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About game
Warning, direct connection established. You take on the role of the advanced hardware firewall. Your primary directive is to protect the internal network and the CPU Core from endless external hacker attacks!
Tower defense: CYBER CORE is a Tower Defense strategy game in a neon setting with a deep economy.
Features:
⚡ Unique logistics: build Energy Cells for power and connect them to RAM Clusters to produce data packets (ammo). Mine Bytes at resource nodes and defend your ROM storage!
🛡️ Smart defense: deploy Firewalls, AV-Scanners, Proxy-Shields, and SSH-Terminals. Your towers gain experience and upgrade automatically right in the heat of battle.
👾 Malicious software: fight off Spam-bots, factory-breaking Trojans, and byte-stealing Phishing. Destroy massive bosses like Ransomware and the deadly Chernobyl CIH.
💥 Dynamic gameplay: use tactical patches (healing, freeze, logic bombs) and be ready for sudden security breaches!
Can you hold the line?
V1.2 - fixed bugs, rebalanced game
How to play
Your goal is to protect the CPU Core from endless waves of viruses.
CONTROLS:
• Camera: WASD, Arrow keys, or Left-Click and drag to pan the map. Mouse wheel to zoom in/out.
• Game Speed: Press 1, 2, 3. Spacebar — quick reset to x1.
• Building: Click a card (it costs "bytes"), then click an empty tile on the grid.
MECHANICS:
• Supply Chain (Important!): Turrets won't fire without ammo. Build an Energy Cell, then a RAM Cluster, and a turret. Connect them: hold click on one building and drag a line to another.
• Economy: Place Energy Cells on byte deposits (blue cells with a "B") for passive income. Expand your maximum byte storage by building ROMs.
• Anomalies: Green zones heal enemies, red zones damage them, purple zones boost tower damage, and yellow zones increase virus HP.
• Bonuses: Freeze and bomb patches dropped by enemies activate on click. Drag the green healing patch onto damaged buildings to repair them.
Watch your back for sudden hacker attacks!