TOP FLOOR

What is TOP FLOOR?

The setup is a heist with a body count. Miami, 1986, the corporations hold the city, and the job is to take it back floor by floor. A tower gets breached, each level is wiped clean of guards, dogs, riot cops and worse, and the climb finishes on the roof against the CEO. From there the run asks its real question: step off the ledge and be remembered as a legend, or take the elevator into the next tower and gamble everything already earned.

Mechanically this is a top-down action roguelite with a beat 'em up's appetite for violence. Five classes define how the fight feels—Slugger, Blade, Boxer, Gunslinger and Shotgunner—and each carries its own weapon, its own upgrade set and its own evolution. Between floors a card choice reshapes the build, an illegal trader opens for business, and the weapon can be pushed into a stronger form. Kills chained quickly multiply money, and cracked walls conceal rooms worth the detour.

It is made by el peco, runs in the browser as an HTML5 game, and is playable on desktop and mobile. It costs nothing to start.

How to play

A run begins at the bottom of a corporate tower with one of the five classes chosen. Clearing a floor means removing everyone between the player and the way up: guards first, then dogs, riot cops and nastier opposition as the tower rises. Health is managed actively rather than regenerating, so healing has to be timed, and ranged classes reload by hand, which means finding a quiet second to top up mid-fight.

Finishing a floor opens the run's decision points. An upgrade card gets picked, shaping the next stretch of the build; the black market takes the cash that fast kills generate; and the weapon can be evolved. Cracked walls are worth hitting on the way through, because secret rooms sit behind them. Reaching the roof triggers the confrontation with the CEO.

Then comes the choice that defines the game. Jumping from the ledge keeps the Legend, while the elevator continues into a harder tower with the whole run on the line. Legend progress feeds a workbench where classes and permanent upgrades are unlocked, and a wall fills with the fallen heroes of previous attempts.

Controls

Desktop play is keyboard and mouse. WASD or the arrow keys move, aiming and attacking are handled with the mouse and left click, and P or Escape pauses while M mutes. Interactions all sit on one key: E is used to use, buy and make the rooftop jump. Q heals and R reloads. Dodging goes on Space and the throwing knife on right click, but both are tied to cards, so neither is part of the starting kit.

Mobile play mirrors the same actions with twin sticks and buttons. The left stick moves and the right stick is held to aim and attack, which means standing still to fire is a deliberate choice rather than an accident. On-screen buttons cover dodging, interacting, healing, reloading, throwing knives and pausing, so nothing from the desktop layout is lost on a touchscreen. Since the same version runs in a browser on both, the only thing that changes between them is the input layer.

Tips for your first run

The first few floors are where the run's shape gets decided, and the card picks matter more than raw damage. Dodging and the throwing knife both depend on cards, so a player who wants mobility or a ranged option should look for those early rather than hoping to find them later. Combo money compounds: kills chained together multiply income, and that income is what the black market converts into a better build.

Treat cracked walls as free content. Secret rooms are tucked behind them, and the detour costs seconds. Pick a class whose weapon suits the range you actually enjoy fighting at, since the five options are genuinely different tools rather than skins.

• Chain kills without pause to multiply cash instead of collecting single payouts.
• Hit every cracked wall on the way up; secret rooms are hidden behind them.
• Save combo money for the black market rather than spending it the moment it arrives.
• Pick up the dodge card early if evasion matters more than a bigger weapon.
• Decide before the roof whether the run is a Legend run or a climbing run.
• Reduce or switch off blood, and disable CRT effects, if the screen gets busy.

Content and replayability

Five classes is the headline number, and each one fights differently because the weapon, the upgrade pool and the evolution path all change with it. On top of that, upgrades arrive as cards after every floor, so two runs on the same class rarely follow the same route. The black market and weapon evolution give the money system somewhere to go, which is what stops combo chasing from being a scoreboard exercise.

Towers are procedurally assembled, so floors do not repeat in the same order. New corporations and new enemy types appear as the climb continues, which means the difficulty curve is partly written by escalation rather than only by numbers. The roof decision splits every attempt into two outcomes: bank the Legend and walk away, or push into another tower and risk the build that just started working.

Between runs, the workbench carries progress forward through unlocked classes and permanent upgrades, and a wall records the heroes lost along the way. That structure gives a failed run somewhere to go besides the menu.

Presentation and performance

The look is neon pixel art seen from above, finished with CRT effects that can be switched off for players who find scanlines distracting. The soundtrack runs on synthwave, which suits the 1986 Miami setting, and audio sits low enough to leave the combat readable. Gore is a slider rather than a fixed feature: blood can be reduced or disabled entirely in Settings, so the violence can be dialled to taste without changing how the game plays.

Settings also carry a language option. Because the game is HTML5, it loads in a browser tab on desktop or on a phone, and the same build serves both with the input layer swapped between keyboard, mouse, sticks and buttons. Nothing about the presentation is tied to one device.

Who should play it

This is for players who like short, aggressive runs with a clean decision at the end of them. The roguelite loop is stripped down to a tower, a set of floors and a card pick, so anyone who enjoys building a character in twenty minutes and then betting it on one more floor will recognise the pull immediately. Fans of top-down brawling get five distinct weapon styles to cycle through instead of a single moveset.

It also suits players who want the violence adjustable. Blood can be reduced or shut off, CRT effects can be disabled, and the whole thing runs in a browser without an install. Anyone who wants a slow, story-driven crime drama will not find it here: the CEO is a destination, not a character study. The appeal is speed, escalating towers and the rooftop gamble.