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.
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.
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.
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?
AI workers stack sandbags, build walls and pumps, and patch your trenches. You have a shovel, charges and a river.
“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.
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.
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.