Mission - 20; Dificulty - 10


In Orcs Must Die: Deathtrap, combos is the key factor.
Combos reward you with Rune Coins, Overdrive charge, and bonus score. The higher your combo multiplier (e.g., 5x, 10x, 20x), the greater the rewards you receive. To get a combo, an enemy must be hit by multiple unique damage sources or status effects within a two-second window before they die.

20x combo Skin >>

In Deathtrap, special elemental enemies that spawn from unstable rifts can either grant or take away rift points depending on their color.
Blue Rift Elementals
These enemies add rift points when they safely reach your rift.
Strategy: You must try to let them pass through your traps and Sentinels unharmed to receive the point bonus. They have a lot of health, so they can potentially survive if your traps are not in their path.

They ignore most of your traps. The goal is to slow them and maximize damage in chock point. Best trap is Steam Vent with double damage.

Check guides for different locations. Try to create one path with several chock points for max combos. Keep spare barricades or money for rune barricade to replace broken. Broken barricade usually means "Game Over".

Trap upgrades are incredibly powerful, so it's best to concentrate on just a few. Since you have a limited number of traps to work with, I recommend sticking with the same, upgraded traps for your entire run instead of switching them out each mission.

When you kill orcs before they reach the killing box, you lose potential combos — and that means fewer coins. As a result, you'll be able to buy fewer new traps at the end of the wave.

Finding a place with walls and a ceiling is harder than just using the floor. That's why I prefer floor traps — they're more versatile.

The Rift Barricade is needed to allow Blue Rift Elementals to reach the rift and to funnel the rest of the enemies into a trap. It's also used to patch gaps in the barricade chain when they get destroyed.
Ice Lance gives you combos and stops enemies, including fliers, giving you time to deal with them.

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This is our flier stopper, but with some upgrades, it's also very effective at launching walkers.
Launching adds an extra combo point. But be careful — enemies can land inside the barricaded area you're trying to protect. Also, check the upper floor when placing these traps. Enemies passing above them can trigger them, and you might suddenly find enemies marching toward your rift.

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The Rift Barricade is needed to allow Blue Rift Elementals to reach the rift and to funnel the rest of the enemies into a trap. Prepare a forked path — one leading straight to the rift, the other to your trap. Wait until the Unstable Rift reveals the enemies, then block the appropriate path.

It's also used to patch gaps in the barricade chain when they get destroyed.

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This is our main damage dealer — a floor trap with good range. It works well in combination with the steam trap to stop fliers. It's also a good idea to keep some spare coins to spam this trap around bosses, lone enemies, kobold nests, or bad spawns from Unstable Rifts.

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With a 30-second status effect, this is a very effective trap. Try placing it before other status-effect traps. I prefer the Flower (+2 combo) over the Beehive with its poison effect (+3 combo 15 sec), because the Flower can be placed on the floor or walls — either to the side or in front of the killing zone. Beehives, on the other hand, require a ceiling.

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We're going to use the floor variant of this trap.

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Try to position the cannon so it doesn't shoot at enemies before they've fully left the gate. Ideally, it should hit them right before they die.
It's convenient to use the cannon to defend the rift, but in that case, it might kill blue Rift Elementals if you're trying to guide them to the rift.

Stack as many status effects as possible, then unleash burst damage to finish them off. Then repeat.

If you're playing in a group, it makes sense to include different unique traps so that everyone earns more Rune Coins.
Make sure each player places their traps in the killing box. Divide the core traps among all team members.

Below, I'll list some traps that I consider the most effective.

if you are good with Blue Elementals technique

To unlock the Magic Mirror (Gabriella) skin in Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap, you need to collect all the enemy figurines in the Order Library. This skin is exclusive to the character Gabriella. Once you’ve collected all the figurines, the skin will become available.


This was a real challenge for me. The RNG gods were messing with me while I was trying to get the boss map for Sophie. I got lucky after 12 hours of nonstop attempts. Some figurines are harder to get than others, but maybe that was just my experience. I had particular trouble with the water elementals — I just couldn’t get the maps with rain.

Don’t overthink the killing boxes. Try to deal damage near the gates as soon as possible. Keep an eye on the Rift if a kobold nest or unstable rift appears.

I use many Steam Vents to stop fliers later. You can put more tars and geysers for better coins income.


A good place for Ice Lances the second row.

Don’t forget about chests. I was unlucky — I spent 1 Rift Point and got skulls.

In the early waves, I usually destroy Unstable Rifts because I don't have enough spare coins for traps or a prepared killing box.

First two ways max combo was just 11x, average 5-6x.
The focus is on upgrading your main traps.

Enemies come to this direction. Keep the opposite side safe for allies. Save 3,000 coins to seal off one path with a Rift Barricade.