Defenders of the Dune

Its fun, but you can get your 'Goals" UI soft-locked fairly easily

Changed my life in a good way

Vahşi doğayı yenmek ve toprakların kendisine meydan okuyarak bir krallık kurmakla ilgili bir oyundur. Siz her gün hayatta kalmak için savaşacak, tüm zorluklara karşı üslerini inşa etmenin getirdiği zorluk ve gururu deneyimleyeceksiniz.

You must construct additional outposts.

"Defenders of the Dune" is a simple and unambitious mini-TD game with a sandcastle theme (oddly very few games on Steam are sandcastle themed). Gameplay itself is shallow even for a TD... think of this as a kind of freeform Kingdom Rush, waves of enemies come to attack your little sandcastle so your sandcastle men have to defend it. You can place structures to help with the defense. Collect resources during the day, survive the attack waves at night. That's all there is to it really. It feels like a relic from the late 1990's/early 2000's Adobe Flash era of a gaming. But this has been published on Steam alongside contemporary, cutting edge PC games. I didn't build a gaming rig just to use it to play glorified browser/Flash games, and neither did every other dedicated PC enthusiast out there. Steam isn't here to compete with Chrome and Firefox. The game features really lacklustre 2D visuals (does the developer not know 3D graphics became mainstream in the mid-1990s?). Gamers don't spend thousands of dollars on gaming rigs and the latest 3D graphics cards to play 2D games. Even mobile phones and game consoles can do 3D graphics now. There's no excuse. Next is pricing and what value this has for gamers. Most "free" games on Steam aren't really free. There's usually some kind of monetisation, from nasty mobile app cash shops, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, to any other number of shady pricing schemes that could mislead gamers, but in this case I'm glad to say this really does appear to be a fully free game. Nothing demonstrates a developers belief in themselves and their work than giving it away without any remuneration. This is a service to themselves, and the gaming industry, and should be applauded. Of course, just because something is free, doesn't necessarily mean it's valuable, or something you might want to spend your time on. A peak of [b]6 concurrent players[/b] (according to SteamDB) for a "free" game is a disastrous public reception. Out of 130 million potential players here on Steam, almost nobody was interested. Even though this is "free". That level of rejection speaks a lot for the quality of the game. This "free" game won't count toward your game collection count on your profile. With that in mind, is it something you should still download? Pass on this one. There's no immediate financial commitment, but there are thousands of more compelling games on the platform that will give you a lot more enjoyment for your time.

Fun little free game, missing significant content and could use some qol updates but wasn't a bad time playing through. Kind of feel like some old flash game rts.

Game is okay, it's free so you might enjoy it.

Игра 'Defenders of the Dune' — это захватывающее погружение в мир стратегических сражений на бескрайних песчаных просторах. С первых минут она приковывает к себе внимание благодаря продуманному геймплею, где каждая принятая тактическая единица имеет значение. Управление ресурсами, строительство оборонительных сооружений и своевременное размещение войск — всё это сплетается в напряжённое противостояние с противником. Визуальный стиль игры выполнен с вниманием к деталям: пыльные бури, меняющиеся ландшафты и детализированные модели юнитов создают неповторимую атмосферу. Музыкальное сопровождение лишь усиливает ощущение вовлеченности, подчёркивая эпичность происходящих битв. Особо стоит отметить разнообразие игровых режимов, которые позволяют как отточить свои навыки в одиночных кампаниях, так и проверить свои силы в многопользовательских сражениях против реальных игроков. 'Defenders of the Dune' — это действительно достойный представитель жанра, способный увлечь на долгие часы.