Hello World Studios Announces BELTFED, a Factory Defense Roguelike for PC
Hello World Studios is folding factory automation into a roguelike run so that production capacity and firepower scale together, a structure aimed at players who want the genre without the long hours.
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Hello World Studios announced BELTFED on September 16. The roguelike defense game tasks players with laying conveyor belts across a planet, placing smelters and assemblers, and producing weapons to hold off insect swarms that reach the scale of hundreds of thousands. If the Nexus Core at the center of the factory is destroyed, the run ends. It is scheduled for release in 2027 on PC via Steam.
BELTFED is a tower defense game where the towers are produced on site. Players spread conveyor belts across a planet, place smelters and assemblers, and keep power grids and security in balance while the factory turns out firearms, flamethrowers, launchers, mortars, laser weapons, drones, and mines. The insects arrive in swarms of hundreds of thousands. Losing the Nexus Core at the center of the factory stops production and ends the run.
Upgrade cards appear randomly and include buildings that explode and cannons that fire black holes. Progression carries across runs, unlocking new cards, buildings, weapons, Nexus Cores, and modules. Multiple planets are planned, each with its own rules.
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