How to play

• The chest is your life. You start each stage with 100 gold. An adventurer who reaches the chest steals 10 — thieves and bosses take far more. At 0 gold you lose the stage.
• Kills pay silver. Silver is the build currency. Spend it on new monsters and on levelling the ones you have.
• Pads are the glowing rings beside the road. Click one to pick a monster; click a placed monster to level or sell it.
• Armour blunts arrows and blades far more than fire, frost or venom. Knights and paladins want a dragon, not more archers.
• Nothing can hurt your monsters. Adventurers only ever run for the hoard — but rangers and barbarians run fast, and mages shrug off a quarter of everything you throw at them.
• Call the wave early for bonus silver if you are confident.
• Sound is synthesized live by the game — there are no audio files. Press M to mute, or set the volumes on the stage screen.
• Difficulty raises adventurer health a lot and their speed a little — speed is the crueller dial, since it cuts the time they spend inside every range ring at once. Harder tiers pay more silver and far more experience.