Recommended to play on Itch.io instead

Unstable Elementals is a monster-summoning extravaganza unlike any other. It's a game where strategy meets silliness, and where victory hinges on your ability to unleash controlled chaos. So, hold on tight to your staff and prepare for a cacophony of chaos and calamity!

You have stolen the staff of elemental summoning from the legendary lich king Empedocles! He's not too happy about that. Now you are running for your life from his hordes of minions while you learn how to use your new staff on the fly!

Unfamiliar with the staff and how to use it, the elementals you manage to summon are unstable and violently explode on contact. While not ideal under most circumstances, perhaps you can use this to your advantage and lure the monsters chasing you into them.

3 Difficulties

Finding the game too easy? Try giving Normal or Hard mode a shot. You can even change it mid-game, though we would recommend playing the difficulty from the start.

10 Elementals

Once you've upgraded two of your primary elementals to their max level, you can get an upgrade to combine them into a new kind of elemental. Try to summon every one!

Meet your Elementals

Whirlwind Wendy

Disorient foes with a concussive blast of wind. Skeletons are particularly vulnerable.

Drizzle Dan

Douse your enemies, making them weak to lightning damage and resistant to fire damage.

Blaze Blane

Set fire to your foes with explosions that leave them burning over time. Explosion causes a chain reaction of explosions when making contact with gas clouds from the nature elemental.

Dwayne

Protect yourself from the hordes of monsters with walls of stone.

Sparky Sam

Zap everything and anything with an orb of high voltage electricity.

Bloody Mary

Draw blood from your enemies, providing a source to replenish your own health.

Molten Mike

Release a torrent of hot magma, scorching the ground.

Sandstorm Steve

Direct dust devils along paths of destruction.

Brrrnie Sanders

Freeze your foes, slowing their approach.

Compost Conner

Release a cloud of corrosive gas. Mushrooms are unaffected.

Known bugs & solutions:

-- Web Version --

Ludum Dare's embedding of the game cuts off part of the screen. In the embedded window you can scroll to the bottom right corner to launch the game in fullscreen.

The Escape button exits fullscreen mode rather than opening the menu. The Space key has been mapped to open/close the menu as an alternative.