Kritter: Defend Together Is Fix Gaming Channel’s Game of the Week #45

A co-op roguelite that knows chaos is part of the fun

We picked Kritter: Defend Together as Fix Gaming Channel’s Game of the Week #45 because it feels built around the kind of co-op mess that people actually remember. Not fake chaos, not noise for the sake of noise, but the kind where everyone is scrambling, arguing, improvising, and somehow still keeping the base alive. We recently featured the game in our Kritter giveaway post, but it also deserves a proper spotlight of its own.

What stands out here is the mix. This is not just a top-down action game and not just a base defence setup either. It leans into both, and that combination gives it a stronger identity than many co-op indies chasing the same audience. If you enjoy games that are best when friends are working together while also getting in each other’s way, it sits in good company with other co-op picks we’ve covered, including Sunderfolk, even if the tone and structure are very different.

Kritter: Defend Together – Official Trailer

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Why it earns the spotlight

The best thing about Kritter: Defend Together is that it doesn’t sound designed around perfect teamwork. It sounds designed around messy teamwork. That matters. A lot of co-op games say they are fun with friends, but the actual systems punish personality, selfishness, or improvisation. Kritter seems to lean into that tension instead. You can mess around, steal rewards, create confusion, and still be pushed back into survival mode the second the waves start hitting hard.

Kritter: Defend Together characters standing on platforms inside a futuristic room

Characters prepare for battle in Kritter: Defend Together.

Co-op gameplay in Kritter: Defend Together as players defend their base in a desert area

Co-op base defence gameplay in Kritter: Defend Together.

That gives it a stronger social hook than many games in the genre. Base defence adds structure. Roguelite progression adds pressure and replay value. The co-op side gives it life. When those parts click, you do not just get another run-based action game. You get stories, arguments, panic, laughs, and those moments where nobody really knows what is going on anymore but the team somehow survives anyway.

There is also something appealing about the game not sounding overly clean or overly polished in the wrong way. The tone seems playful, the world looks lively, and the team clearly understands that co-op games are often at their best when control starts slipping just enough to become funny without becoming frustrating. That “perfect chaos” line from the devs says a lot on its own.

A few words from the team

Just before release, the team shared a few thoughts on where Kritter came from and what players should expect.

What first sparked the idea behind Kritter: Defend Together?

Well, after releasing our first game, we both had one goal: make the next game a co-op game. The reason was simple, we wanted to create a game that we could play together. And that’s also how things went after. Tom is a big fan of difficult action games like the Fromsoftware ones or action roguelites like Hades. And I, Bastien, love the strategy of base building and base defense. That’s how the game genre came, way before what would really be the gameloop or the narration around it. Kritter would be a Co-op Base Defense Roguelite. It took us a lot of different prototypes before finding the original game loop we have today and that our the demo players enjoyed so much.

What would you say is the biggest hook that sets it apart from other co-op roguelites?

The challenge of defending your base highlights the fact that even if you steal all the rewards from your team mates (which can be really fun), you will still have to play together in a perfect chaos to survive against the hardest waves of enemies. Maybe “a perfect chaos” would have sufficed as an answer 😉

How important was co-op and “friendship chaos” in shaping the gameplay?

We wanted the players to feel really useful to the rest of their team and also to give them the opportunity to appreciate a moment of “no one really understands what is happening, but our base is still alive, which is great!”

What should players especially look forward to in the full release?

So many things. Epic Boss fights bringing an indie version of “absolute cinema” kind of feel. Especially the boss fight of the second act. A narration full of jokes till the post credits screen. A real challenge throughout the entire 3 acts but also in the separated endless mode where the best will fight for the first rank in the leaderboard.