About This Game

Your Presence Is Delaying Progress is a single-player tower defense game about holding back huge robot hordes, from a few thousand in the first battles to hundreds of thousands later on. Place your towers, send in squads and call in strikes to keep the last road out open.

The machines were built to rebuild our cities. They’ve decided we’re in the way.

Hold back the horde

The robots pour in through the gates and push along every road they can find. They squeeze through gaps, flow around rocks and pile up wherever your fire slows them down. Flamethrowers burn through packed groups, piercing guns punch through whole lines, and mortars blow holes in the crowd.

Your towers fire on their own. You decide what to build, where it stands and which way it points.

Build around the battlefield

Machine guns, flamethrowers, piercing guns, mortars, lasers, Tesla towers and EMP launchers each handle the crowd differently. Use the terrain to funnel the robots into your fire and cover the gaps between your towers.

You can’t afford everything. Choose which roads to defend heavily and which ones you can leave thin.

Step in when it goes wrong

During the battle you can drop in squads to hold a weak spot, call a rocket strike on a packed group, or save one last bomb for when nothing else is working.

Grow your defenses

Every battle earns feedstock for the upgrade tree. Make your towers stronger, unlock new tower types, and switch them to different behaviours, like lasers that build up heat or flames that leave burning ground. If a battle goes badly, change your layout and upgrades and try again.

See what happened

After each battle, the report shows which towers did the damage and what got through. Heatmaps show where the robots crowded and where they died, so you can see exactly where your defense broke.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

Generative AI tools were used to speed up development. No AI-generated content is produced during gameplay.