Defender’s Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition)
This is my favourite game in years.
It’s a tower defense game where each of what would normally be a tower is actually a character that levels up, like in an RPG, complete with a customizable skill tree, equipment, etc. These levels are earned from level to level, so you’re constantly improving your party.
This superficially simple gameplay concept is backed up on all sides by a great story, deep strategy elements and amazing replayability.
Story
Azra (or the name you choose) is the royal librarian that ends up in The Pit, a wretched place full of zombie-like creatures called Revenant. Using mysterious special powers (that excellently explain the tower defense gameplay) and the help of a band of ragtag adventures you’ll pick up it is your job to guide her out of the pit. There is more at stake, and the plot has plenty of developments to keep you interested, but what surprised me the most were the story’s pacing and its humour.
– Real player with 78.7 hrs in game
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An art in making a RPG grind fun.
Imagine the game where your typical RPG party become towers in the typical Tower Defense game and you have Defender’s Quest in a nutshell. The game consists mostly of mowing down a conga line of various enemies that constantly move towards your main character as an end goal. Place your Knights, Berserkers, Druids and Ice Mages like buildings beside the highway and enjoy the fireworks, swords and arrows flowing. Recruit more units and upgrade them while spending experience points or buy them better equipment.
– Real player with 51.0 hrs in game
Shannon Tweed’s Attack Of The Groupies
A searing, in-depth look at the rollercoaster life of Shannon Tweed, as she grapples with both her turbulent mind and the incessant, onward onslaught of the over-keen (and underwashed) groupies. Never before has the fractured nature of existence been so accurately portrayed in pixel form.
Not so much a game as a celebrity life simulator. Not so much a game as an event.
Having said that, I do not recommend this game, because I’m unsure we, as humans, can fully handle it.
– Real player with 1116.3 hrs in game
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This game is like Plants V Zombies, in fact its pretty much the EXACT same thing, only with Shannon Tweed. The game is about groupies rushing the stage to get her man Gene Simmons, the lead singer of KISS. The music is a nonstop 3 second loop of music. KISS is a legendary rock group, kind of surprising the music for the game is this bad, not to mention if their music sounded like a low bitrate midi, Id imagine the groupies would be running away from the stage not towards it. Plants V Zombies has a singing sunflower that actually rocks harder than KISS in this game, never thought I would say that.
– Real player with 26.1 hrs in game
Last Hope - Tower Defense
Last Hope - Tower Defense Review
The best of both Worlds, Tower Defense and Zombies….
Some key points that this game offers:
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12 Different Towers that you can unlock and buy to help you against the horde, each tower is fully upgradable.
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Normal, Hard and Nightmare difficulties to really put your skills to the test.
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Eight different Heroes that you can unlock and buy to help you with your defense.
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More than 140 levels to put your skills to the test.
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Monster Tome that collects Monster data on each defeated Monster.
– Real player with 516.8 hrs in game
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For you to know if your game preferences aligns with mine: I play a lot of TD and I love hunting that last 100% achievements. I like strategy over clickfest. I like unique td mechanics and difficulty that forces you to try many strategies before succeeding.
After 50+ hours (sounds like a lot, I might have left it on running during night or something) and 100% steam achievements (which are different from the in-game achievments of which I have 94/154).
The dev(s?) seems to be very active and you can feel there is heart in the game. Artstyle is nice and stylish and the theme is consistent.
– Real player with 52.6 hrs in game
Witch Explorer
Witch Explorer mixes Shoot ‘em up and Tower defense gameplay. Defeat waves of enemies, gather resources and upgrade your character.
Simple mechanics and rule set, endless tactical possibilities.
Worldview
Tia’s magic item shop is carrying a lot of debt, to the point that parts of the building and precious grimoires were used as mortgage…
In a land far away, rumor has it that untouched treasure lies in an uncharted area known as “The Cave of No Return,” where dangerous monsters live.
“We will be able to buy back everything if we get our hands on the treasure!"
Tia and Doll, the magical lifeform she created, are embarking on a treasure-hunting adventure!
Features
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Shoot ‘em up and Tower defense gameplay
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7 elementals(towers) each with different abilities
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8 unique boss fights
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Follow the story of the adorable duo!
Winged Sakura: Mindy’s Arc
Okay, I know what you’re thinking. Looks like some dumb anime game, right? I can’t actually be recommending it. Well, I totally is, and I am.
First of all, if you don’t have a tolerance for this kind of thing, I’d check out right now, because Winged Sakura is pretty much exactly the kind of game you’d expect from that title. It’s pretty much unironic about that, which had a certain silly charm to me, but obviously not for everyone. You play as Mindy, a young mage, and her Sakura Minzy - basically a spirit partner. They find themselves stuck in a building, and have no memory of how or why they’re here. To find out, you’ll need to head through four areas of twelve stages each, defending the place from attacks. Objectively the story is kinda bad; it often brings up new plot elements out of nowhere, all the characters are pretty one-note, and there’s a lot of it.
– Real player with 78.9 hrs in game
Winged Sakura: Mindy’s Arc is probably not the best tower defense ever made, but it’s different enough from the standard td to be worth checking out, and it’s pretty fun too.
The key element of this game is that the spirits you summon to fight only last a few seconds, so you can never reach a state where you have all your defences ready and you simply need to watch as the level ends, instead you’re in constant need to keep summoning your spirits in order to survive, making it more fast paced.
