Sanctum

Overview

Sanctum is a tower defense game played from the first-person perspective developed by Coffee Stain Studios, built on Unreal Engine 3. You play as Skye, an elite soldier protecting her home town of Elysion One from a devastating alien horde.

Gameplay

The game is split between a building phase and an extermination phase.

Building Phase

Players build and upgrade eight different towers, as well as having the ability to upgrade Skye's three weapons.

Upgrading

During the building phase, players have to option to upgrade their towers and their weapons. Both towers and weapons have five levels of upgrades, each costing more than the last.

Extermination Phase

Waves of varying creatures will then attempt to reach the core in the extermination phase, and the player's mission is to prevent them from doing so. The player controls Skye to provide support to the towers built during the building phase. Waves are formed of either a single enemy type or a combination of two.

DLC

Sanctum's debut DLC was released on 26th September, 2011. Content included two new maps and three extra towers. In addition to the DLC, a free update entitled Elysion One Overrun! brings two more towers, a new map, and an extra weapon for Skye. A Second DLC Map pack was released on October 12, 2012.

Towers

Anti-Air launches missiles at the enemy and causes blast damage to any target within the area.

Makes up for its poor accuracy with a high rate of fire. Gatling is ideal at short distances.

Lightning discharges powerful bolts of electrical energy. At level 3 and level 5, Lightning will also produce a respective second and third damaging bolt that spreads out to other enemies.

This powerful tower fires explosive rounds over large distances, but is rendered useless if the enemy draws near.

Scatter Laser randomly targets any enemy within its vicinity, unleashing high-powered beams with a very high rate of fire.

Slow Field reduces the running speed of all creatures that enter its area of effect. Slowing effect stacks with Skye's freezing weapon.

A teleporter and elevator hybrid, Televator can elevate the player to a higher altitude, and can also teleport the player to its position from any point in the map.

The most important part of any defence, Block is used to divert enemy forces and provides the foundation for all offensive towers.

Killing floor

Increases damage dealt to enemies on block.

Amp Field

Increased damage of shots that pass through it.

Holo

Violator

Fires beams that pierce enemies.

Penetrator

Slows flying enemies.

Kairos

Releases a swarm of drones that attack one enemy at a time.

Drone

Fire rate increased the longer its locked onto a target.

Accelerator

Weapons

Similar to the Gatling tower, Skye's Assault Gun has a very high rate of fire, but will overheat with prolonged use. Launches grenades with its alternate firing mode, damaging any enemy within its blast radius.

Freeze Gun deploys a small orb, slowing the movement speed of any enemy it attaches itself to. Additionally, can completely freeze a small number of enemies in place for a small period of time with its alternate firing mode.

Perfect for attacking weak spots for massive damage, Sniper is a high-powered rifle suited for taking down large foes over great distances.

Rex

missile launcher

Shotgun

Tesla

Enemies

Land Enemies

Name	Strengths	Weaknesses
	Temporary invulnerability	Low HP Small numbers
	Immune to body damage Almost immune to turret damage Wavering movement makes it difficult to hit	Low HP Small numbers
	Very fast on straight paths	Very slow went confronted with corners
	Immune to frontal damage	Slow Easy to land critical hits from the back
	Fast Attack in large numbers	Low HP
	Very high HP	Repeated damage Small numbers
	High HP Reduced damage taken	Headshots
	Large numbers	---
	High HP	Easy to land critical hits Headshots Small numbers

Air Enemies

Name	Strengths	Weaknesses
	Intermittent movement	Low HP
	Fast moving	Low HP
	Large numbers	Slow Easy to land critical hits

Soundtrack

Sanctum FPS-TD: OST, composed by Gustaf Tivander, was released on 17th August, 2011.

1. Skye's Theme (5:17)
2. Below (3:15)
3. The Wanderers (5:02)
4. Loek 3 (5:16)
5. Cloud Control (3:01)
6. Glider Hunt (4:37)
7. Spore Gas Serenade (3:41)
8. Explorer (3:35)
9. Elysion One (05:10)
10. Meat Grinder (05:17)
11. Core Guardians (03:24)

System Requirements

PC

• Operating System: Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista or Windows 7
• Processor: 2.0+ GHz Core 2 Duo
• RAM Memory: 2 GB
• Hard Disk Space: 2 GB free hard drive space
• Video Card: Shader Model 3, compatible video card
• DirectX®: 9.0c or higher
• Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible, 16-bit

MAC

• Operating Systen: OS X version 10.6.3 or later
• Processor: 1.6 GHz (Dual Core) Intel CPU
• RAM Memory: 2GB
• Hard Disk Space: 2 GB
• Video Card: Open GL 3.3 / Shader Model 3 capable graphics card with 256 MB video RAM