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Choose a hero, build traps across monster routes, and fight alongside your defenses to protect otherworldly strongholds.
Released 04 Feb 2015
Fight Beside Your Traps
Build Trap Combinations
Control Invading Monsters
Deathtrap is a Tower Defense game with strong action-RPG elements, a game of vicious tricks, killing machines, rotating blades and splattering blood.
Developed by NeocoreGames · Published by NeocoreGames






Monsters are returning from the Ink, an otherworldly realm, and you must defend ancient strongholds before their defenses fail. Choose a Mercenary, Sorceress, or Marksman to take part in the battles yourself.
Before each wave, place and improve traps and magical machines on designated spots along enemy routes. When the attack begins, fight the invading creatures directly with your hero’s weapons and abilities, supporting the defenses as enemies press forward.
Earn experience, skills, equipment, and trap upgrades as you progress. Play the campaign alone or cooperatively, compete in a mode where one player defends and another controls invading creatures, or create custom maps with the editors.
In this helpfulness-selected sample, players who enjoy the game often point to its mix of tower defense and direct hero combat, along with the variety of traps and ways to develop a character. Some also appreciate cooperative play and custom maps. Criticism commonly focuses on repeated map runs and grinding; other reviewers describe clunky controls or restricted trap placement, and several report achievement problems or unreliable multiplayer connections.
| Platforms | Windows |
|---|---|
| Achievements | 47 |
| Age ratings |
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| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
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| Metacritic | 77/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |