SwordSpire

Defense game with no balance since the same strategy works for each battle. The gameplay is not particularly complicated. After selecting a battleground from the map, you will find yourself near a castle. The goal is to defend it while simultaneously attacking the opponent stronghold with troops. This is accomplished by clicking on the five troop symbols. Although you can take control of a unit and move it around, I never used this feature. Additional attacks come from three types of turrets, although they fire slowly and are expensive. The first unit is weak and barely useful for combat, but it can mine crystals dispersed over the battlefield. Crystals break after a while, therefore you can not get endless resources. Each trip awards you one hundred coins, but you also earn a few coins every second. Crystals may regenerate, but this takes a long time and you will most likely have cleared the entire field by that point. Unfortunately, the game is extremely unbalanced. The first stage, which is supposed to teach you the mechanics, is unbeatable if you do not know what you are doing. This also means that you will fail several times before discovering a successful approach. Basically, you must spam five to six mining units before focusing on the strongest unit available. This strategy works in all battles. If you make a mistake or wait too long, the enemy will have built all three turrets and amassed so many resources that you will be unable to approach its tower. However, if you somehow manage to beat the first stage, you will gain experience points, which will make the subsequent stages much easier. You earn points for each level-up, which you may use to upgrade your units and tower. The most crucial thing is money generation, which provides you a lot more per second, and then you can concentrate on unit speed and damage. Because each stat can only be increased five times, you can max out a unit after just a few levels. The game is divided into worlds, and each world has seven battles. But except for a background and color change for each world, all of the battles are exactly the same. Presentation is extremely basic and poor, which is also seen in the game’s map and menu.