Nordhold

The grahics, roguelikes upgrades and the map are all positives. The minus is the actual tower defense, its a classic system of walking the line between defending the coming waves while also not over investing in defenses. You need to build your economic engine without dying while doing so, the issue comes from the fact that its extremely hard to know what defenses or how many of them you need. Walking the line is really hard when you get 0 information to go on. Usually what happened to me was, "its easy, its easy, its easy, ouch I'm dead". A painful experience after investing 30 minutes or more of solid engine building. Obviously I made a mistake but the issue is there really was no way for me to discern the increase in difficulty beforehand. The biggest issue however is the endgame, the final 10 waves of the 30 waves normal game. They get insane and you need very particular strategies to succeed, which sucks the fun out of a "choose your own strategy" kind of game. The late game has tons of enemies, some of them have huge magic shield protecting the weaker enemies under it, others have armor that reduces damage, others have dodges which makes all shots likely to miss and do 0 damage. Others are tanks that becomes a horde when they die, others have healing auras, meaning they heal all the small enemies around them. So if you almost kill all the enemies but there is a small break until your next set of towers, you die. Others have immunity to 2 or more hits, they will never take damage from first 2 attacks. The combination of all the above level of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ means you need very specific strategy, you need a killzone, otherwise healers or tank spawners are going to kill you. You need aoe to kill all the hordes, you need single target damage very high for the shielders, tanks bosses and so on. You need magic barrier kill strategy, you also need a way to get around dodge and immunity. The game tells you none of these things before they hit you in the face with them or even while they are hitting you. It just doesn't feel good to play the tower defense part, which is the majority of the game. Endgame updating and spending your resources also becomes a drag

Not a bad tower defense game. The amount of meta progress hurts me but is not super bad. It is an interesting take. You build your base and where you are going to place your towers. There are 9 towers from what I could tell and using them correctly is key. When you explore more you can get lucky and they come back so that your towers can hit the same enemies twice but sometimes they will just want to not which sucks. Would recommend if you like tower defense games.

A solid tower defense game. I spent way too long to finish the normal mode but well designed.

Game is cool and offers plenty of play time for the price. Fun little dark-sided tower defense game; nothing ultra complicated, but it does take some experimentation to figure out how to resource up faster. Lots to unlock. Great little meta-TD builder with bosses every so often. 5/5 for what it is (unique styling).

It's a classic tower defense game, set in a nordic-like theme. You build an economy from the base based on standard resources including wood, food, stone and gold, while you manage and combine towers which specialize in classic mechanics like AoE, sniping, armor piercing, etc. Some combinations result in unique advantages that may prove very useful in the middle to late game. There's also a meta progression honor point system which you can mass up through iterating different games and strategies. I'd work on elaborating the UI graphics on the main menu, but overall it's a decent game for anyone who loves to plan, design and experience success through different tower defense strategies.

