Isle of Arrows

Too much RNG. Just...too much. Need a certain path card = wait about five turns to get it. Need a certain tower card = wait about five turns to get it, after which you're now at three hearts. It's just a painful experience, with little to no reward in the gameplay.

I like the gameplay loop but the tile placement is so restrictive with where paths are allowed to be built it causes incredibly frustrating moments of throwing away pieces you need.

For a tower defense game ... it's missing a lot. No sense of the range of towers. Seemingly no option to upgrade towers. No preview of the mobs in a particular wave. Control is clunky with rotation on a click? Placement on the button at the bottom? Drag and drop the piece where you want it to go instead of, say, WASD moving the piece around (and QE to rotate)? While the idea of being able to specifically craft the route alongside placing towers is interesting (so not using towers to change the path as is common), it usually does so in a way that isn't ... pleasing ... or effective for what you're currently working with. The fact that the game uses a random deck of tiles, with the option to skip a turn at a cost, is a standard for deck building games, but as is usual with deck building games, it can only mitigate RNG so much, and planning and precision are the norm for tower defense games ... so the mixture of the two isn't a great feel.

I kinda wish Steam allowed a "Meh" or "middle" answer to the recommend system, cause i still wish to recomend this game to others, but also share my fustrations with central gameplay loop. First an formost, what works. The game is a strategy tower defence game, which is a genre i like, which also brings in roguelike gambling mechanics which i like. It's incredibly simple in its design, which gives it a nice and simple learning curve. I love the tower varity, card options, which allows for a small yet cool level of replayability. Not to mention that there are multiple different playstyles to unlock ontop of the base stuff, which changes the main gameplay loop in many unique ways. I love the gameplay design and loop.... HOWEVER! That comes with a big as * on it, as the amount of luck you need to get anything done in this game, ruins its pacing and just turns the game into a slot machine. You go to the slot machine, asking for a decent run, and you get spit into a run where it takes you 5 turns to get 1 thing you need, and when you get it, its not enough to fix the sitation your now in. Put simply, the things you need take to long to get, and when you get them, the situation is worse, and requires way more stuff to fix. It tanks your game economy, just trying to roll on the slot again and again, to hope the gods give you what you need. if the game had multiple tile options, pr round, it would make it so much smoother and less RNG like. If that feels to simple, make a difficulty harder that just the current base game RNG system. I think its way to punishing and does not always reward you for thinking ahead. Sometimes it punishes you for thinking ahead, and lets you sit there waiting for that one corner/straight path, for 6 turns, making you lose 6 health, only to then get it, place it and it not enough to save you. Also, if they added a way to specify how towers target enemies like in Bloons Tower Defence, IT WOULD BE AMAZING, cause i cant count the amount of times i have had Towers targeting, THE WORST OPTION, RENDERING THE ENTIRE TOWER USELESS (talking about you cannon tower) Anyway, i think its a decent tower defence game, but it defo has its major flaws, that can piss you off, and make you hate the game instead of wanting to play it. Its a few tweaks/quality of life mechanics away from being a nice chill casual, yet diverse roguelike tower defence game.

Such an annoying game.

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随机性很大，非常看运气，所以并不好玩，除非喜欢自虐。

Its a TD game where you get a card that you lets you place things on the island. You start with a short path and 1 tower. Each new card can be either a tower or a piece of the path or a building. If you dont that the offered card, it will be discared and you get the next one. You get gold for each wave and you can spend it in the black market or to get the next card sooner. Pieces of the path cannot block or be blocked by other buildings so you have to plan ahead if the piece doesnt fit the current path or discard it. There are different tower types and most needs to be unlocked via progression. Buildings provide benefits if you meet thier conditions. For example fisher hut needs water in adjacent tiles and it will provide you with gold for each water tile. There are different enemy types but with similar look. The game also allows you to use bridges and bombs. Bridges are used when trying to place something on the cliff on the island. Bombs are used when trying to place something on top some other building/structure. There is also a wheel of future with positive and negative effects but you can decline to spin it. Graphics and music are very basic but nice. Clean UI design. No bugs noticed so far.

結構難しいですが、じっくり考えてのんびりやるにはうってつけです。

There's a learning curve, but then a really interesting game with some depth behind it. Well worth playing.