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Enemies (all gamemodes)

By BluGalaxian

In this guide i'll be listing all enemies found in all game modes. However, given names are not official. I named them based on some levels and of course, what shape the enemy is.

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Guide Index

Overview

Joined pink cubes

Blue octahedron

Pinwheel

Yellow cross

Rocket

Deflector (heptagon)

Triangular Pyramid

Snakes

Nufo

Green diamonds

Pink octahedron

Pink orb

Blue orb

Mine spawner

Green pentagon (virus)

Cell

Painter

Dasher

Black hole

Black hole spawn

Spawner

Red cube

Red wall

Cannon

Small gate

Large gate

Clone spawner

Clones

Leaf

Credit

Super states

Boss

Cheezeburger???

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Joined pink cubes

One of the easiest enemies, even in large hordes. They stand still for a moment, slightly move in one of 4 directions (not necessarily where the player is) and repeat the process.

Blue octahedron

Moves at medium speed and goes after the player. They eventually become faster (if they actually manage to stay alive).

Pinwheel

Slow movement in random directions.

Yellow cross

Similar to pinwheels, the only difference is dropped amount of geoms and given points on kill.

Rocket

Once spanwed, they move at medium-fast speed in straight line to the map end after which they turn around and go to the opposite side.

Deflector (heptagon)

Quick enemies moving in random directions.

Triangular Pyramid

Small enemies that usually spawn in hordes. They track the player, but "tilt" while moving towards him. They can be a problem if not killed quickly.

Snakes

Long enemies with 2 sections: the body and the head. They can be killed only by aiming for the head. They can dodge bullets well and be a problem if a lot of them spawn at once.

Nufo

Yellow circles that travel at fast speed from one side of the map to the other, but don't come back. They spawn and disappear outside of view range.

Green diamonds

I don't know how to call these, they look like a fusion of regular octahedrons and shurikens.
These medium-speed enemies are probably the most annoying. They dodge bullets very well and go for the player. They quickly move away from bullets if you just miss them, forcing you to actually consider aiming directly at them. The best way to deal with them is to push them to a parallel wall with your fire or corners, since then they can't escape.

Pink octahedron

Fast enemies that chase the player. Once hit, they split into 2 smaller pieces that spin in circles.

Pink orb

Rare enemies that go straight for the ship after spawning, but continue moving in straight line. If not killed, they go out of the map. When killed, they give a large amount of geoms.

Blue orb

Think of this guy as pink orb's older brother: he has the same distinctiveness, except for more health and he spawns in ultimate and hardcore game modes.

Mine spawner

Both allies and enemies. They drop mines which you activate to kill other enemies, but if you touch the spanwer itself, you die. They're exclusive to pacifism gamemode.

Green pentagon (virus)

Why virus? Because they multiply on their own at the speed of 1 pentagon per second. They don't drop any geoms and are always found with Cell enemies.

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Cell

These giant enemies can, i can almost say, absorb bullets. The only way to kill them is to aim for the orange core. They drop geoms and are only found with the virus enemy.

Painter

Exclusive enemies to the rainbow gamemode. They spawn on random, don't attack and only paint the ground to orange. This means that they can end the game on 2 ways: either if you touch them (only 1 life in rainbow gamemode) or them painting the entire ground.

Dasher

Locks on to the player, dashes at very high speed, turns around to the player and repeats. Their red part is indestructible, meaning you can kill them only by aiming for the blue back.

Black hole

Large enemies with small hitboxes (why would anyone do this). When they spawn, they stand in place and absorb enemies in itself. Once it has absorbed enough enemies, it disappears and spawns Black hole spawns. It can be killed only by aiming for the center.

Black hole spawn

These enemies can spawn only from black holes that absorbed enough enemies. They appear as blue springs/piled rings and don't move in straight lines.

Spawner

Large enemies that spawn other smaller ones. When red, they can't be killed. When green, they can.

Red cube

They come in all sizes. Can't be killed, can block bullets, kill when touched and move very slowly.

Red wall

All levels have walls, but not all have red walls. Obviously, red walls kill you when touched.

Cannon

Enemies found in ultimate and hardcore gamemodes. They stand still and shoot bullets towards the player.

Small gate

Small gates are the very first enemy you encounter in arcade mode. To kill them, you need to simply go through the line between the 2 tips (that kill you). A bit later you will also find yellow gates which give a lot more points and geoms (making them more uncommon). Both types slowly move and rotate around.

Large gate

Only found in ultimate mode. The only difference is that it doesn't move at all.

Clone spawner

Found in ultimate and hardcore gamemodes, this enemy chases after you and spawns clones of enemies currently alive at that time.

Clones

Spawned by clone spawners. Visually in shape look the same as some enemies with the exception of yellow cells and black background, but all act the same: chase the player at very high speed.

Leaf

How do you call shapes with only 2 angles?
These enemies at first move at random, but once hit, split into 2 purple and 2 yellow parts. Both are small, but while yellow are passive, purple chase after the player at very high speed (pay attention to the 2nd screenshot)

Credit

This enemy is only found in the bonus level based on the credits. He doesn't attack but only moves upwards when it spawns and kills you if you touch it.

Super states

There are a couple of these, each giving different bonuses for short amount of time, but the one i provided in my screenshot is the one that gives the player homing projectiles. Destroying all super state units gives you the bonus, but crashing into one removes them all and kills you. That's gotta be the most embarrassing way to die...

Boss

There are a couple of these, but all share the following: Spawn with a shield at first or after taking out one health bar, have a ton of health (shown with the health bar at the top of the screen) and spawn enemies around themselves. When the health bar is red, they can't be attacked (you can also tell this by the shield around them). After taking out one health bar, the player is awarded with more time.

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Cheezeburger???

Found in ultimate and hardcore. Spawns in large hordes that then all pile into one ball. When you hit the ball, you remove just one of these enemies, meaning you'll need to land an equal amount of bullets to the number of these enemies. They're also the smallest ones in the game and literally appear as a cheeseburger.

6 Comments

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Lamb 1 Jul, 2024 @ 7:36pm

i hate the dasher so much lol

positive_epsilon 9 Jan, 2021 @ 12:18pm

1. Pretty sure the yellow crosses home in on you
2. Black hole spawns home in on you, too

Madmanslime 22 Apr, 2020 @ 8:22am

The joined cubes are called "ducks"

The yellow cross moves very differently from the wanderers, as it aims to eat up score boosting geoms

LazySpaceRaptor 26 Jul, 2016 @ 7:42am

Black hole = Gravity Well
Black hole spawn = Protons.
(played geometry wars galaxies on DS)

♕Dragon Queen Jyndriammu♕ 28 Apr, 2016 @ 5:38pm

Whoops and the green diamonds are named Weavers

♕Dragon Queen Jyndriammu♕ 28 Apr, 2016 @ 5:37pm

These are good, but the Geometry Wars Galaxy book that came with the game has canon names of some of their names. I'll help with some:
Blue Decahedron = Grunt
Pinwheel = Wanderer
Pink Octahedron = Spinner (and Small Spinner when broken)
Triangular Pyramids = Mayflies
Cloner = Infector
Those are the original names of those, but I'm not sure about the rest. I hope this helped!

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