People seem to hunt around the steam page for games that remind them of something else - an anchor game (something they've played and know they like). It's absolutely definitely not an RTS or a Tower Defense game - for instance, and yet it's kind of more like those than anything else so I'm stuck applying labels to a game where those labels don't really apply. There is no acronym or two word genre that describes the game. See the problem? I bet half of you didn't even finish reading the first paragraph. But here's the catch : you can only get biomass by killing enemies, or by destroying the walls of your own hive - meaning that to launch a successful attack, you have to sacrifice your defenses!

Human enemies come crashing down in the center of the maze and work their way through the labyrinth to destroy your alien nests.Īs the player, you control an alien hive mind, and command up to 4 alien swarms simultaneously to defend these nests, using a resource called biomass which you use to spawn new aliens and to activate 39 deeply interacting perks. In the corners of the maze are 4 alien nests - which you need to protect - and from which you can spawn swarms of highly customizable aliens. And I honestly don't have any idea how to do that.įor some context, the game is called Hive Defender, and it’s a game that takes place in a giant, procedurally generated maze with fully destructible walls so you can carve through the labyrinth to your heart's content. That means I need to quickly convey what the game is about before they people lose interest, and once they've downloaded and start the game, I need to teach them a whole new type of gameplay and control and mechanical systems without them getting bored. TL DR: I made a game that isn't really much like anything else.

Empires of the undergrowth enemy stuck