Beehive Bloom Defense

What you do

Beehive Bloom Defense is a cozy tower defense game across four painted gardens. Pests walk a winding path toward the flower bed by the beehive cottage, and you stop them with helpers planted on tree stumps: bee hives, lavender, sprinklers, compost bins, scarecrows and sunflowers. Every helper upgrades once and then picks one of two specialties, so a Bee Hive becomes a Royal Hive that pierces armor or a Swarm Hive that stings three pests at once. Armored beetles, aphid swarms, crows that fly straight over everything, moths and tunneling moles each need a different answer, and each garden ends with a boss.

• Four gardens with their own paths: Clover Meadow (10 waves), Orchard Lane (12), Moonlit Pond (12) and Rose Maze (15), each ending with a boss: the Big Bad Weed, the Crow King, the Old Mole and the Beetle Baron.
• Six helpers with clear jobs: Bee Hives sting one pest at a time, Lavender slows the ground, Sprinklers splash everything around them, Compost Bins make nectar, Scarecrows hit flyers three times as hard, and Sunflowers make neighbors attack faster.
• Twelve specialties: each helper upgrades to level 2, then chooses one of two, such as Royal Hive or Swarm Hive, Rain Cannon or Mist Ring, Hawk Scarecrow or Wind Chime. A specialized helper can then grow to Full Bloom.
• A new garden for each one you save, and an endless mode for every cleared garden.
• The garden fills the screen on a phone held either way, on a tablet or on a computer.

How to play

1. Pick a garden and press Play. Pests will walk the path toward the flower bed by the beehive cottage.
2. Tap an empty tree stump to open the helper ring. Tap a helper once to see its reach and what it does, then tap it again to plant it. With a mouse, point at a helper to see it and click to plant.
3. Check the wave preview at the bottom, then press Start wave 1. Each pest that reaches the flower bed takes one or more of your 20 blooms.
4. Defeated pests give nectar. Tap a planted helper to upgrade it to level 2, then choose one of its two specialties, then Full Bloom. You can also sell a helper there.
5. After each wave has arrived, a countdown starts. Press the wave button early for bonus nectar, or use the time to build.
6. Keep blooms until the last wave and its boss are gone to save the garden: 18 or more blooms earn three stars, 10 or more earn two.

Controls

• Touch: tap a stump or helper to open its ring, tap a choice to see it, tap it again to confirm.
• Mouse: click a stump or helper; point at a choice to see it and click to confirm. Selling always asks for a second click.
• Keyboard: arrow keys move between stumps, Enter opens one, number keys pick a choice and Enter confirms, Space starts or calls the next wave, F changes speed, Escape closes the ring or opens the garden menu.
• The garden menu button (three lines) pauses and offers Restart this garden or Back to the gardens, each with a confirmation.
• Shared toolbar: pause, restart, sound, help and fullscreen.

Tips worth knowing

• Stumps inside a bend reach two stretches of path at once. Start with a Bee Hive there.
• Sprinkler splash pierces armor. Put one where beetles will bunch up, or specialize a hive into a Royal Hive.
• Crows ignore the path and fly a straight line to the flowers, shown as a dashed line before they come. Put a Scarecrow beside that line.
• Lavender does nothing on its own. Plant it where your hives and sprinklers already reach so pests stay in range longer.
• Moles skip the stretch between two molehills. Defend where they come up, or plant Dream Lavender over the tunnel to keep them above ground.
• A Compost Bin early pays for itself in about two waves. Build it once your first helpers can hold the path.
• Before the first wave, selling gives back everything you spent, so try layouts freely.

Accessibility

• Everything can be played with the keyboard: arrow keys, Enter, number keys, Space and F.
• Touch choices always take two taps, so a stray tap never spends nectar, and selling always asks to confirm.
• Speed can stay at 1x, the game pauses with the toolbar or the garden menu, and nothing happens before you start the first wave.
• Screen readers hear new waves, new pests, builds and blooms lost. Reduced motion turns off bobbing, shaking and drifting effects.
• Instructions and controls are available as page text outside the game.

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