Arrow Spire: Tower Defense

Decent $2 game. Idle mode that upgrades things for you is very convenient. Not really a fan of the consumables, especially when the game is going at 10x speed. Easy to 100% achievements though.

A decent game for the price, not much depth. Has an idle mode which is nice, but nothing to unlock or the like. Good way to spend a few hours.

It helps me chill out.

Arrow Spire is an entertaining tower defense that is easy to get into because it’s kept pleasantly basic. You need to beat 100 waves in order to win the game. You have permanent and temporary upgrades, differents types of arrows and items to buy. All of this is done with two types of currencies that accumulate over time. At first I played the game normally for the first 4.5 hours, but then I noticed idle mode where the game goes into grind mode automatically. It’s easier to max all the stats and be able to buy plenty of consumables that way. Even though this is probably the intended way to play the game, I still had lots of fun the first 4.5 hours. The first thing that drew me to the game’s demo (before getting the full game) was the strong nostalgia I felt with the soundtrack in combination with the graphics. The few songs the game has remind me strongly of some Super Nintendo RPG classics and the graphics are not far behind. The gameplay is well paced with enough enemy variety to avoid the waves from becoming repetitive. The progression system is addictive, you wait for the currency to increase in order to become stronger and crush all the enemies. When it comes to cons, most of them are minor. The most significant one is not being able to read descriptions during waves, only when you’re buying or upgrading in the main menu. I would have liked being reminded what items do before using them for instance. There were some small bugs that are probably patched with the first update already. The game might not be super special if you want a specific reason why you should be playing it. But what it does, it does well. It’s not for players who want some complex mechanics but it is for players who just want to get busy for a couple of hours in a fun and relaxing way. The normal price of €3 is worth it. It took me around 5 hours of actual playtime, the rest was grinding in idle mode. The game can be completed more quickly if you make use of idle mode right away. The achievements come naturally and they’re fine.

The game looks fantastic. However, It's just not that fun or engaging. I feel like normal gameplay should have been more rewarding than it was, but instead, it was just better to leave the game running in the back for 30 mins to make progress. The game was playing itself basically.

Really neat idea with a really shallow execution. Tiered upgrade costs means you're not really making many meaningful strategic decisions but the game still requires you to be frantically clicking upgrades and items to keep up. It's effectively an idler without the idling and a strategy game without the strategy. The game could really use some frame limiting as well. As it is, it just goes burns through my M4 Max; bottoming it out right out the gate with 2 enemies on the screen. There's AAA games that aren't this heavy on your hardware. V-sync would be nice. At the very least some manual frame limit options. But the only available graphics option is a full-screen toggle.

Beat in 4 hours. And trust me there was a lot of afk time in there. But I still say buy it. Its $3. A dollar an hour seems ok to me lol. Just buy it.