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Protolife: Other Side

Reverse Tower Defense game where you control waves of creatures against towers. Protolife game spin-off.

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Developer
Aleksei Grishin
Publisher
Volcanic Giraffe
Release
September 29, 2023
2 years and 308 days ago
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Mostly Negative11 reviews36.4%

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About the Game

Protolife: Other Side - is arcade game which can also be called as "reverse tower defense". You have to lead squads of alien creatures though the ever-growing defense line on miltiple locations. The more creatures you save the easier it will be to reach the main goal: find the interplanet transport and evacuate.

Plot

One year passed since Protolife game events. Mankind started colonization of new planet. It was called Planet of Leonov (aka Leo-Nóva). The alien biotechnologies was found on this planet too. But this time the alien core was found and blasted with orbital strike, avoiding heavy ground combat.
Alien overseer who also acts as backup core decides to evaculate survived creatures from planet. He's scared. Scared not of humans.

Features

  • 5 species of creatures with own abilities
  • 4 common abilities
  • 6 zones with different level architecture
  • partially destructible landscape
  • familiar towers and buildings from original Protolife (as enemies this time)
  • new towers and buildings
  • each level must be beaten several times in order to evacuate as much creatures as possible. Each attempt is harder than the previous one.
  • special missions which affect the other levels

Controls

Keyboard, keyboard+mouse or gamepad. You directly control leader's movement, other creature follow the leader. Also you may activate one of the abilities for the whole squad.
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