Cartridge Defense

Very cool Tower Defence with Deckbuilder elements, Retrowave ambiance, and most important of all, it has Mazing. It also works on every potato PC out there.

[strike]I would love to recommend this game to people but I can't do that when the tutorial is completely bugged. It gets stuck when it tells you about the bosses.[/strike] The tutorial bug seems to have been fixed, and that bug was the only reason that I initially gave the game a negative since I quite like the game.

A very fun Tower Defense + Card Game mashup. There's a good variety of towers, and the way cards combine and buff towers really keeps things fresh, instead of just placing the same old stuff every time. Planning out decks is super fun, and the ability to save many different decks is really nice. The card sorting UI is ok, you can filter for type or rarity with the search, but it's a bit clunky editing decks that are already full. I wish there was a line-of-sight overlay so I could see which of my towers were obstructed and which are not. Tip: blocks are not solid (maybe platform would be a more accurate name), so towers behind blocks can still shoot unobstructed. [u]Update:[/u] I've beat endless and roguelike modes. Endless wasn't that interesting, having all the cards made it pretty easy, and the performance tanks hard on later waves. Roguelike was extremely fun, having to work my way through a set of levels with random buffs and cards. Overall I had a great time with this game. Solid game highly recommended if you're a fan of both TD + CCG.

tl;dr: Nice little tower defense game, definitely worth it when on sale. Full price.. ehhhh. Review is as of 100% achievement unlocks. + The theme and the way the UI works into it are pretty cool. + No goofy things like upgrading mid-wave or calling new waves early (your taste may vary, but I hate that crap in the more popular defense games). + Deckbuilding is alright, with a decent variety of cards. - For as good as the music is, there's only a couple of tracks, so you get kind of sick of them by the end, - The railgun sound effect is absolutely obnoxious, and you're going to be using them a lot later on. - The UI's fanciness means that sometimes you're hyper-focusing on one quarter of the game window since the cards and control panel take up so much screen real estate. - The roguelike mode doesn't really have much to shake things up to have you wanting to come back once you've completed a run. I enjoyed it and don't regret the time I put into it, but I'll probably be putting it away now unless I feel the need to go chasing wave 120 in endless mode as a personal challenge.

This is a maze tower defense. You can put obstacles in the enemy's way, and they move around it while finding the fastest path to the exit. I love this. The hours you see are two days of play. A mix of a tower defense and card battler. So many different cards that are truly unique and fun to play. Highly recommend. This is the tower defense game you have been looking for.

Smooth game play, and awesome sound track that doesn't get repetitive after playing for a few hours.

Truly Groovy