GAME GUIDE
About Zombie Tower Defense
Zombie Tower Defense is a browser strategy game about protecting a shelter with a planned defensive line. Build on marked pads beside fixed roads, then combine six tower types against fast, armored, healing, and splitting infected. Each of the four maps has twelve waves.
Place and upgrade your towers
- Deploy a defense, then select a marked pad on the battlefield or in the pad selector.
- Choose a tower and confirm its cost. Check its range and role before committing your supplies.
- Review the incoming wave, then start it when you are ready.
- Upgrade, sell, or change targeting as your layout develops. Keep the shelter standing through wave twelve.
Controls and wave planning
Use a mouse, touch, or the pad selector. Space starts the next wave or resumes a paused defense; during a resume countdown, Space cancels it. Escape clears your selection, then pauses. While paused, tower orders wait until you resume.
Use enemy intel and wave reports to understand what gets through your layout. Combine tower roles and coverage instead of spending every supply on the same position. Towers have three levels, and upgrades spend real run supplies.
Auto Defense and idle progression
Clear a map to unlock Auto Defense for that map. A confirmed plan buys towers and upgrades with the run's available supplies. This is simulated defense with actual costs, enemies, and outcomes; it does not automatically clear new maps.
Offline Salvage provides limited scrap for eligible saved away time. It does not simulate offline wave victories or unlock maps. Review your plan and resources when returning rather than treating away time as a completed campaign.
Local saves and wave checkpoints
Saves stay in this browser when storage is available. Export a save to keep a separate copy. Refreshing during a wave returns the entire defense to that wave's starting checkpoint, including spending, income, and shelter damage.
Questions about Zombie Tower Defense
- Can I block the road with a tower?
- No. Towers are built on marked pads beside fixed routes, so the challenge is coverage, tower combinations, upgrades, and targeting.
- Does idle mode win new maps while I am away?
- No. Auto Defense repeats cleared maps, and eligible offline salvage grants capped resources without winning waves or unlocking maps.
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