Nightgate is a strategy defense game for PC, in a fantasy setting. You take the role of a commander fighting to take control of the hostile outskirts of the civilized world. It has some real-time as well as turn-based parts in it, sometimes quick decision-making is necessary, but other than the hardest difficulty setting, there is no time limit to prepare the army.
In the game, you recruit soldiers, select skills, build walls, and decide how the resources should be allocated to best counter enemy attacks.
Download
To download the installer, click this button:
When the dowload completes, run the .exe file, and select a directory where the game should be installed. Then in the same directory, run nightgate.exe. The game is free, but it is in beta, so some bugs and inconveniencies are to be expected. If you find any, please report it in the forum or at shayan.legion@gmail.com.
Strategy
At the first map, your goal is to stop the creatures from reaching the workers at the lower end
of the screen. You can accomplish this by recruiting and upgrading soldiers and archers and traps, and by building barricades. Some tips will appear each level..
Controls
MOUSE
Left click to select a position or a unit. The selected unit's abilities will be displayed at the bottom of the screen.
After you selected a unit, right click somewhere to send the unit there. Note that when enemies are approaching, you may not move your ranged attack units. This might sound stupid, but otherwise it would become an arcade game, and not a strategy.
Basically the mouse can be used to:
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left click – get information and select things
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right click – interact with things (buy units and
upgrade / change their professions)
- hover over things get information about buttons or options.
BARRICADES
Recruit a worker, then use the barricade mode button to change to barricade build mode.
Left click on empty positions to mark a place. The worker will cut wood, then go to the spot and build it.
RECRUIT UNITS
Combine the necessary resources in the combine resource slots. The rune level and type must match.
A new icon will appear next to the runes. Select it and then click on the deploy position.
Keep the cursor for a while over the buy icon to get more information about units.
UNIT UPGRADES
It is possible to upgrade units with runes. You have to start with a level 1 rune. Just drag it to the unit
and left click. Then you will need a level 2 rune of the same type, then a level 3, and so on...
SKILLS
When you upgraded an unit, you should select a skill from two random selections.
The story so far...
'We are soldiers of the Legion, the iron fist of the Union. We will die on a foreign land
and the bards will never sing tales of our sacrifice. No one will know
we screamed the name of the Emperor with our last breath.'
There were times when I believed in heroic ideas like that, but as each of my fellow men died,
so did my dreams began to fade. There are no heroes who could stand against the barbarian tribes,
the unknown monsters or the sorcerers who live in the ruins of the Ancient Western Empire.
And that means we have to.
My task is to start the construction of the Union's Ninth Outpost.
It will serve as a base of operations later, a strategic post. I have to keep the builders alive while they work
Screenshots
The first area, the build site of the Shayan Legion's fortification
DONATION
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