Honeypot: Tower Defense

A cyber tower defense. Waves of threats climb toward your core: firewalls, honeypots and blacklists to stop them. Every run builds a new network.

An alert comes in. A network is under attack, and you are the security team.

Honeypot is a defence game where you protect an infrastructure against waves of malware. Worms, trojans, botnets, ransomware: every threat behaves differently and demands a different answer.

ONE BREACH, ONE RUN No endless campaign. A breach lasts about ten minutes, from the first suspicious packet to the last. The network route is generated every run, so no position learned by heart ever serves you twice.

PERMANENT ALERT An endless mode with no finish line. Waves keep arriving, tougher each time, until your core gives out. The only question is how far you last, and the Game Center leaderboard keeps the answer.

ONE REINFORCEMENT TO PICK Every three waves you are offered three cards and keep one. A new defence, a heuristic analysis, an emergency budget. That choice decides your run, not your memory of the level.

SIX DEFENCES, SIX ROLES

• Firewall: reliable, cheap, one target at a time
• IDS probe: splash damage, wide reach
• Honeypot: a lure that pulls the big threats in and corrodes them
• Rate limiter: throttles the flow, slows a whole stream
• Sandbox: quarantines a target
• Blacklist: long range precision, costly and devastating

PLACEMENT MATTERS Defences help each other. A honeypot holds whatever walks past it, so its neighbours hit harder. An IDS probe feeds targeting to its own, which cut deeper through armour. Lining up turrets is not enough: they have to be composed.

BETWEEN BREACHES Every run pays in fragments, cleared or not, and the further you go the more it pays. They buy permanent upgrades: a tougher core, a wider starting budget, better salvage.

Playable offline. No account. Your progress stays on your device.