Tower Dominion

Had fun with this game for the first few hours as i learned how to play on the easier levels. Got really frustrated when i tried to beat the harder levels due to enemies, towers, perks, terrain all being tied to RNG and random enemy quantity spikes that you can't see coming and cannot prepare for. Here are a few scenarios that i have gone through, hope it helps someone get a better idea for what the game has in store: 1) Enemy selection is based on RNG and every few waves a new set of enemies is added to the waves. Get shielded enemies for my entire run. Spec my towers to take down shields, use all the best available tower locations to get the best shield break effect. On the last new enemy selection phase, game gives me camouflaged enemies that are invisible to all towers except for ones that have the specific skill needed to see the camo enemies. I did not select many towers that can see camo for my run as they were not needed and i opted for more useful towers to the enemies i was fighting. The tower selection RNG gives me very few towers that can see camo on the next few turns, I place down what i can. On the final wave, defend against all enemies except for the camo ones that make it through since I don't have enough damage for all of them and they take down my base ending my run in defeat. 2) Tower selection is also based on RNG and the game can just not give you any towers during the early phase or give you late game towers that you cannot afford. Either way, the enemy quantity increases while my ability to fight them off does not. During an endless mode run, I made it to wave 66 and the game just stopped giving me towers to place down during the RNG tower and perk selection phase, it just kept giving me perks while the enemy quantity kept increasing. No way to redo tower upgrades or reposition them for better effect/ lane coverage. Ended up losing the run since i had nothing to place down and got overrun. 3) Worst of all is that the game will spike the quantity of enemies being spawned at certain waves. This is the games way of increasing difficulty as the waves go on, but the quantity change is so dramatic that it will overrun you without any warning. One wave you are holding just fine, the next, you are losing the run because the increased enemy quantity flooded paths that were unused by previous enemy waves and thus were not well defended. During one of my runs, i ended up with 2 fronts, one that kept drowning in enemies and one that barely spawned any, like a 20 to 1 ratio. For the entire run, 3-4 towers comfortably held all enemies back on the easy front with the bad one was just barely hanging on. The signal the game is giving me is that one side needs more towers while the other one is fine as is and i do just that, i spend my resources on the bad side. The enemy quantity spike happens and the good side gets overrun out of no where and i lose the run. I don't think i should be planning my defense around my meta knowledge of how the game is going to spike the enemy quantity soon so I should add defenses on a side that doesn't need any, but on the enemy quantity and paths they take on previous waves. These scenarios happened multiple times across many runs. The economy being RNG as well meant that i didn't always have the money to bolster defenses on all sides. I am not an experienced TD player but I spent more time being frustrated at the game than enjoying it as i felt like i was losing due to reasons out of my control. I was doing great on my runs until the RNG decided I was going to lose :(

Whether you enjoy or despise this game is entirely dependent on RNG. As in, nearly everything is randomized (what resources you get, what buildings you can places, what path tiles you are given, etc), BUT, not in a way that is minimally balanced. You can die to flier swarms on round 3 without anything to avail you. Strong pass.

I loved this game until a recent update, they said they were rebalancing but the game difficulty skyrocketed in a way that kills the fun. There's a good game here, I enjoyed my time, but it's just painfully difficult now so I'm gonna nope out. If you like extreme challenges this is for you, if you're looking for something more chill I'd steer clear.

I usually hate Tower Defense games, but this one has a lot of layers and each run is different. I wished there was more than 3 biomes, but it is a very fair game with lots to unlock and strategies to explore.

Really fun tower defence game. Enough variety to make it interesting. Would definitely buy if more maps or factions became available

Super chill game, good for anyone who likes tower defense games and strategy. Definitely recommend.

Challenging and satisfying. Strategy will get you gains, but sometimes the game just brings the pain.

Im here after finding an old wanderbot video! Im having a good time, Im constently having flash backs to early 2000s flash games like this from mini clip or new grounds. Its a lot of fun. I still dont know what a pit is, but other wise, one or two runs a day is a good way to kill a lunch break

If you are looking for a tower defense game just get bloons, it's much better at that. leans very heavily into the roguelike/lite elements. everything is rng from enemy spawns to maps pieces to which towers you get. a lot of runs you will just get screwed cause it sends fliers at you and you get no anti air defense, or it sends shielded units at you and you have no anti shield defense. runs are almost purely dependant on luck and skill is almost a non factor. or you can just choose the white faction and trivialize the game.

I kept trying to like this game because I like its general concept of sort of creating the map yourself as you go, and the wide variety of towers and heroes on display, but unfortunately the amount of negatives this game has far outweigh any positives it may have. You've seen it in other reviews, but the RNG paired with the harsh resource limitation and ridiculous amount of enemies really is just the worst aspect of the game and completely kills it, you just need to get lucky enough to get amazing towers and upgrades early or you might as well just restart. Some may say that's just how roguelites are, to that I say you don't actually understand what a good roguelite is, or have played many roguelites to begin with, because good roguelites will still let the player push through with ♥♥♥♥♥♥ RNG. Higher difficulties of this game however aren't actually difficult, they're just extremely luck-reliant. Do you get those amazing towers and upgrades earlier or not? That's all the winning factor is, your early luck, because the game will throw so many enemies at you that you can only deal with without leaking constantly by getting lucky enough to deal with it. For as much as I want to like this game, it's simply not worth playing over basically any other tower defense game in existence due to how artificially difficult it is, it does not respect player freedom or skill expression, it just wants you to get lucky and that's it. Genuinely one of the worst feeling tower defense games I've ever played, and I've played quite a few, I love tower defense games. Just disappointing that this one feels so terrible when it's so promising, and nothing has seemed to change any time I pop back in to try the game again.