Daily Challenge

New

• Daily Challenge: one new challenge every day, the same for everyone. A fixed race, map and seed, 25 waves on Normal (about 20–30 minutes), sometimes with a small twist. Free players can play every daily, whatever the race
• The daily has its own leaderboard: your best attempt of the day counts, and you can try as often as you like
• Streaks: play the daily on consecutive days to build your streak. Sign in to keep it across devices
• Winter Plains, Dark Forest and Dungeon Depths get grand new landmarks: a snowbound fort gatehouse, ice-cave spawn gates and northern hall houses; a log outpost gatehouse and root-wrapped shrines; carved dungeon gates with portcullises, a dwarven gatehouse and a fallen king's statue
• New sounds for every terrain: wind and vultures in the desert, wolves, crows and creaking ice in winter, owls and creaking wood in the dark forest, drips, chains and lava in the dungeon. Spawn portals now hum while they're open and whoosh as each creep steps out

Balance

• Difficulty: Easy is gentler (creeps have less HP). Hard now gives you 20 lives (was 15). Nightmare is still the hardest, but no longer hopeless: 12 lives (was 5) and slightly less creep HP. Normal is unchanged

Improvements

• The home screen fits every window size: panels no longer overlap on smaller screens, and narrow windows and phones get a single scrolling column