HYPERNOVA: Escape from Hadea

First impressions of this game are quite positive! This is quite a lovely gem, seems like the type of game that was made with a lot of care and love by the devs. It's a simple blend between TD and RTS; the entire game takes place on a single, large map, with the objective of building an interstellar bridge to escape a dying star. You can expand at your pace, to collect resources and build little colonies to grow your population, while defending yourself from waves of nasty critters. The colorful and vivid color palette and general tongue-in-cheek presentation mesh well to create a dynamic but welcoming feel, like a kid's action cartoon. The selection of buildings and towers are pretty standard from their genres, but everything ties together nicely. It's the type of game that is more than the sum of its parts, and so far it has been keeping me interested to see what else it has to offer.

Hypernova is a unique tower defense game. I really like how you can move all of the buildings, so you can adapt to various situations. This is also a game where you can take your time and learn the strategies at your own pace. It's pretty fun, but I imagine it will get repetitive after playing for a while. The game does unlock new creatures and new challenges as you progress, so that makes the game more easily approachable. If you like tower defense games, then you would most likely enjoy this game.

Not Recommended

Solid tower defense with some fun concepts. The world is one big map that you progress through, and you can move your buildings around to respond to your changing needs. If you want a traditional tower defense you might not like this, but I found it to be a fun challenge and a refreshing change of pace from normal TD tower placement + maze management tropes. The game is actually more like a base building game with towers - you build civilian buildings to increase your population to unlock tech, support buildings to clear new building area and provide power and provide prereqs for other buildings, harvester buildings to gather resources, and towers to keep the bad guys out. The big map concept is managed well, you're pretty free to expand but you have to manage the enemy threat. It did feel overwhelming at first but once I got the hang of it, I felt like I always had a path to pursue and was generally able to manage the threat despite its source coming from different areas. Being able to move my buildings to new spots to as needed really fit in well with this concept. I enjoyed the feeling of expanding into this dangerous world via careful building placement. I did have a few minor annoyances. There was a stealth enemy type I never figured out how to kill, and sometimes they'd take out supply line elements at range. Building repairers have to be unlocked via tech, and their autorepair didn't work well for me so I had to frequently trigger it manually. I got stuck on one quest for a couple hours, and the game did something at the end that I didn't like though it didn't ruin the ending or anything like that. A couple of spoiler-y hints for those last two (feel free to skip) - Quest: [spoiler]When the game asks you to trap units for study, focus on that. I spent a couple hours finishing that up after I had my map on lockdown.[/spoiler] End of game: [spoiler]As the game progresses you can move your defenses to focus on whatever lair is out there. When you trigger the end mission they send massive waves at you where you have to defend your core buildings especially your main base. So before you finish building the Big Final Thing, build or relocate defenses to your main base. I felt like the game didn't give me sufficient warning about this sudden change in strategy requirement.[/spoiler] Over all a fun and interesting game if you want something with towers that isn't your traditional tower defense, especially if you like base building games. It's not super long and I don't intend to play it again, but I'm really glad I gave it a shot.

