Enemies, Factions & Bosses

Kingdom Rush 6: Genesis has more than 40 enemy types across five races and six boss fights. Ironhide confirmed both numbers and, true to its pre-launch policy, published no boss name at all before release. The game itself has now answered the question: the community wiki's record of the released build names all six.

The Numbers

The Named Factions

The Shadow Order

Cloaked raiders introduced during the demo and covered in Devlog #19. This is the best-documented enemy faction in the game, and it is the one faction that appeared in playable content.

A Correction On The Oni

An earlier version of this page listed Oni as a third named faction, because Devlog #27, To Hell and Back, was easy to read as enemy-origin material. Reading the devlog itself settles it the other way: Oni is a returning playable hero, announced with "Yes, Oni is joining the ranks in Kingdom Rush Genesis!" He is the hunter the demons fear, not one of their factions. His story lives on the heroes page and the characters page.

The Primordials

Devlog #17 gives them a single evocative line: "In the First Age, before kingdoms and before memory, the Primordials shaped the world." They read as ancient history rather than a conventional enemy faction, but they are officially named. The story page places them in context.

Other Enemy Material

Orcs. Bolin Farslayer's backstory refers to an orc invasion that broke through the Western Wall, and describes the orcs as "greenskins". This is a hero backstory rather than an enemy database entry, so we label it partial, but it is the clearest indication of a conventional enemy race in the game.

Five races. Ironhide confirms five enemy races in total. Two faction names are known and only one of them, the Shadow Order, is confirmed to be one of the five. We do not guess at the other four.

The Enemy Roster (Community Record)

⚠️ Unconfirmed. Ironhide has never published an enemy name for Genesis. The 49 names below are the community wiki's index of the released game, read on 26 September 2026. Only 8 of them have any statistics written down, and 21 of the 49 have no wiki entry at all, just a link on the index page. We publish the names because they are real and checkable, and we say plainly where the data runs out.

Aside from these 49, the wiki lists one special enemy, Broom, and six bosses, covered in the boss table above.

The Eight With Statistics

These are the only enemies on the wiki with a filled-in information box. A blank field means the wiki left it empty, not that the value is zero.

Two of the eight carry an ability note: Crow flies and Crowcaller summons crows. The wiki's Overview line for the Bandit calls it "the lowest ranked fighters in the Shadow Order", which is the one point where a community enemy entry lines up with an officially named faction.

We do not sort these into the five races Ironhide confirmed. The wiki does not group them that way, and guessing which name belongs to which race is exactly the kind of inference this site avoids. For the officially named factions, see The Named Factions above, and for the wider franchise picture see the story page.

The Bosses

Six boss fights exist, and the community wiki's record of the released game names all six:

Two honesty notes. First, none of these six names was ever published by Ironhide: they come from the community wiki's record of the release build, which is why every name above carries that label rather than an official one. Second, we make no claim about which boss appears where, in what order, or which of the six closes the campaign: that would spoil the one thing the story is selling, and our sources do not state it anyway.

Pre-launch, this section said "not one has been named" and refused to guess, which was the right call at the time: no first-party source had named a single boss, and invented names are exactly the kind of content that gets copied between sites until it looks like a fact. The launch answered it the clean way, through play.

Why Ironhide Held The Names Back

Boss identities are the most reliably withheld reveal in game marketing: naming a boss spoils the story, and this particular game's story is its main selling point. With a campaign built around Vez'nan's origin, the bosses were always going to be the last thing Ironhide would publish, and in the end the company never published them at all. The names above exist only because the game shipped and players wrote them down.