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Guardians of Holme review

Robert Allen — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 04:48:51 +0000

Decks, Demons, and an Impermeable Defense It’s been nearly ten years since Defense Grid 2 became the pinnacle of tower defense. The past decade has spawned plenty of contenders, with franchises such as Bloons and Kingdom Rush attempting to end DG2’s reign. But mirroring the dominance of the game’s meteor turrets, developer Hidden Path Entertainment’s ...

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Witch Explorer review

Robert Allen — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 02:44:39 +0000

Delightful art and an intriguing blend of genres just might cast a spell on you. Many early tower defense games had stretches of downtime. After strategically placing turrets, you’d often sit back and watch as your tactics were put to the test. The moments were undoubtedly tense. But except for the possibility of enhancing existing ...

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Toy Soldiers HD review

Robert Allen — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 21:28:25 +0000

An HD remaster of a game that was already in high definition In 2010, Signal Studios released Toy Soldiers onto the Xbox Live Arcade service. Critical and commercial responses were positive, with both groups appreciating the title’s advancement of traditional tower defense mechanics. After laying down your battlements, Toy Soldiers allowed you to hop into ...

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Dome Keeper review

Robert Allen — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 00:39:05 +0000

Drill all day and kill all night in developer Bippinbits’ shrewd amalgam of genres. After landing on an alien planet and establishing a base of operations, Dome Keeper’s tiny colonist digs downward in hopes of unearthing essential resources. In execution, these moments feel uncannily similar to Image & Form Games two SteamWorld Dig games. As ...

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Orcs Must Die! 3 review

Robert Allen — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 17:27:04 +0000

The third iteration of the Orcs Must Die! franchise doesn’t remarkable advance the formula, but there’s still enjoyment found in torturing procession of green skins. Following a year of exclusivity on the Google Stadia, Robot Entertainment’s Orcs Must Die! 3 has arrived on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Windows machines. While some might have resented ...

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Dungeon Defenders Awakened (Switch) review

Robert Allen — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 06:35:43 +0000

Dungeon Defenders: Awakened offers a few quality-of-life improvements but follows the original game’s formula a bit too closely. Still, if you’re looking for a portable action/tower defense title, there’s satisfaction once you look past the game’s inelegant user interface and unit reductions. For many, Dungeon Defenders’ follow-ups failed to match the quality of the original 2011 game. 2014’s Dungeon ...

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Dungeon Defenders Awakened (Xbox One) review

Robert Allen — Sun, 28 Mar 2021 19:47:35 +0000

Dungeon Defenders: Awakened offers a few quality-of-life improvements but follows the original game’s formula a bit too closely. Still, if you were a fan of the first action/tower defense title or just looking for some cooperative fun, there’s satisfaction once you look past the game’s substandard user interface. Across the last decade, the industry has witnessed ...

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IndieGo #24: Fortifying Through Elemental War TD and Defentron

Robert Allen — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 03:43:45 +0000

Nature’s essential elementals combine, providing protection in Elemental War TD. Meanwhile, safeguarding structures are rendered with 80’s-era panache in Defentron. With a double dose of tower defense games made by indie developers, IndieGo #24 seeks to stop that unremitting procession of aggressors. Elemental War TD, Xbox One, Clockwork Origins, $14.99 Every respectable tower defense game ...

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Dungeon Defenders: Awakened (Early Access Impressions)

Robert Allen — Thu, 28 May 2020 21:33:21 +0000

Dungeon Defenders: Awakened offers visual polish and a few quality-of-life improvements but follows the original game’s formula a bit too closely. Still, if you were a fan of the first action/tower defense title or just looking for some cooperative fun, this Early Access release is shaping up into something satisfying. Across the last decade, the ...

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Dungeon of the Endless (Switch) review

Robert Allen — Tue, 19 May 2020 20:47:21 +0000

The Switch port of Dungeon of the Endless brings the ruthless adversity of previous iterations onto Nintendo’s hardware. While interaction lacks the ease of mouse-based input, otherwise this is an adept adaptation. We’ve all faced that pivotal moment in gaming, where our finger hovers over a button. A press represents far more than a single ...

