Sporestorm: Frontier Defense

Crash-landed on a dying alien world. The planet itself wants you gone.

You are Mulan, a ship engineer. The crash scattered your crew, and all that is left beside you is one running Purification Core. As long as it glows, the corruption stays out — and you stay sane. Deep in the wasteland, the swarm has already caught the scent of an outsider.

An open battlefield with no fixed lanes

This is not memorize-the-track tower defense. Enemies path dynamically across open terrain: every turret and every wall you place rewrites their route to you. Shape the battlefield like an RTS — funnel, split, corner, then focus fire.

An ecosystem that chain-reacts

Alien creatures are not stat sticks — they react to each other:

• Sproutlings burst into spore clouds when hit and leave corrosive remains when they die;

• Zerglings that charge into a spore cloud go into allergic frenzy — faster attacks, paper-thin defense;

• Control kill order and kill position, and let the swarm blow itself up.

A hero who fights on the front line

Mulan is no spectator behind the walls:

• Weakpoint Scan — mark enemies for your whole defense to focus down;

• Shockwave Knockback — blast backline threats away from your towers (the recoil sends her flying too);

• Requiem Echo — a forbidden technique reverse-engineered from the enemy. High risk, last-resort insurance.

She also critiques ballistic deviation, gives her frost tower a nickname, and nags you to build when you idle.

Two tower types, one defense

• Gale Turret: rapid-fire physical damage, the backbone of your line;

• Frost Tower: zero damage, pure control — freeze the tide to create focus-fire windows;

• Ore is scarce. Where you build, and what you build first, is always a trade-off.

Protect the Purification Core

The Core is your lifeline: upgrade it to expand the purified zone; lose it and it is over. Each wave hits harder, and every gap in your line will be punished.

A fully hand-drawn dying world

Ink lines and watercolor textures: wastelands, glowing fissures, colossal skeletons and your wrecked ship. Cute art, cruel situation.

About this demo (Next Fest build)

The demo contains Chapter 1, Level 1 (about 10–20 minutes): 1 playable hero, 2 tower types, 2 enemy species and the full spore-chain tutorial.

In development for the full game: deck-building cards, the three-essence economy, more towers/enemies, elites & bosses, more chapters. Wishlist to watch it grow.