Dillon’s Dead Heat Breakers

Dillon’s Dead-Heat Breakers is a video game developed by Vanpool and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS. It was released in Japan in April 2018, with English releases in North America, Europe, and Australia the following month, with the North American version being limited as digital-only. A sequel to Dillon’s Rolling Western, it takes place in a post-apocalyptic world and features Dillon, an anthropomorphic armadillo who must defend frontier villages from walking rock-like monsters.

The player is included in the game’s cast as their Mii avatar in the form of an “Amiimal” with added animal features from various species. It received mixed reviews from critics, who most greatly criticized its repetitiveness. The game has a darker setting compared to its predecessors, changing its world to be post-apocalyptic. From their home base in The City, Dillon and a band of mercenaries help defend smaller towns and other locations from the Grock invasion. The game is a combination of tower defense and action elements.

The player must defend against walking rock monsters called Grocks. Mercenaries and the player’s avatar use guns to fight the monsters from towers while the player controls Dillon and dashes around the map to fight the monsters one on one. The Grocks have several stages in their invasion process – once they finish attacking on land, their mothership transforms them into vehicles that race around the roadways of the map. In the third phase, the Grocks become superpowered and charge directly at the base.