Hold the Levee

Hold the Levee simulates water across every cell of the map. Water runs downhill, fills hollows, pushes against levees and seeps through embankments. Trenches redirect the river, levees can leak and dams can break.

Campaign

The campaign has 24 missions, including:

• Trenches, mills and turbines that generate power from differences in water levels.
• Preparing with sandbags, levees and pumps before a flood wave reaches a village.
• A coastal storm, a cascade of dams and a flood in a medieval city.
• Protecting a valley railway with culverts under the embankment, a polder and debris on bridge piers while keeping trains on schedule.
• Dealing with a frozen river and, during the thaw, floes piling up into an ice jam beneath a bridge.
• Playing as the water, breaching a levee to flood a town hall defended by an AI crew.

Defend the village

In Defend the Village, the river rises higher with each wave. Between waves, you have time and a budget to build levees, walls and gates, and install pumps. A forecast shows when water from the mountains will arrive. The village grows with every wave you survive, and you hold out for as long as you can.

Flood the village

In Flood the Village, AI workers stack sandbags, build walls and pumps, and patch your trenches. You have a shovel, charges and a river to use against them.

Two-player modes

Two players can compete in “Water vs Defender,” with one flooding the town hall and the other defending it. In “Defend Together,” they share a budget to withstand ever-higher waves. You can take turns at one computer or play online with a Steam friend.

Sandbox and editor

The sandbox gives you every tool without limits. You can raise or lower terrain, add water, send a storm to the mountains or bring on a hard frost. The map editor lets you make landscapes and share them using a short code that friends can paste in to play.

Other features

• Daily challenge: every player faces the same randomly generated valley, with a Steam leaderboard.
• Steam leaderboards for every mission, including rankings for who saved the town for the least money.
• Replay of the last 20 seconds and one-key GIF export.
• Undo with a refund using Ctrl+Z.
• Steam Workshop maps, missions, rule mods and translations.
• 102 Steam achievements.