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12 modes, 6 chapters, 263 Arena Rush cards.

Game modes

Photon 47 is not one game. Twelve modes share one roster of 51 creatures and one save file — a hero you level in the story fights in the MOBA, and a card you unlock in Arena Rush is the same creature you keep at home.

Every mode below is playable against other people — they are the game's multiplayer menu. LIVE PvP means the opponent is driven in real time and the result settles your rating on the spot; PvP means matchmaking and a live room, with full in-match move-sync landing next. Every one of them is also playable solo against the AI, at a difficulty you set yourself.

Story — the six chapters

A body is coming apart from the inside, and you are walking through it. Each chapter is a region of that body, with its own creatures, its own boss, and a sealed gate you cannot brute-force: you have to find the three villagers who each know one word.

CHAPTER I — GUT PLAINS

~ Where the Bile Mother breathes ~

Year 2199. A wide red plain rolls to the horizon, pulsing faintly — as if the ground itself were slowly digesting something. You wake here with no name and no memory. Your tongue tastes of metal. Your shoes are damp with something warm. Pressed to your chest is a sticky note, in small, tired handwriting. STICKY NOTE: "Pass through. Reach the center. Whatever you do — don't scatter, the way the others did." Below it, smudged: a number — 47. An ancient pancake-shaped creature waddles up, smelling faintly of maple. OLD PANCAKE: "Welcome to the Gut Plains, Wanderer. The bile flows, the brawlers wake. You're the forty-seventh to pass this way..." OLD PANCAKE: "...but don't ask me what became of the other forty-six. Five chambers lie between you and the thing that beats at the center. Bond with brawlers, eat snacks, trust no intestine. Go east."

Field	Value
Enemies	Glutton, Dung Knight, Tubeling, Fart King, Cannon King
Mini-bosses	Cannon King
Boss	The Bile Mother
Kills to open the boss	3
Unlocks	Tubeling

Boss — The ground heaves. A queen-sized blob rises from the marsh, dripping bile and old yogurt. BILE MOTHER: "Wanderer. You wake me from a 200-year nap. RUDE." BILE MOTHER: "Let me digest this insult... starting with you."

Gate: Sealed Bile Grate

GRATE (whispering): "Name the Bile Mother's three favourite snacks, in any order."

Hint — Listen to the bards and tycoons of Gut Plains. Three of them each know one snack.

Clue holder	What they know
Burping Bard	PICKLED
Gut Tycoon	SMOKED
Old Pancake	CURDLED

Reward: 100 gold + mp_l

CHAPTER II — NEURO CITY

~ Synapse skyline. Volume warning. ~

Second chamber: Neuro City. You step off a taxi into neon rain. Above you: a thousand holograms — all of them someone's old thoughts, arguing in unison. A stranger you can almost picture, but never quite. Somewhere in this city, the antibody called MEGAMIND has woken up. The body's thinking has been eating itself for ninety years. Megamind believes that eating your phase too will finally stop the hunger. ECHO (in your head): "She has loved this city. She kissed someone here, in 2019. Don't let Megamind eat that."

Field	Value
Enemies	Brainiac, Iris Lord, Sonic Sage, Lung Mom, Bactric
Mini-bosses	Brainiac
Boss	Megamind
Kills to open the boss	4
Unlocks	Iris Lord

Boss — Cortex Tower's gates open. A pulsating colossus of folded grey matter waits, twitching with sixteen ideas at once. MEGAMIND: "Ah, the Wanderer. I already know the next 18 moves you'll make." MEGAMIND: "... and the 19th surprises me. Curious. Let us settle it."

Gate: Cortex Vault

CORTEX VAULT: "Enter the date she was happy."

Hint — Three city NPCs each remember one digit. Find them all.

