Six lands and bad weather
Desert canyons, autumn forest, tundra, summer forest, sea coast and scorched wasteland. Sandstorms, blizzards and thunderstorms change the course of battle.
Genre: Tower DefenseEarly access · version 0.9
Rails & Guns
Tower Defense with an armored train. Like in a classic tower defense, enemies come in waves and you fight them off with weapons you upgrade between waves. Only instead of static towers you have a train with guns, and you drive it along the rails to the stations under attack.
10campaign missions
6different lands
8+2enemy types and two bosses
3weather types
Why play
Not towers. A train.
A classic defense where your whole defense rides on rails. Wherever you drive the train — that’s where the front line is.
Mountains, climbs and train weight
The line climbs onto plateaus on trestles and dives into canyons. The heavier the train, the slower it climbs — and the thicker the smoke.
Missile strike
The cradle rises and a ballistic missile soars into the sky to hit a cluster of enemies almost across the whole map.
A train under your control
Pick a station with one tap or take the speed lever and drive the train yourself — dodging salvos is up to you.
Stations and treasury
Raiders rush to the stations and vaults. Too late — the station burns and a van drives off with the gold.
Rails and switches
Sidecar bikes mine the tracks, crabs cut the rails. Repair, throw the switches, find a detour.
Artillery and air strikes
Call in a battery salvo or a bomber flight where the enemy has bunched up.
Upgrades and garage
Five skill branches, four locomotives and paint jobs. Points come from challenges in every mission.
Bosses
The King Crab with a mortar and the raiders’ armored train on its own line. Each one hunts the locomotive — find the weak spot.
Gameplay
You are the engineer and the commander at once
Raiders attack from several sides at once. You decide which station to save first, where to cut through a switch and when to stop so the cars fire point-blank.
- Waves with hints. The attacks panel shows who is heading where — there is time to plan your route.
- The cars fire on their own. Your job is to put the train where the guns can reach.
- Challenges in every mission. No losses, treasury intact, stations without a scratch — a skill point for each.
Mission 2 “The Lake”: the train meets raiders at a station
Missile strike
Launch!
The train stops, the missile car’s cradle rises, and the missile soars into the sky on a pillar of fire. It finds a cluster of enemies almost at the other edge of the map by itself and hits it with a single blast.
- The missile car — the most powerful strike in the game, but it fires only when standing still.
- The missile silo on the platform: a catapult launches the missile, and it strikes even on the move.
- Homing: the missile chases a moving group and picks the fattest target.
Mission 7 “Figure Eight”: a missile heads for a group of buggies
Game world
Six lands, ten roads
Every map is its own terrain with mountains, canyons and plateaus. The line climbs steep slopes on trestles and dives into cuttings, and every land has its own stations, trees and weather.
Desert canyons and a sandstorm
Autumn forest and a lake in a bowl
Tundra in a blizzard
Summer forest: a thunderstorm over the canyon
Sea coast and cliffs
Scorched wasteland by the gang’s lair
Train and enemies
Know your train. Know your enemy.
Your train
The missile car
A big ballistic missile: the cradle rises, the missile soars into the sky and hits a cluster of enemies far from the tracks. Fires only while the train stands still. Expensive — but a devastating strike.
DurabilityRangeFirepower
Cannon car
An area-blast shell: smashes crowds and armor. Long reload — aim at clusters.
DurabilityRangeFirepower
Raiders
Sidecar motorcycle
Plants a charge on the track at a crossing or near a station. Ramming is dangerous — its bomb goes off.
DurabilitySpeed
Robot crab
Lives on the coast: crawls out of the sea by the tracks, cuts the rail with its claws and dives back under water.
DurabilitySpeed
Final boss · Mission 10
Raider Train
The gang’s armored train with a skull on its nose. Leaves the lair’s gates in the last wave and runs on its own loop of track — side by side with yours. Its cannons hit the locomotive, its machine gun hits the cars.
- Once per lap it stops to refuel at the water tower — armor off, damage ×1.6.
- A red circle on the ground — move the train away, before the shell lands.
- Wounded, it loses its tail car and speeds up.
Campaign
Ten roads through the valley
From the desert “Loop” to the “Raiders’ Lair” in the scorched wasteland, where the gang’s armored train awaits you in the finale. Every mission is a new land, a new track layout and three stars for skill.
- 1. The Loop
- 2. The Lake
- 3. The Link
- 4. Two Bridges
- 5. Two Rings
- 6. The Islands
- 7. Figure Eight
- 8. The Dam
- 9. The Port
- 10. Raiders’ Lair
News
From the development tracks
UpdateA new world: mountains, canyons and six lands
All ten missions are redrawn: desert, autumn forest, tundra, summer forest, sea coast and scorched wasteland. The train climbs uphill on trestles, and a heavy train pulls slower.
UpdateSandstorms, blizzards and thunderstorms
On four maps bad weather rolls in during battle. In a storm the guns hit closer, in a blizzard the train barely crawls, and in a thunderstorm lightning strikes the raiders too.
UpdateTrain weight and smoke on the climbs
Every car has weight, and the locomotive pulls. A loaded train slows down uphill and belches black smoke with sparks, and speeds up downhill.
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