Echo Arena

You are a signal on magnetic tape. Collect gems, dodge the archives, and stay ahead of the Playhead — the machine's unblinking eye, replaying your own path five seconds behind you.

Then you die. And the deck records it.

Every death writes your run onto the tape as a hostile echo — a ghost of you, replaying your exact path, forever. The better you play, the more dangerous your haunted arena becomes. Seven echoes fit on the tape. After that, you start taping over your own history.

ECHO ARENA is a one-stick arcade dodger about greed:

• Graze danger to charge the meter — peg it and hit REDLINE: four seconds where touching your ghosts pays instead of kills
• The Wave Deck deals three cards every track — two safe, one face-down from the risk pool. It might be 777. It might be a BUST.
• GAIN up mid-run: magnet, speed, wider pulses, luckier gambles — every run builds different
• Four decks to unlock, each a different way to play
• The Daily Tape: one seeded arena, same for everyone, every day
• The Master Tape: your best run haunts every future one — in gold

The only faceless thing in the arena is the one still alive. Every face you see is your own.

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