Clue holder	What they know
Synapse Cabbie	first digit is two — the month
Nervous Newscaster	second digit is four — pay attention to those headlines
Lobotomy Larry	third digit is seven — Larry won't shut up about lucky sevens

Reward: 150 gold + pot_l

CHAPTER III — SPORE FOREST

~ Breathe carefully. ~

Third chamber: the Spore Grove. The body's memory garden. Every smell, every face, every dream she ever had — they are growing in this soil, slowly, into mushrooms. Photons #6, #14, and #31 scattered here. They are now music, bread, and the smell of rain. You will walk past them. The SPORE FATHER sleeps at the centre of the grove. He has been dreaming the body's memories for so long he forgets which of them are his. ECHO: "If you start hearing your own voice in the trees, Forty-seven — that's normal. Just don't answer."

Field	Value
Enemies	Funguro, Bactric, Saturnoid, Beanlord, Dung Knight, Underdog
Mini-bosses	Funguro
Boss	Spore Father
Kills to open the boss	5
Unlocks	Funguro

Boss — The canopy parts. A mushroom the size of a temple rises, eyes opening across its cap. SPORE FATHER: "You walk among my children. Sit. Stay. Decompose." SPORE FATHER: "... ah, you decline. Then I will return you to my soil the hard way."

Gate: Spore-Lock Ring

ROOT DOOR: "Step only on the one she remembers loving."

Hint — Three forest NPCs each remember one trait. Listen carefully.

Clue holder	What they know
Mossy Hermit	It is red, like the inside of a closed eye.
Sporeshroom Sue	It wears three white spots, never more, never less.
The Lost Twin	It only glows at dusk — when the trees forget who they were.

Reward: 180 gold + mp_l

CHAPTER IV — BONE CITADEL

~ A fortress of femurs. ~

Fourth chamber: the Bone Citadel. The body's room of losses. Every limb the Operator's world has ever amputated from itself — every grief, every funeral, every quiet "I'm sorry" — they are stored here. The BONE SOVEREIGN sits on a throne of remembering. He has been waiting for a photon brave enough to put one of his old griefs down. Photon #21 reached his throne room. He didn't make it back. The walls remember which words he spoke. ECHO: "The Sovereign won't ask kindly, but he needs the kindness. — Be careful, Forty-seven. Be kind."

Field	Value
Enemies	Skellord, Crone, Cpt. Kidney, Pigsuit, Brainiac, Gamble God
Mini-bosses	Skellord
Boss	Bone Sovereign
Kills to open the boss	6
Unlocks	Skellord

Boss — Atop the Citadel's spine-staircase, a skeleton in royal regalia sits on a throne made of laughing teeth. BONE SOVEREIGN: "Another tourist. Bring me your femurs." BONE SOVEREIGN: "... oh you brought OTHER femurs. How rude. How EXCITING."

Gate: Marrow Mill

MARROW MILL: "Turn me toward the directions of grief. I will grind again for her."

Hint — Three NPCs each name one direction. Click a wheel to rotate it 90°.

Clue holder	What they know
Tomb Mouse	The first wheel must face DUSK — the direction the king's grief came in from.
Skeleton Janitor	The second wheel faces DAWN. That's where I sweep him out from, every century.
Crone's Apprentice	The third points DOWN — to where her own bones rest, two miles below this floor.

Reward: 220 gold + rev

CHAPTER V — GENE SPIRE

~ Final spiral. ~

Fifth chamber: the Gene Spire. The body's blueprint room — what she was, what she could still be. Above you, the stars are quietly rearranging themselves into a question. They have been waiting for you. At the top of the Spire, the HEART WOUND is open. The thing that has been killing her, slowly, since 2024. She has been firing photons at it for two hundred years. None of them held together long enough to reach it. ECHO: "This chamber is where you will learn what you actually are, Forty-seven. I'm sorry, in advance. I'm also proud of you, in advance."

Field	Value
Enemies	Helixoid, Quark, Anchorman, Pixel Pilot, Snifflord, Astro Egg
Mini-bosses	Helixoid, Quark
Boss	The Heart Wound
Kills to open the boss	7
Unlocks	Astro Egg

Boss — At the Spire's peak, a throbbing helix of every body part ever rotates slowly. It pulses love and hunger at you in equal amounts. HEART WOUND: "I AM EVERY CELL THAT EVER WANTED." HEART WOUND: "I AM SOFT. I AM SOFT BUT I WILL BREAK YOU SOFTLY." HEART WOUND: "COME. PROVE THE WORLD WANTS TO STAY."

