TavernHold

TavernHold is a single-player game that combines daytime inn management with nighttime tower defense. You build a roadside tavern, gather resources and serve travelers, then defend the inn from waves of undead. If the inn falls, your fight is over.

Run the tavern

Assign workers to gather food and timber, construct rooms and tables, repair defenses or man the walls at night. Feeding travelers and renting out rooms earns gold, which you can spend on more workers, faster resource nodes and stronger defenses.

Use wood to add tables, guest rooms, spike traps, stronger gates and resource outposts. Each day, you also receive a random bonus; the chance of stronger bonuses rises as the days pass, so your plans must adapt.

Prepare the defenses

Shape enemy paths and place defenses where they can make the most difference. At night, put workers on the walls to shoot enemies and take direct control of a giant ballista. Spike traps slow the horde, while well-aimed bolts pierce clustered enemies. Keep the undead from breaching the gate: if too many get through, the run ends.

Upgrade your inn

A branching research tree lets you improve the inn and its defenses. Upgrade rooms and tables to earn more gold, strengthen workers and traps, and enhance the ballista with new arrow types. You can craft special ammunition, including explosive bolts that tear through clustered enemies and frost bolts that slow the horde.

Every few nights, powerful bosses lead the undead army to your gates. Hold them back with upgraded defenses, crafted arrows and careful worker placement.