Keep The Demon Born

KEEP THE DEMON BORN

A pixel demon-defense strategy game from A2B4D Games.

// CURRENT BUILD

• Version: 0.5.70
• Status: In development
• Price: Free to play, optional donation supported

// WHAT YOU DO

Start a new defense, pick your demon hero, hold the battlefield, unlock construction branches, place buildings or traps on hill slots, upgrade the gate, and push through stronger adventurer waves. The game is built around long-term defensive progression, build planning, resource pressure, and repeated runs after time rewind.

// CORE FEATURES

• Demon gate defense against adventurer waves
• 8 selectable demon hero classes
• Minion production buildings with upgrade paths
• Trap and launcher construction for battlefield control
• Gate research for HP, resource generation, hero unlocks, and defense growth
• Hero skills, minion skills, adventurer skills, buffs, debuffs, and projectile effects
• Equipment, inventory, comparison, favorite, and selling systems
• Artifact summons and artifact restart progression
• Automatic time rewind after defeat with persistent long-term growth
• Auto-save, manual save, load, import, and export support
• English and Korean language options
• BGM/SFX volume settings and game speed options

// HOW TO PLAY

1. Main Menu
Choose New Defense to start a new run. Choose Continue or Load Game if you already have a save. Open Settings to change language, audio volume, or game speed.

2. Hero Selection
Pick a demon hero before entering battle. Each hero has a different role, attack style, passive direction, and progression value. More heroes can be unlocked through gate research.

3. Battle
Combat progresses automatically, but your build choices matter. Defeat adventurers to earn resources, protect the gate, watch for hero and grand-hero enemies, and use upgrades to keep pace with rising pressure.

4. Construction
Unlock production buildings, traps, and launchers, then place them on hill slots. Buildings create minions, while traps and launchers damage, slow, poison, burn, pull, or burst enemy groups.

5. Research and Upgrades
Spend resources on gate research, construction upgrades, minion skill upgrades, and hero growth. Upgrade costs and effects scale over time, so plan around your current run economy.

6. Defeat and Rewind
If the gate falls, the run enters a game-over countdown and then rewinds time. Use the next run to push farther with stronger unlocks, better construction choices, and improved long-term progression.

// TIPS

• Unlock a tier-1 construction early so your economy does not stall.
• Mix minion production and traps instead of relying on only one defense type.
• Pause placed constructions when you need to save upkeep or meat.
• Upgrade the gate before ranged adventurers start pressuring it too hard.
• Use artifacts and hero unlocks for long-term progress across rewinds.
• Check settings if you want faster combat pacing or lower audio volume.

// CONTROLS

Mouse / touch interface.

// NOTES

Keep the Demon Born is still in development. Balance, content, UI, and progression may change over time. Feedback and bug reports are welcome through the official A2B4D Discord.