| current | | - A new hero, the Engineer (staging only): Pip Cogsworth makes the towers part of the fight. Her rivet gun fires quick rivets, and held, a Spike Bolt that pierces armour and goes on through a line of monsters, deadly on Skeletons. Overclock makes the tower you look at fire twice as fast for 6 seconds, steaming and glowing for everyone to see: an orange ring shows which tower you'll get, and it works on anyone's tower. She's slow to track Wing Rats and Wyverns. Play her or take her bot, Pip, a chatty tinkerer who names every tower she touches. For now she talks in captions only; her voice comes later.
- Flyers fly high: Wing Rats, Wyverns, Wraiths and flying bosses take off from their portals and climb high above the land, out of the Knight's reach, and hold their height over hills, walls and towers. They come down low at the objective, where the Knight's sword can reach them, and climb away again when they leave. A Ranger's Net Shot still drags one down.
- Only Wyverns and Wraiths shoot heroes from the air, with a fireball or bolt you can see coming that hurts when it lands. Wing Rats only bite once they're down at the objective or netted.
- The Tesla Coil is the anti-air tower: it goes for flyers first, hits them much harder and arcs a long way from one flyer to the next. Siege Cannons no longer hit flyers (unless a net drags one to the ground), so build Teslas along the way flyers come and round the objective. Levels without the Tesla have lighter flyers, and every level was retuned to play about as before.
- One new thing at a time: on the Bridge, Mirrorlake and the Lantern Cliffs, the first Wing Rats come on a wave of their own, and the first Portal Keeper a wave later, so you can work out the flyers before a Keeper starts opening a portal. Those levels have six waves now.
- Heroes in the Lore: the Lore book now starts with the heroes. Each has a page with a model turning on the stand: their role, strengths and weaknesses, health, armour and speed, both skills with their cooldowns, how hard they hit each monster, and the bot who plays them, with a line in their own words.
- Feedback: a Feedback button on the main menu opens a form to tell us what you think, in a new tab, so your game keeps going.
- Version history: tap the environment and build line at the bottom of the main menu to see what's new in each release.
- Restart from the pause menu: the menu now reads Resume, Restart, Leave match, with Report a problem on its own line below. Alone, Restart plays the level again at once; in a campaign it asks whether to restart the level (with the gold you arrived with) or the whole campaign. With friends, Restart asks the party: everyone sees who asked, the others agree from their own pause menu (a toast and the wave panel tell them how), asking again withdraws it, and the ask lapses when the wave or level ends. Restarting the campaign stays the host's call, and Quick Match can't.
- Menus start where you're going: every menu opens on what you most likely want next, so Enter or A presses it: Quick Match on the main menu (and again once you've chosen a campaign or level), your hero in the lobby, Resume when paused, and Next or Replay on the results. On a controller, Start presses Done, Start game or Ready, Resume and the results' main button, B goes back or leaves, and small ☰ and Ⓑ badges show which. A controller also reaches your name and the invite code (A to type with your device's own keyboard, Start to join) and the version history, which it scrolls and leaves with B.
- Wolfstooth Pass: a great rock and a cairn no longer stand in the east road, and no scenery reaches onto a road.
- Overrun endings: the portals that tear open when the objective is overrun open on open ground with a clear run to it, never inside rock, buildings or water. In Deepdelve Hold they open in the hall, its side halls and the court instead of high in the mountain.
- A level's intro card lists under New here only the monsters that really come: Mirrorlake no longer names the Cave Troll (Rimehorn is one, but he raises skeletons), so Wolfstooth Pass, where trolls first march, introduces them.
- The Bridge: a Rift Walk or the Knight's leap can no longer drop a hero in the gap behind the overturned hay cart.
- An odd address, like one with a double slash, now opens the game instead of an error.
- The Shattered Coast (staging only): a third campaign of five levels, holding a stormy coast while its people get away, in rain, storms and sea spray. Hold Saltmarsh Harbour's loading quay against Bloatgut, the clifftops under the Lantern Cliffs' sweeping lighthouse lamp against Skreeva the Storm Harpy, Wreckers' Cove against Captain Marrow (fight on the decks of great wrecked ships, watch the west road run through the hold of one broken across it, and guard the powder store behind huge barred doors in the sea cave), and Tidewalk Abbey's bell tower on its tidal island against the Tidecaller, then make a last stand at Stormwatch Bastion against Thalassor as the fleet gets away.
