Defend the Rook
Defend the Rook is a roguelike tactics board combat combined with tower defense elements. Defeat the invading hoards to stay alive and save the land! Enjoy more tactics than a normal TD game, combined with the…
Defend the Rook is an indie developed by One Up Plus Entertainment, released 26 October 2021 on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
What Defend the Rook is
Defend the Rook is an indie game developed by One Up Plus Entertainment and released in 2021. It was published by Goblinz Publishing. It is available on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Defend the Rook is a roguelike tactics board combat combined with tower defense elements. Defeat the invading hoards to stay alive and save the land! Enjoy more tactics than a normal TD game, combined with the added challenge of building towers and fighting off waves of enemies!
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Defend the Rook launched on 26 October 2021, within three weeks of Age of Empires IV, Forza Horizon 5, Unpacking and Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Age of Empires IV, Forza Horizon 5, Unpacking, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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