Garden of the Dead

The house is yours.
The garden wants it back.

The apocalypse ended a while ago — and the dead won. Play as the Supreme Rotten, plant an army of 14 unique rottens, and hold the line against wave after wave of mutant, vengeful plants. A tower-defense with the roles completely reversed.

9 levels · 14 rottens · 21 enemy plants · 6 languages

See it in motion

Trailer

The pitch

Grow an army. Not a garden.

The house behind you is the last thing worth defending, and every night the surviving vegetation crawls up the lawn to take it back. Plant your own rottens to hold the line, then wade in yourself — melee strikes, an area-denial roar, and two single-use weapons for when a wave gets out of hand. Blood moon overhead, a ruined city on the horizon, falling ash, and a dead lawn with something still moving over it.

From the lawn

Gameplay

Your army

Command the Rotten

0150 brains

Brainotron

Produces 25 brains every 7.5s — your economy.

02100 brains

Spitter

Spits acid down its row.

0350 brains

Bone Wall

1400 HP, doesn't attack, just blocks.

04175 brains

Crypt Breath

Frost spit that slows the target.

05200 brains

Rot Twins

Two projectiles per hit.

0625 brains

Plague Mine

Arms in 12s, then explodes for 1800 area damage.

07300 brains

Rotten DJ

Sound pulse every 3s: damages and slows everything nearby.

08175 brains

Rotten Clown

Every 5s scares nearby plants, who flee the lawn.

09175 brains

Rotten Berserker

520 HP axe fighter — enrages below 30% health.

10250 brains

Rotten Molotov

Throws firebombs at the densest cluster of plants.

Premium — unlocked with Gold

12 Gold

The Necromancer

Summons a small ally Rotten from the grave every ~6s.

20 Gold

Iron Colossus

2600 HP — crushes whatever's in front of it every ~2s.

16 Gold

The Plague Doctor

Heals nearby Rotten every ~4s.

18 Gold

The Executioner

Finishes off any plant below a fifth of its health instantly.

When planting isn't enough

Single-use weapons

Q

Herbicide

Instantly kills every plant in the 9 cells around the chosen one. Bosses lose 35% of their health instead.

300 brains75s recharge
E

Gas Can

Ignites the whole row from the chosen column to the right edge — burns for 5s, ~60 dmg/s.

350 brains90s recharge

9 levels

The Campaign

#LevelWavesBoss
1Backyard Garden6
2The Greenhouse7The Ancient Tree
3The Queen's Garden8The Garden Queen
4The Flooded Cemetery9The Tree & the Queen
5The World Root10The Primordial Root
6The Conveyor Gauntlet12The Root & the Queen
7The Blightwood9The Blight Colossus
8The Hollow Hive10The Hive Matriarch
9The Iron Grove12The Ironbark Titan & the Root

Levels 6 and 9 drop the Brains economy entirely — rottens arrive free on a scrolling conveyor belt, and you just grab whatever's next. In exchange, they throw the busiest, toughest waves in the game.

21 enemy types, 6 bosses

The garden fights back

From basic Weeds and Fast Vines to a Grapevine that immobilizes your rottens, a Nuke Flower that wipes a whole 3×3 area, and the Garden Queen — a 10,000 HP boss who raises spikes from the ground and heals the yard around her while she enrages below 35% health. Six bosses in total, and some levels bring two at once.

Get moving

Controls

WASD / arrowsmove the Supreme Rotten
Space / Shiftmelee strike
RSupreme Roar — area damage, slow, pushes plants back
1–9, 0pick a Rotten to plant
Xshovel — remove a Rotten from the lawn
Q / Esingle-use weapons
Clickplant on a cell / collect a brain
P / Escpause menu

The lawn is waiting.

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