Outhold
While the web version above is perfectly playable on most systems, the windows and macOS downloads offer better performance and graphics.
Outhold
Outhold is a short, minimalistic incremental game that blends tower defense strategy with a deep meta-progression. Carve your own way through the sprawling skill tree, unlock powerful upgrades, and defend your Holdout from relentless waves of enemies.
Addictive game loop
Start a run, see how far you get. Use your collected resources to buy upgrades and try again.
Become powerful enough to obliterate everything coming against you.
Deep upgrade tree
Create unique builds that fit your playstyle.
Experimentation is rewarded, and all upgrades can be refunded for free.
Strategize
Focus on upgrading just one specific tower, or find unique tower synergies.
There are many ways to progress through Outhold, the choice is up to you.

Updated | 4 days ago |
Published | 12 days ago |
Status | Prototype |
Platforms | HTML5, Windows, macOS |
Rating | Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars (86 total ratings) |
Author | Tellus Games |
Genre | Strategy |
Made with | Godot |
Tags | Clicker, Idle, Incremental, Minimalist, Tower Defense |
Average session | About a half-hour |
Languages | English |
Inputs | Mouse |
Links | Steam, Steam |
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Development log
- Update 0.0.64 days ago
- Update 0.0.54 days ago
- Update 0.0.49 days ago
- Update 0.0.311 days ago
- Update 0.0.211 days ago
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Dam decent.
very fun game, a level editor would be really cool
Just curious, do you play Warframe? Some of these mechanics are looking a little familiar, namely the tiered crit system and multishot (although implemented differently in this case) Regardless I love incremental games, and I think this one is really cool.
I've never played Warframe actually. The multicrit mechanic is something I first saw in YouTD, a custom tower defense map for Warcraft 3 that I played countless hours of back in the day.
those are both pretty basic mechanics that are featured in so many other games than just warframe lmao
This game is very fun, but I suspect that the bloom effect is slowing down the game on my computer heavily. Could you please add different VFX settings/levels?
Hi, our latest update should hopefully address these performance issues.
IMO level 2 is too hard compared to level 1
It's an incremental game, you keep repeating until you have the upgrades to make it. I'd suggest going back to level one and repeating it with as many points buffs as you can afford.
The game is cool! Thanks!
The "refund All" button is nice but we need to save the preset before we try something new
Very cool game. Of course it lags a lot when downloaded, but in the browser everything works perfectly.
Thanks for the game!
Hi there, I tried to download the demo from steam on Mac but I get the "Invalid Platform" message. However when I download from itch.io I can in fact run the game.
Is it possible to make the MacOS version from steam work for new Macs / 64 bit?
Hi, the MacOS build hasn't been uploaded to Steam yet, we're waiting for an issue to be fixed with our build service. The download here on Itch is however the latest version of the demo for macOS.
Please re-export using OpenGL (Compatibility renderer) instead of Forward+ (D3D12), it crashes on systems without D3D12-capable GPUs
:(
Hi, the Steam version now has a launch option for running it with OpenGL instead. You can also pass "--rendering-driver opengl3" as a launch parameter to the executable if you've downloaded it from here.
Yea thanks i was the guy that requested in discussions.
Lagged a lot for me, the whole game just felt like it's running at half speed, regardless of how many entities were on screen at once, even at the very beginning.
Desktop version, win10 / AMD Ryzen 5600G / Samsung SSD 980 PRO 500GB / ASRock B550M Pro4 / 16GB RAM
Hi, our latest update should hopefully address these performance issues.
Great game so far, I'd pay for more levels ;-)
(I'll leave a TLDR at the end)
Amazing game, love the demo of it. There are many things I find really enjoyable and amazing! The colors and sounds just fit so much to the simple style.
I love the popping sound when the towers actually shoot the enemies and the explosion sounds of the Explosive Grunts, it just works.
I do have some minor things I am not too much of a fan of, mostly included the fact there is not really an "afk" way to do it, kinda like auto starting of next waves (Made sense in my mind, since auto tower upgrading is already an upgrade).
There is also the fact you "constantly" have to move your mouse to collect the coins the enemies drop, which I feel also could be an upgrade maybe (Was also commented by another person).
The one that annoys me the most, which I also referred to earlier, is the 'Auto Leveling' upgrade. Sometimes it is extremely annoying that it auto levels up your towers, especially if you want to focus on getting another tower down that is a bit more expensive. Cause guess what, that aint happening until you have all your towers upgraded so they are more expensive than the next tower placement... It also kinda goes hand in hand with the 'Coin Converter' upgrade, that converts your coins into tokens, which you would end up getting less of, even if you know you can beat a level with less upgraded towers... (Probably just more on my side, since I like replaying levels to earn a bit more before heading to the next one) <- (Noticed this one ain't too much of an issue, since you earn more on the next level anyway, but could still be nice to have).
