Protolife

Protolife is an unique tower-based strategy game which gives you a direct control over the builder robot in a struggle against the hungry proto-life organism.

Protolife is a tower defense, pixel graphics and rts game developed and published by Volcanic Giraffe.
Released on June 15th 2018 is available on Windows and MacOS in 2 languages: English and Russian.

It has received 455 reviews of which 391 were positive and 64 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.0 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 11.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Protolife into these genres:

Tower Defense Pixel Graphics RTS Strategy Base-Building Indie Sci-fi Singleplayer Aliens Top-Down Retro Atmospheric Dark

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS *: Windows 7 or later
Processor: 2.7 GHz
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 2.0 support, 256 MB VRAM
Storage: 500 MB available space
Additional Notes: Minimum resolution: 1280 x 720

MacOS

OS: Mac OS X 10
Processor: 2.7 GHz
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: 256 MB VRAM
Storage: 500 MB available space
Additional Notes: Minimum resolution: 1280 x 720

Reviews

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Jan. 2025

Absolutely amazing little game. A masterpiece that we should have more of.

Nov. 2024

A seriously fun game with lots of thought needed. The campaign is fun but then they got campaign plus which is nice but also a mode that's super fun and allows you to make your own buildings that you need to unlock parts with also different qualities in parts. Well worth the price and no question if discounted. The gameplay is quite unique and hard to put in a category besides one of the useless broad ones now so i would say it's pretty on its own. Level editor and the other mode besides campaign being randomly generate leaves huge amount of gameplay. Nice gem to play and something i do actually love.

Oct. 2024

Awesome little strategy game with a feeling of overwhelming odds. It was fantastic.

Sept. 2024

I have had this on my wishlist for a long time but never jumped in until recently, and now i regret waiting so long! Protolife is not something i have ever seen before. If anything it is closest to an RTS, but you wont be playing multiplayer here. Also the unique twist is that you Have to control a little drone which can ONLY do 5 things: Move, Place Crystals/blocks, Pickup Crystals, Deconstruct blocks. Just that is enough to create a really complex set of building rules that allows you to make as many and as varying buildings as in any other RTS. There are no units, only blocks and crystals. At first you play the game with limited amount of blocks, and you must then make sure to move each turret around into range of the red goop you must kill to win the level. But the more the game progresses, the more cool block formations you unlock and even then, you never get buildings that will outclass previous structures. Later levels get really really challenging, and it is almost too much sometimes, but i am still struggling on. I am typically playing on Steamdeck because you can use the FPS settings to slow the game down and thus make the game easier.

May 2024

Protolife is an interesting take on tower defense and strategy genres, pushing the player to make quick decisions under fire. This is a refreshing view from the usual 'set up tower, wait to get paid, rinse and repeat'. I completed the campaign in about 8 hours and have been enjoying the experiments and custom tower creation process. In short, I'd recommend this one and if you enjoyed similar titles such as Creeper World, this one might be right up your alley.

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11.99€

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Developer

Volcanic Giraffe

Publisher

Volcanic Giraffe

Release 15 Jun 2018

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