ValeGuard

ValeGuard combines turn-based city-building and town management with real-time combat. You serve as mayor, merchant and general of the Vale’s villages: build defenses, manage workers, train troops and prepare by day, then command your forces against nighttime attacks. Your goal is to save as many towns as possible while traveling across the Vale.

Manage each town

Balance your workforce to provide food and housing, train troops and build fortifications. Gather wood and iron to craft weapons, which you can use to create troops or towers. Gold cannot be mined, so you trade with merchants and spend it carefully, including on items from the black market.

Towns may contain features such as pumpkin patches, graveyards and wizard towers, which can change how you manage and defend them. Nightly events can present a choice between avoiding a dangerous fight and seeking a magical item; risk may pay off, while caution can be the wiser option.

Defend against attacks

When enemies threaten a village, you take command in pausable real-time combat. You can use walls, towers and traps alongside troops and heroes with powerful abilities, adapting your defenses to what is available. Towers are dependable and simpler to build, but remain in place and do not gain experience. Troops require more effort but can move to where they are needed; they can also gain levels through experience and be upgraded with armor and mounts.

Travel across the Vale

You move from town to town across the Vale’s map. Each town provides a new hero, technology and an increase to your starting resources, but not every village will survive the war. If a town is destroyed, you lose its perks, so your choices affect the party and defenses available for the rest of the campaign.

Heroes and the campaign

You begin with a single hero class and can unlock rare, powerful heroes through special events and quests. More hero options let you build a more balanced and powerful party. After the campaign, you face the dark generals in a final battle; your technology, upgrades, heroes and other choices determine whether you can hold out.

Defeat does not end a run. Each playthrough can unlock more heroes and reveal new strategies for reaching victory.