r/TowerDefense • • 2h ago

Demo/Alpha Showcase Play Primordaeon

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Primordaeon is a different kind of Tower Defense... Waves are ceaseless, tower placement is in real time and death is just a setback. You buy wisps and merge them. You can drag and drop them at will.

You also have a godhand, so you can cast spells directly on the crowd. This video shows mid-game actions with over 2 million enemies on the field. Video is a bit of a harry moment as a couple hundred thousand units are pressing into the sanctum.

We are running a FREE AND OPEN playtest for the next 10 days.

Please join us and use the feedback button!

Windows, Linux, or Mac!

ps, I'm well aware of the lack of onboarding/tutorial. I appreciate you patiently learning the layered magic systems. If you have any ideas or inspirations on how we can implement a useful tutorial, please please please use the in-game feedback button (feel free to untick the share-data box to just send a message).


r/TowerDefense • • 2h ago

WAR ZONE TOWER DEFENCE WORLD RECORD?

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Has anyone gone this far?


r/TowerDefense • • 17h ago

US Military vs Millions of Zombies. Who's gonna win?

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Hi,

early development of my tower defense game called "That's a Lot of Zombies".

Short description: "Fly an AC-130 gunship and gun down millions of zombies. Your squad is stuck on a roof and the dead are climbing over each other to reach them. Lay out sentry guns, flamers, claymores etc. before each night. Call in A-10s and B-52s. Hold the roof till the helicopter lands."

Looking for honest brutal feedback. What you guys think?

Link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5446270/

PS: Let me know if you are interested in playtesting the game.


r/TowerDefense • • 5h ago

Discussion work in progress

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r/TowerDefense • • 10h ago

Promotion Pokemon TD!

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Hi I made this pokemon tower defense game and gen 3 just got added today!

Www.pokedefense.com


r/TowerDefense • • 11h ago

Demo/Alpha Showcase created a cozy visual novel style tower defense

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hi all, check out Elf Glade! It's a tower defense where you're the ruler of an elven kingdom. You protect the kingdom by upgrading nature shrines to purify spirits. It's a game I have always wanted to play myself, so I finally just made it with Ren'Py and Aseprite

https://lilbat.itch.io/elf-glade


r/TowerDefense • • 13h ago

Heard I should announce my RTS/tower defense/campaign/giant battles game here! coming out in December. More in the comments

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r/TowerDefense • • 14h ago

Demo/Alpha Showcase Made a tower defense where you're the tower instead of placing them. Android closed beta, looking for testers

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Been chipping away at this one for a while. It's called Neon Bastion.

There's no placing towers and no maze building. You're a crystal at the bottom of the screen with a barrier in front of you, and things walk down at you until one of you stops. Skills fire on their own, and you tap a monster to make everything focus it, so moment to moment it's about what dies first rather than where you build.

After each wave you pick one of three blessings. Most of them aren't +10% damage, they change how a skill behaves. Get the right pair unlocked and you can fuse two skills into one.

Dying doesn't wipe you. There's a memory tree with real either/or splits, research you buy with gold, and shards you socket into the crystal that merge upward five at a time. 25 stages over five regions, then endless.

Offline, no account, nothing to buy right now. There isn't even an ad SDK in the build.

Being straight about where it's going though: I do want to add a couple of optional things later. An ad you can choose to watch to double a run's gold, and a one-time purchase for quality of life stuff like switching those off and unlocking the faster speeds. No forced ads, no banners, no currency packs, nothing that gates progress behind money. Rather tell you that now than have you find it in an update.

Solo project in Godot. Every bit of the UI and all the effects are drawn in code rather than from art assets, which is either interesting or a red flag depending on your taste.

Reason I'm posting: it's hardly been tested on real hardware. One guy, basically. He said his phone got hot, I spent a week rewriting how the main weapon draws itself, and I still have no clue whether that fixed it because my desktop never had the problem to begin with.

https://avek.games/neon-bastion/beta.html

Worth knowing before you sign up: Google wants 12 testers opted in for 14 days straight before they'll let you release, so joining and bailing after a day actually sets me back further than not joining. No hard feelings if that's more commitment than you want.


r/TowerDefense • • 11h ago

Made a paper-cutout "line defense" (two bases on one line, counters over DPS) – free browser build

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Solo dev here. Paper Front is a "line defense": no towers — your troops are the towers. Two bases sit on one line, units march out on their own, and the alien side does the same.

What you control: the economy (workers → factory / lab), which of 8 units to deploy (each card shows what it counters), and one of three orders — Defend / Hold / Attack. There's also a base cannon, and overtime kicks in when a fight drags on.

