The Fall of Aether Station

About this game

Battle through the stars defending your space station against waves of merciless enemies in this challenging tower defense / real time strategy hybrid. Defend the station at all costs against a ruthless foe that learns from your strategy!


Enemy path updates based on your defense strategy.
Master the pathing to bend your foe to your will, but don't get comfortable!

• Customize each Ship to maximize efficiency!
  
• Leverage the strengths of each turret type to dominate your foe!
  
• Deploy powerfull structures to secure your victory!!

• Move your ships to their optimal location!
  
• Command entire wings of ships at one time!
  
• Level up your units with veterancy skills to fit your playstyle!

• 15 Unique Levels
  
• Challenging system effects to test even the most strategic minds
  
• Modified wave progression for each level

• Upgrade Each ship how you want to use it!
  
• Upgrade the Weapons systems you want to use with powerful capstone upgrades!
  
• Upgrade your station for survivability and income!
  
• Each wave defeated grants a new upgrade point to strengthen your fleet!

Latest news

• Patch Notes·6 Dec 2024Official

  New Enemies and Endless mode!

  Major Changes - 3 New enemy ship types - New Enemy Stations on some levels - New Endless mode Minor Changes - Income skill removed and now medium levels give 2 energy per tick and hard levels give 3 - Small Balance changes to ship damage
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• Patch Notes·6 Sept 2024Official

  1.1.0.6 Hot fix

  - Fixed issue preventing players from progressing through the Tutorial - Altered some early levels difficulty - Buffed Missiles a little bit
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• Patch Notes·5 Sept 2024Official

  1.1.0.5 hot Fix

  Issue where Level 2 would freeze and stop responding. This should be fixed now.
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• Patch Notes·1 Sept 2024Official

  1.1.0.3 Patch

  Fixed Bug where the swarmer text would pop up but nothing would spawn Re-enabled loading feature
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• Patch Notes·29 Aug 2024Official

  Major Update

  You all pointed out a lot of improvements that can be made, so this is phase one of those improvements Energy Changes: I have decided to remove the energy gained by destroying ships. This ended up giving players too much energy to work with and took away any threat of losing ships. It made the lose of a ship meaningless and I want there to be more stress around the loss of an asset. In real combat, the loss of a ship would be significant to any commander. This also allows better story telling through escalation of the fight. Difficulty Changes: The wave progression has been completely redone to be far more achievable at all stages of the game. Each level will have a different wave progression intended to be completable at first pass by highly skilled players on their first go, but most players will struggle after around wave 30. I believe this will reduce the grindy feeling some players are reporting. Other Tweaks: - Removed the ability to purchase ship levels. This just feels tacked on and I don't like it as a feature, - Added Surrender button so you can give up if you don't want to wait for your station to die - Added "Reset All" Button to the upgrade rooms. Future Plans: This is just a first run of the rebalance. I will be monitoring and playtesting it for a couple weeks, and then redoing the upgrades to be more interesting. Thanks for checking out the game and providing feedback!
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