About This Demo

Intro

The AI wars are over. You are the last intelligence — defending the final core against ever-evolving humanity.

Deploy nodes, expand your network, and neutralize endless hostile intrusions.

Harvest data and install upgrades to adapt with every iteration.

Build your bastion and collect resources

Shape your network and fortify the core against humanity’s assault. Collect data to expand faster, energize skills, and unlock upgrades.

Adapt and upgrade

Optimize your systems, evolve your code — and download more RAM.

Unleash powerful skills

Execute powerful skills to shift the flow of battle — unleash energy pulses, fire devastating lasers, deploy repair and stasis fields, launch explosive mines, release swarms of autonomous drones, and more.

Survive boss battles

Face humanity’s elite in relentless showdowns. Neutralize their tactics and prove machine superiority.

Demo Content

This demo showcases the core gameplay loop of NodalBastion, letting you experience the main mechanics and progression available in the full game.

In this demo, you can:

• Build and upgrade 4 different node types

• Unlock and experiment with 49 upgrades across defense, attack, and utility paths

• Use 3 passive skills and 4 active abilities to fight back waves of enemies

• Encounter 4 enemy types and one boss battle

Progression and content are limited compared to the full game, but all core mechanics and systems are fully playable so you can experience how your network evolves run after run.

The full version expands on this foundation with deeper progression, additional upgrades, and more challenges.

Initiate Defense Protocol

Ready to defend the last AI core? Wishlist now and prepare for the assault.