You were about to eat some food, when a big trail of ants decided that they want a piece too. Time to cobble together some defenses out of whatever you can find in your garbage bin.

Sounds simple? Well, these aren't just regular ants. They have their own methods of attacking you, and you must plan accordingly. Position your towers well and upgrade them to improve their abilities, so you'll stand a chance against the waves of annoying pests.

Gameplay

Each level has a set of rounds. You have Scrap as a currency, which you use to buy your towers (and their upgrades) to protect your snack during each level. If a single ant reaches its goal, you'll have to try again.

The ants' path won't change, but maps have multiple entrances that they can start at.

The Campaign

It's not completely linear. For every level you complete, you get a medal, which you use to unlock the next levels. You might unlock multiple levels at a time, which allows you to choose which one you'll tackle first.

Once you've completed a level, you can come back to it in the future with the towers (and knowledge!) you didn't have before.

Play every level to reach a special boss battle!

Features

  • 63 campaign levels, not including tutorials.
  • 12 challenge levels.
  • 14 towers.
    • 2 upgrade paths per tower.
  • 22 enemy types, not counting the final boss.
  • Handy notes about the towers and ants.
  • 6 different maps.
    • 2 special map variations.
  • Endless mode.
  • Sandbox mode.
  • Custom challenges.

Controls

  • WASD: Move camera.
  • Mouse buttons: Buy and select towers.
  • Mouse wheel: Control camera zoom.
  • Shift: 
    • Hold while moving the camera to move it faster.
    • Hold while purchasing a tower to keep it selected.
  • F: Hide/Show tower store.

Translations

The option menu lets you set the game's language to English or Brazilian Portuguese (PT-BR).

Updated 5 days ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5, Windows, Linux
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
AuthorEkumagair
GenreStrategy
Made withGodot
Tags2D, Casual, Godot, Indie, Pixel Art, Singleplayer, Top-Down, Tower Defense
Average sessionAbout a half-hour
LanguagesEnglish, Portuguese (Brazil)
InputsKeyboard, Mouse

Purchase

Buy Now$4.99 USD or more

In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $4.99 USD. You will get access to the following files:

Ant Control TD (Windows) 134 MB
Ant Control TD (Linux) 130 MB
Ant Control TD (Soundtrack) 746 MB

Download demo

Download
Ant Control TD (Windows Demo) 104 MB
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Ant Control TD (Linux Demo) 101 MB

Development log

Comments

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(+2)

Struggles a fair bit with balance. Been playing for a couple hours or so, and it's still bordering on insultingly easy. You basically have to slightly care about your choices for the first 1-2 waves. Then after that it's a completely free win, basically no matter what you do.

Main issue being that the income buildings scale way too well. So you just end up with 400-500 income/second very fast. With how the towers are priced. That means you just hit the point where you insta-spawn kill for the entire duration of the map. Either by spamming Crossbows or Garbage on the spawns.

Since there is no speed up, and you know you've won like 1 minute into the map. That leads to a lot of "dead time" where you really are just waiting to win.

(+2)

Thanks for playing. After publishing the demo, I've been doing adjustments to the garbage cans to make their price increase steeper.

I'll also see what I can do to make the difficulty ramp-up tougher.