Gnomes

Gnomes

DYSTOPIAN · 2025 · Tower Defense, Turn-Based, Procedural Generation, Roguelike, Dwarves

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About Gnomes

Gnomes: Turn Based, Tower Defense, Roguelike

Defend Your Garden From the Goblin Horde

Use your gnomes to defend your crops from the goblins on a map that expands every day. On your turn, position your gnomes, prepare your defenses and grow your economy. Test your strategy against endless, procedurally generated encounters and survive long enough to face the goblin king.Every run in Gnomes is created one of a kind and using a carefully crafted combination of bespoke content and procedurally generated elements. Purchase randomly dealt upgrades and create strategic combinations to unlock your build’s potential. As you progress you gain access to more maps and guilds, each with unique gameplay and challenges.

Features:

  • Turn Based Tower Defense
On your turn, you can move your gnomes as often as you like. Use different combinations of relics and plant abilities to help them survive the night.
  • Relics, Crops and Upgrades
Each plant, relic, tool and building creates a different possible synergies. Manipulate your environment an and exploit the resources the map provides you. Grow your economy quickly, but don’t forget to defend it.
  • Diverse Procedurally-Generated Biomes
Distinct biomes with procedurally generated environment, map specific enemies, different hazards and resources. Every run is different.
  • Guilds with Unique Starts
Each guild stars a different type of gnome accompanied by their own starting economy and a game changing relic. Every guild has different strengths and weaknesses. Some will struggle where others thrive.
  • Endless Mode
Test your strategy against randomized waves of enemies that become exponentially more difficult every night. After you defeat the goblin king for the first time, you're given the option to continue your run until the goblins overwhelm you. How many nights can you survive?

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Players praise this tower defense game as an exceptional and refined take on the genre, with many calling it a near-perfect experience that delivers strong nostalgic appeal. The general consensus highlights it as an excellent, polished tower defense title that offers substantial gameplay depth and extended replayability, though the reviews provided don't detail specific mechanics or any notable criticisms.

Recommended Jul 18, 2026
I just played through the campaign and I really enjoyed it. Great Mechanics, Visuals, Music and Humor. Nice TD! PS: the controller update was awesome, runs perfect on steamdeck.
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Recommended Jul 16, 2026
Good game. Tough, but good. Took me awhile to get into it without being frustrated, but once you find a starting build you like, it is a lot easier. I finally felt better trying other starter builds after getting something that works. I did find myself restarting often after one or two waves of bad luck in shop items and map placement. Not great that it felt I had to do that or else inevitably fail much later and waste time. But I had fun with this game and I enjoyed the idea and execution.
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Recommended Jul 8, 2026
Love the retro look and is first tower defense game I found where there is a variety of drastically different unique strategies and builds you can work with. This game is first tower defense I found that gives bloons a run for its money.
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Recommended Jul 17, 2026
Great little tower defence game with a fair amount of replayability and some good humour
Recommended Jul 10, 2026
Great tower defense game!
Recommended Jul 9, 2026
well balanced tower defense rogue-like. Each level (map) is about 20 min, then unlock new map with unique enemies/mechanics + 1-2 new starting kits.

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