Bytes: The Reverse Tower Defense

Bytes: The Reverse Tower Defense is a strategy game in which you attack rather than defend. You build a path for your Bytes, using special tiles and unit formations to limit the damage they take as they move through turret defenses. As a hacker hired by New Life, you must stop the rogue AI Complexus from causing further damage to East Grid by reclaiming its security nodes.

The story

Complexus, designated NLAI 74a, has escaped New Life security. The story unfolds through Story Nodes, which you can complete in any order. The game remembers the order in which you visit them, including if you return to earlier scenes. Dialogue options let you interact with characters, and the story has two primary endings.

Build your route

You can mix and match special tiles to protect your Bytes from danger, jump gaps, teleport past walls or move faster than turrets. You can also change their formation, clustering them or spacing them apart to suit the threats ahead. Choose from three types of Bytes or fine-tune waves in the Byte Editor.

Adapt to Complexus

Complexus responds to your actions by choosing turrets she determines are best suited to counter you. She buys and upgrades turrets using credits earned by destroying your Bytes and by passing rounds. With semi-random elements and an AI that changes its defenses, no level plays quite the same, and no route stays safe for long. Complexus can use eight different turrets.

Reclaim East Grid

Beat levels to unlock upgrades and take on harder nodes as you reclaim East Grid’s 71 security nodes. You can tackle them in any order you prefer.