Siege Keep

## 🏰 Siege Keep

**A roguelite auto-battler where you build an army, defend your castle, and see how long you can survive.**

Pick your heroes, start a run, and watch the battle unfold. You don't control your units directly — you control the decisions that win the fight. Every run is different. Every defeat makes you stronger.

## ⚔️ What is Siege Keep?

Siege Keep blends **auto-battling, base defense, hero collection, and resource management** into endless, replayable runs. Your castle holds one corner of the battlefield while enemies pour in from the right and from below. Your heroes defend automatically using their own AI — your job is to assemble the right army and spend your resources wisely.

You don't win a run. You survive *longer than last time.*

## 🎮 The Core Loop

- **Prepare** a team of 5 heroes inside your Castle

- **Start a run** and gather resources in the heat of battle

- **Recruit** heroes from your chosen team as the assault escalates

- **Choose an upgrade** every 20 seconds from 3 random options

- **Survive** as long as you can — until Doom Mode brings every run to its end

- **Spend** the Gold and Equipment you earned to grow permanently stronger

- **Repeat** — smarter, stronger, deeper each time

## 🦸 20 Heroes, 5 Classes

Collect 20 unique heroes spanning five classes — **Tank, Warrior, Archer, Mage, Support** — plus hybrids. Each hero brings its own stats, attacks, abilities, and AI behavior. Before every run you pick 5, and you can field as many copies of each as your economy allows.

## 💰 Five Resources, One Economy

Gold, Meat, Wood, Iron, and Blue Crystal each fuel different heroes. Collect them on the battlefield, upgrade your Castle to generate more, and constantly weigh the same tense question: expand the army now, or save for the upgrade that carries the run?

## 🎲 Roguelite Upgrades

Every 20 seconds you choose 1 of 3 random upgrades — lifesteal, critical hits, attack speed, richer income, dodge and more. No two runs build the same way.

## 🛡️ Permanent Progression

- **Equipment** drops after every run — the longer you last, the rarer the loot, and it's yours to keep forever

- **Castle upgrades** raise your starting resources, passive income, and maximum army size (from 5 up to 30 active heroes)

- **Unlock** new heroes and keep climbing

## 🃏 Draft Mode

Collect all 20 heroes to unlock Draft Mode. No prepared team this time — you build your army on the fly, picking one hero from three at a time, with rerolls to chase the composition you want. Tougher fights, better rewards, and a true test of how well you know the roster.

## 🎯 Design Philosophy

Easy to learn, hard to master. Readable even with a screen full of units. Built so that no single strategy dominates — heroes, equipment, and upgrades open up dozens of viable builds, and randomness rewards adaptation rather than deciding the outcome for you.

## 🔧 Technical Info

- **Engine:** Made with Godot

- **Style:** 2D pixel art, top-down, fixed camera

- **Combat:** Fully automatic — you command the strategy, not the swords

- **Developer:** Solo-developed

*No installation required — just download and play.*