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| v0.15.0 | Nov 6, 2026 | - The Long Winter (open from Nov 9): a second campaign of five levels, marching north through the snow to break an endless winter. Hold Hollowmere's Great Hearth against Snagtooth and his wolf sled, the sledge ring on frozen Mirrorlake against Rimehorn, the signal beacon of Wolfstooth Pass in a blizzard against Hoarfang, and the Runeforge of Deepdelve Hold against the Bone Thane, then make a last stand at the Winter Spire against the Queen of the Long Night that ends in dawn. Campaign on the main menu now opens a picker of the campaigns.
- Holding the line: in The Long Winter you win a level by holding it. The portals flicker and collapse one by one, the monsters left break and run for them, and a March on banner names the next level.
- Weather: snow, blizzards, night skies, the aurora and fog banks.
- A win feels like a win: a big gold VICTORY, the level's own success line, stars stamping in one by one and a fanfare.
- First Looks: in a campaign run, the first monster, coins, tower, boss, flyer and Portal Keeper each get a short cut scene, once a run: the world stops, every camera turns to it with an outline and a pillar of light, and a voice says what it is.
- The results wait for everyone: no timer moves the party on; the screen says who it's waiting for.
- Every level has one hand-made layout again, with The Retreat's original roads, pads and scenery back on the Farm, Bridge, Gate, Town Hall and Castle. Map numbers are gone. The Farm has a third tower pad, up on a knoll, and a windmill.
- Touch: iPhone and iPad Safari no longer zoom the page in a match, and the 3D view fills the screen after you turn the phone.
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| v0.14.0 | Nov 6, 2026 | - A privacy policy and terms of service.
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| v0.13.0 | Nov 2, 2026 | - Learning to build: facing a tower pad shows a pop-up with what to press and what it costs, and the build menu keeps the mouse pointer inside it while you pick a tower.
- On the Farm, a short cut scene shows the party where to build as soon as it can afford its first tower: the pad is outlined, a pillar of light marks it and a voice tells you, even with no bots.
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| v0.12.0 | Nov 1, 2026 | - Knight: Crushing Blow is as quick as the Mage's Fire Bolt, lands where you click and cleaves the crowd in front of you.
- Taking a hit flashes the edge of the screen red, with a thump and a small kick of the camera.
- 45 seconds before every level's first wave, with a bigger pop-up to call it early (before wave 1 that pays nothing; between waves it still pays). The level's intro card stays up until the first wave starts or you close it.
- Ground monsters are solid: you can't walk through them.
- The Gate: a landing and parapets on the stairs up to the tower tops.
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| v0.11.0 | Nov 1, 2026 | - The Farm: Gloop has less health, so a party with both towers can beat him at any size.
- When a browser's graphics fail, the game says so clearly instead of showing a broken screen.
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| v0.10.0 | Nov 1, 2026 | - New players start as the Mage, beside a Ranger bot, and the hero picker reads Mage, Ranger, Knight.
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| v0.9.0 | Oct 31, 2026 | - Knight rework: hold to charge the sword for one huge blow, a faster Crushing Blow that hacks back and forth, a harder-hitting Whirlwind and a quicker Shield Block. The charge sound waits a moment, so ordinary swings stay quiet.
- The Mage is the area hero: the Fireball hits for less (105, was 160) but still sets the whole pack burning.
- Bots chat: they talk to each other in quiet moments and react to your big moments.
- Run turns off when you stop or back up.
- The campaign results show each level's gold saved beside its stars.
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| v0.8.0 | Oct 30, 2026 | - Replay: after any level, won or lost, the party can vote to play it again. In a campaign a replay starts with the gold you arrived with, and its result replaces the old one.
- A clearer results screen: stars and gold saved first, then a card for each hero with damage, kills, towers, revives and downs.
- Every new lobby starts with a bot.
- Charged shots look charged: the Mage's orb catches fire and the Ranger's arrows crackle with lightning.
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| v0.7.0 | Oct 30, 2026 | - Phones and tablets: play by touch, sideways. A move stick under your left thumb, drag the right side to look, and buttons for Jump, Run, both skills, Build, Revive and the menu. Push the stick past its rim to sprint, hold and slide a skill button to aim, and tap the wave box to call the next wave. Light aim assist, and touch settings for look speed, button size and opacity, a fixed or floating stick, left-handed play and vibration. Your first touch match shows what each control does.
