Corgi Summoner

Vaulted lets you decide how to get through a dieselpunk dungeon: stay out of sight, turn enemies against each other, or shoot your way through. Routes change between descents, and the environment is part of the problem you have to solve.

You defend a lighthouse by turning its beam. Creatures arrive from every direction, so aiming at one side leaves another in the dark. Between waves you visit the shop, buy weapons and upgrades, and plan what your beam should do next.

Merge numbered tiles and make those merges your attacks. The 11th Power takes the familiar powers-of-two puzzle and builds a dungeon crawl around it, with cultists, slimes and creatures from another dimension in your way.

Your build fights in the order you arrange it. Midnight Rogues gives you a row of items and a moving countdown: each item activates when the timer reaches it. Put poison before a multiplier and you get a different result from putting the same pair in reverse.

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