Outworks

Outworks is a 3D base-defense survival game in which you build a fortress around a glowing command core and defend it against waves of enemies. You construct the base floor by floor, placing walls, supports and turrets across its tiers. Ground swarms attack from below while gunships and bombers strike from above, so your fortress’s height and layout shape how it withstands each wave.

Build your fortress

You can build up to twelve floors, place support pillars and turrets on every tier, and use counter-walls that reflect damage back. There are nine turret types: basic, rapid, heavy, sniper and anti-air turrets, plus a gatling, a piercing railgun, wall-clearing artillery and splash missiles. The latter four unlock by upgrading the command core.

You can also use an orbital strike, an EMP that freezes the field, or an emergency repair for the core. These active powers draw on your scrap and have cooldowns. Breachers and sappers can tear down walls; if they destroy a support, the floors and turrets above it collapse.

Survive the waves

Between waves, you spend scrap from each kill to expand, re-tier and upgrade your fortress. After every wave, choose one of three run-wide boosts to damage, fire rate, range, salvage or fortification; these choices compound over the course of a run. The next wave grows more difficult, bringing 14 enemy types, including swarmers, armored tanks, shielded APCs, splitters, warpers, regenerators, jammers, turret-bombing gunships and escalating bosses.

The campaign forks twice. You can bank your run for a depth record or continue into an endless rising tide and chase a score.

Other ways to play

Global online leaderboards track depth and endless runs weekly, monthly and all-time. The game can be played fully offline, and your local best is always kept.

Creative mode is a free-build sandbox with 18 sculpting blocks, a 12-color palette and towers up to 12 levels high. It has no enemies or building costs.

Visuals and languages

Outworks uses a curated military look of weathered concrete and amber-neon accents, with code-generated neon geometry, swarms, tracers, ballistic arcs and screen shake. It runs on integrated graphics and modest laptops, and includes 14 interface languages.