In Neural Shock, you must cleanse the world of horrid and bloodthirsty creatures by utilizing turrets, traps, wits and weapons. Choose from different class choices with unique playstyles and over 20+ different turrets and traps in this unique sci-fi Tower Defense / Action RPG.
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Jun 19, 2024
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About This Game

Build, Fight, Improve, Obliterate. Create bloody mayhem in this ARPG / Tower Defense hybrid by building turrets and traps in strategic positions and fighting waves after waves of ferocious clones and creations of immoral research. As you gain experience in the battlefield, improve and develop your characters and weapons to get more and more powerful and decimate your enemies.

Combining the classic Tower Defense gameplay, graphic pixel-art violence and elements of character and team building action RPGs set within a dark, futuristic sci-fi world, Neural Shock brings an engaging experience which caters both to short and long play sessions to experience at your own pace. In Neural Shock, you have a controllable main character to aid your turrets in battle.

Class-based Character Building

Pick your favorite class, delve into the monster-filled world and exterminate the horrid creatures to level up and create your optimal build by specializing in different weapon, turret and trap masteries and selecting the best supporting abilities for your playstyle. Along with building, leveling and upgrading your turrets, you are able to control your main character and aid the turrets in killing the enemies. As you gain experience, your character gains levels and skills that you can choose from various choices in the skill tree. Currently playable classes in the full release are Sniper and Engineer. The Sniper class is aimed towards players seeking more action and maneuvering, while the Engineer's talent tree serves a more traditional Tower Defense type of gameplay.

Engaging Tower Defense Puzzles

Unique tower defense missions in an engaging, dark and futuristic world, complemented with captivating side objectives that require razor-sharp senses and wits to complete in the most optimal ways. Find the deadliest combinations from a fine selection of over 20+ different turrets and traps.

Visceral Pixel-Art Violence

Tens of different ways for each monster to meet their maker, ranging from getting shredded, electrocuted, burnt to a crisp, melted to a pile of goo, and many others, visualized and animated with crunchy pixel art graphics that don't hide any ounce of blood or drop of gore. Let your creativity run wild as you discover new ways to eradicate the murderous cretins that run amok in this vicious world.

Backstory

In 2304, CyTech, a scientific research corporation and defense manufacturer revolutionized warfare after discovering ways to integrate artificial neural networks into humans, allowing soldiers to rapidly develop extraordinary abilities that would far exceed the opposition. However, after multiple generations had been tested in combat with great success, one generation found a way to surpass all other generations by multitudes by altering the genetic composition of the subjects. The subjects started experiencing mutations in their bodies, and over time were found to have experienced a rapid evolution into completely different beings.
This generation was found to be much more aggressive and hostile even to the creators than previous generations, and quickly the specimen, viewing themself as a completely different and superhuman race, started to revolt against humanity and create clones of themselves to achieve superiority and control of the Earth.

In the year 2325, you as part of mercenaries from Armorion, a private military contractor, were tasked to infiltrate the main research facility of CyTech, to eliminate the rebelling specimens and end the production of new clones. The defense systems of the facility were dismantled and stripped down by the specimens, but the defense network is still connected and you are able to rearm the defenses by building turrets and traps into the existing defense pods. You will need to clear out the facility's sectors one by one and ensure the defenses are able to hold out any hostile specimens.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Violence, blood and gore in pixel-art form

System Requirements

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macOS
SteamOS + Linux
    Minimum:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 10
    • Processor: Dual Core CPU, Intel i5 or better
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: 512MB VRAM, OpenGL 3.0 support, GeForce GTX 1070 or newer
    • Storage: 300 MB available space
    Recommended:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 10 or later
    • Processor: Dual Core CPU, Intel i5 or better
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: 1024MB VRAM, OpenGL 3.0 support, GeForce RTX 2070 or newer
    • Storage: 600 MB available space
    Minimum:
    • OS: OSX 10.12 - 10.15
    • Processor: Apple M1 or Intel Core M
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: 512MB VRAM, OpenGL 3.0 support
    • Storage: 300 MB available space
    Recommended:
    • OS: OSX 10.12 - 14
    • Processor: Apple M1 or Intel Core M
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: 1024MB VRAM, OpenGL 3.0 support
    • Storage: 600 MB available space
    Minimum:
    • OS: Ubuntu 22.04
    • Processor: Dual Core CPU, Intel i5 or better
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: 512MB VRAM, OpenGL 3.0 support, GeForce GTX 1070 or newer
    • Storage: 300 MB available space
    • Additional Notes: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    Recommended:
    • OS: Ubuntu 24.04
    • Processor: Dual Core CPU, Intel i5 or better
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: 1024MB VRAM, OpenGL 3.0 support, GeForce RTX 2070 or newer
    • Storage: 600 MB available space
    • Additional Notes: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system

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