Xgene

Don't kill the boss. Eat it.

Xgene: DNA Devour is a dark fairy-tale tower defense where everything you devour rewrites your DNA — even the bosses. You are a ravenous purple atom guarding your Nest through ten waves of invaders.

▶ Play free in your browser right on this page — no download, no account. Windows and macOS builds are below.

Devour the boss. Become the boss.

Wear a boss down, then let your hive's tendrils drag it into a swirl of DNA. Every boss you swallow becomes a Legendary Blueprint — Lava Colossus, Abyssal Kraken, Seraph and more — that you can grow in your own Incubator.

Root them in. Watch them merge.

Send your creatures out to hunt, or keep them home as towers. Creatures rooted in the same slot twist together into a single many-headed fusion beast that takes on its element's colour.

Your bloodline branches as you feed.

What you eat decides what you become. Cross each tier to choose a branch, unlock new body types, and push your atoms toward one of nine lineages — each ending in its own apex species: Torch Dragon Zhulong, Corona Phoenix, Event Horizon, Ouroboros…

Grow teeth, claws and eyes — one mutation at a time.

Spend mutation points on the evolution tree and watch your creature change right in front of you.

Also inside

• Bloodline that carries over — every boss you devour feeds your Bloodline Pool for the next run.
• Nest Workshop — scavenge materials, trade them for starting blessings, or craft helmets, wings, armor and capes for your Nest.
• Four languages — English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese.

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Xgene is a solo indie project, open for playtesting. Tell me in the comments: which boss did you devour first, and which lineage did you end up in? Love it or hate it, I want to hear it.