Variables 2

Variables 2 is a standalone tower defense game in which you shape the route enemies take and build combinations of towers, equipment and plugins to meet each map's challenges.

Shape the route

You choose where to place the core and the enemy exit, then use objects, buildings and the map itself to create a route that suits your defense. The terrain is more complicated than in the previous game.

Build your defenses

The game has five basic towers and numerous advanced towers. You obtain supplies to extract basic towers, then combine them according to recipes to create advanced towers with higher attributes and stronger characteristics. You can combine towers to respond to different situations, and equip them with items that provide basic attributes as well as special mechanisms. Equipment can increase your damage output when you use its mechanisms effectively.

You gain energy to obtain equipment: each round grants 1 energy, and the amount gained per round increases by 1. Using supplies to extract a basic tower clears this extra growth.

Equipment and plugins

Plugins provide additional help, but obtaining them requires you to take on small challenges. Before a game begins, you can use a shard group to plan which equipment and plugins you will obtain, rather than acquiring them randomly as in the previous game. You get shard groups by spending money earned during the game to extract them.