- Add to Home Screen for full screen and landscape on iPhone and iPad.
- Back after a drop: if your connection drops or you reload, you go straight back to your place in the match.
- Reviving: a marker over downed teammates that you can see from far away, and a big prompt and progress bar while you revive.
- A Graphics quality setting (Auto, High, Medium, Low), and a choice of Twin-Stick or Single-Stick controller layout.
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| v0.6.0 | Oct 29, 2026 | - Bot teammates: fill empty seats in Quick Match, Private Game and Solo with bots. They walk and run like heroes, fight like a decent player, pick up coins, go after Portal Keepers, revive downed teammates (people first) and use their powers where they count.
- Bots talk: they speak as Brask, Wren and Tuck, each with their own voice, look and banter, call out what matters with a marker on it, and show captions. A Bot voices setting turns them down or off.
- The menu says Paused when the game is paused.
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| v0.5.0 | Oct 28, 2026 | - Build and upgrade menus: a bird's-eye view of the pad with the tower's range ring, a card for the tower in focus, and what the next level adds, with new powers called out. Upgraded towers float a Roman numeral (II, III, IV).
- Coins fly to you: coins near a standing hero are pulled in, and you pick them up from 50% further away.
- Heroes: Net Shot and Rift Walk bank a second charge, the Ranger's fully drawn shot hits one monster very hard, and the Knight runs at twice his walking speed.
- When you're downed, a bigger countdown says when you'll be back on your feet.
- A simpler wave display, and the Frost Spire says it gets Deep freeze at level 3.
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| v0.4.0 | Oct 28, 2026 | - Portal Keepers: a new monster that opens a portal beside the road and sends reinforcements through it until he's brought down. He comes to the Bridge, the Gate, the Town Hall and the Castle.
- Stars: each level won earns 1 to 3 stars, for the objective's health and the gold you saved.
- Gold carries over in a campaign, from each level to the next, so saving early pays off at the Castle. A level played on its own starts with set gold.
- Call the next wave early, even while one is still running, for bonus gold.
- Seeded maps: every match picks its roads and pads from a seed, and a single level's map can be shared and replayed.
- Every level retuned, ending with a ten-wave Castle.
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| v0.3.0 | Oct 27, 2026 | - Campaign: play the five levels in order, back to back, with the same party, in Solo, Quick Match or a Private Game.
- A new home screen: choose Campaign or Single Level, and pick your hero in the lobby. Calmer menus, and the Monsters and Towers book is the Lore book in the corner.
- Hero reworks: the Knight is the fastest hero, with a Shield Block that holds back the monsters in front and lets go into a Whirlwind and a leap. The Ranger's Net Shot comes every 5 seconds, and the Mage is the slowest hero with a Rift Walk every 7.
- Faster attacks for every hero, a click made during the cooldown is queued, and skill cooldowns show as a bar.
- Controller menus move one focus at a time.
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| v0.2.0 | Oct 25, 2026 | - Five levels: the Farm, the Bridge, the Gate, the Town Hall and the Castle, each with its own map, objective, towers, waves and boss. Pick one in Quick Match, Private Game or Solo.
- The siege: monsters that reach the end of the road stay and bash the objective until heroes drive them off.
- New here: each level opens with an intro card showing its new towers and monsters, and the first sighting of each new monster gets a callout. A Monsters and Towers book from the main menu tells you about them all.
- Level endings: win and the party falls back to the next level; lose and the level is overrun. The Castle is the last stand.
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| v0.1.0 | Oct 24, 2026 | - The first release: the castle tower defence game, now online for 1 to 4 players in first person, on one map with 25 waves. Play a Quick Match, a Private Game with a code or invite link, or Solo, and friends can drop in mid-match.
- Three heroes: the Knight, the Ranger and the Mage, each with two skills. The Mage throws quick Fire Bolts or charges a Fireball that sets monsters burning.
- Towers are built, upgraded and sold from the ground on stone pads, with one shared gold pool. Monsters drop coins that heroes pick up, and the range stones on the castle's tower tops show every tower's reach.
- Monsters fight back. Downed heroes can be revived by a teammate in a second, or get back up after 20 seconds.
- Run on stamina, climb the castle's stairs to stand on its towers, and play with mouse and keyboard or a controller.
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