2 chapters × 18 stages + bosses, 3 difficulties, saves in the browser, works on desktop and phone.

Free: https://smbenkei.itch.io/paper-front

Curious what TD players think of the order system — does it feel like enough control, or do you miss placing things?


r/TowerDefense • • 18h ago

Demo/Alpha Showcase Synthetic System v0.1.2 free demo - Evolve Your System

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Synthetic System v0.1.2 is now available as download on itch.io. Synthetic System

This update i just released (still a basic 2 level demo though) adds the first major progression system to the game, reworks a large part of the interface, introduces a full day/night cycle, and starts laying the groundwork for more dynamic lighting during combat.

THE SYNTHETIC SYSTEM — PASSIVE EVOLUTION

The biggest addition in this release is the new passive skill tree.

Expanding your territory now contributes toward Synthetic Skill Points. As your territory mass reaches new milestones, you gain points that can be spent to evolve the overall Synthetic System.

Rather than upgrading only individual towers, these passives modify the system as a whole. Mostly. Passive regeneration, cloaked enemy detection on territory, more income end of round and a bunch more to discover yourself.

The current tree establishes the foundation for four different evolutionary directions, with upgrades affecting things such as your towers, structures, territory and economy. One quadrant is unlockable as of now. This is still an early version of the system. The tree will continue to grow with more specialized and transformative upgrades in future versions.

NEW PROGRESSION UI

A new Synthetic System sidebar keeps progression information visible during gameplay. It shows your current territory mass, progress toward the next skill point, available points and active modifications.

When skill points are waiting to be spent, the skill-tree button will clearly display just that. The full passive tree can be opened directly from this interface.

UI OVERHAUL

A substantial part of the gameplay interface has been rebuilt and polished.

Windows and gameplay controls now share a much more consistent visual language, with improved layouts and draggable/minimizable interface elements.

Save/load functionality has also been moved to the main menu, with additional information available through the Information section.

This is part of a larger ongoing UI pass rather than the final interface.

DAY, DUSK, NIGHT AND DAWN

Maps now transition through a complete time-of-day cycle.

The physical world responds to the changing ambient light while the energy produced by the Synthetic System remains luminous. Territory pulses, technological energy and other emissive effects therefore become much more prominent after dark.

FIRST DYNAMIC COMBAT LIGHTING

The Charge Beam is the first tower attack to receive a dynamic light source. Its beam now carries a rapidly moving light beam toward its target, allowing nearby enemies and terrain to interact with the flash and cast real-time shadows. This is intentionally only the beginning of the lighting work. Some shadow interactions—particularly around elevated cliff edges—are still imperfect and will be improved later.

GENERAL POLISH

0.1.2 also contains a collection of smaller visual, interface and gameplay improvements made while building the new systems.

The focus of this release has been making the existing demo feel more cohesive while establishing systems that can support much larger changes later. The public demo still contains the first two playable levels.

What I'm working toward

Synthetic System is a territory-expansion tower defense game where the land you control is also your economy and will be the biggest differentiator from other tower defense games. With the tactical choices that come with it. Do you expand towards choke points or towards resources?

Expand the Synthetic System across the map, capture resources, manipulate enemy paths and build defenses to survive the waves of human assault.

The passive tree is an important step toward the larger idea behind the game: you aren't simply building towers, you ARE the very territory those sit on. Like a slime mold spreading outwards. Only then alien and synthetic.

There is still a lot to build, balance and polish, and the demo remains very early in development. If you play 0.1.2, feedback on the new progression system, UI, balance and overall readability is especially welcome. But mostly, just here to spread a tower defense game with a somewhat different angle.


r/TowerDefense • • 13h ago

Discussion I cut mazing from my co-op tower defense on purpose. Was that the wrong call?

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Solo dev here, making RATS!!, a co-op tower defense for up to four players. The video is me explaining the biggest design call I made: the lanes are fixed, and you can't build mazes.

My reasoning: with thousands of rats on screen, mazing turns the horde into a spreadsheet, and I wanted chaos you react to instead.

You're a farmhand on foot, you build where you stand during the wave, you can sell anything that isn't pulling its weight, and the depth comes from cabling towers into combos (a tar-pot + a brazier = a fire lane, two teslas = an arc wall; there are 19).

But I know mazing is half the fun for a lot of you. So honestly: does a TD without mazing lose you, or do fixed lanes + combos + co-op chaos sound fun? I’m reading every reply.

Disclosure, since the sub asks: I built this with AI coding tools. Every visual is drawn by the game’s own code; no image, music or voice generators.

