Infinite Mode Guide

How it escalates

Infinite composes waves from a depth-scaled threat budget — the deeper you go, the smarter and heavier the composition. Biomes rotate as you descend, each warping the rules, and the battlefield changes with every biome: the run starts on the classic map and moves through the others. Your best wave is a permanent record and unlocks reward tiers.

Hive Intelligence works here — Infinite is content you have proven — and once you have reached deep enough, the Threat ladder adds harder rungs with their own records.

Building for depth

Infinite rewards compounding economies: income organs early, damage conversion late. The run that reaches wave 40 usually looks greedy at wave 10. Draft economy genes in the first third, control in the second, and pure damage only when the composition demands it.

Reading the Director

The Director spends a threat budget, and its receipts are visible: a wave heavy on shields is buying time for a summoner core; a sudden flier lane means your ground kill-rate scared it. Adapt one axis per wave — a full rebuild mid-descent wastes the Biomass that compounding was supposed to grow. Personal-best pushes end at the wave where your integrity, not your damage, runs out: bank a guard hero or a repair economy for the last stretch and the same build goes five waves deeper.

Deep runs end by attrition, not in one wipe. Past depth 10 every flawless wave tightens the enemies’ health a little (up to ×1.4), a wave that bleeds you eases it again, and no single wave can take more than about a third of your Core before further hits soften — so you see the end coming over several waves and can react.