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Escort a rolling city through monster hordes, gathering resources and building defenses to keep it moving toward the Ark.
Released 20 Nov 2025
Defend a Moving City
Gather Wood, Stone, Gold
Balance Foraging and Defense
Beware, Monsters are Coming! In this Tower-Survivor rogue-lite, you protect an ever-moving city from unrelenting hordes. Gather resources, fortify defences, and survive for as long as you can. Will you reach the Ark?
Developed by Ludogram · Published by Raw Fury
You control a hero accompanying a city that moves through monster-filled routes toward the Ark. If the city is destroyed, the run ends; the hero can fall and return to the fight while the city remains.
Fight enemies, collect experience and gather wood, stone, and gold while deciding when to help defend the city and when to forage farther away. Use resources to improve defenses and keep the city moving, and clear obstacles that block its route.
Choose a town hall and build its defenses with towers and other structures selected during a run or bought at shelters. Upgrade the hero and city, take on challenges, and unlock additional options between runs with persistent progression.
Reviews frequently praise the unusual mix of moving-city defense, hero combat, and resource gathering, along with the decisions involved in balancing those tasks and shaping a city build. Some also enjoy the range of towers and town halls and the visual style. Criticism often centers on difficulty spikes, repetitive runs, and persistent upgrades that some players find too slow or too small; other reviewers say later patches improved balance and let players limit which buildings appear. Crashes, performance problems in long or busy runs, and repetitive music also appear in the complaints.
In Monsters are Coming! gather what resources you can to defend an ever-moving city. Are you ready to take on a never-ending army of darkness in a tower-survivor, action-rogue-lite on wheels?
- Fortify: The city must endure! Choose from a selection of town halls, place towers and create your own builds to maximise destruction. Equip defensive structures to repel monsters from the gates and keep the city moving forward, else the darkness will consume you!
- Forage: Gather wood, stone and gold as a persistent, multi-tasking hero. You must constantly balance risk vs reward while fighting back endless armies of monsters. Stray from the beaten path to find richer rewards or keep heading due south towards the safety of shelter.
- Fight: Beat Bad-Ass bosses, improve your abilities, overcome environmental obstacles and take charge of special weaponry to continually adapt your strategies. Or see your city turned to ash!
You’re the last hope for humanity, but it’s a long road to the Ark.
- Build your city your way. Reach shelter and buy new districts from the city shop. Then strategically choose where to place them based on the needs of each run.
- Defend yourself. Choose from a variety of unique Town Halls, then add archery outposts, necromancer towers, and even fire-breathing dragons to protect it from the dangers beyond the walls.
- Unlock new possibilities: Find a build that works for you, keep upgrading and try to stay alive against increasingly powerful monsters the closer you get to the Ark!
- Keep the city stocked: Gather wood to keep the engines burning and increase tower efficiency, chisel stone to help repair and rebuild, and mine gold to expand your moving fortress of destruction.
- Never stop moving: Collect compasses at the end of each run and pay your attempts forward, making it easier for future cities to find their way to the Ark!
- Explore for bonuses: Look for hidden secrets in shelters and tackle side hordes to find richer, rarer rewards. Just make sure you get back to your city in time!
- Progress to Prevail: Level up, increase your potential through vast player progression, and protect the city at all costs, even at the hero’s expense!
- The City Still Stands: Even if the Hero falls, it’s not game over! A run only ends once the city is destroyed, so quickly jump back into the fight before all hope is lost.
- Bad Ass Bosses: Getting to the Ark won’t be easy and there may be some larger monsters waiting for you at the periphery…
| Platforms | Windows |
|---|---|
| Achievements | 62 |
| Age ratings |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 2 listed on Steam |
| Metacritic | 79/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
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