Hardlight

About this game

Tower Defense in the Dark - Illuminate Enemies to Defeat Them

Defend against dark forces created by an experiment gone catastrophically wrong. Mysterious enemies are determined to extinguish all light across the universe. You must thwart their efforts and maintain control of intergalactic outposts. Use illumination from towers with unique capabilities to vanquish advancing waves of enemies. As invaders increase in count and capability, you'll need all your cunning and expertise to survive. Are you ready to extinguish the dark forces - before they extinguish the precious light?

Illuminate The World

Use diverse tools to illuminate the ground, allowing your towers to find and destroy advancing enemies. Selecting carefully where to light up the world you’re defending can mean the difference between existence and annihilation.

Fight Mysterious Enemies

Enemies are of uncertain origin but are focused on extinguishing the precious light. Many different enemy types with various abilities test your strategy and defenses.

Build Powerful Towers

Ten distinctive towers with multiple levels of upgrades, allow for diverse strategic approaches to taking enemies down. Use illumination towers to light the map so your damage towers can detect and destroy the enemies. Tailor your defense to suit your style of gaming and play your way.

Control The Wisp

Use the Weaponized Intelligent Support Platform (W.I.S.P.), an advanced modular drone, to augment your defenses with an arsenal of powerful abilities. The W.I.S.P. can help double-down the hurt delivered to invaders or turn the tide of a battle that has taken a bad turn.

Customize Defenses With Abilities and Skills

Play the way you want. Spend your resources to upgrade and modify towers using the large skill tree to fit the style you prefer. Develop ten Wisp abilities as you progress. We provide the toolset - not the solution

Dramatic Style & Original Music Score

Immerse yourself in a stark, strange world set in the far distant future where mankind no longer exists as we know it and man and machine are one. An all-original music score bolsters game play as battle intensity increases.

Latest news

• Patch Notes·22 Aug 2024Official

  Patch Notes: Build 2024.8.21

  This update adds a new interactive TUTORIAL to guide you through the game mechanics to better prepare you for the challenges ahead! The TUTORIAL will go over: Hardlight tower defense basics In-Game UI and the various functions Movement and camera controls Building ILLUMINATION and DAMAGE towers Basic tower actions The W.I.S.P. and its functions and abilities {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44028605/cfbc150eae0b62ade07a64598d4587e8068a54ab.png
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• Patch Notes·9 Aug 2024Official

  Patch Notes: Build 2024.8.8

  This small patch focuses on enemy balance with wave progression and fixes a small issue with projectiles. ENHANCEMENTS - Enhance enemy balance and scale for wave progression. FIXES - Fix issue with projectiles occasionally moving towards the wrong target.
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• Community & Events·30 Jul 2024Official

  Tower Defense Fest Stream

  Holy moly we're excited to share our game with everyone during the Tower Defense fest! This version includes updates to the balance and difficulty settings, adds a level to 2 towers and includes various enhancements and fixes. Please remember to Wishlist us and join us on Discord where you can share your feedback, chat with the developers, and stay on top of the latest news. Website:http://sonderian.com Discord:https://discord.gg/r5D6pvuYW9 YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@Sonderian Twitter:https://twitter.com/SonderianGames Bluesky:https://bsky.app/profile/sonderian.bsky.social
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• Patch Notes·30 Jul 2024Official

  Patch Notes: Build 2024.7.29

  This patch includes updates to the balance and difficulty settings, adds a level to 2 towers and includes various enhancements and fixes. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44028605/e9fe37f6dcf53e245543b864baf7bb3fa499dbad.png ENHANCEMENTS - Updated and enhanced balance for all enemies and scale of stats such as health and worth. - Added a 4th level to the Rotospark and Novabolt towers. FIXES - Fixed ballistic projectiles occasionally traveling to the wrong target location. - Fixed CORE attack VFX on Kalleto 4.
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• Patch Notes·24 Jul 2024Official

  Patch Notes: Build 2024.7.24

  This patch brings a few big changes to the WISP, adding two new actions: SCOUT and SENTRY. These will put the WISP into an automated mode to assist in illuminating enemies or defending the base! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44028605/63d25270797b0d04a5e56600ef4ce7df003774da.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44028605/8b0b71b7a6c8669bf3fbc38888f4ffd1cc41d0a4.png The WISP will actively seek out enemies on the map and track them, illuminating the path they are on until they are destroyed or complete an attack on the base. Targeting Priority: STRONG {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44028605/f627a990aad9d502821426a0b107e88b479b369c.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44028605/025d0bfd31d938db4d832377822e69a0744af241.png The WISP will move to the base and hover above it, attacking any enemies that enter the area surrounding it. Targeting Priority: WEAK {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44028605/692fe33e7867ffa8ec2508d627abe9f755326fe9.png In a future update, the targeting priority for both SCOUT and SENTRY will be configurable. In addition, we have added indicators to show the position of the WISP and enemy portals when they are off-screen. For the portals, the indicator will change if they are open or closed. ENHANCEMENTS - Add SCOUT and SENTRY modes to the WISP - Added offscreen indicators to the UI for the WISP and enemy portals (open and closed status will determine the image displayed).
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