Pick a strain at the start of every run. It's a permanent, always-on identity for that run (a passive edge plus a starting specialization), not something you draft mid-run.
A restless culture that never stops dividing. Leave the dish overnight and it fills every corner.
Splitters leave three children, not two, each +10% bigger. Overwhelm with sheer numbers.
A crust-forming strain kept behind reinforced glass. Whatever it walls off, it keeps.
Walls are tougher and reflect damage. Outlast everything.
Cultured from a sample that consumed its neighbors, and it is across the slide before you look up.
Hunters hit harder and rush the enemy. Race to their generators.
Cultured to feed on whatever it kills. The more it eats, the less it stops.
Hunters attack faster and heal 15 health on every kill. Snowball down the line.
Grown in the fume hood. Its byproducts outlast the colony that made them.
Your poison lingers, and dying cells release it. Attrition wins.
Touch it and you carry the burn home with you.
Your Toxin cells take an extra hit, and anything that lands a blow on them gets poisoned back for 150 damage over 1s. Hit them and regret it.
A cooperative culture that feeds its own. Starve it and it shares, wound it and it mends.
Starts with a healer that mends more and reaches further, plus +1 Biomass a round. Out-scale them.
A patient culture that plants itself between the wounded and everything else, and simply will not stop knitting shut.
Your Menders taunt nearby enemies, regenerate 20% max health a second, and start with +30 health. Turn your healer into the wall.
Cultured behind blast glass and taught to keep its distance. It shells the far wall long before anything reaches it.
Starts with a Lobber that reaches further and takes a hit. Bombard them from range.
A spore sac that does not just land. It goes off wider and messier than it should.
Lobber splash reaches 1 tile further and hits 15% harder, plus +10 Lobber health. Blast a wider hole.
Slow, careful, in no hurry. It only needs one good shot.
Stingers get +1 range. That is the whole strain, a quiet pick for a role that does not need help.
It does not pick a target. It picks two.
Stingers attack 2 enemies at once. Nothing else. The double hit is the whole strain.
A colony that burns hottest as it dies, and now it burns everything nearby too.
Every hit poisons for 120 damage over 0.8s. When a generator falls, the area is doused for 300 damage over 2s and the rest of the colony surges. Trade into a cloud.
Grown to divide heavy. Every split leaves behind something that barely counts as smaller.
Splitters get +15 health, and split children inherit 50% of your stats instead of the base 35%. Feed it hits, get more Splitter for it.
A wall strain that does not so much die as calve. Break off a piece and the piece keeps standing.
When a Wall cell finally dies, one more Wall cell grows in its place. Outlast them twice.
No fixed shape. Whatever three specialists it becomes, it becomes them better.
Its three generators each specialize into a different role, and it does all of them a little better. A jack of three trades.
No fixed shape either, just thicker everywhere it goes.
Its three generators each specialize into a different role, every one of them thicker and harder to kill. Built to still be standing at the end.