Xeno Rangers

At its core, this is an Arcade 2D shoot 'em up where you battle hordes of enemies on a fairly small-sized map, almost fitting on a single screen. You can aim your weapon in any direction, which gives you a little bit more finesse than a standard shoot 'em up. Furthermore, the game adds a significant dose of strategy by featuring various towers that you can purchase and upgrade. These add extra turrets or units that run around collecting the resources you need to build those turrets, etc. Thus gameplay consists of fighting off hordes until you have just enough free time to manage your towers. While the core gameplay loop is definitely fun, getting into it is a bit of a challenge because the controls are poorly described. Here’s the key thing that should be printed in bold, large letters but seems to be said nowhere: In order to repair and/or build your towers, you need to choose a specific “tool” from your inventory of weapons. This is a fine mechanic; it’s just poorly explained in-game. I suffered so you don’t have to. Already by the 4th level, I’m finding it pretty challenging and wishing a bit for an adjustable difficulty level. But, probably with more play, I will figure out the strategies that will adjust the difficulty down just by playing more cleverly. The game's storyline has a thoroughly absurd, B-movie vibe. It’s played for laughs and does so pretty well. At times, however, it feels like they leaned into low-effort absurdity rather than any kind of coherence. I’m sure it comes down to taste, but I enjoyed watching it. It doesn’t seem to be particularly relevant to the gameplay, at least so far, but it adds a nice respite between levels.

I can recommend it to tower defense lovers that like very active and challenging management. It's not a laid back tower defense game. It has some charm and decent visual polish, it's got a hook like all decent tower defense games. It's pretty hard, you have to manage your towers well, repairing and defending rapidly otherwise your system will be overwhelmed. The storyline tries to take up too much space and insists upon itself. Several minutes of cutscene (skippable) story telling before any action. The story isn't of interest but the basic tower defense game loop is OK. I would have liked some more polish on making the controls and character seem more fluid, it feels quite rigid and clunky. The crosshair is locked to a distance for some ambiguous reason since your weapons can still fire beyond it. The in game visual effects are good. Sound effects are good. The price seems a bit much for what it seems to be, but I can still recommend it to someone who wants a difficult and active tower defense game.

I've played this game since the demo was out and had a lot of fun with it! It's like a balloon defense but a lot more intense. It's harder because you can only put guns in certain areas and have to jump around to upgrade/repair them. Plus you can actually fight on the ground and kill enemies in worse case. Another thing I like is that the game actually gets hard. You have to learn to strategize in order to keep progressing to the end. I've only played by myself though so not sure how the multiplayer is.

One of the best games I have played recently!!! Amazing gameplay, great graphics, I recommend it from all my heart!! 10/10

Very cool game! Great concept, unique characters. A wildly different take on the base defence genre. Its like 50's steam punk acid trip aesthetic. Very badass, highly recommended.

Wow this game surprised me. I hadn't played a co-op game for a while and it was good fun. I played it in singleplayer too and it kept me going for quite a while. The gameplay is solid and the graphics are pretty impressive for a solo dev. And I love the awesome eighties retro music and soundeffects! Keep up the good work!

I am a fan of tower defense games so i was interested in this one. So far its been pretty awesome. I liked the graphics and the tower defense is very hands on unlike many games where you just build towers and thats it. I liked playing as the undead cowboy the most since he had plenty of firepower to help with the fighting. I love that every character is so unique. The resource gathering and "harvester" stuff remind me of tiberian sun which is one of my favourite games of all time so thats a huge plus from me. Its a bit hard and takes a while to get better at it but i dont mind. One extra thing i liked a lot is how the game is always keeping me on my toes with item crates spawning in random places. This means that i cant just rest near the start coz theres great loot to find. The weapon variety is sick from guns to literal monster eggs. All in all a solid game for any tower defense fans with a touch of action.

I would call this a tower defense game but it is a very good game. 4 different characters to choose from seems like each 1 has unique crafting for defending. I have only played the first 2 levels used 2 different characters so far. Overall 9/10 it runs good on the Steam Deck. The video attached was played on Ultra settings on the deck had a little bit of slowdown. https://youtu.be/K4rjhTcNrr8?si=Cf7NUl40EKl7gAxb

A very fun tower defense game! Besides placing different towers, you can also choose from multiple characters, each with unique weapons. I really enjoyed the gameplay and variety. Definitely worth playing!

Honestly one of the best TD Platforms I've ever played, From the story to soundtrack everything is executed perfectly. Loved the art style, cut scenes and don't even get me started with the character design. MONKEY GOESS OOO OO AAA AA absolutely fell in love with the game. Highly recommended literally a 10/10 hidden gem