Siege Craft

Overview

Siege Craft flips tower defense around: the towers belong to the enemy and you are the wave. Each of twelve castles guards a winding road with arrow towers and cannons, and a gate with rising hit points waits at the end. Your gold trickles in at four per second, and every tap spends it on troops that march the road on their own. The design lives in the counters. Shields take a quarter damage from arrows, cavalry takes half from cannons and moves fast enough to spoil their aim, archers outrange arrow towers and pick the crews off at sixty-two pixels, and rams soak everything while delivering twenty-six damage a swing to structures. Towers you destroy refund twelve gold, so clean waves fund the next wave. Lose condition is pure and fair: gate standing, road empty, and gold below the cheapest unit. Every castle remixes the road bends, tower count, and gate thickness, so the counter puzzle stays fresh through the twelfth gate.

How to Play

Press Start Game. Arrow Left and Right cycle the picked unit — shield, archer, cavalry, ram — and Space or a tap on the road sends it. The four buttons do the same directly. Troops march automatically along the road; archers and rams divert to attack towers in reach, and everything that survives to the gate starts chopping it. Break the gate to advance. P pauses, R restarts the campaign from castle one.

Tips & Strategy

Scout the tower mix before spending: a road guarded mostly by arrow towers is a shield-and-ram puzzle, while cannon clusters demand cavalry screens. Open each castle with two archers — they outrange arrow towers and their early kills refund gold that snowballs into rams. Never send rams alone; at nineteen speed they eat every tower cycle on the road, so put shields ahead of them to absorb the arrow phase and cavalry beside them for the cannon phase. Stagger your sends by a second or two rather than dumping the bank at once, because cannon splash punishes clumps and staggered arrival keeps tower target-switching inefficient. On the last castles the gate outlives your first wave by design — plan for two pushes, and spend the intermission banking gold to forty-five so the second wave lands as cavalry-plus-ram rather than a sad trickle of archers.

What Makes It Distinct

The attacker's-eye view converts tower defense from placement puzzles into composition puzzles: you are solving for the cheapest wave that survives this exact tower mix. The refund-on-kill economy means good reads pay for themselves, so mastery feels like arithmetic you can see working.