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Online 1v1
Out-build a real rival
MAUL TACTICS Coming Soon · Steam
SCENE · FROZEN PASS
Competitive Maze Tower-Defense · Free Demo Out Now on Steam
MAUL / TACTICS
A competitive maze tower-defense where you don't defend a fixed lane. You build the maze enemies are forced to walk, then out-build, out-route, and out-send a live rival. 15 bespoke races, branching upgrades, fast ~10-minute matches.
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Races15 bespoke
Match~10 minutes
ModesSolo · Survivor · 1v1
PlatformSteam · Win/Mac/Linux
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[ THE HOOK ]You don't defend the path.
You don't defend the path.
You build it.
Most tower defense puts enemies on a fixed track. Maul Tactics hands you an open grid and makes every tower a wall. Snake the route back on itself and a ten-tile dash becomes a forty-tile death march through your killbox. The longer the maze, the harder they fall.
It is the whole game: the maze is the mechanic. Then you face a second board — a real opponent building theirs, sending creeps at yours. Out-build them and you win.
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15 races · 50+ towers · 150+ pathsEasy to start. Deep to master.
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Build the Maze
You don't just place towers, you draw the path. Every wall forces creeps deeper into your killbox. The map is an open grid; the maze is yours, and it is the whole game.
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15 Bespoke Races
Every race is a different way to think, not a paint job. Mire's venom DoT, Devourer's growing damage, Arclight's chain lightning. Seven towers each, all with signature mechanics.
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Branching Upgrades
Every tower forks three ways at tier III. The depth lives in the second-order choices: adjacency, status stacks, route forcing, send timing. Specialize, don't just upgrade.
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Three Ways to Play
Climb the Gauntlet, a ladder of ten named AI rivals. Outlast escalating waves in Wave Survivor. Or duel a friend 1v1 online, server-verified and in sync to the tick.
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Click · explore towersRoster · 15 Races
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Order
Generalist·Beginner-friendly
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Frostborn
Slow·Splash·Air denial
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Warhost
Spam·Siege·Pressure
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Bulwark
Short-range·Heavy hits
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Ember
Long-range·Premium cost
06 / 15
Plague
Splash·Dissolves swarms
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Gale
Anti-air·+45% vs flyers
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Reaver
Execute·+25% sub-40%
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Concord
Adjacency·+8% per neighbour
10 / 15
Mire
Stacking venom DoT
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Arclight
Chain·2 bounces / shot
12 / 15
Gambit
Crit·×2.2 @ 25%
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Devourer
Permanent +10% / 5 kills
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Phalanx
Tower-pair corridor DoT
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Nomad
Relocate·adapt mid-wave
All 15 races at launch. 8 playable in the free demo.Click any crest to explore its towers, passives, and tier-III branches.
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Real gameplay · no CGISee it in motion
[ FROM THE MATCH ]
In-engine · in-developmentTwo boards. Two mazes.
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Wave Survivor
Hold the swarm
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The Gauntlet
Climb 10 AI rivals
[ MADE BY ONE PERSON ]One developer.
One developer.
Fifteen races. Zero shortcuts.
Maul Tactics is built by one person, GRANT_WORKS. The 15 races, the original AI, the lockstep netcode that keeps 1v1 matches in sync to the tick, the art, all of it. No publisher, no roadmap by committee. Just the competitive maze TD I always wanted to exist, built in the open with the people who play it.
15Races
50+Tower families
22Enemy types
1Developer
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