Flux Tower Defense · published · build 24376823
You no longer get the whole toolbox. Every run rolls you a random roster and dares you to make it work.
Each run opens by dealing you a hand — 4 attack towers, 2 auras, 2 specials, 2 traps. That is what you build with. Wall Tower is always free, so path-shaping never depends on the roll. Clear waves and the field offers reinforcements: one more name from everything you didn't draw, pulled from a pool that shrinks with every pick. The run you get is never the run you planned.
Siege Ballista — armor-piercing bolt that ignores damage reduction outright. Slow, single-target, ground only.
Frost Lattice — chills everything in range; every 4th shot flash-freezes.
Ember Sprayer — player-aimed flame cone. Drag from the tower to set its facing.
Hive Nexus — seeker drones that dive at the nearest enemy, air or ground, then return.
Gravity Well — drops a pool that pins up to 2 enemies in place and grinds them under a continuous pull.
Ricochet Rig — a bolt that bounces between enemies, hitting harder every jump. Rewards tight packs.
A new build category, split out of the tower list — towers that grow off what they've done, not what you paid.
Grudge Engine — banks a tenure stack every wave it secures a kill in. +6% base damage each, capped at 50, never decays. Punishes selling.
Culling Scythe — instantly executes anything left below its threshold. Each execute permanently sharpens the blade.
Echo Vault — banks half of all damage it deals, then discharges the whole reserve as one burst every 10th shot.
Flywheel Cannon — spins up under sustained fire toward a screaming redline, and coasts back down when the lane goes quiet.
Repulsor Coil — shoves enemies backward along their own path and leaves them Confused. They re-walk your kill lane.
Vanguard — +100% damage to enemies carrying no debuff, and Sunders them for the towers behind it.
Trophy Reliquary — banks a trophy per kill, +10 per boss. Milestones rank it 0→5, each tier wider and hitting more targets.
Caltrops — 5 banked charges, the deepest bank in the game. Eats a whole clump at once.
Proximity Mine — one massive burst, single charge, very slow re-arm.
Flame Jet — fire pulse across its tile and the adjacent ring, leaving a burn that keeps ticking.
Static Field — arcs a zap to every enemy on or beside the tile, no charges, steady rhythm.
Tar Pit — zero damage. Anything crossing drops to a crawl, stretching the kill window for everything nearby.
Bramble Snare — seizes every enemy on the tile at once and holds them fast.
Bloodletter Rune — honest contact damage, and anything dying on the glyph refunds gold.
Corrosion Pool — eats armor. Tiny damage, but everything crossing takes more from every other source.
Frost Plate — chips damage and chills everything standing on it.
Lv 15 transformations for the new roster — Siege Ballista → Fortress Breaker, Frost Lattice → Absolute Zero, Ember Sprayer → Pyroclasm, Hive Nexus → Swarm Queen. Same deal as always: expensive, ~60% odds, and a failure drops the tower to Lv 4.
Easy — 80% enemy HP, +15% gold, 30 life, 60 walls.
Normal — the run you already know. 20 life, 40 walls.
Hard — 130% enemy HP, -10% gold, 15 life, and only 20 walls. Every block has to earn its tile.
The scripted first-run overlay is gone. In its place: 25 quests across 6 chapters that unlock inside real runs, at the wave where each mechanic actually becomes reachable — placement and walls, then attributes, targeting modes and the damage meter, then elites, pods, charge banks and plate filters, then veterancy perks, evolution and the Challenger. Progress is per-player, not per-run, so a mechanic is taught once and never again.
Every enemy, elite modifier, and passive you face is recorded permanently across all runs. The title-screen codex only shows what you've actually met — no spoilers, and no forgetting what that purple outline meant.
Native Linux build, shipping as its own depot alongside Windows. Verified against SteamOS.
Faux-3D tower bodies across the whole roster — towers read as objects on the board now, not stamps.
Rebuilt trap frames, attribute plinths, cooldown badges, and veterancy pips on shared chrome, so every entity speaks the same visual language.
New portrait art for 58 towers, traps and enemies; redrawn element badges and UI icons.
Details sidebar rebuilt from the ground up.
Dedicated Challenger boss rendering for the every-15-waves encounter.
Range and target counts tightened across the board — Flak Battery 3/3 → 2/2, Tesla Coil 4 → 3 targets, Ember Sprayer 3 → 2, Siege Ballista and Cinder Mortar range 4 → 3.
Auras pulled in: Void Gate 4 → 3, Holy Spire and Mana Resonator 2 → 1, Wellspring Banner 3 → 2.
Cooldowns raised on the fast tickers: Ember Sprayer 350 → 500ms, Prism Beam 220 → 300ms, Frost Lattice 900 → 1200ms, Hive Nexus 700 → 900ms.
Evolved towers now anchor their range to the base tower's Lv 15 reach and their cooldown to its Lv 15 cadence.
Void Gate anti-heal 99% → 50%, with a new Deepen perk restoring it to 70%.
New veterancy perks: aura reach and void deepen, plus a Roll Perk prompt.
Gravity Well no longer pins every enemy on its tile — pool occupancy respects its target cap.
Steam Deck / Linux support
Loadout Draft — randomized roster each run
19 new towers, 9 new traps, 4 new evolutions
New Special tower category
Difficulty modes: Easy / Normal / Hard
Tutorial redesigned into a 25-quest, 6-chapter questline
Codex — persistent enemy, elite and passive discovery
Faux-3D tower bodies and full renderer restyle
58 new entity portraits, new UI icon set
Rebuilt details sidebar
Range / target / cooldown balance pass across all 56 entities
No two runs build alike anymore. — ArcadeDeck