GRIDMINE is a retro tower defense built around incremental progression. Survive for as long as possible, then return to your skill tree to spend extracted resources on tower-based upgrades and abilities.

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The Loop

Play a level, survive for as long as you can. Use the crystals you collect to upgrade your towers, enabling your next run to be longer and more profitable.

Skill Tree

Levels can be completed with many different builds. Experiment and invest in your specific playstyle.

Replay

Each level has a set of specific challenges. Refund skill tree purchases and strategize to complete a second layer of meta progression.

More information

Published	1 day ago
Status	In development
Platforms	HTML5
Rating	Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars (3 total ratings)
Author	Gnooch
Genre	Strategy
Tags	Casual, Incremental, Indie, Retro, Tower Defense
Average session	A few seconds
Languages	Arabic, German, English, Spanish; Latin America, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Chinese (Simplified)
Links	Steam
Content	No generative AI was used

Development log

Update 0.0.3
11 hours ago
Update 0.0.2
21 hours ago

Comments

bugcat8 hours ago (1 edit) (+3)

bug report: After I bought orbital strake, the mouse cursor will dispare when finishing a level.

Gnooch5 hours ago

Just patched, thx for report

cportfolio16 hours ago (1 edit)

lags so much on level 2 wave 3. also it didnt save any of my progress when i f5 browser.

yelzveth18 hours ago

There appears to be a bug, I am unable to finish the level 1 challenge of not using towers. Otherwise I loved it

carttom19 hours ago

Why is the mouse cursor so slow and imprecise?