Artificial Defense

Artificial Defense combines real-time strategy, tower defense and an orbital shooter. You defend your operating system against intruding creeps, using weapons and towers while deploying Intrusion Counter Measures (ICMs) to reclaim corrupted system structures.

Weapons and towers

You can fire miniguns, launch Hellfire missiles, drop Hades-Bombs and colossal asteroids, and use 21 offensive weapons in total, from flintlocks to meteors, neutron bombs and nukes. Switch between three pre-loaded weapon categories and fire installed weapons every few seconds. Each shot costs RAM, and each weapon type has its own cooldown. Because creeps move and projectiles take time to hit, aiming requires skill. You unlock and install new weapons in the uplab.

The 21 defense towers range from pistol sentries and flamethrowers to long-range railgun installations. You also have seven production towers that generate RAM (Random Access Memory), the main resource used to keep system routines running. Towers arrive in expensive capsule drops, so you balance resource production against the strength of your defensive perimeter. New tower versions can be unlocked and installed in the uplab.

Reclaim corrupted systems

Spawn ICMs to conquer corrupted structures, including databases, honeypots and firewalls. Databases can spawn datablips carrying valuable data toward your backup devices. Each datablip that reaches its destination releases a certain amount of RAM, so protecting these vulnerable convoys helps sustain your system.

Hardware and challenges

Earn RAM to upgrade your arsenal and hardware level, progressing from a punch-tape system to a quantum A.I. mainframe. The game includes 49 challenges across seven different servers, along with 13 music tracks.