Planned Release Date: To be announced

About This Game

Thousands of enemies. One base. Up to four of you.

A colony ship has crashed on a frozen world. Its core is the only thing keeping your people alive, and everything out there wants it. Hold the perimeter against waves that grow into thousands of enemies on screen at once, with walls, turrets, mines and your own guns.

An enemy that learns from every wave

A genetic algorithm breeds each attack from the survivors of the last: whatever got through your defences comes back in greater numbers, and whatever died is dropped. No set directions, no set enemy mix, no pattern to memorise.

Information is earned. Build a seismometer and your sensor radar shows which gates the next attack will hit and how big it is. Add a receiver and it names what is coming and where the Champion leads. Complete the survey network for the exact countdown. No sensors, no warning.

After every wave the swarm report shows what it kept, what it dropped and what it is trying next, so you can see the adaptation and counter it. Lineages form, field crowned Champions, and break when your defence ends them. No two runs attack the same way.

Build. Command. Defend.

Tower defense meets base building. Raise walls and gates, staff ballistas, power turrets and electric fences, hide mines and lay snares, then upgrade them in place. Your colonists gather, craft, research and fight: give them orders, promote them and keep them alive, because death is permanent. Venture into the cold for what you need, and get back before your suit's energy runs out.

1–4 player online co-op

Play solo or bring up to three friends online. The horde scales with the team. Split the jobs (builder, gunner, scout, commander) and converge when a wall falls.

Every run, a new build

Level up mid-fight and choose from 58 cards: stats, abilities, economy, defence support and seven weapon evolutions that follow the gun in your hands. Rifle into Railgun, machine gun into Minigun, shotgun into Dragon's Breath, grenade launcher into Cluster Shells. Reroll, banish and stack synergies that wipe the screen.

Permanent upgrades. One more run.

Win or lose, every run earns score. Spend it on perks that change how a run plays and on a permanent upgrade tree across firepower, survival, fieldcraft, command, fortune and defence. Unlock harder difficulty presets by surviving more attacks.

The story

After crash-landing on the planet you were destined for, protocol kicked in and the colony took root beside the wreck. Years of careful nurture brought prosperity and peace as your colonists grew up. Then, one night, shrieks cut through the blizzard and a figure staggered out of the snow, bloody and afraid. All peace is lost. Your colonists are in danger, and you are their last chance. You are the last defender.

Coming soon to Early Access

The Last Defender is coming to Early Access on PC & Mac. The enemy learns from every wave you fight, and we want to learn from you too: your runs will shape how the swarm evolves, the new biomes to defend and a story that keeps unfolding as you explore. Wishlist now to hear the moment it launches.

• Thousands of enemies on screen at once, against walls, turrets and traps that visibly hold

• An enemy that evolves from every wave, with a report that shows what it kept, dropped and is trying

• Earned early warning: sensors unlock a radar that shows where the next attack lands, what is coming and when

• 1–4 player online co-op; the horde scales with your team

• Base building and tower defense: walls, gates, ballistas, turrets, catapults, mines, snares and electric fences, upgradeable in place

• Colonists to command, train and promote; permanent death

• Roguelite runs with many level-up cards and 7 weapon evolutions

• Permanent upgrades and perks between runs; four difficulty presets; two run lengths

• PC and Mac

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

This Game may contain content not appropriate for all ages, or may not be appropriate for viewing at work: Frequent Violence or Gore, General Mature Content