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Fact sheet

Game: The Lost Reaches: Brood Tide
Developer: Kavid Forge Studios, an independent studio
Publisher: Self-published
Release: Coming to Google Play. No date yet.
Platform: Android (Google Play)
Price: Free download. All five World 1 levels are free; one permanent purchase unlocks the full campaign (price to be announced). No ads, subscriptions, energy timers or microtransactions.
Genre: Real-time strategy / tower defense
Players: Single-player
Engine: Godot
Download size: About 45 MB from the store, plus about 710 MB of game data downloaded right after install
Website: kavidforge.com
Trailer: Official gameplay trailer (YouTube, 3:45, published 3 Nov 2026)
Press contact: [email protected]

Description

Short (ready to paste):

The Lost Reaches: Brood Tide is a real-time strategy and tower defense game for Android from Kavid Forge Studios. Players hold a road on the lost colony world of Rhelos with towers, then march an army down it to destroy the Brood Tide's Hive Core, against an enemy that mines, builds and attacks by the same rules.

Long:

Humanity lost its colony worlds to the Brood Tide. Now the Reachward Expeditionary Corps (the REC) has come back for them, starting with Rhelos, a desert world of fossil bones and buried colony ruins. Each battle is a fight for a single road: the REC builds from one end, the Brood grows from the other.

Players build towers on fixed pads along the road, train troops at their Command Bastion and send them out with Deploy and Recall orders, aimed at the enemy base, its towers, its outposts or the bunkers at the beacon in the middle of the map. The Brood plays by the same rules: it mines minerals, grows living towers from seed sacs and trains a swarm, deciding for itself when to dig in and when to attack. Destroyed towers leave wrecks that can be repaired, or built over by either side.

The game is free to download, and all five World 1 levels are free. One permanent purchase unlocks the full campaign.

Features

Tower defense and real-time strategy in one battle: hold the road, then take the fight to the enemy base.
Seven REC tower types on fixed pads, from the Chaingun Nest to the Railgun Battery, each with two upgrades.
A Command Bastion that trains Rangers, Breachers, Missile Troopers, Snipers, Rocket Bikes, Bulwark Exos and Siege Walkers.
An enemy AI that mines, builds and attacks with the same tools as the player. No wave timer.
Territory to fight over: a beacon with two bunkers, outposts on mineral fields, and wrecks to repair or build over.
Living Brood towers that land as seed sacs and grow on their pads.
Battlefield callouts from KEEL, the REC's field AI.

Good to know

Towers go on fixed build pads; there is no free-form base building.
Players don't steer single units: they choose what to train, when to Deploy or Recall, and what to target.
There is no PvP or multiplayer, and no hero units.
Everything shown is from the work-in-progress build and may change before release.

Planned