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- Store status
- Coming soon
- Scheduled release
- 16 November 2026
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- Release date
- 16 November 2026
Steam release scheduled · App 5174790
Don't Panic, Defend!
- Single-player
- Steam Achievements
- Steam Cloud
- Family Sharing
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Release date16 November 2026Scheduled by Steam
Store statusComing soonSteam store listing
Steam rating—0 reviews
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Game information
Details supplied by the Steam store
- App ID
- 5174790
- App type
- Game
- Developer
- Ryan4237 ↗
- Publisher
- Ryan4237 ↗
- Supported systems
- Windows
- Genres
- Casual, Indie, Strategy
- Release date
- 16 November 2026
- Last player update
- Awaiting first sample
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System requirements
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Windows
Minimum
- Requirement
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS
- Windows 10 64-bit
- Processor
- Intel Core i3-6100 / AMD FX-6300
- Memory
- 4096 MB RAM
- Graphics
- DirectX 11 compatible GPU with 1 GB VRAM (Intel HD Graphics 530 or better)
- DirectX
- Version 11
- Storage
- 1024 MB available space
- Sound Card
- DirectX compatible sound card
Recommended
- Requirement
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS
- Windows 11 64-bit
- Processor
- Intel Core i5-8400 / AMD Ryzen 5 2600
- Memory
- 8192 MB RAM
- Graphics
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 / AMD Radeon RX 560 or better
- DirectX
- Version 11
- Storage
- 2048 MB available space
- Sound Card
- DirectX compatible sound card
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About this game
Description
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Enemies keep coming and your soldiers fight on their own. You don't tell anyone where to go. You buy troops, spend gold and decide who is in your army.
Humans, Undead, Orcs, Abyss and Dawnstar: five races, each with its own troops. Bring up to two races into a battle. The more unit types you field from one race, the stronger its synergy. Every extra copy of a unit costs more: grow the army now, or save gold for the next wave? Before each stage, spin the Wheel of Fate: pick one of three boons, and every boon comes with a catch.
Click a region on the world map and your lord walks there. Each region starts with a camp, then a stage down each of three roads, then the Boss. Stages send minions first, then an elite. Your first clear drops a hammer: click it for a Talent Point.
A Boss fight is 20 waves at the castle gate: The Headsman, Bone Dragon King, Orc Warchief, Abyss Warden, Archangel of Judgment and Lord of the Mist. Lost a stage? The enemy who beat you remembers. Come back and it returns with a title.
Lose and you only drop the gold you carry. Gear, the star map and your talents all stay, so the next run goes further. Light up the star map with XP for bonuses that last forever. Talents also unlock the spellbook: turn enemies into sheep, or call in a crowd of goblins that drop gold.
An idle castle defense game. No fast fingers needed.
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Patches
5 tracked updates
Small Update: Easier-to-Spot Cursor, Easier Coin Pickup
Hi Commanders! This small demo update tweaks two things about how the game feels to play: New gold mouse cursor: a bigger gold arrow with a thick outline and a soft shadow, so it's easy to spot over sand, grass and the night battlefield. The cursor scales with your resolution: 32 px at 720p and below, 48 px at 1080p, 64 px above that. 1.5× coin pickup range: the pickup radius when you sweep the mouse over coins goes from 70 to 105, so you no longer have to chase coins down one by one. Thanks for all the feedback, and keep it coming in the discussions!
Read full update on Steam ↗Demo update: HD battle visuals
This update redraws the Demo's battle visuals from top to bottom. The art style is the same, but every unit, boss, battlefield and effect is now much sharper. No gameplay numbers have changed. Units and bosses All Human and Undead units, and every enemy you meet in waves 1–40, are now in HD at twice the previous resolution. They stay crisp when scaled up, with no more jagged edges. The Headsman and the Bone Dragon King have been redrawn and now have a front-facing walk. Soldiers no longer shuffle along in tiny steps. Their stride now matches how fast they are actually moving, including at 2× speed, and units in a crowd no longer twitch between walking and standing. Battlefields The ground in both chapters has been redrawn with clearer detail. Torches, will-o'-wisps and fireflies now surround the battlefield: the torches flicker, and the wisps and fireflies drift gently. Cleaner combat...
