Backyard Defenders

Backyard Defenders is a single-player tower defense game where hungry insects turn an afternoon picnic into a fight for survival. You build defenses across a 15-by-7 battlefield, spend earned sugar on upgrades and choose which threats to stop first.

Defend the picnic

You can build six kinds of defenses, each with a different attack:

• Salt Shaker: damages groups of nearby bugs.
• Bug Zapper: chains lightning between enemies.
• Water Sprinkler: pushes enemies back with water attacks.
• Spider Web: slows passing enemies, with upgrades that improve its effect.
• Fly Swatter: strikes nearby enemies with heavy melee attacks.
• Water Balloon: hits groups with splash damage and slowing effects.

Carry research forward

Waves grow stronger, and surviving your first boss takes preparation. As you play, you earn a separate research fund that you can spend on permanent upgrades to your economy and defenders. Defeat ends a run, but your research carries forward, letting you experiment with new layouts and start subsequent runs from a stronger position.

Bosses

Five boss types bring their own abilities: the Ant Empress, Beetle Titan, Spider Weaver, Moth Oracle and Locust Storm. A boss reaching the picnic ends your run.