Void Defenders
Help

Support

Something not working, or a question about the game? Start here.

Email: info@demdiotech.com — we aim to reply within two business days.

When you write in, it helps enormously if you include:

  • Your device (for example "iPhone 14 Pro") and iOS version
  • The app version, shown at the bottom of the How to Play screen
  • What you were doing when it happened
  • Your leaderboard callsign, if you have one

Purchases

I bought something and didn't receive it

First, force-quit the app and reopen it. Purchases are restored automatically on launch, and a dropped network connection at the wrong moment is the usual cause.

If it still hasn't arrived, email us with your App Store receipt — you can find it in the confirmation email from Apple, or under Settings → [your name] → Media & Purchases → Purchase History on your device. We will sort it out.

How does the Battle Pass work?

The premium track is bought per season. Unlocking it covers the season you are playing; when you finish a season and advance to the next New World, the premium track is available to unlock again.

If you bought the pass before this changed, it still covers the season you are currently on.

I reinstalled the app and my progress is gone

It should not be. Your progress is backed up off your device, and the app restores it on first launch after a reinstall — coins, Gems, items, Battle Pass tier and your records.

Give it a moment on a working connection: the restore happens at launch and needs the network. If it is still empty after a relaunch, email us with your App Store receipt and your callsign if you had one, and we will put it right.

I want a refund

Refunds are handled by Apple, not by us. Go to reportaproblem.apple.com, sign in with your Apple ID, and select the purchase. We have no ability to issue refunds ourselves, but tell us what went wrong — if it was our fault we want to know.

My coins, gems or unlocks disappeared

Your progress is backed up off your device and restored automatically, so this is usually a sync that has not caught up rather than anything lost.

  • Relaunch the app on a working connection. The restore runs at launch.
  • Deleting the app no longer destroys what you bought — Gems and items come back on reinstall.
  • Installing on a different device restores the same progress, because the backup is tied to the install rather than to an account.

If something is still missing after a relaunch, email us with your callsign and roughly when you last saw it, and we will look at the backup directly.

The leaderboard

Which board am I on?

There are seven. One for each of the six sectors, ranked on your best single run in that sector, and a Campaign board that adds your best in every sector together. Pick between them with the chips at the top of the Leaderboard screen.

The Campaign total is the one worth chasing: it can only be raised by playing a sector you have neglected, and because it is built from your bests it can never fall.

My score didn't appear

Each board records a new personal best on that board. A run that does not beat your own record in that sector will not change your entry there — that is working as intended. A run can also be your best in one sector without being your best overall, in which case only that sector's board moves.

Beyond that, check:

  • You have set a callsign (Leaderboard → type a name → SAVE)
  • You were online when the run finished
  • The run actually ended — quitting mid-run does count, but the app has to finish reporting

Pull down on the leaderboard to refresh it.

I want to change my callsign

Open the Leaderboard, type a new one, and tap SAVE. It updates your existing entry everywhere, keeping your score.

Please remove my leaderboard entry

Entries can't be deleted inside the app, deliberately — otherwise anyone could delete a rival's score. Email info@demdiotech.com with your callsign and we will remove it within 30 days.

Someone's callsign is offensive

Tell us the callsign at info@demdiotech.com and we will remove it.

Playing the game

What am I actually meant to do?

Hold the bar across the bottom to fire — nothing shoots until you do — and slide that same bar to steer the fleet. Dragging anywhere in the play area steers as well, and both are relative, so two thumbs moving at once add together.

Don't let hostiles cross the OUTPOST LINE at the bottom — every one that does costs you integrity, and at zero the run is over.

My guns stopped firing in the middle of a wave

They overheated. Every shot adds heat, shown in the gauge on the fire bar, and at 100% the guns lock out until it falls back to about a third — which is longer than the pause you would have taken by choice.

Fire in bursts rather than holding the bar down. If heat keeps ending runs, take Coolant Lines the next time it comes up in the draft.

What are the three buttons at the bottom?

  • Overcharge — doubles your fire rate for a short burst
  • Frag Charge — throws an explosive at the densest cluster on screen. It punches through armour and phasing, which nothing else does
  • Bulwark — raises a shield arc in front of the fleet

Each holds stored charges that refill over time. Past wave 20 they can bank up to three. Finish a run past wave 30 and one spare charge carries into your next run; past wave 35, all of them do.

