Rustic Defense

Rustic Defense is a hexagonal fantasy tower defense game with roguelike elements. You build turrets to fight incoming enemies across randomly generated environments, choosing how to explore each map.

Turrets and heroes

You can research 15 types of turrets across five categories: archery, natural, guns, throwing and splash. Every turret deals physical damage; advanced turrets also gain a fire, poison or ice damage bonus and a special attack. Elemental damage either deals damage over time or slows monsters. Heroes unlock as you progress and help you in battle.

Enemies and chapters

Enemies come from four biomes. Valley enemies have no armor, while enemies from the Mountains, Desert and Swamp have armor with resistances to specific elemental attacks. Enemy classes include normal, special, boss and special chapter enemies.

You can choose from 14 chapters, each of which changes the generated map and the tactics it calls for. Maps contain 40–50 waves and can take up to an hour to complete.

Explore and progress

After each wave, you choose which way to explore. At the end of a game, you earn experience based on the wave you reached and can convert it into abilities in a skill tree, giving you an advantage in the rest of the game. Skills are either passive and permanent or active skills you select during play in a card deck.

As you gain skills and confidence, you can take on harder chapters to earn more experience. Later in the game, you can research specialities such as support from the sea, a hero's special skill or a chance to deal an epic card that can change the whole game.