Your spirits can level up and equip a weapon and an accessory, while the levelling up is quite basic and the best way to do it is simply progressing through the story, for the equipment you have to manage your resources and craft or buy items to level said equipment up and you have quite a good selection of accessories you can equip.
– Real player with 64.4 hrs in game
Gensokyo Defenders
Basically Touhou version of Dungeon Defenders, except you play as majority your favourite characters as you progressed through the story. Each character possesses unique uses and abilities. For example: Aya is mostly used for levels that has lots of water, Okuu for crowd control, etc. However, some characters also have cons applied to them. For example Okuu’s attack is strong, but in exchange it will damage your traps forcing you to take big risks. Another example is Mokou’s, Mokou can buff her attacks and heal herself, but in exchange for either her own health, or your bases health therefore forcing you to only use her skills for emergencies only. Voice acting is great with translations. Music is beautiful as always like any other Touhou games, fan made or not. If you are the type of person that likes both Touhou and tower defense games, then this game is for you.
– Real player with 36.1 hrs in game
Gensokyo Defenders is a fun tower defense-esque game.
Gameplay is smooth, controls feel natural and are easy to learn. The game also has surprisingly high amount of content and re-playability. As is fitting for a Touhou fan game, the soundtrack is awesome. Some rearranges of classic Touhou songs are really good! The sounds are otherwise good too. The story is fun.
The co-op mode brings a whole extra-layer of fun to the game and enables many cool new tactics.
A truly well done Touhou doujin game!
– Real player with 35.3 hrs in game
Tunnel of Doom
A fun game with a unique premise.
I enjoy the combination of tower defense, resource management, and dungeon crawling. The setting is unique, and the story is spartan but functional.
A few points that I feel could be improved upon:
- Melee combat is very awkward. I assume this is intentional, to promote the use of defenses, but considering how frequently you’ll have to take a pickaxe to a goblin I wish it felt better to do so. I killed a couple of friendly miners by accident simply because of how difficult it is to engage. The pistol is also quite inaccurate; I again assume this is intentional, but considering how valuable bullets are, I wish they were stronger on the whole.
– Real player with 6.4 hrs in game
It isn’t bad, but very short. You can either beat it on normal, or play the hard(doomed story) which makes it almost impossible without seeing waves coming, no map and halving your health and other detriments, so it becomes about luck more than any planning.
The normal will take about 2 hours to beat and become quite easy once you get a few cannons. By the 3rd floor of normal I could afk on waves due to having 4 cannons set up, just had to attack for the mobs that were immune to being seen by the cannons.
– Real player with 5.7 hrs in game
wonShot
If you like to blast enemy ships with a giant laser in a small casual game with pixel graphics and dark humor, then you will spend several hours in this game.
For fans of the genre.
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– Real player with 34.2 hrs in game
Very casual arcade-style action game with a light puzzle element. Each level is a sky full of enemies, take as many down as possible with one shot from your laser under time pressure.
Graphics - pixel style, simple but cool. Well-detailed ships. Smooth special effects. Good use of color and design overall.
Sound - amazing. music changes depending on how good your shot is. Memorable sound design overall, will stick with me.
Controls - too simple to critique. Some controller support which works well enough but it probably functions best overall with a mouse. FWIW i cranked my DPI way up because the laser aims very slowly. Not sure if it made a difference. The controls are simple but the overall experience of doing the thing you do (being the death star, basically) is exciting and has good feedback.
– Real player with 7.0 hrs in game
Night of the Dead
Night of the Dead is a great “Tower Defense” game. Yes it has “Open World Survival Craft” but you need to understand this is a “Tower Defense” game first.
So I played this game when it first came out and I really liked it. It had a good foundation to build upon. Yes it was a bit buggy in spots. I finished the story then set the game aside for a while.
I have now returned to the game after the big Electric Update (Dev #5).
I have to say I am blown away by what was added and changed in this game for the good.
– Real player with 345.6 hrs in game
First of all, let me start off by admitting that I am absolutely a soft touch when it comes to indie games. I’ll forgive them for things I’d never accept from a AAA design studio, and with good reason. It takes so much guts to be an indie designer, to go out there with nothing but passion and a dream and make something that other people are happy to spend hours of their life playing.
Night of the Dead is very much a work in progress, and it doesn’t pretend to be otherwise. But, every masterpiece has to start off with a rough draft to begin with before you can polish it up. And that’s what we’re lucky enough to have the opportunity to play here: A diamond in the rough.
– Real player with 294.7 hrs in game
Sanctum
Personal rating: 8/10
DLC: Worth it. New, more challenging maps. A nice addition to a short core game.
What is Sanctum?
Sanctum is a completely different take on the “Tower Defense” genre, it mixes up First Person Shooter elements in it and it does it well.
About the gameplay:
Here’s the catch: If you have your mind set on “I’ll only upgrade Towers!” or “I’ll just shoot everything!”, you’re in for an embarrassing defeat. You cannot take everything head on here, you need to balance resources to deal with everything coming towards you: enemies that comes in large quantities, tough ones and tricky ones.
– Real player with 84.8 hrs in game
Short version: A big surprise. If you like tower defense at all and don’t mind FPS, give it a shot. A great blend of strategy + action.
Long version: Sanctum is great for TD fans that either like or don’t mind some FPS action in their games. The two aspects blend together very well; on lower difficulties, one can pretty easily focus on one over the other and do fine, while on higher difficulties both are needed pretty equally. Additionally, there are towers that help your shots and a gun that helps your towers, ensuring that the two aren’t just separate parts of the same game but actually integrated together.
– Real player with 81.3 hrs in game