Deep Among the Swarm

all the RTS basics It had Towers and Units It had some slight enemy variety It had rougelike runs and rogelite bonuses for some permanent better stats. And now it got an update wich gives way more variety in the cave. (events, new enemys, new weapons and towers) Right now its cheap and fun to play for several hours and try some strategies. The Update really got me exited for more progress and new stuff to explore. I do recommend this game :)

fantastic, good base building defense against the swarm.

Great fun and scratches that base defense itch. I found it much too easy though and am unsure when I will unlock the difficulty above Normal. Edit: It has gotten difficult and frantic. Excellent.

I didn't have my main pc available and survived the boredom with this game. The game itself is very simple, every time you start playing you have resources accumulated from previous runs and you can use them to upgrade the current run. Once done you start the run which consists of a whole series of missions that increase in difficulty. There are a few “bosses” going on, nothing too complicated. Between missions in the run, you have the opportunity to unlock technologies, weapons, armor and support items. Trying to understand how it all works is essential to succeeding at the lower levels. The pace of the game is quite fast, losing time means finding stronger enemies toward the end of the run, so while you may not be going at lightning speed, you still have to be a minimum of efficient.

This game is great, but it would be so much better if it : Had no pause: Force time to pass = faster gameplay and more excitement. Told you how many forge cores you had each map: Enables you to choose to bail early instead of waste time on an empty map. Showed forge cores on the map: Not this one almost caused me to not recommend the game, like, for real?

It has that nice meta progression feel for a quick RTS where you're mostly just positioning troops to defend or purge an area. Good value for the price. Wouldn't mind more depth to the meta progression and structures though, but overall great value and gameplay.