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SolSeraph review

Robert Allen — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 19:26:11 +0000

When a major publisher is squatting on a beloved property, occasionally it’s indie developers who come to the rescue. From A Hat in Time and Yooka-Laylee’s reinvigoration of the three-dimensional, character-driven platformer to Petroglyph Games’ persistence of the real-time strategy genre, ‘spiritual sequels’ often rival the quality of their source material. Sporadically, they even outshine ...

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Gensokyo Defenders (PC) review

Robert Allen — Wed, 08 May 2019 18:18:14 +0000

Named by Guinness World Records as the most prolific fan-made series in the world, the Touhou universe is nearly as expansive as our own cosmos. Born with the release of 1996’s Highly Responsive to Prayers, the one-person development team of Team Shanghai Alice has crafted over two dozen denmaku– each set in the same fictional world of ...

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IndieGo #13: Defense Grid 2 and Android Assault Cactus+

Robert Allen — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 00:45:35 +0000

Sporadically, small sacrifices must be made when console games are ported onto the Switch. Typically, the trade-off for portability is visual fidelity or a reduced framerate. With IndieGo 13, we examine a pair of titles for Nintendo’s hybrid that exhibit only a modicum of sacrifice. Defense Grid 2, Hidden Path Entertainment, $19.99 A half decade ...

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Gensokyo Defenders review

Robert Allen — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 01:17:07 +0000

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Defense Task Force review

Robert Allen — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 17:22:49 +0000

Distressingly, tower defense games seem to be experiencing stagnation. Arguably, the genre’s last requisite effort was 2014’s Defense Grid 2. While the title didn’t deliver much in the way of innovation, it did give players a multitude of methods to deal with a relentless procession of invaders. Beyond nine varieties of offensive turrets, players could ...

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PixelJunk Monsters 2 review

Robert Allen — Sun, 27 May 2018 21:27:52 +0000

Beyond the ubiquity of annual sequels, the industry has weakness for rebooting and remastering games that are only a few years old. As such, the arrival of PixelJunk Monsters 2 feels like an anomaly, with the follow-up trailing its predecessor by a full decade. During that duration, developer Q-Games could have mused over the mechanics ...

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Gunhouse review

Robert Allen — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 01:47:50 +0000

Occasionally, game designer can mimic bartenders, blending a few fundamental ingredients, and creating something quite exhilarating and exotic in the process. That’s certainly the case with Gunhouse, a quirky title that began as a PS Mobile game, attracting a few curious players before Sony shuttered the service. It was eventually reborn as a full PS ...

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Rock of Ages II: Bigger & Boulder review

Robert Allen — Sat, 02 Sep 2017 19:57:03 +0000

Few developers have a body of work that demonstrates as much creativity as Santiago-based ACE Team. From surreal first-person fighter Zeno Clash, the integration of Chilean folklore and art nouveau into platformer Abyss Odyssey, to the B-movie camp that endowed The Deadly Tower of Monsters with distinction, the studio’s output packs more imagination into a ...

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HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed preview

Robert Allen — Mon, 10 Jul 2017 04:46:07 +0000

Last year’s release of New Retro Arcade: Neon permitted players to organize their own virtual arcades, setting up emulation across rows of simulated cabinets. The problem was setting up these environments could be challenging- goading gamers into reading FAQs, YouTube videos, and other instructional materials in an effort to get everything working. But once players ...

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Lock’s Quest review

Robert Allen — Sun, 04 Jun 2017 19:38:56 +0000

The game industry’s fondness for remasters and reissues likely leaves gamers with an unshakable sense of déjà vu. Selections for reinvigoration are typically drawn from the lucrative, intended for a large audience who is well-acquainted with the property. As such, the Steam release of Lock’s Quest is a pleasant surprise. While developer 5th Cell would ...

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