Barricadez

Barricadez is a side-scrolling tower defense game set in a ruined world where humanity is almost extinct. You play as an all-purpose care robot tasked with protecting a human child from the zombie-like hordes that attack at night. After waking to an emergency distress call, you head to the surface and intercept the child’s escape pod, updating your mission to protect them at all costs. Your memory banks are failing, however, and you do not know why this child is so important.

Explore for resources

You explore the procedurally generated underground world to gather resources, find materials for upgrades and discover blueprints that expand your arsenal. The deeper you go, the more resources you collect, including new upgrade materials. Exploration also lets you plan your defensive grid ahead of time using the day-and-night cycle.

Build your defenses

During the day, you gather resources and prepare your barricades and strategies for the night. You design walls and fortifications around the child’s cradle, strengthen defenses with better materials and use augments to change how some facilities work. Traps can be arranged along paths that channel monsters toward them, and an autocraft system supplies traps with ammunition so they can keep defending. You can adapt your setup as different enemies require different strategies.

Fight and improve

When night falls, you hold off the hordes until dawn. Defeating enemies earns experience in the form of engrams, which you use to upgrade your skills and become stronger and more efficient. The struggle to protect the child is a long-term one, with defenses to reinforce as each day turns to night.