Stratside

Stratside is a puzzle defense game in which you place gadgets to stop an enemy from reaching a red button and destroying a planet. The enemy can run, jump and use rituals to change gravity’s direction. It reacts to your placements and chooses a safe route, including unexpected alternatives, so you must use logic to catch it.

Plan your defense

Gadgets attack according to their own patterns, and you combine resources to stop the intruder. Obstacles affect how it moves, while movable blocks let you create new surfaces for placing gadgets and obstacles. Some levels contain multiple portals and red buttons, creating more possible routes.

Before starting a level, you can preview the enemy’s route in real time with a hologram and change your placements as often as you like, with no time limit. When you are ready, you invoke the enemy and watch the gadgets act automatically. The enemy’s AI searches for paths in milliseconds, including in giant levels.

Levels and creations

The game includes over 100 levels set across planets you must save. Tutorials can be followed or skipped. A level editor lets you make levels ranging from tiny to giant, and Steam Workshop lets you share your creations and play community-made levels. The Level Manager organizes levels into sets through a file-browser-like interface.

Customize the game

You can adjust how frequently each of the 80+ music tracks plays, from space music to piano pieces. You can also change the frequency of each celestial body on planets and in galaxies. Settings cover controls, video, audio, gameplay and the user interface, and the game supports gamepads as well as mouse and keyboard.

Key features

• 12+ gadgets with different attack patterns
• Obstacles, movable blocks, portals and red buttons
• Over 100 levels and a level editor
• Steam Workshop, a level manager and tutorials
• 80+ music tracks and customizable celestial bodies
• Steam Cloud, achievements and trading cards