Lightholm Demo

Lightholm is a single-player tower defence about keeping one lantern lit. Enemies walk the road toward it; you build towers beside the road to stop them, and once the constellation gives them to you, you throw frost, fire and lightning of your own. Waves come at night. Between them the sun comes up, the board is quiet, and you spend what you earned.

What the demo has

• The first five of the twelve boards - The Straight, The Lagoon, The Knot, The Delta and The Archipelago - each with its own build challenge and its own time trial.
• All four towers: Arrow, Pulse, Fire and Lightning.
• The whole idea the game is built on: every enemy has a weakness - Runners take far more damage while slowed, Brutes while burning, Leapers while shocked - so the tower that applies a status and the tower that does the damage are different buildings.
• Heat. Towers jam if they fire too long, and repairs cost the coins you would have built with.
• Element pads: earth, fire, ice, wind and light, and what each one does to the tower standing on it.
• The Lantern Arts - all five player spells and their mastery ranks. Frost Bloom, Emberfall, Skybreak, Bramble Mist, Lantern Rally.
• The constellation is not cut down. All 121 stars are there and the five demo boards pay into the same sky; refunds are free and three builds save side by side.
• Endless on every board you beat, with a boss every fifth wave and no last one.
• All ten languages: English, Thai, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, German, French, Russian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese.

What it does not

• Boards six to twelve - the crossing, the coil, the moat, the hourglass, the estuary, the pinwheel, and the compass with four roads arriving at once.
• Half the bosses. The demo sends The Bulk and The Twins. The splitter that breaks into smaller pieces, which break again, and the worm of segments sharing one health pool, are in the full game.
• Prestige, which opens once the campaign is finished.

Saves do not carry over. The full game starts you at the first board under an unlit sky.