Enemies

Introduction

The enemy we know in GRAVHOUNDS is the swarm — the alien horde that attacks your base on every planet and grows deadlier with every passing second. Developer material frames the swarm as the pressure valve of the whole loop: the longer your pack stays on a planet, the larger the incoming threat becomes, until extraction is the only sane move. This page explains the swarm's known behavior — escalation over time, wave-style defense encounters and the tools teams use to push it back — and stays honest about what has not been confirmed, because bosses and elite enemies have not been announced. Every mechanical claim here traces to official copy or demo observation; everything else is labeled as an open question.

Swarm Threat Reference

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Core Mechanics

The swarm escalates on a timer tied to time on planet. Official store copy ties danger directly to duration — the longer you stay, the greater the danger grows alongside the rewards — which makes the swarm the in-game clock for extraction decisions. Encounters play out as wave defense: alien waves press against buildings and turret lines while teams fight back using deployable defenses, gravity manipulation and coordinated fire. The Grav Beam's ability to fling enemies makes it a core defensive tool, letting packs move threats away from critical structures. Demo observations show the swarm composition growing thicker and faster on harder worlds, and the developer's framework confirms that every planet treats the swarm as its active defense.

Advantages

Keeping the enemies page scoped to the confirmed swarm keeps it truthful without sacrificing usefulness. Because the swarm is genuinely the one enemy category in official material, the page can go deep on what matters: escalation timing, wave defense behavior, turret lane theory and how the Grav Beam changes the swarm matchup. That focus also produces practical advice — when to engage versus extract, how to place defenses against wave pressure and how to read a planet's swarm intensity as a difficulty signal. The page deliberately leaves boss and elite sections as honest open questions rather than fabricated lore, and it links to the Building page where the defensive solutions live, so readers get a complete threat-and-answer loop from one hub.

Challenges

The enemies page is limited by a confession the developer has not made yet: beyond the swarm as a broad force, no individual enemy types, bosses or elite units have been officially announced. That means there is no confirmed roster to rank, no boss strategy guides to write and no enemy stats to share — precisely the content most wiki visitors expect from an enemies page. Wave composition, enemy health values and spawn logic come only from demo observation at small sample sizes. We therefore label all player-facing numbers as demo-observed or community-reported, and we keep the page's promises modest: we explain the one confirmed enemy with the depth it deserves, then wait for official reveals before expanding taxonomy.

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