Rustic Defense
Rustic Defense is a fantasy tower defense game with roguelike elements, generated enviroment with option explore your own way. Research skills and heroes, choose path, build towers and upgrade them.
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Rustic Defense is a hexagonal fantasy tower defense game with roguelike elements, generated enviroment with option explore your own way.
Like in classic tower defense game, you build turrets that fight with incoming enemies.
You can research 15 types of turrets that belong to five categories (archery, natural, guns, throwing, splash). Every turret has physical damage, advanced turrets adds elemental damage bonus (fire, poison, ice) and special attack feature. Elemental damage rise overtime damage or slowing monsters.
Also you can unlock heroes (depends on your progress) that helps you.
Enemies incoming from four bioms. The Valley is nearest and enemies haven`t any armor. Mountains, Desert and Swamp monsters has armor with resistances to specific elemental attack.
Enemies are in several classes : normal, special, boss and special chapter enemy.
Map and enviroment is randomly generated. You can choose from 10 chapters that modify generated map and tactics.
Every map contain 40 - 50 waves and can be done to hour of playing.
After each wave you can choose way that you want to explore.
After every game you obtain experiences depends on reached wave. Those experiences you can convert to abilities in a skill tree, that give you advantage for rest of game.
Skills are passive (permament) and active, that you can choose during game in carddeck.
If you have more skills and feel confident, you can choose harder chapter and earn more experience. Later in a game you can research speciality like support from sea, heroe`s special skill or chance to deal epic card that can change whole game.
