Drill Keeper

From city building to grand strategy, turn-based tactics to RTS, see more strategy games from Hooded Horse . Play as a heroic Drill Keeper in this roguelike deckbuilding siege defense game where you travel the galaxy in an effort to secure vital resources. As a dutiful symbol of the future, you will be tasked with protecting your Planetary Drill – build fortresses around your mining operation to protect it from the dangers that lurk in the depths of distant planets, placing defensive weapons and designing labyrinthine pathways to trap, stall, bewilder, and even kill the enemy as it approaches. And if a sense of duty isn’t enough of a motivator, you should know that your parent corporation has installed a neural implant that will kill you should your Drill be destroyed – it’s expensive equipment, after all! Join the Orion Prospectors Team today! Does the vast expanse of the galaxy call to you? Do you want to work with state-of-the-art drilling technology? Have you dreamt of strip-mining entire planets to their core while building massive defensive fortifications to hold back and gun down alien attackers? Then you’ll dig this gig! Each planet you visit will feature unique objectives that unlock additional tools for future use, and planetary modifiers that influence the procedurally generated dig sites you’ll be excavating in any given run. At times you’ll find yourself fortunate enough to be surrounded by bountiful treasures and easily removed brittle walls with only a distant enemy spawning pool, while at others, the riches may be distant, the soil well-packed, and the enemy right by your side. Surrounded by resources, enemy spawning pools, and unique points of interest, you will always have a fresh set of considerations to build your mining strategy around. Every tile around you can be destroyed, either in a calculated manner when digging in pursuit of gold, shards, and mysterious treasures, or by environmental effects that may inadvertently help or hinder your position. Manually digging between drill activations is the only way to secure resources that allow you to play your cards and purchase upgrades for future expeditions, but pushing too hard without rest can invite negative consequences. This means the need for a carefully planned approach as digging is also a powerful tool for defense. Every time you activate your drill, the mindless enemy swarm responds with ruthless aggression, moving along a predictable path – the shortest available from where they spawn to your drill. Influence this path by placing obstructions and digging alternative routes shaped in your favor – will you build long narrow corridors and place defensive buildings that fire piercing shots in straight lines, or pursue zig-zagging paths to maximize enemy travel time under fire instead? Different weapons at your disposal behave in completely different ways, and while anyone can find synergies among the cards in their deck, a true Drill Keeper will pair those synergies with the perfect dig strategy. Make your mark as one of the greatest Drill Keepers ever known – adorn your rig with modules and relics of great power, earned through daring deeds or purchased through the sweat of your brow, and stay nimble as you adapt to a growing set of options during any given expedition, discovering new tools and unlocking them for future use as you do. Every famed Drill Keeper has their own calling card – choose yours today! Cards are the core tool in your hand, available for use between and during attacks, used to place and upgrade individual buildings, to apply status effects to the enemy, and to enhance your own capabilities. You will begin each run with a small starting deck, growing it with additional cards acquired through periodic supply drops and treasures found while digging during an ongoing run. This can fundamentally change your overall strategy. Will you focus on buffing your own abilities, using magic to dig and defend more efficiently? Will you prioritize barricades that influence enemy movement to funnel them into kill boxes? Or will you squeeze every possible ounce of damage output out of your deck, combining status effects and defensive buildings to overcome the vast hordes? Prioritize your current expedition by focusing on the acquisition of gold needed to activate cards, or plan for the future with a focus on acquiring shards and the runes they allow you to purchase and use in future expeditions. Bolster your economic capabilities, improve your damage output and attack speeds, or otherwise sway luck itself in your favor with the help of these magical attachments, and bring a variety of runes together to create powerful combinations and unique strategies, with upgrades available to make them even more powerful. Seek out artifacts buried deep within the planets and use their unique offerings to further bolster your expeditions – from modifying the outcome of familiar actions to providing buffs and debuffs, artifacts are another piece of the puzzle as you seek synergies and opportunities in what they have to offer. Join the guild and choose from two wildly different factions featuring multiple unique hero archetypes each! Do you prefer to thrive on fiery forges and brews to strengthen your expedition, or would you rather leverage biological decay and sacrifices that bolster your capabilities? Are you partial to spike traps and stone walls, or do you prefer towers that rot over time, using their own biomass to damage the enemy until they collapse in on themselves? All are welcome as Drill Keepers – it just takes a passion for digging, and the courage to stand against unfathomable horrors! Drill Keeper is a roguelike siege defense game set in the far future, putting you in charge of mining expeditions across the galaxy. Build powerful synergies in your deck as it grows over the course of a run, optimize your dig strategy to acquire resources for immediate use and long-term metaprogression, and experiment with a variety of heroes and factions, each featuring their own unique strengths, weaknesses, and strategic considerations.