Defend your mind against psychic invaders in this conspiracy-themed roguelike tower defense. Build your deck, browse The Akashic Records shop, stack conspiracy card synergies, and descend deeper into the iceberg. How far down the rabbit hole will you go?

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What the developers have to say:

Why Early Access?

“Launching MK-Ultra Psychic Defense in early access will give me the level of feedback needed to properly calibrate the roguelite elements of the game. Rogue lites require fine tuned adjustments throughout their development in order to ensure the game is in its most playable state and that the decisions the player is making are actually compelling and fun.”

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

“MK-Ultra Psychic Defense is going to be in Early Access as long as it will take to give the game its final level of polish.”

How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?

“MK-Ultra Psychic Defense aims to give people a psychedelic conspiracy themed single player arcade rogue-lite tower defense experience.

Features I plan to add include but may not be limited to.
  • Unique character dialogues during boon selection with fully voiced characters
  • A meta progression system that lets players spend a resource collected in the main game mode. Upon spending this resource the player will gain power ups making future runs easier.
  • Improved enemy wave spawning with a greater variety of spawn-able enemies
  • New Boons that when unlocked mid run can change the behavior and synergies of towers.
  • A tutorial
  • Steam Achievements

What is the current state of the Early Access version?

  • A roguelike deck-building tower defense core — draw, play, and reshuffle tower cards across a full draw pile / hand / discard pile system
  • A procedurally generated, ever-expanding branching path and grid system that grows with every wave
  • 13 unique occult-themed tower types, each with distinct attack patterns and inter-tower synergies
  • 8 enemy types with unique behaviors and 8 trait modifiers (Shielded, Swift, Armored, Splitting, Cloaked, Regenerating, Commander, Resistant)
  • 4 boss encounters with cinematic warning sequences
  • The Akashic Records — a full between-wave shop with tower cards, conspiracy cards, consumables, and upgrades
  • 58 conspiracy cards across 4 rarity tiers with tag-based synergies and stacking effects
  • 22 unique consumable items
  • 5 playable psychic profiles with unique starting decks and playstyle modifiers
  • Seeded runs for reproducible and competitive play
  • The Conspiracy Theory Iceberg — a 173-entry meta-progression browser across 10 tiers
  • Full localization in 11 languages (EN, DE, ES, FR, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, TR, ZH)
  • An interactive 8-step tutorial for new players
  • CRT shader HUD and psychedelic LSD distortion visual effects

Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access?

“The price will remain stable from early access to full release.”

How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process?

“Each update is inspired by your feedback. Share your thoughts in our forums”
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About This Game

MK-ULTRA Psychic Defense is a rogue-like tower defense game where you will use unique esoterically themed towers to defeat waves of mind goblins and obtain unique power ups that will empower and improve your towers.

In MK-ULTRA Psychic Defense you play as a victim of the MK-ULTRA program, a young Ted Kaczynski, you have been unknowingly dosed with a highly experimental psychedelic compound in order to astral project your mind into the Psychosphere. Your CIA handlers wish you the best of luck in defending your Kundalini energy spiral from the waves of lower dimensional entities seeking to return your soul to the illusion of physical reality.

Key Features:

  •  Deck-Building Tower Defense — Your towers are cards. Draw them, play them, reshuffle them. Manage your draw pile, hand, and discard pile across every run.

  •  The Akashic Records — A full shop between waves where you can purchase tower cards, conspiracy cards, consumables, and upgrades with Gnosis, the currency of enlightenment.

  •  58 Conspiracy Cards — Persistent passive modifiers that bend the rules of your run. Stack synergies across 6 tags, trigger effects on card draws, tower sales, and incoming damage.

  •  22 Consumables — One-time-use items like psychic shields, AoE blasts, and stat buffs held in a dedicated slot bar.

  •  13 Occult Towers — Pyramids, Ankhs, Time Cubes, Cosmic Eggs, and more — each with unique attack patterns and inter-tower synergies.

  •  4 Boss Encounters — The Archon, The Egregore, The Handler, and Wetiko — each with a cinematic warning sequence.

  •  5 Psychic Profiles — Choose your test subject before each run. Each offers a unique starting deck and playstyle modifier.

  • The Conspiracy Theory Iceberg — 173 conspiracy theories across 10 tiers of depth. Discover them through gameplay and browse your collection.

  • Procedurally generated branching paths · Seeded runs · CRT shader HUD · Psychedelic LSD distortion effects · Interactive tutorial

Tower Types:

  • The Pyramid: Focuses energy blast volleys at nearby enemies

  • The Ankh: It's radiant energy damages all enemies within a given radius

  • The Third Eye: Causes enemies to glow in the dark, and take double damage from all damage sources

  • Ancestral Memories: Increases the damage output of other towers within range

  • The Flower of Life: Gives nearby towers an increased chance of doing chain damage on enemy hit

  • The Emerald Tablet: Increases the range of nearby towers

  • Mani Wheel: Slows nearby enemies

  • The Tuning Fork : Increases the attack speed of nearby towers

  • The TIME CUBE: Grants a debuff to all enemies called "Cubic Time". Enemies afflicted by cubic time will have the intensity of the damage and other debuffs applied to them multiplied by four.

  • Cosmic Death Fungus: Enemies killed within the range of this tower will drop extra "Awareness"

  • The Magnum Opus: Rapidly fires little projectiles that damage enemies over time

  • The Cosmic Egg: When the egg hatches a Phoenix will be born. The Cosmic Phoenix will then traverse the enemy path back to its end damaging all enemies along the way.

  • The Anunnaki compass: Summons a meteor to damage many enemies within a given range.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

This game contains assets developed in a way that included ai in the workflow that created them. This includes the following examples.

Some of the ui elements contain 512x512 icons that are generative images. These icons can be found in the Akashik Intel menu.

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: 64-bit Windows 10
    • Processor: Intel i5
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: AMD Radeon Vega 8 or Nvidia
    • Storage: 125 MB available space
    Recommended:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: 64-bit Windows 10
    • Processor: Intel i7
    • Graphics: AMD Radeon Vega 8 or Nvidia
    • Storage: 125 MB available space

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