Thronefall Build by day, defend by night

Each map runs on a simple rhythm. Daylight is for spending: houses and mills that pay out gold every morning, bridges and harbors to grow the income, walls and towers to keep it all standing. Every coin goes somewhere, and every choice is a bet on what tonight's attack will look like. Then the sun sets and the waves come: slimes and wasps at first, later ogres and catapults. The sun only rises when they're dead. If your Castle Center falls, the run is over, so the question is always the same: grow the economy now, or spend it all on defenses and hope the morning comes.

You are not a distant commander here. Your king rides across the map on horseback, rallies troops to follow, and swings a weapon in the thick of it. Nine unlockable weapons change how that feels, from a heavy battleaxe to a Blood Wand, each with its own active ability. On top of that come over fifty perks, of which you pick up to five per run, plus optional mutators that crank the difficulty when the standard waves stop scaring you. Between ten maps with different terrain, weather and enemies, there is a lot of room to invent your own way to win: sit back and let towers work, or charge in as a glass cannon and mop up what's left.