Defender: Co-Op Top-Down Shooter V3

This is a fully modular and highly educational twin-stick action RPG framework — battle-tested and showcase-featured twice on Epic platform!

🔥With over 530 well-commented Blueprints, this all-in-one project includes everything you need to build immersive single-player or local co-op top-down shooter with firearms, melee combat, abilities, modular characters, vehicles, dialogue systems, upgrades, and much more.

🚀 Why Developers Love Defender:

• 🎓 Step-by-step video tutorials to help you integrate new characters, weapons, objectives, and more

• 🔄 Designed for rapid prototyping and scalable game development – from game jams to commercial releases

• 🎮 Plug-and-play local co-op (up to 3 players) with full UI and input support

• ⚙️ UE4 & UE5 skeleton compatible – import your own animations and meshes freely

• 📦 Use it as a full game framework or cherry-pick individual systems into your own project

🎯 Core Features:

• 💡 100% Blueprint, well-commented and beginner-friendly

• 🎮 Firearms & Melee Combat with upgrade system

• 🧠 AI with Behavior Trees

• 🗣️ Dialogue System with branching, stats & cinematic control

• 📊 Player Stats & Progression (XP, Critical Hit, Toughness etc.)

• 💬 On-screen messages, HP bars, damage text & interaction indicators

• 🔧 Modular Character System with swappable parts (torso, legs, head) – easily extend your character’s visuals and stats

• 💾 Partitioned Save/Load System

• 🚗 Vehicle Possession System

• 🔫 9+ weapon types, grenades, laser sights, ability system & more

Build faster. Learn smarter. Expand your game's potential with Defender.

Perfect for solo developers, educators, and Blueprint enthusiasts.

Version Note:

• UE 4.27: Supported in project versions v1.0 to v3.0.1

• UE 5.x (5.0 to 5.6): Supported in all project versions

Disclaimer: For demonstration purposes, this product uses some assets from "Lyra", "Showdown VR Demo", "Infiltrator Demo", "Soul City", "Subway Sequencer", "Action RPG", "Blueprints", "Shooter Game", "Paragon", "Content Examples", "Infinity Blade: Weapons", "Realistic Rendering", "Animation Starter Pack" distributed free of charge by Epic Games

The project has both UE4 and UE5 skeleton support.

Technical Details

Number of Blueprints: 531

Number of Widget Blueprints: 79

Input: Keyboard & Mouse, Gamepad With Game & UI Support

Network Replicated: No (Multiplayer with Local Coop)

Supported Development Platforms:

Windows: Yes

Documentation: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aLBocBDtd-2tljdh3zZyf1xffAKVqAYIoBZMqAwo75M/edit?tab=t.0