How to play

Pasila has turned, and the 9:00 weekly is still on. Pick the Battle of Pasila in the menu, then your side: two ways to play on the same real streets.

• Upper management: tower defense, from the top floor.
• Rush hour: a pickup truck against the clock.

Upper management

Zombies pour in where the big roads cross the edge of the map and shamble along the real streets toward the office. Build defenses on rooftops to stop them: click or tap a rooftop and pick one from the ring around it. Taller buildings see further. Each zombie that gets through costs lives; lose all 20 and the office falls.

Every zombie you stop pays out, and clearing a wave earns a bonus. Build between waves, then press Space when you're ready for the next one. Selling a tower refunds part of its cost.

Gold dashed lines during the build phase show the next wave's planned street routes.

Defenses

• 
  Salmiakki Turret 50€

  Fires extra-strong salty liquorice. Zombies hate it. So do tourists.

• 
  Black Ice Sprayer 70€

  Turns the street into a Helsinki sidewalk in January. Everyone in range slips.

• 
  Löyly Cannon 120€

  Lobs scalding sauna steam. Splash damage. Someone always throws more water.

The horde

• 
  Zombie Commuter

  Shambles toward the 9:00 weekly out of pure habit. Still has the badge on.

• 
  Late Commuter

  Missed the weekly. Will not miss the next one.

• 
  Rush Hour Brute

  Fused with a rolling suitcase. Very hard to stop.

• 
  The Consultant

  Has a new AI tool to show you. Brings juniors to do the walking.

• 
  The Chairman

  Golden parachute. Restructures when cornered.

Difficulty

• I'm Too Young to Commute

  Remote work day. The zombies are only half as bad, and the coffee is free.

• Hey, Not Too Rush Hour

  Fewer commuters. Half of them are working from the summer cottage.

• Hurt Me Plenty (Mondays)

  The normal commute. Bring your own umbrella.

• Ultra-Overtime

  The horde no longer fits in a shapefile. Expect more of everyone, and faster.

• Nightmare! (Invalid Geometry)

  Fast, relentless, and they keep coming back. Like topology errors after every fix.

Controls

↑/↓

Choose the difficulty, on the briefing

Click

Open the ring of defenses on the rooftop under the cursor

1–3

Build from the ring; with none open, pick a defense to build roof after roof

Esc

Cancel building or deselect; with nothing selected, the pause menu

Right-click

Cancel building or deselect

S/Del

Sell the selected tower

Space

Start the next wave

F

Cycle game speed (1×, 2×, 4×)

P

Pause

M

Toggle music

Drag

Pan the map

Scroll

Zoom

Home

Reset the view

V

Cycle screen effects (tilt-shift, Doom light)

F3

Show frame rate

Rush hour

You have a pickup truck and a route from the edge of the map to the office, with checkpoints every 200 m. The clock starts short: each checkpoint adds the time the next stretch needs and patches the truck up. Run out of time between checkpoints and the weekly starts without you.

Anything you hit at speed doesn't get up, and each one adds a little time. At walking pace you only shove them, and a crowd will claw the truck apart; walls and parked cars dent it too. Tap the handbrake while steering to throw the tail out in a drift.

At the office you score 100 points for each zombie run over and 50 for each second left on the clock. Each route keeps its best score; play the same route again to beat it.

Controls

W/↑

Accelerate

S/↓

Brake, then reverse

A/D

Steer (or ← →)

Space

Handbrake: slide the tail out

R

Start again on the same streets

Esc

Pause

On a phone or tablet

Hold it sideways; on-screen controls take the keyboard's place. Gold chevrons on the road show the way to the next checkpoint instead of the minimap.

Left stick

Steer: push it left or right, further turns harder

Gas

None needed: the truck accelerates by itself

Brake

Brake, then reverse

Drift

Handbrake: slide the tail out

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Pause