PoliGuard Unblocked
Seven glowing shapes, one zigzag road, and waves that never stop getting harder.
What is PoliGuard?
PoliGuard is a never-ending defense game drawn with simple neon shapes. You build seven kinds of turrets next to a zigzag route, and each upgrade you buy boosts all turrets of that kind at once. Waves keep growing in number, health and speed, so the goal is to rack up as many points as possible before losing ten lives.
- Category
- Strategy Games
- Players
- 1 player
- Plays on
- Desktop / Chromebook
- Input
- Mouse, Keyboard
- Made by
- Ion Mateus
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PoliGuard is tower defense drawn with a geometry set. Crimson attackers trudge along a bright orange route that snakes back and forth across a dark board, and your defenses are automatic turrets shaped like stars, boxes, five-sided badges and rhombuses. What sets it apart is how upgrades work: you do not improve a single tower, you improve an entire tower type. That one rule nudges you toward a focused build instead of a sprinkle of everything. You can play PoliGuard unblocked on any desktop browser, with keyboard shortcuts for quick building.
Running a Defense
Your purse holds 100 coins at the start, and ten leaks will end the run. Choose a turret with the number keys or the sidebar, then click any free square off the route. The placement preview glows green on a legal square and turns red when you cannot build there.
Wave one is just five attackers. Clear a wave and a bar counts down five seconds to the next. Every new wave is bigger, tougher and quicker than the one before, and the coins and points each kill pays also climb as the wave number rises.
Any attacker that completes the route takes away a life. Since the waves never run out, you are playing for a personal best. The tenth leak shows your final points and offers a fresh start.
The seven towers
The roster runs Basic, Fast, Strong, Sniper, Explosive, Ice and Poison, each with a distinct cost and outline. Every type can be improved in damage, reach and attack speed, and the last three also get an extra upgrade tied to their special effect.
PoliGuard controls
| To do this | Keyboard | Mouse |
|---|---|---|
| Choose a tower | Number keys 1 to 7 | Click a tower in the left panel |
| Build it | — | Left-click an empty square away from the road |
| Drop the current selection | Escape | — |
| Sell towers back for part of the price | Delete toggles remove mode | Click "Remove", then click a tower |
| Buy upgrades for a tower type | — | Click the "i" button on a tower card |
| Change which enemy a tower aims at | — | Right-click the tower |
| Zoom and move around the map | — | Scroll wheel to zoom, drag to pan |
| Pause or adjust the speed | — | Click "Pause", then 0.5x, 1x or 2x |
Building a Lasting Defense
The road turns eight times. Corners are your best real estate, because a tower placed inside a bend can fire at enemies on both sides of the turn.
Your starting coins buy exactly two Basic Towers. That is a solid opener and handles the first waves with no fuss.
From there, pick a core. A common one is Ice plus a damage tower. Anything hit by Ice moves at half pace for a few seconds, which hands neighboring turrets extra shots. Add Explosive towers as waves start bunching up, since splash damage hits whole groups.
Right-click a Sniper and switch its priority to Strongest, so each heavy round lands on the beefiest target it can reach. You can also choose closest or weakest.
Sell sparingly. A removed turret returns seven tenths of its base cost and nothing for upgrades, so even a well-upgraded Basic Tower hands back just 35 coins.
Finally, use Pause freely. The game lets you study cards, buy upgrades and drop to half speed while frozen, which is ideal before a big wave.
Similar Picks
PoliGuard is a good fit for players who like tinkering with builds and chasing a personal best. Its type-wide upgrades feel different from the per-tower leveling of Canvas Tower Defense, and the hexagon map of Hex Formation offers a shorter, fixed-length challenge.
PoliGuard: questions players ask
What is the best tower in PoliGuard?
No tower wins alone. Ice slows attackers briefly, which makes every other turret more effective. Explosive towers handle the crowds of later waves, and a Sniper set to target the strongest enemy deals with tanky foes. Pick two or three and invest.
Do upgrades carry over to new towers?
Yes. Buying an upgrade on a card improves all turrets of that kind, including ones you build afterward. That is why committing to a few favorite types works better than buying one of everything.
Does PoliGuard have an ending?
No. It is endless. Each wave adds enemies with more health and speed, and kill rewards grow too. The run ends when ten enemies have slipped through and your lives reach zero.
Why does PoliGuard not work on my phone?
It is designed for a desktop. Targeting needs a right-click, zoom uses the scroll wheel and shortcuts need keys, none of which exist on a touchscreen. The tower sidebar also eats a permanent slice of the screen.
Credits and license
PoliGuard was created by Ion Mateus and released as open source. FreezeNova hosts a lightly adapted copy on its own server, together with the original license file.
- Source code: github.com/IonMateus (original project)
- Code license: MIT
- Art & audio: MIT (shapes drawn in code; emoji icons come from your system font)
- Our changes: We swapped the online style and font services for a local stylesheet, removed two outbound buttons, repaired broken upgrade, sell and targeting code, and fit the board to the player.