[b]Nordhold[/b] to dobry, jak i pod wieloma względami wymagający tytuł z gatunku gier strategiczno-obronnych (tower defense z pazurem roguelite) w którym to gracz wciela się wojownika którego zadaniem będzie obrona nordyckiej osady przed napływem hord złowrogich istot. Tytuł być może nie jest dla wszystkich biorąc pod uwagę specyficzną strukturę rozgrywki która jest dedykowana w głównej mirze fanom tego gatunku – gdzie do waszych zadań będzie należeć rozbudowa i rozmieszczanie na mapie wszelakich fortyfikacji obronnych mających na celu zatrzymanie i wyeliminowanie przeciwnika przed dotarciem do bram waszej osady, generującej surowce i bonusy niezbędne do waszego funkcjonowania. Jeżeli wasza główna brama padnie, gra się kończy. Nie jest, i nie będzie to prosta gra zwłaszcza na samym początku, kiedy nie będziecie mieli odblokowanych dodatkowych bonusów „poprawiających” wasze zdolności bitewne z silnie agresywnym i nieustępliwym przeciwnikiem. Całościowa (kampanijna) potyczka to 30 rund/fal do przetrwania, po czym dostaniecie wybór: definitywnie zakończyć pozytywnie rozgrywkę (wracając do menu) czy też kontynuować zabawę już w trybie nieskończonym walcząc o jak najlepszy wynik. I z miejsca informuje że dotarcie do ostatniego poziomu będzie morderczą przeprawą, która wyciągnie z was strategiczne siódme poty. Mapa gry jest generowana za każdym razem losowo przez co nie istnieje jedno „złote” rozwiązanie jak budować/rozbudowywać obronne aby była najbardziej wydajna w walce z przeciwnikiem – do tego trzeba podejść strategicznie, biorąc pod uwagę strukturę powłoki otoczenia, ich wysokość mających wpływa wasze zdolności obronne, typ wierzy obronne oraz/co ważne czy macie na to środki aby ją wybudować. To to dosyć wymagające wyzwanie do przezwyciężenia, i nie spodziewajcie się że dokonacie tego za pierwszym razem. Potyczki są szybkie (zwłaszcza z systemowym przyśpieszeniem), dlatego też w razie błędnych decyzji/działań, wasza zabawa może niekiedy w kilka minut dobiec końca. Co do kwestii technicznych, oprawa audiowizualna jest bardzo dobra, sterowanie banalnie proste, interfejs prosty i przejrzysty w którym występuje polska lokalizacja (napisy). Polecam! [quote]Zachęcam wszystkich do obserwacji [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/32785706/ ]kuratora[/url] i jego nowej sekcji recenzenckiej [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45946673/]walas85+[/url], by na bieżąco otrzymywać świeże informacje o nowo zrecenzowanych tytułach.[/quote]

When i saw this game release strongly describing and weighting how early they were in the development process I saw it like a train station with healthy tracks heading in varied directions where you could see great things on the horizon of all of them. I took their wording and tone to mean they were going to build destinations, but the game is the tracks it was at release. I ran it but i wouldn't ever say i played it, it just was never very fun. I put this off because I could see how it should have been. Primarily the big issues are, there is no important or non reflexive decision choice point or strategy to the map. You make the map, build a choke and try to keep your loop backs in range of your loop backs; your lucky and it works or not the end. Inflexibility in design leading to permanent tower placement and locked in skill choices. Once set you would be penalizing yourself to adjust or change. So there is simply no importance to your input after you have set the ball rolling after the first 5% of the match. The town is mono tone too simple a chore and a anchor. There is nothing new there from match to match, nothing to discover, and all you are doing in essence is choosing the level of risk you take on for reward. Conserve resources for gains risk losing. The resources you maximize are going to be the ones you are using, and your are simply going to get them, all the upgrades are good and you are going to get them in the optimal order, so all that is left is how long are you going to save your gold before buying what you have no choice but to buy. The roguelike features are in the form they are in a wild detriment to the game more than a boon. They make the start of the game feel terrible, the middle polka dotty, and the end monotone and stretched to infinity and beyond. I like roguelike progressive features, but these are simply put not any good and standing in the way of balance. Which brings me to the last. I have watched their patches and they are progressively slowing and were absolutely tiny to begin with. Nothing I view as a primary system has been added to the game, and given that updates are down to about 10% the content of the first 3 months it is safe to say the game is what it is intended to be at this point. TLDR: Disappointment aside, this is not a terrible tower defense game, but it is the kind of game that used to come out for free on flash sites and mid list in the tower defense section. It is what you see with no depth and all the hidden mystery in their marketing language referring to what it is or will be is vapor, nothing more.

Decent Tower Defense Roguelike. Meta progression was solid and experimentation was rewarded. Especially enjoyed the balance of safety vs econ, brought back WC3-PVP TD vibes. Only complaint is that I'm not sure how much replayability it has with only 7 towers and variability primarily coming from fairly rare / lategame combinations.

Decent tower defense. The economy phase is a novelty. Like many roguelites, Nordhold suffers from overstaying its welcome for players who want to unlock all of the available meta progression upgrades. By the time you can buy them all, you will have long since seen everything that matters. I wouldn't have ground out all the upgrades if I weren't excited to try the game mode that gives an expansive passive tree for tower upgrades. These upgrades cost the same currency that you use to buy the global ones, so I wanted the baseline completed first. That mode sounded better than it was; within about five runs I was able to beat the mode with only arrow towers. I know this might sound like complaining but the game is fine. You just might have played too long if you reach my hour count.

One of the better tower defense games I've played. worth a pick up if thats your style