Monsters are Coming!

Monsters are Coming!

Released Nov 2025

Beware, Monsters are Coming! In this Tower-Survivor rogue-lite, you protect an ever-moving city from unrelenting hordes. Gather resources, fortify defences, and survive for as long as you can. Will you reach the Ark?

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Evaluation

Monsters are Coming! launched on November 20, 2025 and has received a consistent stream of major content updates since then. Six major updates have shipped post-launch: Heroes are Coming (January 28, 2026), Districts and Streets (March 10, 2026), Road of Fortune with the Power Corrupts DLC (April 22, 2026), Endless Road (June 2, 2026), and Chaos Stacks (August 6, 2026). This establishes a sustained cadence of major releases roughly every 4–10 weeks. On June 26, 2026, Game Director Edouard published a formal Fall & Winter roadmap explicitly committing to new content for both fall and winter 2026. The Chaos Stacks update, released August 6, 2026, represents the fall portion of this roadmap (or at least part of it), and within that update the developer explicitly stated that "new challenges will be added in future updates." A follow-up bug fix patch (August 13, 2026) confirms the developer remains actively engaged. The most recent communication from the developer was August 13, 2026. Winter content from the roadmap has not yet been delivered, meaning the developer's public commitments are still outstanding. The one released DLC — Power Corrupts — shipped on April 22, 2026 and is fully available. No unreleased DLC entries appear in the store listing.
Evidence
Chaos Stacks major update shipped, delivering a new Hero, new Townhall, Weekly Challenges, stackable challenges, new difficulty modifiers, and a Codex. Post notes 'new challenges will be added in future updates.'
news post · Aug 6, 2026 source content planned
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Game Director Edouard published a formal Fall & Winter 2026 roadmap committing to new challenges and content updates across both seasons, alongside the game's Xbox Series X|S launch.
news post · Jun 26, 2026 source content planned
high

Content

2 of 2 released · no outstanding content

Media

Details

Developer
Publisher
Raw Fury
Achievements
62
Platform
Windows
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Verified
Players
Single-player

About this game

In Monsters are Coming! gather what resources you can to defend an ever-moving city. Are you ready to take on a never-ending army of darkness in a tower-survivor, action-rogue-lite on wheels?

- Fortify: The city must endure! Choose from a selection of town halls, place towers and create your own builds to maximise destruction. Equip defensive structures to repel monsters from the gates and keep the city moving forward, else the darkness will consume you!

- Forage: Gather wood, stone and gold as a persistent, multi-tasking hero. You must constantly balance risk vs reward while fighting back endless armies of monsters. Stray from the beaten path to find richer rewards or keep heading due south towards the safety of shelter.

- Fight: Beat Bad-Ass bosses, improve your abilities, overcome environmental obstacles and take charge of special weaponry to continually adapt your strategies. Or see your city turned to ash!

You’re the last hope for humanity, but it’s a long road to the Ark.

- Build your city your way. Reach shelter and buy new districts from the city shop. Then strategically choose where to place them  based on the needs of each run.

- Defend yourself. Choose from a variety of unique Town Halls, then add archery outposts, necromancer towers, and even fire-breathing dragons to protect it from the dangers beyond the walls.

- Unlock new possibilities: Find a build that works for you, keep upgrading and try to stay alive against increasingly powerful monsters the closer you get to the Ark!

-  Keep the city stocked: Gather wood to keep the engines burning and increase tower efficiency, chisel stone to help repair and rebuild, and mine gold to expand your moving fortress of destruction. 

-  Never stop moving:  Collect compasses at the end of each run and pay your attempts forward, making it easier for future cities to find their way to the Ark!

-  Explore for bonuses: Look for hidden secrets in shelters and tackle side hordes to find richer, rarer rewards. Just make sure you get back to your city in time!

- Progress to Prevail: Level up, increase your potential through vast player progression, and protect the city at all costs, even at the hero’s expense!

- The City Still Stands: Even if the Hero falls, it’s not game over! A run only ends once the city is destroyed, so quickly jump back into the fight before all hope is lost.

- Bad Ass Bosses: Getting to the Ark won’t be easy and there may be some larger monsters waiting for you at the periphery…

Last evaluated Sep 3, 2026
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