About the Game
Starlob is a turn-based artillery battle for players 13 and over, played out on concert stages. Pick a performer, aim a starstick shot through the weather, and try to be the last one standing.
What you're playing
A match is a run of concert stages fought free-for-all, with no teams. On your turn you set an angle and a power, fire one shot, and hand the device on. Shots arc across the stage, the wind bends them, and the ground you fight on gets dug away as the rounds go on.
Everything runs in the browser on one page. It is free to play, and there is nothing to download or install.
What's in the game
The eight performers
Tempo, Treble, Bassline, Crescendo, Loop, Fermata, Duet, Remix — eight original performers, each with its own colour, hair and signature prop. The full roster, with blurbs and artwork, sits on the Directions page.
A round, in short
The last performer standing when the smoke clears takes the round. Glowing mystery notes drift onto the stage as you play: break one open and it hands you 1-3 items — a mystery weapon, a perk such as Forcefield, Deflector, Encore or Stage Dash, or a rare Nuke. What you pick up is yours alone, and it keeps until you spend it.
Weather steps up as a tour goes on: breezy from the first stage, gales from round 3, rain from round 6, snow from round 9, fog from round 12 and thunderstorms from round 16.
Modes
The 25-round tour is the full concert run. Every stage is harder than the last, the rivals get more accurate, Chaos mode makes them all fire at once, and up to 4 people can share one device.
Free play is the solo endless run: stages keep coming at random, you carry 2 spare lives, your health never resets between rounds, and clearing a stage sends out a second shooter for the next three turns. It ranks on a highest-score board of its own.
On a phone
The angle and power controls live in a panel you can dock in any corner, and you can aim by touch — tap or drag anywhere on the stage. Beside the round counter there is a full screen button that fills the screen with the stage, and a Menu button next to it if you need to stop.
Credits
Starlob is designed, built and published by TabSnacks. How the game handles accounts and data is set out on the About page.
Keep going
The Directions page has the full rules and the whole arsenal, the leaderboard shows who sits on top of the tour and the endless board, and the stage is where the game starts.