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Trotline

PrototypeFishing tower defensecatch rate = zone × habitat × bait × reel

These games are built for a keyboard and mouse. On a phone, save the link and play on a computer.

You don't buy towers here. You catch them. Fish from the dock, then sell each catch or put it in the water to guard the smokehouse.

Thieves walk the road toward your smokehouse. Your defenders are what you pull out of the water: fish from the dock, then sell each catch or deploy it to guard the shore. Bait lures pull fish in, chum draws gulls and bears out where your rays can reach them.

A season is 12 waves. Send boats (a rowboat, a skiff and a trawler) to fish where you point them and bring the catch back to the live well. Every catch rate comes from one formula you can read: the zone, where the line sits, the bait, and the reel.

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