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Screenshot style breakdown
Sampled from 6 of Sun Running Defense's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#34A4F4 bg
#2D90D6
#642C0C accent
#111111 text
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About this app
Defend the last tower against endless waves of monsters in Sun Running Defense — a fast-paced survival roguelite where every second matters. Level up your hero, unlock powerful weapons, and choose from random upgrades to create unique builds every run. Strengthen your tower with rare defensive upgrades, collect mysterious gift boxes across the battlefield, and survive increasingly brutal enemy hordes. But beware — when you fall in battle, the monsters will turn their attention to the tower. Respawn, regroup, and protect the core at all costs. How long can you survive before the defense collapses?
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What you can learn from Sun Running Defense
Every shipping app on the App Store has gone through the same decisions you're working through right now: which screenshot goes first, what caption sits over it, which device frame to show, what color the background should be. The 16 screenshots above are Sun Running Defense's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: Sun Running Defense runs a mixed light-and-dark set where the background shifts from screenshot to screenshot (first shot #34A4F4) — each image has to stand on its own, so the captions carry more of the story. The accent colour we picked up, #642C0C, is the one to reuse for badges, arrows and highlighted words if you borrow this look. Hit Use this style to open the editor with these exact colours and drop your own screenshot in.
Notice the first screenshot in particular. It's the one users see in search results and on the product page, and it's where most apps spend their best caption and tightest design. Look at the proportion of background to phone, where the text sits, what one thing the image is trying to communicate.
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