Hold Your
Ground
Last circle standing wins.
A real-time multiplayer arena brawler. Up to 10 players drop in as armed circles, swing wooden swords for damage and knockback, and survive a horde of 100 zombies that merge into bigger, deadlier forms. Hold your ground — or get shoved out.
- 10
- Players / match
- 100
- Zombies in arena
- 1
- Circle left standing
Survive the circle. Survive the horde.
Hold Your Ground mixes top-down sumo brawling with a PvE zombie threat. You fight players and AI in the same arena — every swing, shove, and merge changes the match.
Last circle standing
Up to 10 players spawn into a 3200×2400 arena as colored circles. Run into someone and physics shoves them — knock a rival's HP to zero and they're eliminated. Be the last circle left to win.
Wooden sword combat
Your only weapon is a wooden sword. Swing to deal damage and knockback along the blade, shoving enemies into the horde or off the fight. Base swing deals 5 damage on an 800ms cooldown — the sword swings faster.
The merging horde
100 zombies roam the arena and chase the nearest target. When two collide they merge into a higher-level zombie — combining their level and health into something tougher. Strays even call others over to merge.
Top killer wears gold
Every sword kill and zombie kill counts toward your score. The player with the most kills gets a gold ring around their circle for everyone to see — and the live leaderboard tracks HP, kills, and rank in real time.
Armed circle. 100 HP, wooden sword, mouse-aimed swings.
Chases the nearest target. Merges on contact into higher levels.
Bigger, heavier, more HP. The merged horde's final form.
100 zombies. They get bigger.
Every zombie in Hold Your Ground is drawn from the same three sprite pieces — a head and two hands — rotated and scaled in real time. When two zombies meet, they merge into a single higher-level zombie; at level 6 and up they mutate into the heavier T2 form.
Levels add together, health combines, and at level 6+ the zombie swaps to its bigger T2 art. The longer the match runs, the nastier the horde gets.
Zombie · T1 (Lv 1–5)
Zombie · T2 (Lv 6+)
The Wooden Sword
Your one and only weapon. A simple wooden blade you swing with the mouse — its hitbox runs from hilt to tip, so positioning matters as much as timing.
- +5Attack damage
- −200msAttack speed (faster)
- 800msBase swing cooldown
Join the Hold Your Ground playtest
Be first in the arena when matches open. Drop your email to get playtest invites and launch updates — no spam, just beta keys and dates.
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