Area Survivors

Area Survivors combines top-down survival action with base defence. The player takes the role of a lone knight who must protect a central tower from large hordes of enemies. Defeating enemies earns experience, and each time the player levels up they can choose upgrades for their weapons and skills. Attributes such as attack power, attack range and attack speed can be improved to shape an individual combat style.

A central mechanic is painting the battlefield. Painted ground slows the enemy advance and triggers various effects linked to the areas the player controls. Players must decide where to expand their territory and where to make their stand before enemies close in. Both the knight and the tower need protecting, so enemy movements and player positioning both matter during each battle.

As time passes, enemies become more numerous and more powerful, and each stage ends with a boss encounter. Tokens earned in battle can be spent on a skill tree to permanently unlock and upgrade abilities for the player, buildings and the central tower. These permanent upgrades carry over between repeated attempts.