Planned Release Date: Q1 2027

About This Game

How it plays

One More Wave is a classic tower defense game. Enemies walk along a road, and you build towers next to it to stop them before they reach the end. Every enemy that gets through costs you a life.

Towers

• There are 9 towers to build: Arrow, Cannon, Frost, Fire, Arcane, Lightning, Poison, Shrapnel and Assassin.
  
• Each tower has two upgrade paths, and you choose one for every tower you build. Both end in a tier III upgrade that changes how the tower plays.
  
• Towers level up by killing enemies. Get towers of the same type to level 8 and that type earns Mastery Ranks, which give it more damage in every match.
  
• When things go wrong you have three abilities: Artillery Strike, Frost Nova and Field Repair.
  
• You can pause at any time and keep building while the enemies stand still.

Enemies

• There are 17 enemy types, among them Grunts, Slimes, Ghosts, Shadow Walkers, Nightwings, Iron Guards, Stone Giants and Forest Trolls. Many of them resist some kinds of damage and are weak to others, so it pays to mix your towers.
  
• There are 5 final bosses, including the Colossus and the Night Queen.
  
• On Hard and above, 9 minibosses can show up as well.
  
• Set the waves to "Counter your towers" and they adapt to the towers you built in your last match.

Maps and modes

• 7 hand-made maps set in woods, desert, mountains, snow and a stone fortress, among other places.
  
• There are random maps too. Each one has a six-character code, so you can play it again or send it to a friend.
  
• In Endless mode the waves don't stop, and the enemies get stronger with every wave.
  
• In Biomass Ecology, defeated enemies drop biomass. Click it for gold and to fill a meter that gives you a Biomass Frenzy. Drops you miss heal the enemies near them.
  
• There are five difficulty levels, and Nightmare is the hardest.

Between matches

• Every map has three stars: win it, win it losing no more than three lives, and win it on Hard or above. Stars and boss kills give research points, which you spend on permanent upgrades. Some upgrades make your towers stronger, others unlock new abilities, and all of them apply to every match from then on.
  
• Once every research category is maxed out you can Prestige. That resets the research tree and gives you a permanent +5% to damage and gold, and the bonus grows each time you do it.
  
• There are 16 tower styles to unlock. Win Twin Gates, for example, and your towers can wear a winter look.
  
• 56 Steam achievements, from clearing your first wave to the ones that take a whole Nightmare run.

Made in Sweden

One More Wave is made by Pebblefox Studio, which is one person in Sweden. The developer uses AI tools in the work, and the AI disclosure further down this page says exactly for what. The game is available in 13 languages. If a line reads wrong in yours, say so on the community hub and it gets fixed.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

One More Wave is made by a solo developer who uses AI tools during development. This is what they are used for:
- Art: the towers, enemies, maps and effects are vector graphics and code-drawn textures made with AI help. The studio logo and the fox in the intro are AI images. The developer decides what each piece should look like, then checks and adjusts it.
- Music and sound: the music is AI-generated. About half of the sound effects are real recordings, used as they are. The rest are AI-generated, and a few tower sounds are a recording with an AI layer mixed underneath. One sound is licensed from a sound library.
- Text: the in-game text and the store page text are written with an AI assistant and edited by the developer.
- Code: AI coding assistants were used during development.
- Translations: the 12 translations started as machine translations. Spot a line that reads wrong in your language? Let us know on the Steam community hub.
The game does not generate any AI content while you play.