8.1 hours played
Written 3 days ago
Very nice game, recommend.
If you're used to tower defence games with resource management, it might be quite easy and boring for you. The game is very unpunishing for your mistakes unless they are very obvious. The goal of 100 stages is kind of boring - you're forced to play the rounds even if you've kind of won the game in 80 to 90 stages where you don't need to build any new towers. I would love another mode where it has few stages like 20-50 that are difficult but impactful where the enemies strenghts would differ every 10 levels or so that you have to actually think which turrets to play, and potentially replay it because you built wrong.
For me, this game has little or no replay potential because the stages after level 50 are just so boring. You just need to gather resources by clicking thousands of times. It would be awesome if there was an option that all the refilling machines would be auto filled at the beginning of the round or something. After around 50 rounds it gets really tedious to handle economy. I don't want to click hundreds of times every round even with Shift+click which doesn't even work instantly. You have to wait one second after clicking and hold your mouse steady so it fills it up - it should be instant. Also the economy rounds are way too short - I don't want to play 95% of the time with grey screen. The play faster button resets after every round which is kind of annoying. This is a economy management simulator and an easy one at that.
The game has really good visual clarity overall considering how much is happening in the screen. The spikes are kind of hard to click when deleting them. The turrets and enemies kind of mesh together so that nothing matters just put more turrets and kill more enemies - who cares what kind of turrets or enemies they are.
Comparing this game to other similar one I played: If you like Nordhold you might enjoy this too but if you really love Nordhold, you might hate this game. Both games are good but they focus on different things, it's like night and day. The beginning of the game is really similar but the end game is very different.
All the negative things aside, it's a lovely game, lovely experience like an adventure that satisfies your hunger for one evening. Would play again if the end game experience wasn't so insufferable. So if you buy the game and reach stages over 50, you can stop playing if you feel like it - the gameplay isn't going to change one bit towards the end in my experience.
Overall it was very nice experience. 3/5