expanding the Bastion

When you can afford it, EXPAND THE BASTION. Each new ring pushes enemy spawn gates farther from the Core, opens fresh buildable plating, and introduces one new pathing mechanic. Your old towers become the hardened inner line — expansion is how a good run becomes a deep one.

The five currencies

Every purchase in the game shows separate buttons per currency — the game only ever spends the one you tap. There is no automatic switching, ever.

CURRENCY	EARNED / SOURCED	SPENT ON	PERSISTS?
⚡ Energy	Clearing waves in-run	Turrets, upgrades, rings, spell casts	No — resets each run
◈ Salvage	Kills and waves in-run	Tactical supplies, rerolls, repairs	No — resets each run
◇ Shards	Every run, free, win or lose	Permanent upgrades (free lane)	Yes
OMEN	Your live OMEN wallet	Tournament entries, packs, and the Standard lanes in the Perk Lab & Doctrine	Yes — real balance

OMEN is your real balance, read live from your authenticated OMEN account. The game never simulates it, and top-ups happen on the OMEN platform — never inside the game.

The Tower Arsenal — twenty permanent levels per platform

The Arsenal is the first permanent track most commanders should deepen. Five platforms, twenty permanent levels each. A level is bought once and is yours from that moment — it applies in every mode: Campaign, Ranked Campaign, Tournaments, Leagues and the Monthly War.

Arsenal levels are not drafts

A draft lasts one run and vanishes when the run ends. An Arsenal level never has to be re-earned. If you have ever finished a strong run and wished you could keep the build, the Arsenal is the part of the game that lets you keep a piece of it.

Spell Loadout

A separate station with the same shape: you equip three of eight combat spells before a run and that trio is what you take in. Tournaments and the Monthly War work differently — they use run-scoped spells, starting at LV 1 with whatever you upgrade during the run itself, so nobody arrives with a pre-built advantage.

The Perk Lab — permanent power

Between runs, the Perk Lab converts your currencies into permanent account upgrades across eight tracks:

Each track has a paid path — OMEN Standard — plus the free Shard lane. All purchases are server-authoritative and tied to your account, not your device.

Where perks count: permanent upgrades apply in the free Campaign and the Ranked Campaign (the account-power league), where your OMEN path stacks with your free Shard lane. The same power applies everywhere — Tournaments, Leagues and the Monthly War included — on the identical server-issued map for every entrant. Every competitive score is server-validated either way.

The Campaign — 10 warzones, free forever

The campaign spans missions across 10 warzones, each with its own districts, environments and unlock chain. Missions gate new turrets (unlocks are shown on each dock button), open new districts, and pay Shards for the Perk Lab. There is no entry cost anywhere in the campaign — it's both the game and the training ground where permanent progression fully applies.

★ Perfect Mission. Clear a mission with zero leaks and zero Core damage and it pays +50% Shards on top of the normal reward — first clear or replay — and the mission keeps a permanent ★ on its record. Same bar as the competitive Perfect Run bonus; a shielded breach still counts as a breach.

Scoring — how the big numbers actually happen

Every competitive run is scored on twelve independent components. Nothing here is hidden — this is the exact formula the game runs, and the end-of-run screen shows your run's full component-by-component recap. Read it once and you will understand why two players who both clear all forty waves can still be 25,000 points apart.

The eight Boosts

Ranked used to run 40 waves and then keep going in overtime, because two flawless 40-wave runs scored the same number — the damage and speed terms cap out, and on a clean clear everyone kills the same enemies. Overtime separated the field by making runs an extra half hour long. Boosts do the same job inside the original 40.

Doctrine — the deep progression track

Doctrine is live. A second permanent-upgrade system, separate from the Perk Lab, built for players who want somewhere to keep going. Where the Perk Lab tunes the stats you already know, Doctrine adds capability the game doesn't otherwise have — critical hits, chaining shots, a fourth draft card, a seventh Mk level. Ten disciplines, each with its own deep ladder.

Each discipline runs a 20-rank lane — the same model as the Perk Lab: the OMEN Standard lane. Every rank is a fraction of a percent, so the power comes from ten disciplines compounding rather than any single purchase. No rank ever costs more than the platform's per-purchase ceiling — the deepest rank sits at $24.

Disciplines unlock as you clear the campaign: each one opens at its matching warzone — Cadence at Warzone 1, Optics at Warzone 2, all the way to Vigil at Warzone 10 — so a fresh account can't buy its way past the game. You earn Standard-lane ranks free from Reward Packs dropped by warzone bosses (below), and you can also buy ranks in the lane directly with OMEN.

The Daily Siege — fifteen seconds a day

Once per day you get a Daily Siege: a fifteen-second assault where you mash to launch and the damage you do decides the reward. There is no wheel and no spin: the daily is something you play, not something that happens to you. Destroy the target outright and it rolls a Reward Pack on top of the reward.

Quests

Alongside the siege, daily quests credit automatically as you play — no claim button, no missed window. They pay OMEN VIP Points. Weekly quest claims are currently queued portal-side: nothing is lost, and parked claims pay out once the portal assignment clears.

Reward Packs — the free lane, sealed

As you push through the campaign you earn Reward Packs — sealed containers that open into permanent power. A single campaign hands out about 25 packs, and which family you get depends on where you earned it:

Warzone bosses are the wildcard: a boss pack rolls its family — perk, spell or doctrine — when it lands, so any boss can hand you any of the three. Cores and milestones stay fixed.

