Karvan

A gigantic tree grew a few years ago, many are exploring it and exploiting the incredible resources that grow there, be the first to send a caravan all the way up, or die trying.

To do so, send a caravan with some troops to escort it and start ascending.
You travel the day and the night the resources appear. But the night, enemies will also attack you. And there are mercyless
Prepare your troops, place some defenses and when the fight start make your choice: protect your wagons or take risk and collect more resources.
If you survive long enough, you'll reach a town. Yes you're still in a tree and yes it's big enough to fit a town, 7 towns to be precise.
In this towns you also need to do choices, continue and take more risk and resources or climb down and save your resources to build a camp that grants permanent bonus and try a new ascent with better stuff.

Karvan is a tactical roguelite game. The path to reach the top is generate procedurally as well as the hexagonal maps where you'll fight every night for your life and for the glory.

Build your Camp

With the resources you collect in the tree you can upgrade your miserable camp into something more awesome and useful.
To reach the top, upgrading is mandatory. The upgrade are various and each one is represented by a new building, you'll see your camp grow, from a little tent to a gorgeous castle.

Prepare the Ascent

At the start of each ascent, you'll choose which wagons and weapons to take.
With the right upgrade in the camp you'll access to better wagons, more troops and better weapons.

Prepare the Fight

After the travel during the day you'll have to install your defense and place your troops. You'll discovers the map as there are generate procedurally. Use the torchs to see further, the barricades to block annoying path that enemies could use.
Then choose the troops you want to fight and equip them with the weapon you've aquired.

Survive the Night

During the night, you can collect the resources needed to upgrade your camp. But a troop that collect is a troop that not fight.
If a wagon is destroyed or if all the soldiers of a troops is killed it's lost for the rest of the ascent.
Manage your troops in real time, use their capacity, move them around and try to kill the more ennemies you can before they submerge you by their number.

Bless the Town

If you last enough night eventually you'll reach a town. You can replenish your caravan and continue or abandon the ascent and keep your resources
In town you can buy mercenaries troops, sell and buy weapons, repare the wagons and pay a taxe to use an elevator to start the next ascents in the current town