You no longer get the whole toolbox. Every run rolls you a random roster and dares you to make it work.

Each run opens by dealing you a hand — 4 attack towers, 2 auras, 2 specials, 2 traps. That is what you build with. Wall Tower is always free, so path-shaping never depends on the roll.
Clear waves and the field offers reinforcements: one more name from everything you didn't draw, pulled from a pool that shrinks with every pick. The run you get is never the run you planned.

• Siege Ballista — armor-piercing bolt that ignores damage reduction outright. Slow, single-target, ground only.

• Frost Lattice — chills everything in range; every 4th shot flash-freezes.

• Ember Sprayer — player-aimed flame cone. Drag from the tower to set its facing.

• Hive Nexus — seeker drones that dive at the nearest enemy, air or ground, then return.

• Gravity Well — drops a pool that pins up to 2 enemies in place and grinds them under a continuous pull.

• Ricochet Rig — a bolt that bounces between enemies, hitting harder every jump. Rewards tight packs.

A new build category, split out of the tower list — towers that grow off what they've done, not what you paid.

• Grudge Engine — banks a tenure stack every wave it secures a kill in. +6% base damage each, capped at 50, never decays. Punishes selling.

• Culling Scythe — instantly executes anything left below its threshold. Each execute permanently sharpens the blade.

• Echo Vault — banks half of all damage it deals, then discharges the whole reserve as one burst every 10th shot.

• Flywheel Cannon — spins up under sustained fire toward a screaming redline, and coasts back down when the lane goes quiet.

• Repulsor Coil — shoves enemies backward along their own path and leaves them Confused. They re-walk your kill lane.

• Vanguard — +100% damage to enemies carrying no debuff, and Sunders them for the towers behind it.

• Trophy Reliquary — banks a trophy per kill, +10 per boss. Milestones rank it 0→5, each tier wider and hitting more targets.

9 New Traps

• Caltrops — 5 banked charges, the deepest bank in the game. Eats a whole clump at once.

• Proximity Mine — one massive burst, single charge, very slow re-arm.

• Flame Jet — fire pulse across its tile and the adjacent ring, leaving a burn that keeps ticking.

• Static Field — arcs a zap to every enemy on or beside the tile, no charges, steady rhythm.

• Tar Pit — zero damage. Anything crossing drops to a crawl, stretching the kill window for everything nearby.

• Bramble Snare — seizes every enemy on the tile at once and holds them fast.

• Bloodletter Rune — honest contact damage, and anything dying on the glyph refunds gold.

• Corrosion Pool — eats armor. Tiny damage, but everything crossing takes more from every other source.

• Frost Plate — chips damage and chills everything standing on it.

Lv 15 transformations for the new roster — Siege Ballista → Fortress Breaker, Frost Lattice → Absolute Zero, Ember Sprayer → Pyroclasm, Hive Nexus → Swarm Queen. Same deal as always: expensive, ~60% odds, and a failure drops the tower to Lv 4.

• Easy — 80% enemy HP, +15% gold, 30 life, 60 walls.

• Normal — the run you already know. 20 life, 40 walls.

• Hard — 130% enemy HP, -10% gold, 15 life, and only 20 walls. Every block has to earn its tile.

The scripted first-run overlay is gone. In its place: 25 quests across 6 chapters that unlock inside real runs, at the wave where each mechanic actually becomes reachable — placement and walls, then attributes, targeting modes and the damage meter, then elites, pods, charge banks and plate filters, then veterancy perks, evolution and the Challenger. Progress is per-player, not per-run, so a mechanic is taught once and never again.

Every enemy, elite modifier, and passive you face is recorded permanently across all runs. The title-screen codex only shows what you've actually met — no spoilers, and no forgetting what that purple outline meant.

Native Linux build, shipping as its own depot alongside Windows. Verified against SteamOS.

• Faux-3D tower bodies across the whole roster — towers read as objects on the board now, not stamps.

• Rebuilt trap frames, attribute plinths, cooldown badges, and veterancy pips on shared chrome, so every entity speaks the same visual language.

• New portrait art for 58 towers, traps and enemies; redrawn element badges and UI icons.

• Details sidebar rebuilt from the ground up.

• Dedicated Challenger boss rendering for the every-15-waves encounter.

• Range and target counts tightened across the board — Flak Battery 3/3 → 2/2, Tesla Coil 4 → 3 targets, Ember Sprayer 3 → 2, Siege Ballista and Cinder Mortar range 4 → 3.

• Auras pulled in: Void Gate 4 → 3, Holy Spire and Mana Resonator 2 → 1, Wellspring Banner 3 → 2.

• Cooldowns raised on the fast tickers: Ember Sprayer 350 → 500ms, Prism Beam 220 → 300ms, Frost Lattice 900 → 1200ms, Hive Nexus 700 → 900ms.

• Evolved towers now anchor their range to the base tower's Lv 15 reach and their cooldown to its Lv 15 cadence.

• Void Gate anti-heal 99% → 50%, with a new Deepen perk restoring it to 70%.

• New veterancy perks: aura reach and void deepen, plus a Roll Perk prompt.

• Gravity Well no longer pins every enemy on its tile — pool occupancy respects its target cap.

• Steam Deck / Linux support

• Loadout Draft — randomized roster each run

• 19 new towers, 9 new traps, 4 new evolutions

• New Special tower category

• Difficulty modes: Easy / Normal / Hard

• Tutorial redesigned into a 25-quest, 6-chapter questline

• Codex — persistent enemy, elite and passive discovery

• Faux-3D tower bodies and full renderer restyle

• 58 new entity portraits, new UI icon set

• Rebuilt details sidebar

• Range / target / cooldown balance pass across all 56 entities

No two runs build alike anymore.
— ArcadeDeck