nice and relaxing

纯干货 -- 千万不要以为发展还不错了就开星际桥，一定要等周边巢穴较少（最好不要超过五个同时开战），背靠边界，有稳定的红石头资源再开始造桥，不然后期战事吃紧，星际桥吃完了红石就等着全线崩盘把。修理器看着很好用 实际如果没红了战线就会瞬间崩塌 ，我建议是时刻将红保持在一万左右，能稳定这个红石量再慢慢造桥也不迟。前期发展比较容易，地面上的部队一直是可以用五六个修理器硬顶的（红要够！），科技树方面尽量早升级核弹，钻地怪很烦，有核弹就可以节约资源和操作稳定击杀，无人机也很重要，有时候真正压死骆驼的草就是一大群蚊子，后期要打强力怪，爆破塔会少，一旦被蚊子把电厂或者空气净化喷了就很麻烦，操作不好容易崩。（我就是这么崩了一回才来写评论的，幸亏我纵深好，问题不大，只损失了一些塔而已）所以有个很关键的习惯就是无论后期再怎么忙，空位再怎么不够，也一定要挂一个电和空气在天上，以防不时之需，此乃保命法宝，切记切记。 塔的组合没有固定搭配，怪物看着花里胡哨，有弱点啥的，其实塔每样来几个，配上五六个修理器是随便抗的。不过要注意阵形，火塔刚正面，后面是霰弹，再后面就是粒子炮激光连射输出的，地雷也要来两个（地形不好的时候）。在拆家的时候最好是五个左右的大炮效率比较合适，当然前期一个就够了，中期有变异boss的时候就要加多点，五个左右boss出不来的。撑到后期基本上修理加强就无所谓了。（唯一注意冰塔减速自爆怪，有15个自爆怪的一波能撕破一般的防御） 差点忘了，注意很坑的一点，科技树不要点探测塔那条线，探测怪陨石矿脉啥的根本没有卵用（都能看的见，战争迷雾不是黑的），而且不升级陨石基本不会砸你，一升级陨石探测马上就会有陨石落你家，跟TM鬼屎一样。TM叫陨石吸引器还差不多。 修理记得要跟着电和空气一起全村覆盖，额先写到这，有什么新发现再聊。 ---------------------------------------- 在我重整旗鼓能量充满撑过10分钟，准备征伐下一颗星球的时候，what？没了？全剧终？说实话，内容有点太少了。我并不想讨伐整个星球的巢穴。我是逃命的，不是打仗的。 总的来说，还是比较好玩，有兴趣的可以打折入手玩一玩，但为作为一个非剧情向的游戏，只有一张图，一条线，实在有点说不过去。 希望以后能出更多地图和玩法，建筑摆放不要太死板。

Yes. https://youtu.be/pRq3oADLbf4

Very good game. Highly recommended.

hello and welcome to my reviews, here we have HYPERNOVA: Escape from Hadea (SOME SMALL GAMEPLAY SPOILERS) the system specs seam quite normal in todays tecnology and should be and standard PC build even if an old gameing unit, however do not underestimate the minimum spec for this game, although a top down style, I had to crank down the in game graphics quite a bit, my system is quite beefy but my gpu is only a rx 460 2gb and this struggled to keep scrolling smooth. now on to the game itself, I was greeted to a colourful toony style graphics and an into that did not suck, I notmally video intro's to games but this one was quite funny, I did not expect a jamacan accent nerration and fitted the game very well. first, the only bad few points I could find, firstly, its not a level style game, its one map only, and the ore did not seem to be random for the few times I re-started (however the jump gate resorces were moved about) so there is not much replay ability in my opinion, The map was sort of broken down into areas where its safer to land in some areas but provide no ore, or more risky landings yeald better ore, this was a bad point to me as the risk was low to gain a good start, I never landed on the platform area where there was no resorces, again shot in the foot with replay abillity, another point to mention is this game is a slow paced building game, but you are pulled along with spawning of enemys, which new ones appear far too quickly vs the speed you can get better towers to deal with them, I was trying to take down huge monsters with a few plasma pea shooters as I did not have the upgrades due to my slower population build style, I wish you had more time to settle a base, or was able to start a war on your tearms, but we would not like it if someone plonked a starship on our coast and mining out ore, I just think there is a better way or starting combat in this game, if the devs put in different maps on the same plannet, and randomise the ore , this would be huge!! that being said, the game play is nice and paced, with not much rushing (maybe a little at the start) the music is nice and non irretating, but switches to combat music badly and I would like to choose to only hear the piecefull music. as I said, this is a top down swivel camera base building with AOE style encathment area buildings, so buildings can buff each other in a area, this can get quite confusing when you have alot of buildings up, What I do like is this game reserch is not based on resorces, yes you do need them to upgrade, but you unlock based on your population, which is a nice touch, but as I said earlier if your slow like me the monsters get too strong for weak turrets. I also like the fact your not really bound to a limit of buildings/turrets, the power your mothership can produce and be upgraded is plenty, in end game I have had quarter of the map covered with space on my power to spare, so although I had bad turrets for ages, I can spam them, couple them with healing towers and its quite effective. there is not much more to say, there are three difficulty settings, I was on easy first time, then I did it on normal, but I really had enough at that point, as there is no encentive to come back, so I do reccoment you play this, maybe when its on offer, but understand as of this review, The one map can take 6-8 hours then your done, thats it, no more. thanks for reading, I hope this was helpfull to someone, I am going to start a review channel on you-tube.

垃圾中的战斗圾，真的不要上当，一点塔防的乐趣都没有，慢的要死，很卡不说还不能调整视角