The demo for fishTDX is now live as part of Steam's Endless Replayability Fest! 🥳🥳


Unlike other demos, fishTDX offers a full game experience with an expansive collection of items to discover and interact with! It's fully features with a unique soundtrack by st3d[open.spotify.com], hundreds of pieces of art by me, and tons of synergies for you to discover!


As promised, there are over 70 towers in fishTDX. As you play, you'll unlock packs in which you can experiment with different synergies, tower combinations, and strategies. Not only are there tons of towers, but there are many affixes to level up your towers and provide additional strategic depth.


And speaking of strategic depth, there are 10 different plot types (the little coloured islands) each with their own unique multipliers, and decorations that add an entirely new layer of strategy as you decide where you should place your strongest tower to make the most of it, or perhaps your weakest tower to enhance it...

I'd love to hear what you think!

We'd love to have you in the official progress games discord![discord.gg]

And please fill out this feedback form![docs.google.com]

Happy fishing! 🎣

go play it right now and let me know what you think! i have been working very hard on this and i hope you like it :)

the goal of this demo is to do bugfixing and balacing. fishTDX is enlisted in the June Next Fest, as I'm sure many of you know is one of the best opportunities for little devs like me to have many new eyes on their game.

However, any bugs or issues with that demo, and your reputation is permanently tainted! To ensure the game is tested and ready to go, plus give you guys an opportunity to see how it's coming along, this demo will be out until the end of April!

click here to fill out the feedback form - this is incredibly valuable to me!![forms.gle]

click here to join the discord![discord.gg]


8 enemy types
35 towers
10 affixes
4 plot types
17 artifacts
20 waves

collection
this will be where you see important information about the different fish, the synergies between effect types, and pretty much everything else
metaprogression
i will be discarding the unlock system from the previous demo in favour of an achievement-based unlock system that isn't quite finished yet
saving
although the system was previously complete, due to big changes since the last demo it is no longer stable and not a necessity as runs are pretty short anyway
content
way more towers, affixes, difficulties, effects, plots, fish, artifacts, elites...

...and probably a bunch of QoL features

if there's anything it doesn't have and you think it should, let me know! some of these will be added as time goes on, so please keep an eye out for updates over the next month or so.

in lieu of the collections, here's some important information that will be covered there. this information will be displayed to the player as you encounter it so there's no information overload.

synergies
brittle, made with explosive and bleeding : takes extra explosive damage
infection, made with poison and bleeding : extra strong bleeding effect
zap, made with lightning and energise: shoots a ring of lightning frequently
confused, made with slow and energise: moves backwards briefly

fish
barramundi: regular ol' fish
dolphin: jumps in and out of the water
angler fish: takes bites of nearby fish to grow stronger
whale: lies underwater for ages before coming up
sardine: spawns in schools of fish
eel: temporarily deactivates nearby towers
toadfish: blows up and is temporarily invincible if it takes a lot of damage at once
swordfish: fast

elites
feet: goes over land directly to the exit
stuffed: slow, more hp, spawns sardines on death
malachite: nearby enemies are underwater until this enemy is killed