- Balancing Update - 17 August 2026
Greetings! Following the release of our latest major update Harvest & Mine, we bring you a patch with some new features, balance changes and fixes!🌲 A More Balanced WorldScouring the lands for resources to no avail? We've got your back! Stone and Iron deposits are more common while Forests are now slightly less abundant, opening up additional strategic options in the early game.🏗️ Economy ImprovementsResource buildings now benefit more consistently from global production buffs. These bonuses now apply to the total production of a building, including adjacent resource spots, making economy-focused strategies more rewarding.We've also continued refining the game's overall economy to create a smoother progression from the early game into the late game.⚔️ Smarter BattlesEnemy encounters have received some major balance changes. Late-game waves have been reworked, new ones have been added,…
- Major Demo Update: Harvest & Mine - 20 July 2026
Here is what awaits you in this Massive Update!New Resource SystemWe've completely reworked the game economy and replaced gold with 4 new resources: Wood, Food, Iron, and Stone. Find forests and ore deposits on the islands, then build Sawmills, Quarries, Mines, and Windmills to build up your economy! New Tower: EyodinAn idol to the Allfather. This new tower marks enemies with a cold stare, making them much more vulnerable to your attacks. New Damage SystemAdding more depth to the combat! Units don't just have Health anymore; they now have Armor and Ward. Counter them strategically by piercing or shredding through their defenses. The whole dev team is super excited about this update, and we hope you are too! So what are you waiting for? Go update the Dawn of Defense Demo on Steam right now and defeat the Imperium Aeternum like you never have before!
- 0.17.3b - Balancing Update - 17 June 2026
Greetings to our Tribe!We know it's been a bit quiet for some time, and we apologize to everyone who was waiting for news, but we can only tell you that our team has been cooking up the upcoming and feature rich Harvest & Mine Update and we have a bunch of cool new features in the making we will share with you throughout the upcoming weeks. In the meantime we wanted to push out this balancing patch that takes care of a bunch of annoying bugs, overhauls the balancing and adds 2 new tower upgrades. If you are suffering from Dawn of Defense deprivation, you can bridge the time to the Harvest & Mine Update with this new patch. Want to know what changed?Enemy BridgesDestroying Imperial Bridges and bamboozling the Empire? No more!Charged ShotWhat if every 4th shot of your Boltskot dealt +350% Attack Damage? You should go and find out!SkullbrakkrHeight Layers are cool and all, but what if your…
- Major Demo Update: New Heights - 16 April 2026
Today we are announcing our first Major Demo Update: New Heights As the first of 4 planned major updates to our demo, this one introduces terrain height & island size as new strategical elements:Place your towers on elevations to buff their range and other stats.Islands have building capacities! Expand to new islands or pick the right runestones to increase the number of build plots you can fill with buildings and towers.Discover new status effects through tower upgrades, like flaming bolts that cause damage over time.Here are the highlights:Height layers: Strategic spots for your towers, potential obstacles for your economy buildings. Plan carefully to profit off of powerful buffs!New buffs & status effects: Burn & Stun enemies, and add Regeneration to your Hero & the Spiridun itself! New Runestones and Tower Upgrades: Slowly but surely replacing some of those placeholder upgrades with…
- Graphics Settings Update - 11 March 2026
We listened to your feedback and made a speedy graphics settings update our top priority!This should hopefully save your PCs from burning up and your graphics cards from starting the jet engines. We also included hero respawn timer UI as well as new sounds for hero death and respawn to have you not miss Hogvald's revival again!Full Patch Notes Version 0.16.0New Features:Add Graphics Settings to the game:Settings for Vsync, framerate limit, full screen mode & upscalingSettings for graphics quality (like shadows, anti aliasing, ambient occlusion etc),Add a timer and sounds that indicate when your hero will respawnAdd new map seedsAdd the current map seed to the top-left corner so you can share it on your game screenshots
- Dawn of Defense Demo OUT NOW! - 9 March 2026
We're really excited to finally, finally announce the release of the Dawn of Defense Steam Demo today! We've been working towards this for a while now, and can't wait for you to try out all the new features. Here's a short feature trailer for a neat overview of what's new, check it out: FeaturesTower Defense × RTS × Roguelite: Command your tribe’s last defense against the Imperium AeternumDefend and Strike Back: Hold the line against waves of enemies, then launch RTS sieges to reclaim lost landsExplore Procedural Maps: Adapt your strategy to new terrains and biomes every runUpgrade your Towers: Harness the power of ancient runestones to upgrade & customize each towerCapture Powerful Shrines: Claim runestones to upgrade your buildings and troops and unlock powerful buffsLead Your Troops: Summon a powerful hero to aid you in battleBuild Your Foothold: Raise towers and build an economy to…
