Polygons Tower Defense

Game is early access, but still in a beta mode. Game is fun, but if you go to the in game store, the next map will load and freeze and you'll have to exit the game and restart. Game is fun, but not ready for prime time. It's been out a couple of months and those issues should have been fixed.

Polygons Tower Defense is a minimalist, somewhat dumbed down tower defense game that's also broken, at least for me. The ongoing dangers of Valve's disastrous Early Access programme, I guess. The unskippable tutorial requires you to click on an area outside the screen, and locks the UI until you do. Since it's impossible to click outside of the viewable area of the screen (and your mouse pointer is bound to the display area), this renders the game broken and unplayable. I know it's Early Access, but it's evident even basic testing was not conducted before this was dumped on Steam with a price tag on it. Unacceptable. The game is still being developed, (maybe the broken tutorial will be fixed and the game could become playable one day) but development is slow enough that the game appears to be headed to Development Hell. While there's still time before the game reaches the developers committed deadline to complete the game, it's only getting very small updates maybe once a month or so, and the updates are mostly empty. There's no reliable indication the game will ever be completed, which is another reason for gamers to avoid this. It's important to remember that only about 25% of Early Access games ever get completed... the vast majority of Early Access games are abandoned and all money taken from gamers is never refunded. Early Access games are a huge risk and in general should be avoided. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. Even if it did work. Which it doesn't. The game features lazy minimalist/untextured low-polygon "retro" assets and visuals, making this look like a barely functional 3D game from the early 1990s. The lack of textures is a method that lazy devs often use to disguise their lack of talent/interest in doing the graphics properly and trying to disguise it under the name of "art", or "We made it look bad on purpose", which really isn't something gamers should have to put up with. It's unclear why the developers weren't willing to arrange high quality, high polygon count contemporary assets and high resolution textures for the game. It looks bad as a result of their decisions, and that's just another reason to avoid it. The controls can't be customised because the game has such a dumbed down, simplified interface that it's just iPhone screen tapping stuff. The fact that the interface is this dumbed down might be seen as a problem in itself, however... this is a fairly shallow experience if you're the kind of gamer that likes to play games with deep, rich control schemes and interaction. You'll get none of that here. This looks and feels like a mobile app, but it doesn't seem to have made it to the app stores. It's unclear why this was put on Steam instead of the app stores it seems to have been designed for. Maybe it was removed, maybe it was rejected by Apple and Google (they do have more rigorous quality standards than Valve does for Steam, after all). Regardless, for all intents and purposes Polygons Tower Defense might as well be a mobile app, it has the same limitations and dumbed down qualities. It's impossible to recommend such a game to PC gamers. We don't spend all this money building gaming rigs so we can pretend they're iPhones and play games that might as well be mobile apps. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 3 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 50,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected. Because the game is broken and unplayable for me, it may also not work for other gamers. This is a solid reason to approach this game with some skepticism. Polygons Tower Defense is relatively cheap at $3 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the game breaking defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend. This is also competing with over 9,000 free games available on Steam, many of them far better than this paid product. [quote][b][url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/profile]Profile Features Limited![/url][/b] Valve have marked this game as "Profile Features Limited" at the time of this review. This is usually caused by poor sales figures and low community acceptance for the game (to date). Until this status changes, this game will not give you +1 to your Game Collector badge count, appear in profile achievements or any other Steam meta-accomplishments, nor can it be displayed in some profile showcases. If these factors are important to you, it may be worth holding off before buying this game.[/quote]

The game really works well, I'm not a fan of this type of game, but I tried it and I don't regret it, the sound is good, the graphics are beautiful and everything works as expected!

Esse jogo é muito viciante, as torres são muito criativas e os estágios são bem difíceis. Gostei do desafio!

Actually a great game. Still in beta, so it is missing a lot of features that are promised to be coming soon(TM). Even so, I'd still recommend it just because it's got plenty of content for the price and is overall pretty polished, balanced, and fun. Even has multiplayer, but I haven't tried it so I have no idea how that works.

Jogo muito bom e interessante. As torres tem sinergia, a questão do level também achei legal porque depende do XP da torre. Mesmo com acesso antecipado, tudo está funcionando perfeitamente.

So grindy.

Nice TD. Great price, simple but clear graphics. Starts easy but by water world is getting quite tricky. Definitely good value for money.

The game is really fun and the polypedia is really cool. Just fix the bug in the tutorial that is preventing you from proceeding. TIPS FOR PLAYERS: Play a solo multiplayer match and the tutorial is completed. (Português:) O jogo está bem divertido e a polipédia é bem legal. Só corrigir o bug do tutorial que ta impedindo de prosseguir. DICA PARA JOGADORES: Joguem uma partida multiplayer solo que o tutorial é concluído.

Very good TD game. A whole lot of depth for 3$. There is some grind but acceptable.