Hedgehold

Hedgehold is a tower defence game with a living hedge. The bugs have found Hazel the hedgehog's burrow, and her garden's old hedge grows by itself every wave: green buds show where it will grow next. On the path the hedge becomes a gate that ants, beetles and slugs must stop and chew through, and a bug caught in it takes double damage; on a stone pad it smothers the tower there until you cut it free. You get two snips a wave to stop a bud or trim grown hedge, so you never build the maze: you decide what the garden keeps. Plant thorn brambles, acorn lobbers, dew misters and bee hives, upgrade them twice and start each wave when you are ready. Twelve gardens with one to three hedge roots, a new daily map every day, save slots and an autosave before every wave, keyboard, mouse, touch or gamepad. It plays in the browser on desktop and phones, and Hazel tells the story garden by garden to a composed marimba march.