SOLONE
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SOLONE
One player. No allies. Infinite enemies.
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The spiritual successor to Charles (111%) — the beloved mobile survival game that vanished from the Play Store.
Just like Stardew Valley picked up what Harvest Moon left behind, SOLONE picks up where Charles left off.
Reifel (dev): I love to develop tailored from feedback in comments — as I did in Project Zomboid, 140,000 subs there.
Charles was a tight, addictive mobile survival game by 111% — discontinued, removed from the Play Store, unplayable today.
SOLONE is the revival. The same soul, rebuilt from scratch, improved, and free.
SOLONE is a top-down survival roguelite for mobile.
Enemies close in from every direction using distinct AI strategies — they chase, flank, intercept, predict, and shadow you.
Your only answer is to keep moving and grab the right powerup at the right moment.
Die. Learn. Go again.
HOW IT WORKS
- Enemies spawn and swarm you in relentless waves
- Touch a powerup to activate it instantly
- Survive as long as you can and rack up kills
- Your best kill count and time are saved locally
- Challenge friends via WhatsApp share
Runs last 20s to 3 minutes. Perfect for the bus, the queue, the couch.
(Save it on your home screen and save space)
Android: 3 dots → Add to home screen
iPhone: Share → Add to Home Screen (near bottom of list)
9 POWERUPS — each one changes how you play
| Powerup | What it does | |
|---|---|---|
| 🔥 | FIRE | Ignites nearby enemies |
| ❄️ | ICE | Slows enemies |
| 💥 | BOMB | Area-of-effect blast |
| 🎯 | AIM | Sniper shot — long-range, one tap |
| 🔫 | GUN | Manual-targeting turret |
| 💢 | RAGE | Berserker (HULK) mode — speed and power |
| 🌊 | PUSH | Squeegee — scatter the horde |
| 💣 | ARTY | Artillery strike raining from above |
| 🤠 | DUEL | Wild West face-off — take down the biggest threat |
ENEMY AI — they don't just run at you
Enemies use 10 distinct movement strategies:
Chase · Predict · Flank L · Flank R · Diagonal · Intercept · Billiard · Shadow · Patrol
The longer you survive, the smarter and denser the swarm.
FEATURES
- Endless runs — no two games the same
- Personal best tracker — kills + time
- One-touch controls — built for mobile portrait
- Fast restarts — zero friction to try again
- Challenge friends via WhatsApp
- Easy / Hard mode (toggle enemy tackling)
- No ads. No paywalls. Just the game.
INSPIRED BY
- Charles (111%) — the direct predecessor. Gone from the Play Store. Unplayable today. SOLONE exists because of it.
- Vampire Survivors — the endless horde loop, the powerup greed, the "one more run" pull
- Brotato — fast sessions, distinct builds, pure arcade tension
- Reifel (DEV) — background of loving games with reflex, FPS, resource management, and own creativity, GEEK, pop-culture, movies, culture
SOLONE strips each down to its sharpest edge and rebuilds it for one hand, portrait mode, anywhere.
ABOUT THE DEVELOPER
I'm a solo developer who grew up on games that eventually disappeared.
Stardew Valley hit me differently — not just because it's a great game, but because of why it exists.
ConcernedApe loved Harvest Moon. Harvest Moon got complicated, changed hands, lost its soul. So he spent four years rebuilding that feeling from scratch, alone, better than the original. That act of love — preserving something worth preserving — is the most inspiring thing I've seen a developer do.
I had the same feeling with Charles by 111%. Tight. Addictive. Pure mobile survival. The kind of game you open between stops on the metro.
Then one day it was gone. Removed from the Play Store. No announcement. Just gone. No way to install it. No way to play it. A game I loved, made unplayable by a decision I had no part in.
I built SOLONE because I couldn't accept that.
I also love Brotato — for showing that a small team with a clear loop and relentless polish can produce something that feels better than games with 100× the budget. That's the bar I'm aiming for.
SOLONE is my Charles. My Stardew. Built with the same motivation:
some games deserve to exist, and if nobody else will make them, you have to.
I'm also a modder from Project Zomboid — 140k subscribers (known for Wheelbarrow and FireTrail). The source code on both SOLONE and my mods is entirely in Lua.
BUILD
Built with Defold · Lua · 640×1136 portrait · HTML5 / Android / iOS