- Playtest Is Live! - EDIT: It's Over Now, Demo Soon! - 30 January 2026
Exciting news - our first playtest is live until Sunday the 22th! This is a chance for you to try out new features before everyone else. Please note: this is a very EARLY look. Things are not polished yet and will be improved as we go. Get Early Access to the PlaytestWith so many people signing up (thank you so much!), we’ll be giving access to the playtest in waves. If you want to be part of the first wave of playtesters, join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fJQawNCyyr We’ll have a Discord bot that lets community members claim playtest keys. On our Discord, you can also chat with us devs and learn about new features before everyone else. Upgrades, Runestones, and MoreHere are some of the things you can try out in the playtest:Runestones: Unlock new units, perks, and buildings with every wave you defeatTower Upgrades: Level up your towers in unique and strategic waysMap Generation: Adap…
- Thank you for coming by at Gamescom! - 29 August 2025
We just wanted to say a quick thanks to everyone who came by our booth at Gamescom! It was lovely meeting many of you in person and check out the new version of Dawn of Defense.For those who weren't there, we'll announce a date for our playtest and demo soon đź‘€! You can already sign up for it on our Steam page. Tower Defense Games of our FriendsWe also met some other lovely indie devs at Gamescom, who are also working on Tower Defense games. If you like our game, there is a good chance you might like theirs, too! Check them out: Follow us on TikTok & YoutubeAnd lastly, If you want to be the first to get updates about the game and see behind-the-scenes stuff, come follow us on: TikTok and Youtube!
- Nominated for Ubisoft Newcomer Award 2024 - 24 October 2024
Dawn of Defense is one of the three Nominees for this year's Ubisoft Newcomer Award! We are very excited about the nomination and looking forward to attend the "Deutscher Entwickler Preis" event on the 3rd of December. Thanks to everybody who played our demo, gave feedback, or wishlisted the game! You are awesome!
- itch.io Demo Update - 3 October 2024
We’re rolling out the first update to our Dawn of Defense demo on Itch.io! This update includes improvements such as visual and sound indicators for enemy invasions, reworked enemy paths, and tooltips for various game elements. Check it out: Dawn of Defense Demo We've also revamped the start screen tutorial and made adjustments to the main menu and game visuals. Check the detailed changelog below for all the changes! Changelog: Add visual and sound indicators for enemy invasions Rework enemy paths visualisation, add moving highlights, fix paths breaking up and not connecting to the player base Add tooltips for the top menu bar, units, tavern and towers stats, demolish button Rework and add videos to the start screen tutorial Added visual feedback for whenever a player base is getting hit or when it gets destroyed Change the main menu, game logo and game icon Change enemy fortress descri…
- itch.io Demo Release - 4 September 2024
Check out our first demo on itch.io: Play Now Dawn of Defense is not quite ready for a Steam demo yet, but we want to gather early feedback and share our progress. We hope you have fun playing and let us know what you think!
- Our First Gamescom as Indie-Devs - 28 August 2024
It was a really cool experience to see people playing our game, and a big 'thank you' to everyone who stopped by our booth!
- Thank You for 5.000 Wishlists - 26 August 2024
Since we started taking Dawn of Defense to the public we have seen ever growing support for our game. Now we are already sitting at 5.000 wishlists. Your support keeps us going! Thank you!
- We Passed 1.000 Wishlists - 12 August 2024
10 days after releasing the annoucement trailer for 'Dawn of Defense', you already gave us over 1.000 wishlists! We still have a long way to go, but we are very grateful and it gave us a huge motivational boost! Thanks y'all for your support!
- First Trailer! - 1 August 2024
Trailer Hey everyone! We’ve got some exciting news – the very first trailer for Dawn of Defense is out on our Steam page! In these last few months we have been working hard on developing the game. We’ve made some huge progress, adding new cool towers and units, adding more gameplay systems, balancing and just overall working on our current game demo and making it better and more awesome. And guess what? We’re not done yet! We’re hard at work on even more features and working on a full game demo that we eventually can also publish for everyone to try out. A massive thank you to all of you for your interest and support. It means the world to us. If you want to stay updated on all things Dawn of Defense, join our Discord server. We’d love to see you there!
