Rift Riff

EDIT: I was misinformed about a change in map design in one of the challenges. In general.. it's fun, light to run, simple but not easy. As it should be. No bloat, a low spec laptop will do. Could use a hint feature in some of the most difficult challenges.

The game is pretty neat and the pixal art looks wonderful, but don't expect a complex gameplay. The game doesn't have a lot to offer, towers are pretty generic, enemies too and the diffculty is not that high, even with challenges it's nothing too hard... I got bored after 4 hours, but I may comeback to 100% the game in the future. Still, it wasn't worth paying full price.

I don't even like tower defense and this slaps, so streamlined and fun to play. Challenging but never overwhelming.

good

Nett und kurzweilig

I just finished the last challenge and I thought this was a very good game. Highly recommended. Just a few gripes - I wasn't a fan of having to restart the entire scenario just to change one tower late in the game. Perhaps you can allow people to choose towers as they go to a limit of 5 instead of having to choose all 5 towers at the beginning, this way I still retain the flexibilty of experimenting with differnent towers in the late waves. Also, maybe you can allow people to rewind to a particular wave instead of just restarting the previous one. But on the whole the game is very good.

You can tell it's a mobile game. Fun in the beginning then exponentially more difficult later. I have nothing against a game getting harder, but this felt like a cheap tactic by the developer to exploit some sunk cost for the player. Maybe buy a powerup bc you're so close to the end (No pay to win in this version but it feels like this concept was thought of in development)

Baffling gameplay. The teaser in the intro of "You'll figure it out" comes across as hostile to casual gamers, not playful. Controls seem like a weird mix of 2D top-down shooter and point-and-click mystery, yet the game is fundamentally a tower-defense game???

Solid game overall. I'll start with the bad bc there aren't much of it. → The early levels are a bit boring because of the very limited selection of turrets and companions. → The balance could be improved : ricochet tower is op while the stinger and self-destruct towers are AWEFUL. The hook tower is also very situational (mendatory in like 2-3 missions or challenges, and uber useless the rest of the time). → No easy mode or hints for casual players. Now with the positive. → OST is pretty good. → A pixel art that doesn't look bad. → Later levels require you to rethink your strategy instead of going for the most op towers all the time, thankfully we don't get the ricochet tower early on though :p Some maps are small, others are big, some have one path, others have multiple, some will throw rushing enemies while others will unleash enemies that go for your turrets, and so on. A couple of small ones even ask you to sell your turrets in order to match enemy waves, I love it! → The challenges unlocked near the end of the game are pretty cool, demanding specific strategies that you must find out by yourself. It's a smart way to recycle the entirety of the maps and extend the game's replayability. However, some challenges are ridiculously hard, bummer :/ I'm close to finishing the game, so I would say that it's about 15-20hours to get all levels and challenges, pretty much worth it. I wouldn't recommend it for casual players if you are also not patient enough to test different approaches. Solid game overall, well done Adriaan :) Personal note: 7/10

good