01 / What it is
A squad shooter built from cubes
DEFEKT is a top-down action game in a brutalist future that never arrived: concrete relay towns, enamel signs, cassette decks, and a factory line of Mehanotrons that kept running after everyone went home. You lead a squad of four across a map and take it checkpoint by checkpoint. Every wall, truck and tower is made of cubes, and every cube can be shot away.
Move in
Pick a checkpoint on the map and bring the squad to it. You drive one soldier; the other three follow and fight on their own.
Stand and hold
A checkpoint turns yours while your soldiers stand in it and the machines do not. Its guard gun goes up the moment it is taken.
Break things
Grenades, rockets and air strikes take the scenery apart. The wall anybody hides behind is a wall only until somebody decides otherwise.
Keep it
The Mehanotrons take checkpoints the same way you do, and they come back for yours. Take them all and the map is yours.
02 / Side A
The squad
Click a soldier to hear how they answer when you pick them.
03 / Side B
The Mehanotrons
Built from one construction kit and never switched off. They arrive in a steady stream, they take checkpoints the same way you do, and there are more of them when there are more of you.
04 / The ground
Two maps, wide open
Wide lanes and open yards, with room to run, flank and get caught in the open.
05 / Controls
Eight things matter
A controller works too: left stick moves, right stick aims, right trigger fires. The full list is in the game under CONTROLS.
06 / Where it stands
In the game now
- Capture the checkpoints, alone with a squad of four
- Co-op in the browser, no install
- A world you can take apart cube by cube
- Call-ins from a supply crate to an air strike
- Keyboard and mouse, or a controller
Being built
- Eight named characters for up to eight players
- Turrets and other things you can put down
- More pick-ups, and supplies you have to earn
- Day and night, then weather
- Side B, playable
Take the town back
A test build. It will break in places, and it changes every day.
Play in the browser