tinyBuild and developer Konfa Games — the studio behind Despot’s Game and Despotism 3k — have announced Hull Rupture, a new base management and tower defense roguelite revealed today at the Second Wind Games Showcase. A Steam playtest is live right now.
The premise is immediately compelling. Earth has been destroyed, and you’re playing as the rogue AI Despot aboard humanity’s last surviving warship, hurtling through space toward the alien homeworld for one final act of revenge. To keep that ship in one piece, you’ll need to manage your crew, fortify your defenses, and repel relentless waves of alien boarders. The twist? Humans aren’t just your crew — they’re a renewable resource to be deployed, expended, and replaced as needed.
Aliens don’t politely wait at the airlock either. They tear straight through the hull at predetermined points, meaning you always know when and where the next breach is coming — but that foreknowledge alone won’t save you. You’ll need to place turrets, traps, barricades, and automated defenses to funnel enemies into kill zones, then adapt on the fly as the assaults intensify.
Roguelite decision-making runs through the entire experience. Every route you take and every trade-off you accept — risking harsher alien waves for better rewards, for instance — compounds over the course of a run. Different ship models with varying layouts add further variety to how each run unfolds.
Game Director Nikolay Kuznetsov described Hull Rupture as the studio’s most ambitious project yet, noting it represents significant growth for Konfa Games and marks Despot’s first venture beyond Earth into the wider galaxy.
The first Steam playtest is available right now — sign up and jump in if tower defense chaos aboard a doomed spaceship sounds like your thing.
Check out the announcement trailer here:
Links:
- Steam (Wishlist + Playtest): https://store.steampowered.com/app/4358660/Hull_Rupture/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/DespotsGames
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@playhullrupture
- Discord: https://discord.com/invite/despotsgames
