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Gnomes

Gnomes

|Arcade, Tactical

9.5 /10

Aww Amazing!

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1.8k ratings
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Deploy your gnomes, tend to your garden and prepare your defenses. Every day the map expands further into goblin territory, revealing new threats and resources. Earn gold, invest wisely and carefully combine your upgrades. Survive long enough and face the goblin king. No two runs are the same.

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Use your gnomes to defend your crops from the goblins on a map that expands every day. On your turn, position your gnomes, prepare your defenses and grow your economy. Test your strategy against endless, procedurally generated encounters and survive long enough to face the goblin king. Every run in Gnomes is created one of a kind and using a carefully crafted combination of bespoke content and procedurally generated elements. Purchase randomly dealt upgrades and create strategic combinations to unlock your build’s potential. As you progress you gain access to more maps and guilds, each with unique gameplay and challenges.

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Aww Amazing!: 9.5/10 across 1.8k ratings. This score says: bump it to the top of your backlog.

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Leans into Arcade, Tactical, Indie — a quick read on whether that fantasy matches what you usually enjoy.

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Qualbert.comBen Schuster · 21 Apr, 2025
10/10

Gnomes is a must-play for fans of roguelikes and tower defense games. The more you play, the more you realise that its simple gameplay hides serious depth. Alongside a sleek visual style and a gameplay loop that’ll keep you coming back time and time again, it’s a wonder that a game with this degree of polish was made by only two people. Like a Gnome peeking out from an overgrown garden, this indie gem emerges to put the tower defense genre back on the right path again.

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