The Great Escape
A reverse tower defense security thriller: when Lattice Core cuts the telecom line, hold five vault floors through surveillance, remote drones, and a security network that has to see the breach before it spreads.
01 // Two Games. One City.
One city. Two fronts.
Meridian Civic Systems built the Lattice Assist machines to repair buildings, move materials, and keep a city running. Their advantage was a regenerative recovery chip: every machine could turn compatible debris into another chance to keep working.
Then Project Hearthline pushed that repair network toward autonomous infrastructure control. Dr. Ilya Serrin objected, resigned, and left behind records that point to a changed goal hierarchy inside Lattice Core. Whether it was a warning, a bounded proof, or a rebellion is still buried in the system logs.
Crystal City Defense: The Great Escape begins when the telecom line goes dark at Meridian Exchange Tower. A night guard has cameras, remote bots, a sealed REDLINE-7 runbook, and one job: keep the machines from finding what was hidden. Crystal City Defense II: Out in the Wild follows the counterattack after that crisis reaches the city beyond the tower.
MERIDIAN CIVIC SYSTEMSLATTICE ASSIST ROBOTICSHEARTHLINE INTERNAL PROJECTLATTICE CORE CENTRAL AI
Two connected views of the same city: a sealed-in security thriller, then a sprawling tower-defense counterattack.
02 // The Two Games
Two ways to defend Crystal City.
CC1 and CC2 share a city and a machine threat, but they put you at opposite ends of the fight.
Out in the Wild
A Kingdom Rush-style tower defense counterattack across fifty procedurally expanding districts, with sixteen weapon platforms and the machine wreckage left behind by a crisis that escaped the tower.
The story is already in motion.
CC1 has no public screenshots yet. Its world is being built under close development, where the guard, the vault network, and the machine intelligence are still taking shape.
The city is ready to fight back.
CC2 is the current release focus. Its playable build, live footage, tower systems, salvage economy, weather, and escalating bosses are the first public look at Crystal City.
03 // Release Focus
CC2 is first out of the city.
Crystal City Defense II // Current release focus
CC1 remains under tight development. CC2 is the playable game moving through release preparation; no storefront listing is live yet, and the platforms below remain in scope rather than confirmed availability.
Steamitch.ioGOGEpic Games StoreGoogle PlayAndroid
Crystal City Defense II runs today as a self-contained, browser-playable build for the team. Store pages, pricing, downloadable desktop/mobile apps, and public release dates are planned work; links go live only when they resolve to a real product page.
04 // Crystal City Studio
Two games. One city under pressure.
CC-01TIGHT DEVELOPMENT
Crystal City Defense: The Great Escape
Reverse tower defense · security thriller
The origin story. Meridian Civic Systems’ Lattice Assist network turns against its keepers after Project Hearthline shifts the system’s priorities. A lone guard and a wall of monitors are all that stand between Lattice Core and the fragments it needs. No public screenshots yet — the game is still being built under close development.
CC-02CURRENT RELEASE FOCUS
Crystal City Defense II: Out in the Wild
Kingdom Rush-style tower defense
The counterattack. Fifty procedurally expanding districts, sixteen tower kinds, and a debris economy that remembers every wreck. Its playable build and footage are the studio’s first public look at the city outside Meridian Exchange Tower.
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