Core Defense

Fastastic replayability, well-balanced units.

lacks balancing or need intense grinding

It's alright for a while, and I'm talking like 12-16 hours maximum, but then you realise that: 1) This game hasn't been updated in a year and a bit now 2) There isn't any new content because of that. The developers honestly should depreciate the price, but I'll assume that *something* other than greed dictates the price. Get it on-sale if the demo was any interesting, then prepare to be disappointed, and to refund it. 2/10. Explanation: Assuming you've played the demo, the entire game is based on just that concept alone: a tower defense/rogue-like. Except, aside from your starting towers/modules/etc, there's very little in terms of expansion; because of this, you'll only get around to unlocking maybe 10 things at most, with about 3/10 of those being towers. This is bad for obvious reasons, as it promotes very little variety in new runs, which resultantly means there's likely to be less runs from the user (a.k.a., you. If you buy this.) Although, alongside this, there are 2 systems that actually promote playtime, one being a bit more simplistic than the other: Difficulty, and the compendium's "Mastery". Difficulty is essentially just a linear bar for players to cross. It goes up from "Hard" to "Overload x" (i.e., Hard, Overload 1, Overload 2 [...] to Overload 30), with linear increases such as "+10% damage", or replace damage with speed, health, etc. It also, for each Overload, requires you to play the previous difficulty, which is just more bloat to this game. "Mastery", however, provides some interesting bonuses to your games, such as increased walls, decrease spawners, more damage for less rate of fire, stuff like that. It's slightly better than the difficulty curve, being that it's just flat, my point being that it's better, but not exactly by much. Interesting, sure, but not really grabbing of my attention long-term. The reason for my 2/10 is because it's at least somewhat captivating at the start, even if it dawdles by the end, though it doesn't do much to warrant additional playtime.

A fine TD game, but ultimately not much more exciting than what you'd get out of a 15-20 year old flash game

Lots of fun and quick games (at least compared to STS) Highly recommend if you like card draw

Nice game to kill time.

Decent kind of tower defence but too open, not really enjoying it