Employ lethal turrets, traps, and gadgets to defend against an onslaught of evolving creeps! Step into a twisted, hyper 3D, mind bending realm. Upgrade and adapt your defenses. Become a master maze crafter. Collect bizarre artifacts. Rush creeps for lucrative rewards, and succumb to greed!
The core gameplay centers around constructing an elaborate three-dimensional maze to annihilate waves of bizarre, mutating enemies. Players can place turrets and traps on walls, ceilings, and floating platforms, requiring careful consideration of line-of-sight and elevation to effectively eliminate the "creeps".
The diverse arsenal includes long-range snipers that can rack up headshots from afar, close-quarters shotgun turrets that splatter enemies at point-blank range, and a wide variety of other specialized defenses. Each turret type has unique strengths, weaknesses, and special abilities, demanding that players thoughtfully combine them to counter the ever-evolving enemy hordes.
The game's maps frequently twist and bend in dizzying, mind-bending ways, challenging players to craft intricate mazes that funnel enemies through meticulously designed chokepoints and killing zones. Vertically-stacked platforms, bridges, and other environmental elements add an extra spatial dimension to the maze-building, forcing players to think beyond a flat plane.
Players don't simply place turrets and watch - they directly control a floating "Brain in a Jar" that can move around the battlefield, attack enemies, call in devastating special abilities, and even repair and upgrade their defenses. This real-time strategy element keeps players actively engaged throughout each frantic, wave-based encounter.
Progression comes in the form of randomly-generated "Artifacts" - powerful persistent boosts that can modify a wide range of statistics, from income rates to explosive force. Discovering and upgrading the most effective Artifact combinations becomes an addictive metagame that extends the game's replayability.
The spatial, multi-layered tower defense gameplay shines even brighter in the game's cooperative two-player mode, as friends must collaborate to craft the ultimate maze of destruction.