Early Access
Blockade Brigade — Founder Edition
Shape the land. Hold the line.
Blockade Brigade is a 3D tower defense game on a world you can reshape. Bulldoze hills, fill water, raise platforms and build 22 towers higher for more damage. Research upgrades, pick reward cards every wave, and survive 20+ enemy types, giant bosses and an endless, ever-growing road.
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Founder Edition
- Play every test build now, while the game is in development
- Founders get a free Steam key for the full game when it launches on Steam.
- Your scores on the leaderboards from day one
- Help shape the game: every update is listed in What's New
- Full release price: $14.99
The battlefield is yours to shape.
Every map is built from blocks, and you can change all of them. Dig hills down for terrain points, fill water, level slopes and pave the ground. Then stack towers on hills and platforms: every level of height adds damage and range.
22 towers, each with a job.
Start with Cannons, Snipers and Helicopters. Unlock Tesla coils that chain lightning, Cold Snaps that freeze the road, Acid towers, Cluster Mortars, Missile Silos, Railguns, Lasers, Saw Blades, Portals that throw enemies back, Gravity Wells, Drone Hives, Magnet Foundries and a full Airport that launches planes. Power Plants keep them running, Miners dig gold out of the hills, and Support Stations and Repair Drones keep the line standing.
Cannon
Tesla coil
Railgun
Portal
Gravity Well
Airport
Every tower grows.
Towers earn XP and level up to 10. Research unlocks new towers and upgrades between games. After each wave, pick a reward card: tower upgrades in six rarities, gold, rerolls and more. Max a stat and Endless cards keep it climbing.
The enemy doesn't play fair.
Tin Troopers and Raptors rush the road. Spiders swarm. Heavy Knights march in plate armour that breaks off as you hit it. Domeguards raise shields over their escorts. UFOs drop Blobs that hatch Aliens, and Paratroopers fall from Blimps. Then the bosses arrive: the Blimp Boss, the Mech Boss and the Giant Worm. Kill them and they come apart: limbs fly, armour plates drop, and the ground gets splattered.
Heavy Knight
Blimp Boss
Mech Boss
Giant Worm
Clanker is watching.
Your robot sidekick comments on every win and every disaster, with a switch to turn the bad language off.
Play your way.
Endless mode, where the road grows and forks as the waves climb. Scenarios: Grand Canyon, Islands and Spiral. Challenges: Cannon Challenge. Custom maps: every map gets a code, so you can share it and race your friends on the same board.
Prove it.
Website leaderboards for every mode and map, full replays of your games, and a battle report after every wave.
Features
- Reshape the battlefield: dig, fill, level, pave, and build on hills and platforms for bonus damage
- 22 towers, from Cannons to Tesla coils, Railguns, Portals, Gravity Wells and a full Airport
- 20+ enemy types and 3 giant bosses, with armour that breaks off and enemies that come apart
- Towers level up to 10, with a research tree and end-of-wave reward cards in six rarities
- Endless mode with an ever-growing, forking road, plus scenarios and challenges
- Share any map with a code and compete on online leaderboards
- Watch replays and battle reports of every game
- Clanker, your sarcastic robot sidekick, with voice lines (and a clean-language switch)
Quick facts
| Genre | 3D tower defense / strategy |
|---|---|
| Platform | Windows (Steam at launch) |
| Players | Single player, with online leaderboards |
| Status | Early Access (Founder Edition) |
| Content | 22 towers, 24 enemy types (3 bosses), 3 scenario maps, Cannon Challenge, endless mode, custom maps |
| Price | $9.99 Founder, $14.99 at full release |
| System requirements | Windows 10/11 64-bit (see System requirements below) |
System requirements
Minimum
- OS
- Windows 10 64-bit (version 1903 or later)
- Processor
- Quad-core 2.5 GHz (Intel Core i5-4460 / AMD Ryzen 3 1200)
- Memory
- 4 GB RAM
- Graphics
- Vulkan- or DirectX 12-capable GPU with 1 GB VRAM (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti / AMD Radeon R7 260X / Intel HD Graphics 620), up-to-date drivers
- Storage
- 500 MB available space
- Display
- 1280×720 or higher
- Input
- Mouse required
Recommended
- OS
- Windows 10/11 64-bit
- Processor
- Intel Core i5-8400 / AMD Ryzen 5 2600 or better
- Memory
- 8 GB RAM
- Graphics
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 / AMD Radeon RX 580 (3 GB+ VRAM)
- Storage
- 500 MB available space (SSD recommended)
- Display
- 1920×1080
Internet: needed to sign in and check your game key (the game then plays offline for up to 7 days); leaderboards and map codes need a connection.