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Lumina Wardens: Grove Defense

Plant glowing towers in a bioluminescent forest, upgrade and specialise them, and stop spore swarms and bosses across 12 tower defense sectors.

Lumina Wardens: Grove Defense title art: neon towers in pink, yellow, orange and teal stand beside a glowing road that winds across a dark forest floor, firing beams into a crowded line of glowing spores and creatures, with small gold rewards floating up.

Play on Playgama Play on itch.io

About the game

The spore tide is rising in the bioluminescent grove, and only your glowing towers stand between it and the Sanctuary Heart. Plant Wardens on the glowing pads, feed them gold, and hold the road through 12 hand-built sectors.

Six towers, two paths each

Every tower has three levels and, at level 3, a choice of two specialisations.

  • Pulse Reed: fast bolts. Gatling for rapid fire, Sniper for long-range armor piercing.
  • Spore Pod: a splash mortar that cannot hit flyers. Mycelium poisons, Cluster blasts wider.
  • Frost Crystal: slows everything in range. Blizzard can freeze, Brittle makes enemies take more damage.
  • Sun Lotus: a steady beam. Solar Flare ramps up its damage on one target, Twin Prism splits into three beams.
  • Arc Obelisk: chain lightning. Storm Lord chains to 8 targets, Overload stuns.
  • Lumen Grove: no attack, but it pays gold every wave and boosts nearby towers. Gold Bloom heals the Sanctuary, War Drum speeds towers up and reveals stealthed enemies.

Know your enemy

Ten kinds of spores and beasts plus three bosses: armored beetles and husks, flying moths that ignore your mortars, slimes that split, tendrils that heal, wisps with regenerating shields, shadow stalkers that cloak and brood carriers that spawn more mites. The Rot Behemoth, the Sky Sovereign and the Spore Empress arrive on wave 10, wave 18 and the final wave. The Codex lists everything.

Stars and upgrades

Earn up to three stars per sector for keeping your hearts, then spend them on 12 Ancient Root upgrades: tower damage, speed and range, starting gold and hearts, enemy bounty, cheaper upgrades and more. Call the next wave early for bonus gold, switch to 2x speed, or sell a tower for a 75% refund and rebuild your grove.

Sectors run from 15 to 25 waves, and the first one is a gentle tutorial. Your progress is saved, and everything, the sound included, is generated in your browser.

Controls

  • Click or tap a glowing pad to build a tower; click or tap a tower to upgrade, specialise or sell it.
  • Space calls the next wave early, for bonus gold.
  • P or Esc pauses and resumes. The speed button switches between 1x and 2x.
  • On mobile: tap the pads, towers and buttons. Landscape works best, and the game pauses by itself when you switch away.

Devices

Desktop and mobile. Lumina Wardens plays with a mouse or by touch, in landscape or portrait.

Who made it

Lumina Wardens: Grove Defense was made with AI assistance by Atesen Software. It is free to play in the browser. The play links above open the game on Playgama and on itch.io, which are separate sites; Atesen Software is not affiliated with them.

More from us: all sixteen games. Questions or a bug to report: support@atesensoftware.com.