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Defense Grid: The Awakening is a tower defense game in which you build fortification towers around your base to stop invading enemies. You plan tower placement, combine their special attacks and properties, and use each level’s roads, build locations and open areas to defend your power cores. The main storyline takes approximately 8 hours, with additional play in challenge modes.

Towers and enemies

The game has 10 tower types, each with three levels of capability and different trade-offs. Some attack along a line of sight, while others fire in a ballistic trajectory; some boost nearby towers, and others suit particular positions, such as a rear guard tower that unleashes a devastating attack. Across the game, you face 15 enemy types that grow stronger as the levels progress and use different strategies to get past your defenses.

Levels and challenges

The main game includes 20 environments, each with a different arrangement of roads, tower build locations and open areas. Levels can be solved in many ways, and improving your efficiency brings increasing rewards. Challenge modes offer unique starting conditions and objectives. Completing a level earns a bronze achievement, while additional goals can earn silver and gold awards.

Resurgence maps

The Defense Grid: Resurgence Map Pack adds eight maps, each with a campaign mode and four additional modes associated with that level’s design. The maps also have Steam achievements and high-score leaderboards. Each map presents different terrain and tactical constraints:

• Service Interruption: an obstructed road to the core housing gives the aliens an advantage.
• Height of Confusion: a wide, open surface lets you build anywhere while defending the power cores.
• Risk Exposure: defend two independent power core housings with limited build spaces.
• Roundabout: contend with varied pathing and elevation changes.
• Urban Planning: restrictive build spaces in a dense environment force difficult decisions against continuous attacks.
• Tactical Diversion: defend a small, snow-covered platform against an aerial assault.
• Kill Zone: choose whether to build near the spiral road in, the spiral road out, the central open platform, or all three.
• Overflow: use numerous connected platforms to turn back the enemies and protect the cores.