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Ever-moving tower defense rogue-lite Monsters Are Coming! Rock and Road gets a new release window and demo
With an upgradeable fortress that just keeps rolling down the street
Monsters are Coming! Rock and Road just had a new trailer debut as part of the Future Games Show, which reveals the tower defense game's release window – Autumn 2025 – and highlights new features, biomes and more besides, not to mention revealing the existence of a demo that you can play right now!
Rock and Road frames itself as a hybrid of survival crafting, tower defense and roguelike, in which players are constantly protecting an enormous fortress from a horde of monsters. The only problem is that the fortress just keeps on moving, steadily rolling South, forcing the player to keep pace and not get left behind.
And so your watch begins! You run alongside your mobile palace, gathering resources as you chisel metals out of the rocks around you, fighting back the ghouls that your home's automated defenses missed, and quickly constructing new defenses, turrets and arcane powers to ensure that it can make it to the next checkpoint... just make sure you don't let it get too far away! Because as the title warns you, Monsters are indeed coming, in the kind of numbers I've not seen since Vampire Survivors went out to swarm my screen.
Monsters are Coming! Rock and Road will be coming to PC via Steam in Autumn 2025, as mentioned, but there's a new demo that you can try out right now!
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Joel Franey is a writer, journalist, podcaster and raconteur with a Masters from Sussex University, none of which has actually equipped him for anything in real life. As a result he chooses to spend most of his time playing video games, reading old books and ingesting chemically-risky levels of caffeine. He is a firm believer that the vast majority of games would be improved by adding a grappling hook, and if they already have one, they should probably add another just to be safe. You can find old work of his at USgamer, Gfinity, Eurogamer and more besides.