Escape From Chronos

Escape From Chronos is a tower defense where the Greek gods are your towers. This free demo holds the first two battlefields of the campaign and the first 8 waves of the endless mode, and plays right here in your browser. The full game is planned for Steam for Windows on October 30.

It starts simply: drag a god onto the ground beside the road. The depth comes from what follows: a specialization for each god, who each one targets, 15 ultimates and the relics you draft mid-battle.

How this game was made

Character, enemy and environment art were generated with AI tools, then curated, edited and integrated by the developer. Music and sound are synthesized in-engine from scores written into the game's code; the game ships no audio files and no AI audio-generation tools were used. The code, including those scores, was written by the developer with AI assistance. The game contains no live/runtime AI generation.

Wishlist Escape From Chronos on Steam

In the demo

- I. The Drowned Coast: 12 waves against Oceanus. The tide surges on a cycle, and when it rises the whole legion quickens.

- II. The Scorched Heights: 14 waves on two roads at once, against Hyperion, whose light disables every god near him. It opens when the Drowned Coast is held.

- The Unending Hour, the endless mode, up to wave 8, with shareable rival codes.

- All 15 gods. Each has an ultimate, ready again every wave, and chooses one of two specializations at Level 5.

- Place gods anywhere beside the road, even mid-wave, and choose who each one targets first.

- Clear a mini-boss wave and pick one relic for that battle.

- Every battle, won or lost, earns Favor for permanent boons.

- Lose, and the end screen shows what broke through, your worst wave and which gods did the damage.

- Titanomachy, the hard mode, on both battlefields.

Your progress saves in this browser. It does not carry over to the Steam version, and a private window forgets it when you close it.

Controls

- Mouse: drag a god from the Pantheon on the right onto open ground, or click a god and then the ground. Click a placed god for its stats, upgrades and target priority.

- Keyboard: Space pauses, Esc opens the pause menu, and 1, 2 and 3 set the speed (x1, x2, x3).

- Controller (a standard pad such as an Xbox controller, in a browser that supports one): the left stick moves a cursor, A selects, B backs out, Y begins the wave, X changes speed, LB and RB pick a god, Start pauses.

- Sound starts with your first click on a menu button.

- Fullscreen: the button at the bottom right of the game, or Settings > Fullscreen. If the keys or the controller stop answering after that, click once inside the game.

The full game

8 battlefields and 126 waves, 8 Titan bosses, 21 relics in three rarities, a hard mode, three Ascension tiers, a boss rush, a six-god challenge, a weekly trial, and the Unending Hour with no end. Mouse, touchscreen or Xbox controller, four text sizes and 36 achievements. One purchase. No microtransactions, no account.

The last two screenshots are from the full game: the specialization choice on the third battlefield, and Chronos himself.

Wishlist on Steam, and Steam will tell you when it is out.

Who made it

I am Jonah, a solo developer at Drifting Minds Studio, and this is my first game. I read every comment here.