Is the game entertaining? Yes! Does the game run smoothly? Yes! Is there a ton of unlockable content and game content? Yes and no! Is the game a good tower defense strategy game? No! Definitely not...,
Anyone looking at this game and thinking this is going to be their next entry into the Tower Defense genre where they can test their brain and tower placement positions to slaughter the opposition..., think again! While yes you definitely are going to be killing enemies and placing towers, how you choose to place those towers is almost irrelevant as this game focuses more on the grind and fail and rinse repeat to become stronger as opposed to actually implementing and improving strategies that're not working like most tower defense titles.
You'll be grinding out the same maps over and over for resources to apply to the huge tech tree to improve fire-rate, damage output, resource income, weapon range and abilities effectiveness and when you beat a level or do so without losing any HP you'll get a special resource to unlock a new tower or a special enhancement that adds big bonuses to your combat effectiveness. <-- The grind however, is quite tedious because despite investing in the resource upgrades you still don't get huge amounts of points quickly and this means you'll be repeating the same stage several times over again to save for either one upgrade or several and it can create a stale cycle of boredom!
While there is a large tech tree there's unfortunately, a very small number of maps and like I said you'll be grinding out the same one's over again so the limit in maps makes the grind all that more exhausting.
My biggest issues with the game are:
- It's less about strategy and more about pushing through the power grind till what fails eventually works! Thus making what I thought to be a tower defense game like many others actually just a weird roguelite with tower defense aesthetic.
- The grind is absurd; you spend a lot of time repeating the same stage to save up currency for the tech tree only to buy one upgrade maybe two and that's kinda insane.
- There's not a lot of maps to the game and to my knowledge there's no modes other than what is present so when it comes to grinding resources you can't do a infinite horde mode or anything to see how long you'll last against increasing orc swarm sizes or anything.
