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The Store

The Store: six skin slots

Skins change how your virus and its effects look, and nothing else. They come only from the Store, never dropped or earned in play. The Store opens on the main menu at Level 3 and has seven categories: Theme sets, Virus, Trail, Shots, Kill Burst, Dash and Aura. Each slot offers 14 looks: the free Original (None for Aura), 12 themes and Prismatic. Skins work on every virus class and show up in your next run.

The Store's theme sets: looks only, no stats
The Store's theme sets: looks only, no stats
On this page7
  1. Virus
  2. Trail
  3. Shots
  4. Kill Burst
  5. Dash
  6. Aura
  7. Theme sets

Virus

Body skin

Replaces your virus's body with the theme's own shape: a styled core, a ring of spikes and a prow that faces where you move.

  • A glowing halo in the theme's colour sits behind the body
  • Small theme particles come off the body
  • 14 options: Original (free), 12 themes, Prismatic
From the Codex

A complete, infectious virus particle that exists outside a host cell.

Fun fact: A single infected cell can release thousands of new virions.

Virion in the Codex

Trail

Movement

Your movement trail sheds the theme's own particle shapes in its palette.

  • Prismatic trails cycle through the rainbow
  • 14 options: Original (free), 12 themes, Prismatic

Shots

Projectiles

A themed projectile shape replaces the plain bolt your virus fires.

  • 14 options: Original (free), 12 themes, Prismatic

Kill Burst

On kill

Kills burst into the theme's spinning ring and a spray of its particles, in its colours.

  • 14 options: Original (free), 12 themes, Prismatic

Dash

Movement

Every dash leaves a themed speed streak and two fading afterimages of your body.

  • 14 options: Original (free), 12 themes, Prismatic
From the Codex

A quick burst of movement.

Fun fact: Dash through attacks rather than away from them. Watch out for thymocytes, which copy your dash.

Dash in the Codex

Aura

Around you

A glow around your virus, theme particles drifting off it, three theme shapes orbiting and quick twinkles.

  • Default is None
  • Prismatic auras cycle through the rainbow
  • 14 options: None (free), 12 themes, Prismatic

All six pieces of a theme (virus, trail, shots, kill burst, dash and aura, with their particles) together as one set.

  • 13 skins per slot, 78 in all; the 6 originals are free
  • A set you fully own can be equipped in one tap

See also