Talie Tower Defense — Niag Siege

Niag Siege — save who you can.

A tower defense set in the World of Talie, built around the one thing the histories only mention in passing: the night the elven city of Niag fell.

Coming soon to Steam

The premise

You cannot win. Niag falls — that is history, and it happens whatever you do. What you decide is how many of its people are outside the walls when it does.

Every stand you hold buys time for the evacuation column. Every one you lose costs lives that the tally remembers. Hold longer, and more of Niag survives to be somewhere else.

What you play

A campaign that gets worse on purpose

Four acts overland

The campaign walks inward from the countryside to the Last Gate, and the ground turns against you as it goes — open road, then mineworks, then streets you are defending house by house.

Six lines of defense

Archer, Cleric, Mage, Alchemy, Blades and Druid, each answering a different kind of attacker. Every one forks into upgrade paths that trade reach against weight.

The evacuation tally

Your score is not waves cleared. It is people out. The count follows you across the campaign and it is the only number the ending cares about.

The Last Stand

When the campaign is finished, the endless mode is still there — no evacuation left to protect, and nothing to do but see how long you last.

Screenshots

Niag, on the last night

An Act I countryside stand mid-wave, with towers placed along a winding road and the wave counter reading four of ten — The approach to Niag. Six tower lines, each answering a different kind of attacker.

The Lightbringer upgrade panel open on a placed tower, showing its stat line and two upgrade paths — Every tower forks. The panel shows what each path actually costs you.

The Mineworks stand, with enemies advancing through a rocky underground board — The Mineworks, where the ground itself narrows your options.

The Inner Districts stand, a flagstone city board under siege with fires burning — The later acts get grim. By the Inner Districts, you are defending streets.

The Last Gate stand with a surge banner showing and a smite landing among the attackers — The Last Gate. A surge is exactly what it sounds like.

The campaign map showing four acts, with earlier acts complete and later ones still sealed — Four acts overland. Every stand you hold is people who made it out.

The world

It belongs to a larger story

Niag's fall happens off the page in the World of Talie novels — a fantasy series in three books. This is the part the books walk past, played out in full. You can also hear the world through Songs of Talie.

The end-of-stand screen showing how many of Niag's people were evacuated — The only number that counts at the end of a stand.

Coming soon

Niag Siege is headed for Steam

In alpha now, with testers playing the full campaign start to finish. Built in Unity 6 by Allen Waldrop at Dark Tower PC.