HORDEWALL Press Kit

Press kit

The last line holds or the city falls

HORDEWALL is a tower defense game set in a zombie apocalypse, built on Unreal Engine 5. Players build defenses along the roads into their base, call in bombers, and hold back hordes of hundreds of zombies, armour, aircraft and a 30-metre mega-mutant.

Every map has its own event on the B key: collapse a leaning skyscraper onto the horde, break the ice road under a convoy, wake a volcano, pour burning tar from castle walls, flood the valley from a dam. Houses fall to the bombs, day turns to night during the battle, and the weather changes.

The zombies move with motion-captured gaits: they shamble, limp, drag a leg or stagger, and no two in a crowd walk alike.

Controller ready

Full gamepad support

The whole game plays on a controller, menus included: a stick-driven cursor, the camera on the right stick, waves, abilities and the commander on the buttons. Switch between gamepad and mouse at any moment.

XInput pads and Steam Input
Steam Deck controls
Rebindable keys
Controller layout in Settings

What is in the game

Features

30 maps, 150 stars

A world map of 30 battlefields, from a palace metro under the city and a lakeside town where a whole year passes in one battle to the bio-lab valley where the virus began, a lit-up night-time amusement park, a cosmodrome where a rocket launch burns the road and a stadium under the floodlights; three stars each, plus heroic and iron challenges.

24 defenses

Miniguns, Tesla coils, railguns, a Gauss cannon, the Pantsir and the super-heavy Tsar Cannon, each with two upgrade branches.

68 enemy types

Motion-captured zombies, armour, attack helicopters, air raids, zombie beasts, marauders, a mercenary army with armoured Humvees, fire-breathing dragons, and 16 bosses up to 50-metre colossi.

10 abilities

Airstrike, lightning, nuke, B-52 carpet bombing, a B-2 Spirit cluster strike over every road, an EMP wave and more.

Spec-ops squad

The commander in spec-ops gear aims his rifle at the horde and leads three soldiers; a fallen one is replaced from the base. He answers your orders aloud.

Eight ways to play

A 35-wave campaign, Endless, Horde (1,000+ zombies a wave), Run (a roguelike with card picks), Heroic, Iron, Evacuation and Last Bastion (one life, a horde that grows every wave), plus daily and weekly challenges.

Tech tree

36 research steps in six branches between battles, plus ability, base and defense upgrades, achievements and paint schemes.

A living battlefield

Day and night during the battle, storms and blizzards, a blood moon, destructible buildings, survivors to evacuate by helicopter.

Story and seasons

A comic before each map and HQ radio calls in battle, voiced in 14 languages; on Maple Lake a thunderstorm, autumn, winter and summer pass in a single battle.

Map editor

Draw roads, place build pads and 61 objects, pick the ground and the light, and play your own maps.

Made for streams

Streamer mode: the Twitch chat votes 1, 2 or 3 on events during the waves. Plus an HQ with your arsenal and a trophy hall.

Runs well

AMD FSR upscaling with frame generation or Unreal TSR, a low-end PC mode, ultrawide screens, 60 to 180 Hz.

3:25 · 1080p · English, Russian subtitles

Official trailer

Watch on YouTube

Screenshots, 1920 × 1080 originals on request

Screenshots

A B-2 Spirit bombs the city's roads — B-2 Spirit strike over the Dead City

A volcano erupts over the island battlefield — Emerald Island: the volcano wakes

Burning tar pours from castle walls — Castle in the mountains: burning tar

A lighthouse beam blinds the horde at sunset — The last lighthouse at sunset

An avalanche sweeps the valley road — Moon Valley: the avalanche

Night battle in the city — Night falls during the battle

A B-52 carpet-bombs a horde — Horde mode and a B-52 run

The fuel depot explodes in the desert — Desert outpost: the fuel depot

The spec-ops commander and his squad open fire on zombies on a snowy road — Winter pass: the spec-ops squad holds the road

A leaning skyscraper over a ruined city — Doomsday: drop the skyscraper

New in the latest update

The big update

The spec-ops commander aims his rifle, his squad behind him — Spec-ops squad with a voiced commander

The grand hall of the underground metro map — Metro under the City

Maple Lake in autumn — Maple Lake: autumn

Maple Lake on a winter night — Maple Lake: winter night

Logs roll off the sawmill decks — The log avalanche

A comic page before a battle — Story comics between maps

The Twitch chat vote panel in battle — Twitch chat votes

Zombie dogs and a zombie bear — Zombie dogs and bears

The world map with ten battlefields — World map, stars and challenges

The tech tree with six branches — Tech tree: six branches, 36 steps

Choosing a card in a roguelike run — Run: pick a card every third wave

The 30-metre mega-mutant walks through the city — The 30-metre mega-mutant

Survivors wait for the evacuation helicopter — Survivors call for evacuation

A building collapses in flames — Buildings fall to the bombs

Zombies before and after motion capture — Motion-captured zombie gaits

An enemy bomber over the city — Enemy air raids

For press and creators

Using HORDEWALL footage

Streams and videos

You may stream HORDEWALL and publish videos of it on any platform, including monetized channels. No permission request is needed. A link to the game's store page in the description is appreciated.

Press assets

The logo, key art, capsules and screenshots on this page may be used in coverage of the game.
Full-resolution originals and review keys are available by email.

Contact

ggooglov9@gmail.com