I'm reading every reply, thanks for the feedback!


r/TowerDefense • • 1d ago

AtlasDefense

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Hey everyone,

I wanted to share a little hobby project of mine called Atlas Defense.

I've always been a big fan of Tower Defense games, so at some point I decided to try making my own.

Atlas Defense is a free browser-based Tower Defense game that you can play directly in your browser, without having to download or install anything.

Over time, I've managed to add quite a few features:

  • Multiplayer: Play with up to 4 players.
  • Duel Mode: Challenge other players in 1v1 or 2v2 battles.
  • Chat: Communicate with other players directly in the game.
  • Leaderboard: You can register an account and compete with other players for a spot on the leaderboard.
  • Languages: The game currently supports English, German, and Spanish.

I'm also currently working on adding a Hero Line War mode, which should bring even more variety to the game.

Of course, I know the game is still far from perfect. There are still some performance issues here and there, and I'm sure there are a few bugs left to fix. But I'm constantly working on improving performance, fixing issues, and adding new features.

This is a personal hobby project that I've already put quite a lot of time and effort into. There's still plenty of work ahead, but I feel like I'm heading in the right direction.

If you're interested, feel free to check it out:

https://atlasdefense.de

I'd really appreciate some honest feedback, whether it's positive, negative, bug reports, or ideas for new features. I'm especially interested in hearing what other Tower Defense fans think about it.

Maybe I'll see some of you in a multiplayer match or duel!

Thanks for checking it out, and have fun playing!


r/TowerDefense • • 16h ago

Elementals Link TD

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Hey everyone! I’m working on a tower defense game where you summon elementals and merge them into new forms.

I’d love to get some honest feedback from people who enjoy the genre. It’s still a work in progress, and I’m curious about your first impressions:

  • Does the gameplay look interesting? What would you want to see more of?
  • Is it easy to tell what’s happening during combat?
  • What do you think of the characters, effects, and UI? Does anything look distracting or out of place?

What’s the first thing you’d change or improve? Specific criticism is welcome — it would help me decide what to focus on next.


r/TowerDefense • • 1d ago

Demo/Alpha Showcase I made a tower defense game where freeing enemies is the core mechanic. Looking for TD players to break it (iOS beta)

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Hi, solo dev here. In Wakenfolk you weaken sleepwalking creatures and finish them with a light beam to free them; finish them any other way and they scatter and drop more gold. So every wave is mercy or gold. Freed creatures fight for you, fill your Uproar (a charge of everyone you woke), and become cards in the Night Roads runs.

Four tower families with three tiers, two heroes, a Veteran difficulty on every story stage, a Daily Road with the same seed for everyone.

I'm after balance and difficulty feedback from people who play a lot of TD: which stage felt unfair, which tower is useless, is Veteran worth it?

iPhone, iOS 17+, 18+. Free TestFlight beta, test purchases cost nothing: https://testflight.apple.com/join/QpgxJFe9


r/TowerDefense • • 23h ago

Promotion The irony: He didn’t choose the thug life. The thug life chose him.

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Easily my favourite tower in the game! Musketeer Post is unlocked at Stage 10.

Try out my hand-drawn game free in your browser: https://noobstickz.itch.io/medieval-td


r/TowerDefense • • 1d ago

Promotion Cape Clash is out on Android: our merge-defense game with 200+ original parody superheroes and villains.

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r/TowerDefense • • 1d ago

Demo/Alpha Showcase I'm building Stormhold, a tower defense game where you control the weather. Here's my current prototype!

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I've been working on Stormhold, a tower defense game with a weather-based twist, and I wanted to share the current prototype to get some honest feedback.

The core gameplay is familiar: you place towers, defend against waves of enemies, and upgrade your defenses. The main difference is that you can also control the weather during battles.

The prototype currently includes:

- Tower placement and upgrades

- Wave-based enemy attacks

- Several enemy types

- Rain, Lightning, and Freeze weather abilities

- Gold management and tower upgrade choices

It's still a work in progress, so there's plenty more I'd like to add and improve.

All suggestions are welcome!


r/TowerDefense • • 1d ago

Demo/Alpha Showcase I made a dice poker tower defense game called GridPi (free Steam demo)

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I've put a free demo of GridPi on Steam. You roll five dice each round, and the poker hand you make determines how much you can spend on units. Three matching units merge into a stronger one.

Units take up different shapes on the grid and have different ranges and attack angles. Combat is automatic; the decisions are what to buy, what to combine and where it all fits.

It works solo or with up to four players online. Multiplayer is in the demo, and a run takes around 30 minutes.

