Skel and Defense: Roguelike

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594 reviews
Content rating
Teen
10K+
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Content rating
Teen
Violence, Blood
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About this game

Build the dungeon. Set the traps. Let the heroes come. 💀

Skel and Defense is a dungeon defense roguelike where you are the villain. Expand your lair room by room, fill it with deadly traps, and stand alone as a lowly skeleton against wave after wave of so-called heroes who think your treasure is theirs.

⚔️ Play the Dungeon Master, Not the Hero
Every dungeon crawler has a monster waiting in the dark. This time, it's you. By night, expand your dungeon and lay out your traps. By day, hold the line as heroes pour through the gates. Build, defend, repeat — and watch a humble crypt grow into a fortress no party can clear.

💣 26 Trap Rooms, Endless Combinations
Fireball, Lava Zone, Frost Mist, Icicle, Saw Blade, Poison Arrow, Electro Field and more — 26 trap rooms with their own effects, all waiting to be chained together. Stack rooms of the same element to unlock powerful synergies: chill intruders until they freeze in place, then set them ablaze. Poison them in a corridor they can't escape. The layout is yours. The heroes just have to survive it.

☠️ Transform Into Skel Warriors
Traps aren't your only weapon. Transform into skeleton warriors and take the fight to the invaders yourself: mage skels hurling fireballs from the back line, rogue skels flinging shurikens, shield skels raising barriers on the front line. When a trap isn't enough, finish the job in person.

🏆 7 Stages, Endless Mode and Global Rankings
Battle through seven stages, each with its own rewards, then push into Endless Mode, where the waves keep getting tougher. How deep can your dungeon go? Register a nickname in Options to join the ranking competition and see where you stand against the world.

🍀 30+ Perks — No Two Runs Alike
Before each stage, choose from more than 30 perks: powerful buffs, or risky debuffs that raise your bonus score. Go all-in on traps, lean on your Skel, or mix both. Every run plays differently, and every choice matters.

💪 Grow Stronger Run After Run
Clear waves, earn attribute points, and unlock permanent upgrades that make the next run even deadlier. Dig into the Collection to uncover hidden synergies, new rooms and powerful artifacts — there's always one more secret to find.

🎮 Full Controller Support
Prefer a gamepad? Every screen — from building rooms and picking perks to shopping, warping and browsing the Collection — works with a controller, with on-screen button prompts to guide you. Look around your dungeon with the right stick, then switch back to touch anytime.

🏰 Premium Dungeon Defense, Built to Be Replayed
Short sessions, deep strategy and a loop that keeps pulling you back for one more wave. Cloud save keeps your progress safe, and the game is available in 13 languages. Also available with Google Play Pass.

Perfect for fans of tower defense, roguelike and roguelite games, dungeon builder and base defense games, and survivor-style action.

The heroes are already on their way. Download Skel and Defense and show them who really rules the dungeon. 🏰
Expand your dungeon, set deadly traps, and stop the invading heroes!
Updated on
Oct 19, 2026

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  • No data shared with third parties
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  • This app may collect these data types
    Location, App activity and 2 others
  • Data isn’t encrypted
  • Data can’t be deleted

Ratings and reviews

567 reviews
Johnny
April 18, 2026
Controlling one defender in a tower defence, where the main focus should probably be a traps, is certainly a choice. Because of this, game leans more into action aspect than strategic. The gameplay loop is there, but it needs more polishing. Not being able to see beyond one room seems weird. Also couldn't figure out how to swap rooms without destroying it first. The button cancel in room building(i think) has a misspelling.
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mariohw 85
September 11, 2026
games it's kinda boring limited dungeon build almost no strategy no wonder you hide the review
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William Ang
June 27, 2024
So far , so-so I played the game for around 1-3 hrs, so I wrote this based on my short experience with the game. I like the idea of combining survivor's genre with TD, while using it's own aesthetic. The gameplay is nice and engaging. I don't understand why dev have the warp cooldown on building/buying phase,it ruins the gameplay. If you want to balance / maybe limit players then let it use cooldown in attacking phase only., please consider it a bit. Also fix hit box around character. Thx.
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What’s new

✨ New
- Gamepad (controller) support
- Cloud save/load (Options)
- Drag the minimap to look around other rooms
- Italian, Portuguese, Vietnamese, Indonesian and Thai
🔧 Changes
- Frost synergy tier 2 (4 Frost rooms): Frozen Duration +1s
- Shorter interaction wait (trap rooms, etc.)
- No Warp cooldown during the build phase
🐞 Fixes
- Stuck on first loading on some devices
- Rest of the intro not playing after minimizing the app
- Skills always firing left when used while standing still