Author: ChickenWhisperer

What it is

Overclock is a temporary emergency boost: every defence gains +50% damage and +50% fire rate for 25 seconds. The catch is that it costs 25% of your board’s total value.

How to use it

• Find the Overclock button on the right-hand column (under Build & Perks).
• The button shows the live cost before you press it, then the remaining seconds while active.

Pro tips

This is a panic button, not a buff — save it for the wave that’s about to breach the door. Combined with a SUPER and a few synergies, 25 seconds of overclock can turn a doomed wave around.

What it is

Eight of the same defence fuse into ONE SUPER unit: x10 damage, double lifetime and extra smash durability per level. Only one SUPER can be on the board at a time (seven small, or one big) — extra sets feed the current SUPER to power it up.

How to use it

• Place eight of the same defence, then press G to promote them into a SUPER.
• Press H for buff mode — every tower beside the SUPER boosts it by 5% each.
• Keep building more of the same kind: the sets feed the SUPER and make it stronger.

Pro tips

Fuse your most-used tower once the map is stable, then surround it with buffers. SUPERs are smasher magnets — give them protection and keep your builder nearby.

What it is

Twelve pairs of defences unlock a shared bonus when placed on adjacent tiles (sharing an edge or corner). The game lights up a SYNERGY badge over both towers when a pair activates.

The full list

• Shatter — Ice-Cream + Tesla: chilled chickens take 1.5x Tesla damage and Tesla kills shatter the frozen flock.
• Spread Flames — Fan + Fryer: burning chickens set their neighbours on fire.
• Firestorm — Fan + Rotisserie: cooked chickens trail fire as they tumble.
• Trap Launcher — Fan + Spike Trap: fans hurl chickens into traps for bonus damage.
• Fortified — Fence + Wall: both gain 25% more HP.
• Auto-Fund — Coin-Op + Farm: an adjacent farm feeds the turret so it never runs dry.
• Audited Interest — Egg Reserve + Tax Rooster: the rooster raises the reserve’s interest by 50%.
• Tax Harvest — Farm + Tax Rooster: +25% egg production from the farm.
• Spectral Focus — Cluckbuster + Laser: +50% laser damage to ghosts.
• Pack Tactics — The Colonel + Wolf: the wolf hunts and chomps 20% faster.
• Festival of Boom — Confetti Cannon + Egg Mortar: +30% blast radius.
• Deafening — Bell Tower + Whistle: +50% stun duration.

Pro tips

Plan your layout around pairs before waves hit. Tesla + Ice-Cream near a funnel, Wall + Fence on the front line, and Coin-Op + Farm early for free ammunition.

What it is

The difficulty picker rolls 10 random mutators for your run. Easy draws weaken the flock (softer shells, slower spawns, friendlier missiles…), Hard draws buff it (thicker skin, stampedes, missile swarms…). Normal keeps the standard game.

How it pays

• Hard runs bank 50% of eggs earned.
• Normal runs bank 30%.
• Easy runs bank 25%.
• Everyone gets +10 bank eggs per cleared wave and +100 for a new high score.

Pro tips

Read the 10 mutators before you commit — a Hard draw with Double Trouble or Thick Skinned is a very different run. Play Easy to learn, Normal to bank steadily, and Hard when you’re chasing the leaderboard or a fat egg payout.

What it is

Chicken Siege is fully playable with mouse or touch, but the keyboard shortcuts make mid-wave management much faster. Each defence card in the bar also lists its own select key.

The full hotkey list

• 1–0 and Q/W/E — select a defence from the bar
• R — restart the current wave (press twice); same build, same eggs
• U — upgrade the hovered tower (+25 seconds lifetime per level)
• G — promote to SUPER (fuse 8 of the same defence)
• T — cycle targeting mode
• Z — undo last placement
• X — delete mode
• B — battle speed (2x)
• H — buff mode: towers beside a SUPER boost it 5% each
• P / Esc — pause
• M — mute

Pro tips

Get comfortable with R, U and B first — quick restarts, instant upgrades and battle speed save the most time. On mobile, the same actions live on the on-screen buttons.

What it is

Start Siege launches a normal run: 150 starting eggs, escalating waves, and no final wave — past wave 50 the flock gets faster, tougher and greedier forever. DEMO is a guided three-minute intro wave with tutorial hints and bonus eggs, designed for first-time farmers.

How to use it

• Play DEMO first — finishing it unlocks the full shop and teaches you the basics.
• From the title screen choose Start Siege, pick a difficulty, and take a relic if one is offered before wave 1.
• Spend your starting eggs during the countdown — idle eggs earn nothing.
• Read the wave INTEL card between waves: it names the nastiest chicken coming and a cheap counter.

Pro tips

Press B to double battle speed for grinding early waves. And remember: normal runs never truly end — build an economy that can keep up with wave 60, not just wave 10.

The Daily Challenge is Chicken Siege’s heartbeat: every UTC day rolls one seeded run with a fixed set of mutators, and every player on the planet survives the exact same chaos.

How it works

• One deterministic seed — the twist you see on the button is exactly what you’ll play.
• Your survival time is ranked live, with the board updating every 30 seconds mid-run.
• You get ten free plays a day. Each run counts once, so make them count.
• Beat yesterday’s ghost, beat your personal best, and chase the daily champion’s time.

Beyond the daily

Your best run per day aggregates into the weekly board (Mon–Sun UTC), and 28-day seasons hand out tiers from Bronze to Chicken God — with exclusive medals at the top.

Every Thursday-style surprise also applies: weekly events roll each UTC week with special mutators and their own medals. Check the Medals page for the full list.