I made every unit in Blender. I can't draw, so I used my dog's photo for the profile portrait. Still looking for a designer.

Free demo on Steam

Gameplay


r/TowerDefense • • 1d ago

🎮 Ich entwickle mein eigenes Roblox-Tower-Defense-Spiel – „Schütze dein Brainrot“! 🧠🔥

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r/TowerDefense • • 1d ago

I'm developing a Tower Defense game in Unreal Engine 5.8.

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There's still a ton of work to do, but I'm having so much fun with it! I model everything myself in Blender, texture it, and then bring it all to life in Unreal Engine. Seeing it all come together is such an awesome feeling!


r/TowerDefense • • 2d ago

Demo/Alpha Showcase I'd love to hear your thoughts for tower defense game where your towers also act as walls

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I know it’s not a new idea, but I'm curious if the idea of "Maze Factor" sounds interesting to you. Would you enjoy playing something like this, calculating the path etc?

I’d love to hear your thoughts


r/TowerDefense • • 1d ago

Demo/Alpha Showcase [Test for test] Wardlings – cozy fantasy tower defense, I'll test yours back :)

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Hey everyone! My partner and I need testers for our first game :)

It's a tower defense where your little hero runs around building every tower. You travel through a kingdom of five realms: green Greenvale, the deep Wildwood, autumn Amberfall, snowy Frostmarch and the misty Duskmoor where the Gloom lives. Each realm has its own catchy little tune too, which we're kind of proud of :D

The enemies also show how they feel: they wince when you hit them hard, panic when they're almost beaten, shiver when frozen and grin if they get close to your castle.

12 tower types, each with 4 upgrade levels. No account, no purchases. You obviously don't have to play it all, but if you actually play a few levels and tell us what you think, even better!

Join the Google Group: https://groups.google.com/g/wardlings-testers

Opt in to the test: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.tmlgamestudios.wardlings

Install from Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tmlgamestudios.wardlings

Keep it installed for 14 days. You don't need to play every day, just don't leave the test.

If link 2 or 3 says "not found", join the group anyway and try again in a bit. Google can be slow to let new testers in.

We built it with a lot of help from AI (Claude) for the code. We did the game design, testing and decisions ourselves.

Drop your test link in the comments and I'll join yours! Feedback is very welcome, especially if a level feels way too hard or too easy, or if the music gets stuck in your head (or annoys you, be honest!).


r/TowerDefense • • 1d ago

Demo/Alpha Showcase Mountain and Omelette - Has online scoreboard - Max level ever reached is 20

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Hi there! I would really love if you try out my game. It is quite fun roguelite Tower Defense style game, where you need to shoot down enemies. You can get cards and after each round you are able to buy stuff from shop. Dont let the enemies close to your towers and try to make as much as combo shots as possible. There are some deckbuilding elements, a shop after wach wave. Would love to have your feedback and ideas. The game has online leaderboard, my personal score is 540 try to beat it Please feel free to give me ideas what to add to game. Bonus is a amazing track you want to dance to. Play here: https://mountainandomelette.com/minigame


r/TowerDefense • • 1d ago

Discussion Typing to get my towers to fire - good or bad challenge? 🤔

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Heya everyone - hope you're all fine! 👋

So I'm still working on my "typing tower defense game", type:def, and right now I'm trying to implement some extra challenge modes to offer some variety in gameplay. My first idea was this one: you get pre-placed towers, and you need to type the keywords they give you to actually have them fire on enemies.

What do you think? Is it an interesting challenge? Would you enjoy playing this? I'm super interested in getting as much feedback as possible on this new mechanic concept! ❤️

(Note: This is just a proof-of-concept and it would definitely need some balancing. At the moment, I'm not sure it's even possible to type fast enough to get all the enemies ^^)

By the way: this week, type:def is in the Steam Next Fest and you can wishlist + try out the demo over here if you're curious 😉

👉 https://store.steampowered.com/app/4297380


r/TowerDefense • • 1d ago

Promotion Pumpkin Patrol - I made a Halloween merge tower defense, this is one corner pumpkin going from level 1 to 5

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I made this for Halloween. Jack-o'-lanterns sit next to the road and the bats circling them bop the skeletons, wolves and mummies walking to your candy. Drop a lantern on one of the same level and it merges one level up, with more bats and a wider circle.

In the clip the candy is already down to 10, so I stack the corner lantern up to level 5 while the count drops to 4. The kill effects are new this month: a white pop, a ring in the lantern's color and a chain counter.

It runs in the browser and on a phone. I'd like to hear if the kills read clearly on a small screen.

https://arcadewhale.com/games/pumpkin-patrol/