Planned Release Date: 2026

About This Game

About ByteCrawler

ByteCrawler is a small, tactical lane-defense game about timing, resource management, and the slow decay of your own swarm. You won’t be clicking wildly here. It’s more about placing the right units at the right time, and keeping them alive just a little longer.

How It Works

You start by choosing a hero, buying unit chips, and preparing them for deployment. Each unit takes time to materialize, so you’ll need to plan ahead. Spawning too early or too late can cost you the match.
Energy management and positioning matter more than speed.

Corruption and Decay

Every unit you own exists as data stored on a chip. Over time, these chips degenerate. If you don’t maintain them, they might spawn corrupted (sometimes even hostile). It’s a small, nasty surprise that keeps each run a bit unpredictable.

Pick your poison

After every round, you’ll pick from four modifiers. The twist is, they’re all debuffs. Maybe your prep time slows down. Maybe your energy drains faster. Whatever you choose, it’s going to hurt a little. But it’s also what keeps each run fresh.

Features

• Tactical lane-defense gameplay

• Energy and timing-based spawning

• Degenerating chips and corruption events

• Random post-round debuffs

• A few different heroes to experiment with

• Dark sci-fi lab atmosphere

• Made by one person (me) — compact, replayable, and a bit weird

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

This game contains pre-created images that were generated using generative AI.
The AI content is used only as static graphics within the game and in marketing materials.
No AI generation takes place during the runtime of the game.