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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Overall | #74 | 4.253 | 4.253 |
| Creativity | #149 | 4.278 | 4.278 |
| Enjoyment | #150 | 4.056 | 4.056 |
| Style | #162 | 4.426 | 4.426 |
Ranked from 54 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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A twist on the classic tower defence genre, you build a tower upwards to extend the path and unlock more defence slots as you go. Scale the height of your spire to stay ahead of the scaling enemies and keep SAD-E safe.
Development Time
96 hours
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Great job! I can see good potential in this.
Thanks! There's definitely a few things we wanted to iron out about it to round out the experience, but we're overall happy with where it ended up! :D
cool spin on tower defense games! game has nice depth for the short time period!
To quote one of my co-developers... perhaps it has nice height! Glad you enjoyed it~<3!
Well done! Love the idea of a vertical tower defense game
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed!
this game is very pog esp that 72 guy on the leaderboard
Do you mean the Sventy Twhu guy? 🤨
AMAZING. Oh I love this low poly style. The concept itself is so nice, but your artists really did an amazing job. Congratulations!
Thanks! It really means a lot to hear that, me and my friend spent a lot of time on the art and design. We'd like to have grown it further if given more time!
I love the game robot is very adorable and it is a well-thought-out game
Thanks for checking it out <3
Extremely cool game. The style and mechanics are so neat. I could spend a long time trying to figure out the optimal build. The music is killer too. Amazing work!
Thanks a bunch! I'm glad you like the music, it was great fun to write <3 We were deffo aiming for the replayability factor when we made it.
This game slaps, only minor nitpick i can say is that start is kind of slow, but other than that game is great, cool floors, nice atmosphere. I also love "legendary" floors which deactivate resistence. truly good job guys. :)
We were not sure if the extra time at the start was needed to let people get the hang of what's going on before jumping right into the main loop. I think if we had another half day or so we would have figured out a way to get things going a bit faster.
Good job getting high enough to see the special floors! While those floors are very cool (thanks Max <3), there might be something even better lurking... Keep your eyes peeled.
the level of polish on this is UNMATCHED! strategizing weapons with the towers was really fun and allowed for some trickery with dropping acid from above >:)
Thank you! We had fun making sure stuff like that was possible and fun~! Glad you enjoyed! :D
Very cool game! I had the sam idea actually. It's realy good, the graphics, the music, and the gameplay! The potential is straight to face.
Thank you!
We've seen a few games with a similar concept, but nothing exactly the same. It'd have been cool to have a sister game :D
Very cool take on a tower defense. I feel like this game has a lot of depth to it. Great job
or perhaps a lot of height?... 🤨 Thank you so much though! :D
Nice 😂
This is awesome, super creative approach on the topic to go the tower defense route, and very well executed. Could see myself buying this on steam after a bit of polish. Super well done!
Thank you so much! I spent a lot of time tinkering with the balancing and despite that would still play more of it! I'm so glad this is the idea we took forward because seeing it come to life was such a joy :)
This game is incredibly polished! This is a much more creative take than my idea. I like how you have to take the tower layouts into consideration and how you are basically building out the enemy path. I thought that the acid potion turret took good advantage of this idea since you can drop onto lower platforms.
Thank you so much!
We didn't initially realise there would be so much inter-floor opportunities until about halfway through, and then tried to lean into it with the remaining tower designs. I think if we had more time we'd try and add more towers like the poison as it's by far our favourite to strategise around.
Damn, that's a really high quality game!
Thank you! I was so impressed by every little detail the rest of the team put in :)
The game looks incredibly good and was pretty entertaining! The only thing I struggled with was that the path the enemies follow should probably be a little more clear. I found myself struggling to find it every time I extended the tower. Other than that, it was pretty great!
Thank you so much :) Glad you enjoyed it!
This is really nice game :D unique twist to defense game :D
Glad you think so :D hope you enjoyed!
Honestly I can see myself playing this game for a long time just figuring out optimal strategies. Really creative take on tower defence.
Thank you! We played it quite a lot to just balance it so it felt fun to play and re-try, so we're glad it worked out :D
This game is so insanely fun. Really good art and gameplay loop!
Glad you enjoyed <3
I really liked it, this game was a lot of fun! The strategy of picking out tower pieces to build and which turrets to place was really cool, and I feel like there's a lot of potential in expanding on this concept.
Thanks! We had a lot of ideas we wanted to add and would have really liked to keep going haha. Glad you enjoyed it though!
Aesthetically and conceptually this concept is so god damn cool, and it's really interesting strategically as well. On first playthrough there was a bit more waiting around for things to happen than I would personally prefer, but that could just be a matter of preference. Awesome awesome entry
Trying to get the balance to feel good early game without hurting the late game was such a hard balance to strike! Thank you so much for the kind comments though :)