Defense The Drone

Ten minutes. One base. Endless drones.

Your base is the last relay still broadcasting. Drone swarms close in from every side and get tougher by the minute. Hold out for 10:00 and the reinforcements arrive to clear the field. Let the base fall and the signal goes dark.

• Level up in the middle of the fight: every drone you shoot down drops scrap that flies back to your base and fills your level bar. Each level-up freezes the battle and deals you three cards: install a tower, upgrade a tower type, add an augment or take a bonus.
  
• No two runs alike: opening rushes, card offers and buff pads change from run to run. Reroll a bad hand, or skip it to patch up your base.
  
• Your call, your pace: play at 1x or 2x speed and pause whenever you need to think.

11 towers, 22 ways to modify them

• Autocannon, Pulse Tower, Vulcan, Railgun, Tesla Coil, Drone Pod, Rocket Battery, Laser, Amplifier, Ion Emitter and Satellite Uplink, each with its own range, targeting and job.
  
• An upgrade card levels up every tower of that type at once, including the ones you build later.
  
• At Lv3 each tower type commits to one of two modifications that change how it fights: Twin Barrels or Long Barrel, Heavy Warhead or Multi-Launch, Precision Strike or Scatter Strike, and more.
  
• 30 augments, plus a signature attack for every tower at Lv5.
  
• Buff pads (damage, range, fire rate) and high ground reward smart placement.

Shields, armor, hull: bring the right damage

Physical, Energy and Explosive damage hit Shields, Armor and Hull differently. Regenerating shields show up more and more as the clock runs down. Energy weapons and the Ion Emitter crack shields, explosives punch through armor and physical rounds tear up bare hulls. Every card and tooltip shows the matchups at a glance.

Bosses that change the fight

• Carrier: keeps launching swarms from its bays.
  
• Overmind: hides behind shield-feeding link nodes, tethers your hardest-hitting tower to shut it down and whips nearby drones into a frenzy.
  
• Colossus: fires seeker missiles at your towers, raises an energy barrier, then lunges at your base.
  
• Elite wings bring special drones: Aegis domes, Splitters, Medics and Hackers.
  
• Golden Drones drop rare supplies: a Supply Cache, a Repair Kit, a Reroll Token, Overdrive, or the Jackpot.

Six bases, six skills

Every base has its own HP, main weapon and an active skill on Space: Signal Burst, Bulwark, Blackout and Fire Mission. Two secret bases, unlocked through hidden achievements, bring Orbital Bombardment and Solar Flare.

Chase the combo

Chain kills through five combo tiers for bonus scrap, rack up Multi, Mega and Ultra Kills all the way to Annihilation, and feel the big hits through hit-stop, debris and screen shake (adjustable, or off).

Grow stronger between runs

• Spend scrap on research, new towers, modifications, bases and perks. Equip 2 perks per run (3 once you unlock the third slot).
  
• Clear the Outpost Relay to open the Canyon Transmitter, then the Ruined Observatory, then Threat Tier II.
  
• One global Steam leaderboard and 23 Steam achievements, two of them hidden.

Easy to read, hard to master

• Flat neon shapes and light on a dark field keep the action readable even when the screen is full.
  
• A short first-time tutorial, detailed tooltips and UI scale up to 145%.
  
• English, Korean, Japanese and Simplified Chinese.
  
• Made for mouse and keyboard.