Read full update on Steam ↗Demo update: 8 new languages
The Demo now supports 11 interface languages. This update also fixes a few issues found since the last one. New languages German, French, Spanish (Spain), Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Japanese, Korean and Italian. On first launch the game follows your system language. You can switch at any time under Settings → Language, from the main menu or the pause menu. Every screen has been laid out again for the new languages: longer text now shrinks slightly or wraps instead of spilling out of its frame. If a translation reads oddly, please let us know in the discussions. Fixes Clicking a recruit card with the mouse did nothing (the number keys still worked). The card that appears every 5 waves always showed "Affordable nodes: 7". It now counts from your XP after cashing out. After clearing wave 40, choosing Main Menu on the "Demo Complete!" screen now banks the run's XP, streak pot included,...
Read full update on Steam ↗Demo update: kill streak pot, checkpoints, a nemesis and Steam rankings
This update gives the Demo a "push your luck" short-term goal, plus a Steam leaderboard. Kill streak pot Chaining kills builds a streak, shown at the top of the screen. The higher your streak within a wave, the more XP goes into the pot when the wave ends. The pot isn't yours yet. Every 5 waves a checkpoint appears: cash out to bank the whole pot and head to the Star Map, or keep defending and push your luck. If the castle falls, only half the pot survives. At the end of each wave, XP now flies to the counter in the top-right as gems, so you can see it land. Nemesis The enemy that breaks through your gate gets a name and a crown. Next run it comes back on the same wave with 4x health, carrying a bounty: the XP you were short last run, plus the gold you never spent. Kill it and the bounty is yours on the spot. Steam rankings New "Best Wave" leaderboard. The defeat screen shows your rec...
Read full update on Steam ↗Demo update: Traditional Chinese
The demo now supports Traditional Chinese. Added Traditional Chinese (Taiwan wording). Switch it in Settings → Language: 简体中文 / 繁體中文 / English. If your system language is Traditional Chinese and you haven't picked a language yet, the game now starts in Traditional Chinese. If you already picked one, nothing changes. The first time you prestige, a short comic plays. Press any key or click to skip it. Thanks for playing! If any Traditional Chinese wording reads oddly, tell us on Discord or in the forums.
Read full update on Steam ↗
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Release scheduled on Steam
Steam currently lists 16 Nov 2026 as the release date.
- SteamPatch
Small Update: Easier-to-Spot Cursor, Easier Coin Pickup ↗
Hi Commanders! This small demo update tweaks two things about how the game feels to play: New gold mouse cursor: a bigger gold arrow with a thick outline and a soft shadow, so it's easy to spot over sand, grass and th…
- SteamPatch
Demo update: HD battle visuals ↗
This update redraws the Demo's battle visuals from top to bottom. The art style is the same, but every unit, boss, battlefield and effect is now much sharper. No gameplay numbers have changed. Units and bosses All Hum…
- SteamPatch
Demo update: 8 new languages ↗
The Demo now supports 11 interface languages. This update also fixes a few issues found since the last one. New languages German, French, Spanish (Spain), Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Japanese, Korean and Italian. On…
- SteamPatch
Demo update: kill streak pot, checkpoints, a nemesis and Steam rankings ↗
This update gives the Demo a "push your luck" short-term goal, plus a Steam leaderboard. Kill streak pot Chaining kills builds a streak, shown at the top of the screen. The higher your streak within a wave, the more X…
- SteamPatch
Demo update: Traditional Chinese ↗
The demo now supports Traditional Chinese. Added Traditional Chinese (Taiwan wording). Switch it in Settings → Language: 简体中文 / 繁體中文 / English. If your system language is Traditional Chinese and you haven't picked a l…