I’m making a game where your base layout is part of the combat
I’m working on Encave, a PC game that mixes first-person combat, tower defense, and underground base-building.
The basic loop is:
Explore the floor
Build and expand your base.
Create corridors, rooms, chokepoints, elevators, and defensive positions.
Then fight alongside your defenses when enemies push into the structure you designed.
The part I’m most interested in is making the base matter during combat, not just before it. I don’t want the building phase to feel like placing decorations or watching numbers go up. Ideally, every corridor shape, turret position, elevator shaft, and fallback point should change how the next attack plays out.
I’m especially looking for feedback on the pitch:
Does FPS + tower defense + underground base-building immediately make sense to you?
What would you expect to see first: building clips, enemy wave clips, exploration, or before/after base-defense examples?
And for this kind of game, would you rather have more freedom to build messy creative bases, or tighter constraints that force stronger tactical decisions?
Steam link, where allowed: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3246990/Encave/