The hostiles keep changing

They do, and they fight differently. Open Hostile Codex from the main menu — every type lists what it does and how to beat it. In short:

  • Brute — armoured against chip damage; heavy shots beat volume
  • Sentinel — shields the hostiles beside it, so kill it first
  • Reaper — breaks formation and dives you
  • Swarmer — splits in two when killed
  • Wraith / Phantom — phase out; time your shots, or use a Frag Charge

What is the daily objective?

One goal a day, shown above the PLAY button. Finishing it pays Coins, and claiming it on consecutive days builds a streak. It resets at midnight your local time, and everyone gets the same objective each day.

Can I turn the daily reminder off?

Yes. It is off unless you allow notifications, and you can stop it at any time in iOS Settings → Notifications → Void Defenders. The reminder is created on your device — we are not told whether you saw it.

Why did the sector I unlocked play by different rules?

Because it is meant to. There are six sectors and no two are won the same way. Three of them — Nova Surge, Crimson Drift and Ion Wastes — are open from your first run, so you can start wherever you like. The last three open as you clear sectors: Aurora Reach once you have cleared one, Umbral Expanse once you have cleared two, and Solstice Frontier once you have cleared the other five. What counts is clearing a sector, which is not the same as reaching its last wave.

The briefing before every launch states that sector's rule, and it is worth reading:

  • Nova Surge — hold the line for 40 waves.
  • Crimson Drift — no waves at all. A continuous stream, measured in distance, through debris that swallows your shots and cannot be destroyed.
  • Ion Wastes — nothing is resupplied. No capsules, no repairs, ever.
  • Aurora Reach — a convoy crosses ahead of you. Lose it and the run ends, however healthy the outpost is.
  • Umbral Expanse — nothing reflects light. Hostiles are only visible while your guns are firing, so an overheat blinds you as well as disarming you.
  • Solstice Frontier — a boss every fifth wave instead of every tenth, and none of them is the practice version.

Where did my capsules and repairs go?

You are in Ion Wastes, where nothing is resupplied — no capsules drop and the outpost is never repaired, not between waves and not at milestones. It is the rule of that sector rather than a bug.

What is the upgrade draft?

Every fifth wave the run pauses to offer three upgrades. Pick one; it lasts the rest of the run and stacks if you take it again. Tap the ? on that screen for the full walkthrough.

The waves got harder partway through

They do, and where that happens depends on the sector.

All six sectors sit on one shared difficulty curve, but each one starts at a different depth on it — that is what makes a later sector harder from its first wave rather than only from its last. Waves start mixing two kinds of hostile once you are 13 steps along that curve, and three kinds at 25. In Nova Surge, which covers 60 steps of curve across its 40 waves, that lands on waves 9 and

  1. In the later sectors it lands earlier still, and Solstice Frontier opens

past both: its first wave is already a three-kind wave.

The curve levels off eventually — it does not climb forever.

The boss rhythm is the sector's own too. Nova Surge fields one every seventh wave, the middle sectors every tenth, and Solstice Frontier every fifth. In between, a mini boss lands on the half-step: a smaller version of whichever boss is coming next, so you learn how it moves before meeting it at full strength.

Two sectors skip the rehearsal on purpose. Nova Surge fields a full boss every seventh wave and on its last — 7, 14, 21, 28, 35 and 40 — with nothing in between. Solstice Frontier fields one every fifth wave, and none of them is a practice version.

Technical problems

The game crashes

Force-quit and reopen first. If it keeps happening, email us with your device and iOS version and roughly what you were doing. Crash reports are sent automatically and genuinely do get read.

There's no sound

Check your device isn't on silent, and check the in-game sound menu — tap the speaker icon on the main menu, or open Pause → Sound Menu mid-run. Music and effects can be toggled separately.

The game runs slowly or the battery drains

Close other apps and make sure iOS is up to date. If it persists on a recent device, please tell us — that is a bug, not expected.

Privacy

Our privacy policy is at privacy.html, alongside this page.

The short version: no ads, no tracking, no account, and no personal data requested. Almost everything stays on your device. See the policy for the detail, including how to have leaderboard data removed.

Contact

Demdio Technologies Inc. info@demdiotech.com