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Bearicade

A toy-scale tower defense roguelite. Mount dart blasters, cap guns and spud cannons on a toy train, draft new towers between waves, crack open toy chests, and hold the line as wave after wave of plastic soldiers marches across the bedroom floor to take down your teddy bear!

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July 20, 2026
12 days ago
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About the Game

The bedroom is under siege

Every night, when the lights go out, the plastic army wakes up — and it marches on your teddy bear. The only thing standing between Teddy and the invasion is a wind-up train, a loop of track around him, and every weapon in the toybox. A bear. A barricade. Bearicade.

Your fortress rides the rails

Towers in Bearicade don't stand on the map — they ride it. Bolt toy weapons onto the train's wagons and your whole defense circles Teddy like a rolling wall, gunning soldiers down on the move while the locomotive rams anything that strays onto the track. And each of the 12 wagon colors bends the rules for whatever rides on it — extra gold, faster leveling, bonuses that grow the longer a tower stays put — so WHERE you place a tower matters as much as what it is.

Draft, unbox, evolve

Between waves the shop deals you three cards. Take what fits your build or pay to reroll — prices inflate and legendary odds climb the deeper you go. Feeling lucky? Five kinds of toy chests (Toy Box, Gold Chest, Gadget Chest, Upgrade Chest, Trinket Chest) each show three prizes: pick the one you want, gamble on a mystery from the chest's whole pool, or skip and pocket a refund.

Towers level up for free just by fighting, and at level 5 every one of them reaches a fork: two evolutions, one choice, no going back. A humble Cap Gun becomes a rapid-fire Twin Cap or a slow, devastating Magnum — 13 towers become 39 very different weapons.

Toy sets are stronger together

Every weapon belongs to synergy families — Sharpshooters, Demolition, Trickshot, Budget Brigade and more, eleven in all. Field matching towers and the whole set unlocks bonuses; spread wide instead and diversity pays its own dividend. Then round out the build with trinkets (feeling brave? the Gamble Kit gives a tower +10 levels... or deletes it) and battle gadgets you trigger mid-wave — freeze the whole floor, drop a sticker bomb, raise a bubble around Teddy.

Survive 30 waves. Then see how far the train goes

Marchers, sprinters, bazooka men, armored bricks, battlefield medics, armed jeeps — the army learns new tricks as the nights roll on, a boss arrives every fifth wave, and wave 30 belongs to the General himself. Beat him and endless mode opens: ever-scaling waves, a Steam leaderboard, and one question — how long can the train keep rolling?

Features

  • A tower defense roguelite where your towers ride a toy train

  • Draft shop between waves: three cards, rerolls, inflation, rising legendary odds

  • Five toy chests, each a pick / mystery / skip decision

  • 13 towers that fork into 39 evolutions — free XP leveling, free repositioning

  • 11 synergy families, 11 trinkets, 7 battle gadgets, 12 rule-bending wagon colors

  • Run-start charms, boss waves, endless mode past wave 30, Steam leaderboards