Gate: Helix Lock

HELIX LOCK: "Repair the four bases. The first time she got them wrong, the wound opened."

Hint — Three NPCs each remember part of the original sequence. Find them all.

Clue holder	What they know
Egg Mystic	The first base glows green — like the inside of a young leaf.
Truth Echo	The two middle bases are gold then red — sunrise, then bleeding.
Rocket Pilot	The fourth base is blue. Always blue. Like the sky she missed most.

Reward: 280 gold + pot_l

CHAPTER VI — LIMINAL LOOP

~ A pocket realm of anomalies. ~

After the end. The Operator opened her eyes for the first time in two centuries. But the hole above the Spire never fully closed. A thread of colour leaked out — and a sixth chamber, one she never showed anyone, opened on the field. It is built out of brass cathedral-sized gears, turning slowly. Time itself is the architecture. AI GHOST: "She didn't call this an afterword. She called it the time machine. It is where she keeps her good old days." AI GHOST: "At the centre, there is a small button. She left it for you. Forty-six photons before you walked here and couldn't press it." ECHO: "Walk on, Forty-seven. The last chamber is the smallest. And — somehow — the kindest."

Field	Value
Enemies	Chronowiz, Portal Punk, Meta Jester, Moss Sage, Mycelium Web, Ghost Bone, Marrow Knight
Mini-bosses	Chronowiz, Meta Jester
Boss	Causal Knot
Kills to open the boss	7
Unlocks	Chronowiz

Boss — Reality folds at the centre of the loop. Seven silhouettes condense into a single rotating Knot — a snake of timelines biting its own neck. CAUSAL KNOT: "YOU ALREADY WON. I AM THE OBJECTION." CAUSAL KNOT: "UNTIE ME. OR PROVE THE ENDING."

Gate: Causal Clock

CAUSAL CLOCK: "Set me to the moment she was happiest. The loop will tune itself."

Hint — Click a hand to advance it. Chrono Anomaly knows the hour. The Cartographer knows the minute.

Clue holder	What they know
Chrono Anomaly	Hour hand to 7 — the age she first saw an ocean.
Loop Cartographer	Minute hand to the third notch — fifteen past the hour, when 2019 kissed her.

Reward: 360 gold + rev

Quests

MOBA — Rift Siege

Three lanes, two teams of five, one Core. Minions push, towers punish, and the hero who farms them buys the items below. Your kit is Q / F / E and an Ultimate on R that unlocks at level 6 — the F key holds your second ability, because W is walking.

Ability mechanics

Every hero's kit is built out of these. The Codex lists which hero has which.

Roles

Items

Auto Chess

Buy creatures from a rotating shop, place them on the board, and let them fight. Three of a kind merge into a ★2; three ★2s merge into a ★3. Field enough of one race or one job and the whole board gets the bonus.

Star multipliers: ★1 ×1 · ★2 ×1.7 · ★3 ×2.6. The shop draws from a pool of 45 creatures.

Race synergies

Job synergies

Job archetypes

Between-round upgrades

Arena Rush — every card

A lane-pushing card battler. Elixir refills on a clock; you spend it to drop troops on your half and they walk. Take the enemy's towers before they take yours. All 263 cards are listed below — cost, rarity, what it does, and the stats it fights with.

TROOP 88

SWARM 17

RANGED 29

FLYER 21

HEALER 4

DIG 3

BURROW 1

BUILDING 38

SPELL 62

FPS Arena

The same creatures, in first person. Every one of the 45 MOBA heroes is playable; you start with Pixel Pilot, Cannon King. Duel, a CS-style 1v1, and co-op wave survival.

Homestead

Between fights you go home: a farm with crops, animals, a mine, a crafting bench and a shop. Everything on this page is on a real clock — a turnip takes as long as it says, whether or not the tab is open.

Crops

Animals

The mine

Crafting

Goods

Consumables

Bought in town, used in a fight.