Beholder Defense

BEHOLDER DEFENCE

A beholder-defense roguelite game from A2B4D Games.

// CURRENT BUILD

• Version: 0.1.9
• Status: In development
• Price: Free to play, optional donation supported

// WHAT YOU DO

Start a defense run, protect the beholder, earn gold and souls from enemy waves, draw new skill cards, equip spells, store unused cards, grow your support-eye loadout, and invest souls into the permanent Soul Tree. Each run pushes the beholder deeper into stronger waves and better long-term progression.

// CORE FEATURES

• Endless beholder defense against escalating enemy waves
• Skill card deckbuilding with projectile, area, beam, chain, and burst attacks
• Eight gameplay elements: light, dark, ice, fire, poison, arcane, physical, and lightning
• Support eyes that fire basic attacks and echo matching elemental skills
• Manual fire support with mouse or touch input
• Card storage, equip/apply flow, rarity sorting, and skill detail popups
• Permanent Soul Tree upgrades powered by souls for long-term progression
• Realtime DPS overlay by skill/source and element
• Enemy ship waves with varied shapes, colors, bosses, and scaling pressure
• Responsive browser resolution that adapts to the current viewport
• English and Korean language options
• Sound and music settings

// HOW TO PLAY

1. Main Menu
Select a save slot and start a run. Open Settings to change language, sound, music, resolution behavior, and key settings.

2. Battle
Combat runs automatically. The beholder fires basic attacks while equipped skills cast on cooldown. Use manual fire when you need direct pressure on a target. Watch HP, gold, souls, kills, damage, critical hits, wave timing, and boss pressure.

3. Card Draws
Draw cards during the run to gain new skills, supports, and upgrades. Choose between the offered cards, then equip immediately or store cards for later use.

4. Skill Deck and Storage
Equip skills into your deck and use storage to manage unused cards. Skills are automatically sorted by rarity in the equipped deck, and stored cards can be filtered by type, element, delivery, rarity, or name.

5. Support Eyes
Equip support eyes around the beholder. Support eyes fire their own basic attacks and can echo skills that match their element, adding more pressure as your build grows.

6. Soul Tree
Spend earned souls on permanent upgrades. Improve HP, basic attacks, skill damage, economy, elements, delivery types, tags, and targeting-related bonuses to make future runs stronger.

7. Defeat and Restart
If the beholder falls, the run ends and your persistent soul progress remains in the selected save slot. Use the next run to build a stronger deck and push farther.

// TIPS

• Use early card draws to secure at least one reliable damage skill.
• Mix projectile, area, beam, chain, and burst skills instead of relying on one delivery type.
• Support eyes become stronger when they match the elements in your equipped skill deck.
• Use the DPS overlay to find which skills are actually carrying your run.
• Invest souls into both damage and economy so future runs scale faster.
• Chain lightning targets nearby enemies and bounces through clustered ships.

// CONTROLS

• Mouse / touch: menus and manual fire
• D: draw cards
• U: Soul Tree
• S: storage
• P: DPS overlay
• Q / Esc: close or back

// NOTES

Beholder Defence is still in development. Balance, content, UI, progression, card pools, visual effects, and wave pacing may change over time. Feedback and bug reports are welcome through the official A2B4D Discord.