Otherwise amazing concept and great design, a little tweaks here and there and it could turn into something really amazing!
--- TLDR: ---
- Maybe an auto 'Coin Collection' upgrade. (annoying to keep moving the mouse around).
- Toggleable 'Auto Upgrading/level' ability. (Kinda sucks going for another tower and losing money to an upgrade, when you get bombarded with enemies next wave).
- Auto start next wave as a feature. (Maybe even as an upgrade, or a setting in options).
Hope to see more of the game! Already have it wishlisted on steam! Good luck with the progress!
I didn't notice the "already planning to address" in your reply to the other comment, so my only real "complaint", is the 'Auto Level' tower not being toggleable then :D
I hope ya'll the best with the progress!
It kind of already is? You can't toggle in level, but you can right click on individual upgrades to downgrade them and refund the green triangles spent.
great game i found it on galaxy.click, the only bad thing is that i couldnt save it, exporting saves would be nice feature
Great demo, looking forward to full game. Few tips:
- In upgrade tree, I needed to refund some stars, but I didn't remember which upgrades did contain them (if upgrade is maxed, information about it's price type (triangle, star, hourglass) is hidden). I needed to refund it one by one to find out. Maybe type (and maybe amount) can be indicated somewhere in upgrade box - either next to "Max" text, or next to whole upgrade cube on upgrade tree?
- Add possibility to sell towers
- Right click to tower upgrades it
- Upgrade for auto-collecting coins (or maybe auto-collect coins by default?)
Thanks for the feedback! You bring up a very good point with not knowing which upgrades were paid for with stars. I'll figure out a UI solution for it.
As for the other 3 points, it's all things we were already planning to address in some way or another!
Great work! Love the slick style. Very smooth experience!
Loved the game. Very entertaining. Keep up the solid work.
wow, this is great! the minimalist gameplay and presentation feels super sleek, polished, and professional. will you be in the upcoming June Next Fest? your demo is totally steam ready imo
Thank you! We'll put the demo on Steam as well, but we're going to miss the June Next Fest unfortunately (registrations closed a while back)
bummer! there should be one in the fall anyways. registrations also recently closed for a third-party steam festival called Short Games Showcase that runs from August 4th - August 11th, but you could try sending an email if that's something you're interested in; i don't think they've made their selection yet. either way your game has wonderful bones, and it looks like the itch algorithm is loving it! excited to see how Outhold develops
Ah, too bad we missed the submission date for that as well, but I sent an email either way to see if they could allow us to sneak in either way. Appreciate the shoutout, it looks like a great festival!
hehe i'd just be happy to see your game do well, it's such a polished first build. i swear i'm not just a machine that generates steam festival suggestions but you should probably check out Tiny Teams as well 😭 just living vicariously since i'm not sure i can get a steam page approved fast enough
That one we actually have covered and have submitted for! Our previous game was actually featured in Tiny Teams 2024, let's hope we can be as lucky this time around.
Cant wait for the official release, was a very fun game to play!! :)
Thanks!
This game is so addictive the upgrade buttons are also very satisfying can't wait for more content!
I'm glad to hear!
i beat the final level with only 1 tower down, i maxed out, used multicrit with archer tower and coin cannon to defend the swarms and boss
That's neat!
Great game. I'd add a toggle for auto upgrade once you buy the perk. It's not always preferable to upgrade when you want to add a new tower
Yeah this has been suggested a lot, I'll make sure to add one 👍
Looks good, works good. I enjoyed it! Cursor's a little slow though.
Thanks! I'll try to improve the web performance a bit over the coming days
It's very slick. I love the visual and audio style. I'm normally one of those people that immediately mutes a game, but I haven't felt the need to with this one.
It'd be nice to have some way to toggle the auto-upgrades once purchased, though.
you can right click the upgrade to remove it, but i agree, it should be toggleable in game
Good job! It’s really enjoyable.
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very incomplete, very little visible mechanics, the camera and stuff is a mess, no tutorial, stats can't be seen so can't know how much an upgrade does, and so on,
overall, trash game, 1 star, got more flaws than relevant features
Really satisfying game. Love the visual style and all the little audio pops and blips too.
🙏
The start scales a bit too slow it feels, and sadly mark does not work with multi-shot (does not fire it's second shot if a marked target is in range), but it seems like a nice game and would hope to see more on it here - Good luck
Hey, there indeed seems to be a bug with the mark ability disabling the second arrow from being shot, I’ll fix this first thing tomorrow
Super clean and minimal. The UI, UX, assets, and visual style, it's all smooth, easy on the eyes, and satisfying. Easy to grasp without being boring. Looking forward to more!
Glad you liked it!
Good game here
Thanks for playing!
I was about to finish the game when I accidentally softlocked myself by trying to enter the 4th level. Otherwise, what a game!
Thank you! This bug should be fixed now
Pretty cool!
Thank you!
Great f*cking game !
Thanks :)