Bulwark

About

The shrine at the bottom of the river must stand, and the drowned horrors are climbing the grid to pull it down. Bulwark is turn-based tactics in the Into-the-Breach mould: the enemy shows you exactly what it will do, and then it's your move.

You command four wardens. Bastion shoves what's next to it; Lance spears down a line; Reaver hooks the far thing close; Aegis charges the line and slams what it meets two tiles back. The trick is never the damage — it's the push. Shove a horror into another and they both crumble. Shove one into a chasm and it's simply gone.

Read the intents, mind the ground — bone walls block, brittle tiles crumble to chasm behind you, healing fonts mend the warden who holds one — and end the turn with the shrine still lit. A run is a three-mission campaign: wounds carry over, the fallen limp back, and after every held shrine you pick a boon that stacks for the rest. The dark is patient. You have until it isn't.

Highlights

• Fully telegraphed enemy intents
• Four wardens: push, spear, hook, ram
• Push horrors into each other and the chasms
• A three-mission campaign — wounds persist, boons stack
• Bone walls, brittle ground, burrowers beneath it
• Threat overlay and confirm-end-turn in a full settings menu

How to play

Click a warden	Select it
Click a tile	Move, then act
TAB	Toggle move / act
SPACE	End turn