20 February 2025 – Indie developer Progress_Check is excited to announce the demo of its debut title, Wandering Monolith: Rogue TD, is now available on PC via Steam. Become the Wandering Monolith and conquer countless worlds by strategically placing towers across the procedurally-generated battlefield. Defeat each world’s defenders and impose your will on their domains.
Inspired by modern indie tower defense hits like Rogue Tower and Thronefall, Wandering Monolith fuses classic tower defence strategy with core elements of roguelikes and deckbuilders, ensuring each playthrough is a unique challenge.
Strategise tower placement to ward off waves of increasingly powerful enemies, each with their own strengths and synergies. Deploy Shard Towers to fire heavy-hitting projectiles, Oblivion Hourglasses that harness the sands of time themselves to slow your opponents, or Soul Lanterns that steadily drain your enemies’ vitality.
Your foes will only grow stronger with each wave, so you must do so too. Enhance your towers with powerful effects that can drastically change your builds: will you buff critical hit potential, sacrifice raw power to increase overall rate of fire, or focus all of your upgrades into a single, all-powerful tower capable of eviscerating everything that approaches the monolith?
Make the right choices before your invasion begins. Create your own decks that express your ideal strategy, from versatile decks with reliable upgrades that can adapt to any situation to highly-focused decks that bombard opponents with status effects or elemental weaknesses.
After each wave, you’ll choose from a selection of upgrade and ability cards pooled from your decks. But be warned – not only could each decision drastically change your strategy but, once an upgrade is selected, you won’t be able to select it until your deck of upgrades is shuffled.
With each run, players will unlock challenging bosses and transformative abilities that open up new strategies. With a vast array of upgrade paths, powerful towers, and cards to unlock, Wandering Monolith: Rogue TD offers countless playstyles to master.
The Wandering Monolith: Rogue TD demo, now available on Steam, gives you a tantalising taste of things to come, ahead of the early access launch in 2025, where players can create decks that utilise the seven towers available, as well as additional biomes, bosses, cards, difficulties, and mutators.
Features include:
- Be the villain: In Wandering Monolith, you’re not defending against evil; you are the evil. Conquer countless lands as you push back against the defenders and spread your corrupting influence across the world.
- A unique twist on tower defence: A genre-bending mix of tower defence, roguelikes, and deckbuilders ensures near-endless replayability with every playthrough.
- Make the tough choices: Unlock powerful and unique rewards as you battle waves of enemies. But choose carefully – once an upgrade has been selected, other options are temporarily locked out.
- Dynamic deckbuilding: Craft highly customisable decks that infuse your towers with powerful abilities and effects. Choose cards that synergise together to efficiently eliminate your foes.
Progress_Check co-founder Daniel Sołtys said: “Games have been in our hearts for as long as we can remember. Now, after almost two decades of shared experience in the industry, we’re ready to chart our own course and create the kinds of games we want to play.
"We are so excited to bring you Wandering Monolith, which is our love letter to tower defence games, but we’re not stopping here – there is so much more to come from Progress_Check, and we can’t wait for you to see it!”
The Wandering Monolith: Rogue TD demo is now available on Steam, with an early access launch coming in 2025. For further information, contact Khai at khai@gameifyouare.com.
About Progress_CheckProgress_Check is a debut indie studio by siblings Daniel and Anita Sołtys. After over 16 years of collective experience in the games industry, including at tinyBuild and All iN!, we have decided to embark on our journey and bring our creative visions to life.