Classic Tower Defense 2

I don't review things in general really but seeing as this game only has one other so far I figured I might as well. If you have an itch for a tower defense game then this one is a good one for it. It's set up for the campaign where you start a level, it has a set amount of waves, at the end of the wave you select an upgrade. you get four to pick form or you can reroll, the upgrades can be an active or passive skill for a tower, increase damage for certain towers, range, increase damage to a certain enemy type, or increase the number of a tower you can have which is how you unlock the other towers that you don't start with. After completing the waves on the level it's on to the next one and your upgrades carry over until you eventually lose. Overall it's a good system. Graphics are great and you can quit out and come back to the same campaign later so easy to drop in and out if you only have time for a few waves and want to kill time. I'll more than likely rack up quite a few hours on this one.

The 7th level is bugged and will get stuck at wave 20 with no enemies spawning. I waited 20min and nothing happened, no enemy spawned, no countdown, nothing. Unfortunately the way the game is set up, you can't just restart the level the game is progressive and you have to start back at the 1st level.

Actually, not bad so far

I’m having a lot of fun with the gameplay and visuals, but I do wish there was more content in the campaign and more variety over time. Hopefully the developers keep expanding it in future updates, because the foundation here is very strong and has a lot of potential.

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You go through each map one by one. If you fail, you have to go back to the start. The roguelite part comes in that after each wave you get a permanent enhancement that carrys over into the next maps. I would strongly focus on upgrading your core towers, lowering resistances and increasing universal damage. Love this game. Still can't beat level 7, final wave is insane.

I really wanted to play this one a bit before dropping a review. It's got some depth, but I can see ways they could add more, so fingers crossed. At time of posting the developer still seems to be around, so bonus. I do want to point out that this is one of those games that every time I load it up, it tries to send me to a third party page for drivers I don't believe I need. I do not recommend ever following such a ink. The core of the game is a single path tower defense game, with an interesting sense of persistence. Each game consists of all the levels you can survive, your total hit points and the damage you have taken and all the upgrades you choose persist until you die, then you have to go back and start over. It does not have strategic upgrades in the traditional sense, where there is a skill tree of some sort, but each tower type can have five upgrades, (each added as you level that tower up) and whenever you pick one, it stays for the duration of that run. There are nine types of towers. The main division is can they shoot at land targets, air targets or both. There is a slowing tower, and a boost tower as well. I will say that so far I can see no sign that the slow tower does anything in the way of slowing anything down. So that's not good. Anyway, at the end of each wave, you get to pick from one of four various cards that give you things like the tower upgrades, more money, generic negatives to one class of the enemy, additional towers (the number you can have on the board is very limited at first) and these seem to be the key to your success, so you have to be thoughtful in which you pick. Add this all up, and it is a pretty fun game. Now the negatives... It's all way too dark. You can't see some things, for example how much an upgrade will cost, until you can afford it. There is a wide array of monsters, but you can't really see them, which is a real shame. There is no targeting control on the tower, a pretty basic TD ability these days. [strike]There are no tactical actions, which kind of sucks, they go a long way to keeping a run interesting. [/strike] The maps tend to be pretty bland, and the control over where you can place towers can feel pretty restrictive. There is also a weird quirk where the music starts and stops willy nilly, but that's pretty minor. The mouse tends to vanish now and again. All in all, I got this on a decent sale, and I think for about two bucks, it was a good buy, not sure I would much higher than that, as is. One thumb up. ADDENDUM: The game does have tactical abilities, they are just in the towers and not well explained. And power that isn't listed as 'passive' in the lower left hand corner of the description has to be turned on, then has a cool down. Nice thing, if you have a tower anywhere on the map with an area attack it seems like you can put it anywhere. 8.7 hours start to finish for me, The game needs a lot more work, curious to see if the designers will stack around and finish it. It could really benefit from difficulty levels, and needs a handful more levels I think. The final wave was way to easy, about half my towers never got a shot off at anything. Had 27 towers by then, and ended the game with almost 2,000 coins, because sadly once everything is leveled up to level five, there is nothing else to spend it on. Still, had quite a bit of fun.

The game looks great, with visuals and effects that feel polished without being overdone. The gameplay is solid and engaging, and for its low price it offers excellent value. A very easy recommendation for tower defense fans.

The Campaign is good. Great graphics. But the Endless cycle is poorly balanced. There are 999 levels in the Endless, and I've never made it into the 30's before being overwhelmed...and there is nothing you can do about it....plenty of money....no available towers to buy....all existing towers maxed out. Needs tweaking.

pretty fun tower defense game. Played endless mode first to get a feel for the game, now about to do the campaign. Sound is nice as well. big thumbs up from me. Cheers. https://youtu.be/tNTbI9TsGNM?si=ybYdvVDhl58BCyHk