Bottom Baron

Bottom Baron | Build. Defend. Descend.

The heroes think they are coming to conquer your dungeon. You are the Baron. Give them a reason to turn around.

Free, in-development dungeon-defense and active-incremental game for Windows and macOS. Bottom Baron occupies a compact strip of your desktop. Construct rooms, upgrade defenders, recruit monsters, lay traps, gather gold and souls, and intervene when adventurers raid.

Available downloads

• Windows 1.0.2: nine-depth development build; extract the ZIP and launch BottomBaron.exe.
• macOS 1.0.2: universal Apple Silicon and Intel Mac app; unzip and move BOTTOM BARON.app to Applications. Ad-hoc signed, not Apple-notarized, so macOS may ask you to approve it in System Settings > Privacy & Security.
• Windows 0.2.0: the older three-depth development preview remains available.

Important: known problems in public 1.0.2

The current downloadable Windows and Mac 1.0.2 builds have a confirmed exported-resource bug: boss relic choices are not awarded correctly in the standalone game, and several later depth/boss names fall back to placeholders. Because relics are missing, the built-in F9 autopilot cannot complete the full campaign in the currently published builds. We are correcting this with independent packaged-game testing; a new version will be published only after verification. Do not treat 1.0.2 as a completed nine-depth campaign.

Additional gameplay issue: Corruption doctrine F9 autopilot can stall at the final Depth 9 boss even in source-based tests where relics work. Both problems are being addressed. These are free development builds, not finished retail releases.

How to play

Build and upgrade rooms such as the Hoard Vault, Soul Crypt, Barracks and Trapworks. Recruit and improve monsters, set traps and react to adventurer raids. During raids, Q / W / E trigger combat interventions; Space grants a hoard bonus. Additional controls appear inside the game.

Installation and saving

No purchase or online account required. On Windows, extract all files together; progress is stored locally in the adjacent saves folder. On macOS, progress is stored in your user Application Support folder, not inside the app. Back up saves before any update and read the platform README included with each download. Cross-platform save migration has not been independently verified.

Help shape the full game

Let us know what is fun, confusing, frustrating or repetitive, especially during the first minute, room choices, combat readability, depth transitions, performance and late-game strategy. Report bugs with operating system, game version, doctrine, depth and reproduction steps; please do not share personal information or private saves in public comments.

Made by LUDOGENESIS. Follow the studio roadmap and 1.0.2 development log for progress.