Glyph Guard

Summon soldiers made of Chinese characters, merge them, and hold the city wall against waves of ink demons pouring down from the mountains.

Spend ink to summon a basic character, then drag two identical ones together to merge them into the next tier. The merge tree follows how the characters are actually built: 人 + 人 = 从, 从 + 从 = 众. You don't need to read Chinese to play. Matching shapes is all it takes, and the first merge is walked through for you.

Features

• Five character families (Person, Tree, Fire, Sun, Soil), each with its own attack: ink arrows, slowing thorns, splash fireballs, a light beam that hits a whole column, and soil that earns extra ink.
• Merge to tier 3, then combine two tier-3 characters into a gold-sealed tier 4.
• Line up three characters of one family in a row to trigger a proverb banner and a speed boost for that row.
• 15 waves with a boss on waves 5, 10 and 15. Clear the game on Normal to unlock Hard.
• A dictionary collects all 20 characters as you discover them, with pinyin and English meanings.
• Ink-wash art, an original soundtrack, and English or Chinese interface. A run takes about 4 to 6 minutes (3 on 2x speed).

Controls

Mouse or touch: tap Summon, drag characters to merge, move or swap. Keyboard: Space, F, Esc.

Made with AI-assisted tools (code, art and audio generated with AI, then curated and tested by the developer).

Controls

• Mouse: click Summon; click-and-drag a character to merge, move or swap.
• Touch: tap Summon; press and drag a character to merge, move or swap.
• Keyboard: Space = summon, F = toggle 1x/2x speed, Esc = pause.

Made with AI-assisted tools (code, art and audio generated with AI, then curated and tested by the developer).