
TOWER ▪ DEFENSE ▪ STRATEGY. Control Vessels. Utilize their uniquely deep set of towers. Create an everchanging defense. Play with friends. Protect your Basin at all costs. An absolute Tower Defense, Real-Time Strategy Hybrid
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Defend your Basin, it must stand.
TDS Tower Defense Strategy is a Tower Defense, Real-Time Strategy Hybrid at its core. Build up, grab your friends, and defend against the Tides that approach.
Maps have no path, no limits, and most importantly... Enemies will fight back.


Control a Vessel, they are your anchor to the world.
Vessels in themselves are both a unit and a tower. Control them to mine, fight, and build your defense. Each of which comes with their own set of extremely unique towers to help in this endeavor.
Towers, units. Simple yet deep.
Expand your defense through an extremely rich set of upgrades that all play off one another. Synergistic in nature, there are many combinations and strategies you can employ to increase your effective hold. Towers can expand on one another, Vessels can too.


Handcrafted, fully realized unique maps.
On your adventure you will encounter MANY diverse maps, from floating woodcraft in the sky to massive derelict structures. Not only in their visual design but down to the very gameplay of them. No two maps are the same. And each one will challenge you systematically.
Outsmart, overpower.
Placement is key; you can make it through by sheer power, but you can also do so through your wit. There are many points in which your actions have a bearing more than simply upgrading to the next best thing. Create an ultra powerful single tower, create an impenetrable wall. You can even beat whole areas utilizing no towers* (Please fact check me on this)
TDS is better with friends!
Play with up to 3 of your fellow Vessels and defend together! There are infinitely more combinations and strategies when you play with friends (including goofy cheese ones)


"The simple things may very much be the most complex" - Me
The game has challenges for all with areas containing all matters of difficulty. It CAN be really hard, expect resistance. But also have a fun time!
Join our Discord for frequent updates and progress on the game! :D


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Languages: English*, French*, German*, Japanese*, Korean*, Polish*, Portuguese - Portugal*, Simplified Chinese*, Spanish - Latin America*, Italian*, Spanish - Spain*, Portuguese - Brazil* +3 more
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 43 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
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I dont understand most of these reviews that are negative. I never really had an issue with UI and i think the games great. Ive done every level and ive done most to the maximum wave. this game has a great variety of levels and after you beat it most of the levels get a variant of sometimes minor and sometimes major differences. I highly suggest playing this game with other people as each character is quite unique and having multiple can make some nice defensive builds. Knowing what i do now I would have paid double price for the game. I seriously hope it gets a content update at some point. Not because it is lacking anything but because i just really want more. The art is also really good for everything. SEEK THE DUCK
one of the strongest tower defense games i've ever played. very engaging, very deep, lots of strategy that opens up in terms of playstyles the ui is pretty but incredibly difficult to navigate at first but just keep clicking around and you will figure it out
A lot of people complain about the ui, it’s not that bad smh. Great game with difficulty.
I like the art style but 2 major issues. They clearly want to be unique in their look but it goes too far, I don't even know what I'm looking at in menus, tried traveling to a new area, I think? Didn't know how to dock boat. No way to quick select character that I saw in the tutorial, easy to lose your character, having to rotate your camera whichever way to find them again.
dee dee mega doo doo
I love this game, the art style gives me monumental valley vibes AKA beautiful. The vessels all feel distinct and unique in playstyle ranging from true TD to RTS playstyles. Although the UI can feel kind of confusing at times, with me getting lost or annoyed with navigation or UX, its bearable for me. The gameplay is slow, often taking around 30-45 minutes to fully clear a level but remains very challenging with map variation, mechanics and eco restraints. Overall enjoyable game, very much looking forward to its development especially with upcoming mod support. Highly recommend playing if you enjoy TD games.
It's an amazing tower defense game, nice art style that does very well mixing blocky 3d with 2d sprites for characters. It is very challenging, but you aren't required to get through all the waves, which helps with difficulty. It's also a ton of fun to play with a friend.
So far, from my tiny 9 hours of game is GREAT, far greater than my level at this game lol, the design is really well made and appealing, everything is really cute, the music is nice, the tower defense mechanics are there, the variety can be felt somehow, and the fact there pretty much is no limit to how you play aside from the map's design itself is NICE, i've been enjoying spamming garages and speed pads to annihilate waves, i think my only problem so far with the game is the camera, it's sometimes annoying to try and upgrade a tower but another is clicked, though the problem is less present than in any other TD game i've played which is nice, but a top view camera would be really nice i WILL play more of this and am really happy of my purchase, if you enjoy calm but somewhat challenging TDs, this should be it ( i don't really know if it's challenging i might just be buns af )
genuinely amazing
This game drove me mad, I couldn't play for a long time so I strategized on how to build my offense with no towers
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