Nordhold

Gets better and better. Lots of content. Was a bit slow to progress at first, but after a few hours the progression speeds up.

Fun tower defense game, though not even close to bloons td6. It mixes city building elements with tower defense and rogue like progression. So in each wave you first do city management and place towers and then just watch the enemies run to your towers. So the actual TD part is completely passive. The random map generation and rogue like elements should make the runs unique but they kind of blend together, and the waves lack strong distinct identities. If you fail a single wave you fail that whole run, so you cannot learn from your mistakes and adapt. All in all it is much more of rogue like city builder than tower defense, and gets a lukewarm recommendation from me.

Ну чудо а не игра. Давно не видела таких выверенных механик. 4 часа улетели как не было, а ведь я думала просто фоном потыркаю.

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

これ実質、初期の立ち回りで死にゲーになってる。 これＴＤじゃなくてパズルゲームなんじゃないのかな。 私にとってはコレジャナイ感満載のとても人にお勧めできないゲームでした。

Roguelite tower defense game Pros: Sense of progression, each tower has a purpose, good build diversity, not too much randomness and what there is can be manipulated a bit, economy is fun to build, stylized. Cons(?): No story, doesn't really need it though. Get it on sale, you'll certainly kill a few dozen hours with it.

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.