A roguelite tower defense in space. Build your fleet, place your drones, and hold the line against waves of meteors. Then enter Survival Mode to push deeper for rare loot. Hunt Giant Meteors to unlock and combine powerful skills, and chain color synergies for devastating damage.

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“This indie gem delivers addictive tower-defense action with satisfying drone customization and color-synergy mechanics that reward strategy.”
TheBigBoisNews

“Tower defense in 3D space with interesting ideas and mechanics. An unusual gameplay that will interest fans of the genre with its novelty. Procedural level generation increases replayability.”
Gold Bear Games

About This Game

A Tower Defense That Becomes a Roguelite


Prepare your fleet, equip your stones, and level your skills. Then hold the line: place defensive drones and pilot your own combat drone against relentless waves of meteors. Clear the waves and Survival Mode begins, where you push as deep as you dare for rare loot. The deeper you go, the more it becomes a roguelite of builds, synergies, and risk.

Build a Different Run Every Time


In the Prepare Phase you build your drone from the ground up: pick a body, attach arms, and equip guns by color. Your colors decide your synergies, your firepower, and the upgrades open to you. There is no default loadout, every run starts with a decision.

Pilot It Actively


Your main drone is not a static turret. Fly it across the battlefield and keep it alive with three active abilities: Teleport out of incoming fire, raise a Shield when you need a hard stop, and spend gold to Repair on the fly. Meteors actively hunt you between waves, so stay mobile or lose it.

Wave Buff Cards


After each wave, choose 2 upgrade cards from 5 random options, split between cannon upgrades (crit, attack speed, power, range) and utility upgrades (drone speed, pickup range, cooldowns, instant repairs). With 48 cards and no fixed order, no two runs build the same.

Create Devastating Color Synergies


Combine drones of matching colors, Grey, Red, Green, Blue and 6 hybrids, to unlock global damage multipliers that amplify your entire fleet. Stack multiple synergies and the effect compounds. The deeper your color investment, the harder everything hits.

Hunt Giant Meteors


Giant Meteors appear throughout each run carrying powerful rewards. Destroy them before they escape to unlock active abilities and rare stones that can change the course of a run.

Grow Stronger Every Run


Between runs, invest in a persistent Skill Tree and a stone loadout system. Unlock new drone types, gun colors, hybrid combinations, and fleet upgrades. Every session builds your roster, even when you fall short.

Features


  • Roguelite tower defense in 3D space
  • Build and pilot your own combat drone
  • Place and customize a fleet of autonomous defensive drones
  • Color-based synergies and deep build combinations
  • Wave Buff cards, 48 in the pool, for run-defining choices
  • Active abilities and rare stones earned from Giant Meteors
  • Endless Survival Mode and Steam leaderboards
  • Permanent progression and unlockables

If you enjoy the build depth of Brotato, the strategic layering of Dungeon Warfare 2, or the "one more run" pull of 20 Minutes Till Dawn, Starfend brings that same obsessive loop to 3D space tower defense.

Build your fleet. Hold the line. Then survive.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

This game uses generative artificial intelligence to create some of its visual content, particularly the images shown in cutscenes. These AI-generated visuals help bring the story to life and allow for faster iteration and creative exploration.

The cutscene images will be updated regularly as the technology improves and as the game's story evolves. This means you may notice changes in visual quality and storytelling over time, as we continue to refine and enhance the experience.

System Requirements

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macOS
SteamOS + Linux
    Minimum:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 10 (64-bit)
    • Processor: Intel Core i5-4460 / AMD FX-6300
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 960 / AMD RX 480 (DirectX 11 support required)
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 2 GB available space
    Recommended:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 10/11 (64-bit)
    • Processor: Intel Core i7-8700 / AMD Ryzen 5 3600
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 1060 / AMD RX 580 or better
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 2 GB available space
    Minimum:
    • OS: macOS 11.0 Big Sur (64-bit)
    • Processor: Intel Core i5 (6th gen) or Apple M1
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Metal-capable GPU (all Macs from 2012 onward)
    • Storage: 2 GB available space
    • Additional Notes: macOS and Linux builds are provided but have received limited testing. If you encounter issues, please report them via the Community Hub.
    Recommended:
    • OS: macOS 12.0 Monterey or later
    • Processor: Intel Core i7 / Apple M1 or later
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: AMD Radeon Pro 5300 / Apple M1 GPU or better
    • Storage: 2 GB available space
    • Additional Notes: macOS and Linux builds are provided but have received limited testing. If you encounter issues, please report them via the Community Hub.
    Minimum:
    • OS: Ubuntu 20.04 / SteamOS 3 (64-bit)
    • Processor: Intel Core i5-4460 / AMD FX-6300
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 960 / AMD RX 480 (Vulkan support required)
    • Storage: 2 GB available space
    • Additional Notes: macOS and Linux builds are provided but have received limited testing. If you encounter issues, please report them via the Community Hub.
    Recommended:
    • OS: Ubuntu 22.04 / SteamOS 3 or later
    • Processor: Intel Core i7-8700 / AMD Ryzen 5 3600
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 1060 / AMD RX 580 or better (Vulkan)
    • Storage: 2 GB available space
    • Additional Notes: macOS and Linux builds are provided but have received limited testing. If you encounter issues, please report them via the Community Hub.

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