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Garden Defence

Defend your garden from a bug invasion using everyday objects turned into turrets: magnifying glasses, garden hoses, UV lamps, and more. Upgrade your defenses, adapt to changing weather, and outsmart increasingly cunning enemies in this strategic tower defense with a backyard twist.

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About the Game

Your garden is under siege. Ants, beetles, and flying insects advance in ever-growing waves, and the only line of defense you've got is whatever you can find around your house and yard.

In Garden Defence, everyday objects become a arsenal of 12 unique turrets: a magnifying glass that focuses the sun's rays, a can of insecticide, a high-pressure garden hose, a UV lamp that lures and stuns, a magic garden gnome with mysterious properties, and many more. Each turret has its own attack style, strengths, and weaknesses against different types of insects.

As you progress through levels, you'll unlock new turrets and earn money to upgrade the ones you already have in the shop. But leveling up a turret isn't enough on its own: every insect has specific resistances and vulnerabilities, so you'll need to think carefully about which combination of defenses to deploy in each wave.

Weather adds an extra layer of strategy. Rain, intense sun, wind, and other conditions affect both your turrets and the invading insects, sometimes in your favor and sometimes against you, depending on the combination of turret, enemy, and weather at play. A magnifying glass can be deadly under the midday sun, but nearly useless on a cloudy day.

With a growing roster of enemies, bosses with their own unique mechanics, and a difficulty curve built to reward planning over reflexes, Garden Defence invites you to treat every wave as a small tactical puzzle.

Key features:

  • 12 base turrets inspired by garden and household objects, each with its own upgrade tree

  • Dynamic weather system that alters turret and insect performance

  • A variety of enemies with unique strengths and weaknesses against each turret

  • Money and upgrade progression to keep adapting your strategy

  • Bosses with special mechanics that break up the rhythm of regular waves