Every pack comes in one of five tiers — Standard, Rare, Elite, Prime and Rift. Higher tiers roll more grants at once and lean harder toward high-end levels. Each tier has a published price — 30 / 60 / 110 / 170 / 240 — but through the campaign you earn them for nothing. The full odds for every tier are published on the pack's odds screen in-game: the exact table the server rolls against, so what you see is what you get.

Earned free, or bought. Packs are the free path to what OMEN buys — you get them by playing. The Pack Store carries all three families — perk, spell and doctrine, at the same prices — in the OMEN PACKS tab (STANDARD, RARE and ELITE singles). A pack opens at exactly the tier on the label. Every pack is rolled and recorded server-side against the same published odds, whether you earned it or bought it.

Ranked Campaign — the weekly ladder

• Free to enter. Seasons run weekly; everyone plays the same server-issued Bastion.
• Your best run each day is added to your season total — consistency climbs the board, not one lucky spike. You get 3 free scored runs every day and there is nothing to buy; the runs you have left today are shown on the ranked card in-game, and the budget resets at 00:00 UTC.
• The account-power league: your permanent Perk Lab upgrades (and in-run purchases) apply here — ranked measures the strongest Bastion your account can field. Everyone still plays the identical server-issued map and seed.
• Free practice: take a practice run on the exact ranked Bastion first — nothing charged, no score submitted.
• When a run ends, your score is validated and banked server-side. Interrupted runs resume where they left off.
• Ladders pay the top of the board in prize currency when the season settles.

Tournaments — OMEN

• Run on daily, weekly and monthly cadences in OMEN, across stake divisions.
• Your account comes with you: permanent perks, Doctrine and in-run purchases apply in tournaments exactly as they do in Ranked — everyone still plays the identical server-issued run.
• Entry fee and full payout structure are shown before you enter. Your best score during the window ranks.
• Want another shot? Re-entry is offered at a reduced fee, with attempt limits displayed up front.
• At close, the event locks, ranks and settles automatically — no waiting on a human to declare winners.
• Same fairness engine as ranked: server-issued seeds, server-validated scores.

Leagues — the paid weekly track

Three leagues, each longer and harder than the last, each on its own map. They are the campaign for players who have outgrown Ranked: everything you have built counts, the price is real, and the week is yours once you are in.

• Veteran League — 250 a week. 60 waves on Iron Meridian (22 rings), enemy HP ×1.4, one map hazard, Tier 2 from wave 10.
• Elite League — 1,000 a week. 80 waves on Null Cathedral (25 rings), enemy HP ×1.8, two hazards at once, Tier 2 from wave 5.
• Apocalypse League — 5,000 a week. 100 waves on Oblivion Crown (25 rings), enemy HP ×2.2, all three hazards, every Tier 2 archetype from wave 1, and no draft rerolls — your pick of three is the only draw.
• Pay once, play the week: Veteran buys 21 scored runs across the week; Elite buys 2 a day (14); Apocalypse 1 a day (7) — daily runs reset at 00:00 UTC. Your top score is your rank. There is no re-entry — and no revives, as in every scored mode.
• Uncapped scoring: in leagues the damage-dealt and speed components have no ceiling, and a LEAGUE DEPTH row pays 20 more for every wave than the wave before it (wave n is worth 1,000 + 20·(n−1)) — deep survival on a 100-wave map separates the field far more than kill counts. Core-damage penalties keep their floor.
• Permanent power counts — Perk Lab, Doctrine and in-run OMEN purchases all apply, exactly as in the Ranked Campaign.
• The pool is yours to grow: entry fees and every OMEN spent during a league run land in that league's own weekly pool, which pays the top 10 on the tournament split when the week closes.
• Entries above the single-purchase limit (Elite, Apocalypse) are charged as a sequence of fixed-price units after you confirm the total — nothing is registered until the full amount is paid.
• Hazards rotate every week and are named on the league card before you enter; the run briefing names them again on deploy.

The Bastion VIP Pass — a standing discount you own

The VIP Pass is an NFT you hold in your own wallet that lowers what you pay in OMENX for as long as you hold it. Five tiers, each with a deeper discount:

What it discounts — and what it does not

The discount applies to permanent upgrades, the Perk Lab, Doctrine, the Tower Arsenal, Reward Packs and cosmetics — the things you buy to get stronger.

It follows the pass, not the account

The benefit is attached to the token. Sell or send a pass and the discount goes with it — which is also why a pass is worth something to somebody else. Only your highest tier counts; passes never stack.

The tier is final

A pass never changes tier. There is no upgrade, merge or burn — what you draw is what it stays. Packs are opened by the OMEN platform, not by Last Bastion, against drop rates published in full. There is no Mythic pack at any price: the draw is the only thing that makes one.

See the tiers, the packs and the exact published drop rates →

Prizes, payouts & trust

• Winners are paid in the competition's own currency — OMEN events pay — once the event locks and settles.
• OMEN payouts are delivered on-chain to your OMEN account, visible in your history with the transaction record.
• Client scores never settle money. Only server-validated runs rank or pay.
• Your balances, entries and payout history are always readable in-game from authenticated server records.
• Staff cannot win anything. Staff wallets — the owner's included — are labelled STAFF on every board and are ineligible for prizes across tournaments, the Ranked Campaign, the Monthly War and community giveaways. In tournaments and Ranked, the share a staff account would have won is redistributed to the other ranked players. In giveaways, staff are removed from the field before the shuffle, and the payout rail refuses a staff wallet even if a draw somehow reached it. The rules page spells out the mechanism, including a dated note about the period when this covered competitions but not giveaways.

Controls

Fully playable on desktop and mobile — same account, same progress.