Last Gate

The dead are at the gate. Six heroines stand between them and everything behind it.

Last Gate is a dark, painterly zombie-defense roguelike that runs right in your browser, on desktop or phone. Command your squad in front of a single center gate, gun down grotesque hordes, and decide how to spend every coin, card and relic between waves. Survive 100+ stages, then keep going in Endless mode.

Features

• Six heroines, six playstyles: Vera Voss (rifle sniper), Roxie Kane (shotgun brawler), plus Lila, Nyx, Sable and Wren, each with her own tap ability.
• Hold the gate across 100+ stages of escalating waves, wave twists, mid-stage events and real bosses with attack patterns. Beat the final stage and push on in Endless mode.
• Roguelike runs: a branching map between stages (Fight, Elite, Shop, Rest, Mystery, Treasure), a random shop with reroll and lock, a pick-a-card reward after every stage, cursed deals, rare relics and starting loadouts.
• Heroine cards with depth: flip each card for stats, bio and abilities. Level up in a run and pick traits, build permanent bonds, and unlock duo combos between heroines.
• Late-game money sinks: Black Market, heroine promotions, gate fortification and placeable defenses (Barricade, Spike Trap, Flame Barrel, Watchtower, Tesla Coil).
• Overdrive: charge a squad-wide ultimate and turn the tide.
• Stage objectives, achievements and medals for extra goals.
• Daily Run: a seeded challenge with local records.
• Cute and spooky outfits for every heroine, with their own portraits and walk animations.
• Autosave and resume: pick your run back up where you left off.
• Three difficulties: Easy, Normal or Hard, picked per run on the title screen (the Daily Run is always Normal).
• Settings that matter: separate Music and Effects volume, screen shake on/off, a Reduce flashes mode, fullscreen, and a reset-all-progress button that asks twice.
• Guided tour: a skippable 30-second tour on your first run, replayable any time from How to play.
• Mobile-friendly: touch controls and a portrait layout that fits phones from 360 px wide, plus keyboard and mouse on desktop.

How to play

Touch

• Drag to move your squad around the gate.
• Tap a heroine's ability button to fire her special.
• Open the shop to hire, upgrade and fortify between and during waves (the game pauses while it's open).
• Tap a heroine card to view her stats, flip it for her bio, pick traits and choose an outfit.
• Pick a card after each stage and choose your route on the map.

Keyboard and mouse

• Drag with the mouse to move the squad (double-click a heroine to let her roam again); click abilities, cards and buttons.
• Space: start the wave from the shop phase, then pause or resume once it is running
• P: pause or resume
• S or B: open or close the shop
• 1–6: fire that heroine's ability during a wave (on the title screen or inside a card, pick that heroine's card)
• Shift + 1–6: open that heroine's card any time
• ← → browse heroine cards, F flips an open card
• O: Overdrive when the meter is full
• X: reroll shop stock
• M: mute
• F: fullscreen (when no card is open)
• Esc: close the top menu or card, or pause
• R: restart (asks first)

Controls at a glance

Action	Touch	Keyboard / Mouse
Move squad	Drag a heroine	Click and drag
Use ability	Tap her face in the bottom bar	1–6
Pause	Pause button	P or Space
Start wave	START WAVE button	Space
Shop	SHOP button	S or B
Heroine card	Tap a heroine (or hold her face)	Shift + 1–6
Overdrive	OVERDRIVE button	O
Mute	Sound button	M
Fullscreen	Fullscreen button (title or Settings)	F

Good to know

• Your progress is saved in your browser's local storage on this device. Clearing site data resets it, and itch.io's page may not keep it if your browser blocks third-party storage (the game still plays; progress then lasts for the session).
• Best played in a modern desktop or mobile browser. Use the fullscreen button for the biggest view.

Credits

Game design, code and direction by Bill Gasper (gavenecko). Artwork was made with AI image tools, then cut out, animated and wired in by hand. Music: six instrumental tracks by gavenecko, made with Suno (AI music). Sound effects supplied by gavenecko. Title font: Passion One (SIL Open Font License). Full list on the in-game Credits screen.