Hold the Levee
Dig trenches, raise levees, stack sandbags and build dams, then watch what the water does. Hold the Levee is a game about real water physics: seepage, undermined walls, flood waves, ice jams and 24 missions, from defending a town to flooding villages guarded by the AI.
About
Water always finds a way
Hold the Levee simulates water on every cell of the map: it runs downhill, fills hollows, pushes against levees
and seeps through embankments. Every trench changes the river's course, every levee can leak, and every dam can break.
Campaign: 24 missions
Trenches, mills and turbines: make power from the difference in water levels.
A flood wave: sandbags, levees and pumps before the water reaches the village.
A storm on the coast, a cascade of dams, a flood in a medieval city.
A valley with a railway: culverts under the embankment, a polder, debris on the bridge piers and trains on schedule.
Winter: the river freezes, and in the thaw the floes pile up into an ice jam under the bridge.
Roles reversed: you are the water. Breach the levee and flood the town hall defended by an AI crew.
Defend the Village
The river rises higher every time. Between waves you have time and a budget: levees, walls, gates, pumps.
The forecast shows when the water from the mountains will arrive. The village grows with every wave you survive — how long can you hold?
Flood the Village
AI workers stack sandbags, build walls and pumps, and patch your trenches. You have a shovel, charges and a river.
Two players
“Water vs Defender”: one player floods the town hall, the other defends it.
“Defend Together”: a shared budget against ever higher waves.
Take turns at one computer or play online with a Steam friend.
Sandbox and map editor
Every tool with no limits: raise and lower terrain, add water, send a storm to the mountains or a hard frost.
Share a finished map with a short code — friends paste it in and play on your landscape.
Also
Daily challenge: the same random valley for every player, with a Steam leaderboard.
Steam leaderboards for every mission (who saved the town for the least money?).
Replay of the last 20 seconds and GIF export with one key.
Undo (Ctrl+Z) with a refund.
Steam Workshop: community maps, missions, rule mods and translations.
102 Steam achievements.
English, Polish, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian and Simplified Chinese.
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Achievements
Dig your first cubic metre of earth.
Dig a total of 1,000 m³ of earth.
Dig a total of 10,000 m³ of earth.
Pour 100 m³ of concrete.
Dig a ditch that water flows through.
Place your first charge.
Complete 9 campaign missions.
Complete every campaign mission.
System requirements
Minimum OS: Windows 10 64-bit Processor: Dual Core 2.5 GHz Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Any with Direct3D 11 / OpenGL 3.3 DirectX: Version 11 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 400 MB available space Recommended Processor: Quad Core 3 GHz Memory: 8 GB RAM DirectX: Version 11 Network: Broadband Internet connection