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Aleksei Grishin · Published by Volcanic Giraffe
Mostly Negative — 36% positive (11 reviews) · 26 achievements
Last updated 27 Sept 2026
Reverse Tower Defense game where you control waves of creatures against towers. Protolife game spin-off.
DJCTQ 10Full Controller Support
£7.49
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Adventure, Indie, Casual · 2023 · More £5 - £15 games
Protolife: Other Side invites you to command waves of creatures against defensive towers in a unique reverse Tower Defense experience. Dive into an indie, casual adventure crafted by Aleksei Grishin.
About this game
Protolife: Other Side - is arcade game which can also be called as "reverse tower defense". You have to lead squads of alien creatures though the ever-growing defense line on miltiple locations. The more creatures you save the easier it will be to reach the main goal: find the interplanet transport and evacuate.
Alien overseer who also acts as backup core decides to evaculate survived creatures from planet. He's scared. Scared not of humans.
Plot
One year passed since Protolife game events. Mankind started colonization of new planet. It was called Planet of Leonov (aka Leo-Nóva). The alien biotechnologies was found on this planet too. But this time the alien core was found and blasted with orbital strike, avoiding heavy ground combat.Alien overseer who also acts as backup core decides to evaculate survived creatures from planet. He's scared. Scared not of humans.
Features
- 5 species of creatures with own abilities
- 4 common abilities
- 6 zones with different level architecture
- partially destructible landscape
- familiar towers and buildings from original Protolife (as enemies this time)
- new towers and buildings
- each level must be beaten several times in order to evacuate as much creatures as possible. Each attempt is harder than the previous one.
- special missions which affect the other levels
Controls
Keyboard, keyboard+mouse or gamepad. You directly control leader's movement, other creature follow the leader. Also you may activate one of the abilities for the whole squad.System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
Minimum:
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: 2.7 GHz
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL 2.0 support, 256 MB VRAM
- Storage: 500 MB available space
Supported Languages
English, Russian, German, Ukrainian, Kazakh
Latest news
AnnouncementsOfficial
Big news in Hexworld!
Hello, brave worm savers.As part of the Volcanic Giraffe team, I'm glad to inform you that the big update to our game Hexworld is out. The game is still EA, but we are moving to release using all speed-up abilities and crushing all rocks on our way. I hope that after Hexworld we'll make something big and beautiful in the Protolife world.As for now - sharpen your swords!Read full article on Community Announcements (alexey.grishin)Patch NotesOfficial
Version 1.1.3
List of changes: Added ability to restart the zone if you stuck "Head Hunter" missions could be started more than once if needed Creatures try to exactly repeat the leader's wayRead full article on Community Announcements (alexey.grishin)Patch NotesOfficial
Version 1.1.2
This version includes Kazakh language supportRead full article on Community Announcements (alexey.grishin)Patch NotesOfficial
Update 1.1.1
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43831538/1ddc32c0831783b8576738456d75467dd96e103a.gif now it is possible to break towers without 'Ram' slimes with 'Fast Reflexes' do not break towers and do not get damaged when touching blue/orange blocks towers that are partially destroyed will be repaired on the next turn behemoths speed is increased and health is decreased added music/sound volume to settings added German and Ukrainian languages TFLM4 tower rebalanced some bugs fixed {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43831538/0261425b25bbec1f7e4d936f4466e20eb5e8b8a6.gifRead full article on Community Announcements (alexey.grishin)Patch NotesOfficial
1.0.2
Small loading time fixesRead full article on Community Announcements (alexey.grishin)
