
Crystal Guardians is a tower defense game with rogue-like elements. Fight of waves and defend the world crystal. Gear up your towers with a powerful combination of items for your strategy. In an ever expanding map, find hidden powers and conquer the enemies.
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It's a very very good game. I request to the devs that they make more of it. More maps? More modes? More towers? more items? there are some glitches at times, but it's alright. Still worth the buy and the play. It has the makings of the ultimate TD game. I love it so much! Don't expect hyper-realistic graphics, that's not what this game is. It's stylized, and that's part of what makes it beautiful. If you treat each round as if you are sitting around the table with your family playing a board game, it makes it such a joyful game. Again, worth the money to buy the full game! Enjoy :) Also, here's a recipe for a good sandwich: Peanut butter (2 scoops), butter (1 tbsp), and honey (or maple syrup) (1-2 tbsp). Use a toothpick to score (punch holes into) the bread before pouring the honey, that way it will soak into the bread. optional: warm for 10 seconds.
This game is a lot like Rogue Tower, if rogue tower didn't suck. The balance needs some work but if they can work that out this is a helluva cool game. If you've played Rogue Tower you'll like this better. Gameplay Standard Tower defence with a twist, you pick a tower and a gem. The tower determines what the tower does, the gem determines all of the important characteristics. Any gem can go into any tower, but not all gems work well in all towers. The Rain tower for example doesn't work well with gems that only deal damage as it applies the full DOT but only does a tiny amount of damage. Once you've got towers set up you'll have to equip your towers or you won't make it far. What you get to equip them with is entirely up to RNG. Towers There are six towers and six gems. There is also a Bomb, all you need to know about the bomb is that there is not, at time of writing, a pause button. The Towers - All stats vary wildly based on the gem in the tower, important information will be listed Boulder - Lowest fire rate, highest damage, small AOE on impact, Low DPS, great tower for things that do things every X seconds. Firethrower - Moderate fire rate, moderate damage, Directed AOE hits all units in path, DPS suffers from the fact that this tower tracks enemies rather than firing in a set direction. Projectile - Highest Fire rate, moderate damage, good single target DPS. Lightning - Low fire rate, short range, less damage than the projectile tower, hits several targets within range for moderate damage Rain - low damage, low fire rate, low range, creates a persistent AOE that deals damage to all units in an area Spike Tower - Low fire rate, moderate damage, mid size AOE on impact, Bomb - There is no pause button At level 10 each tower gets an upgrade, each tower levels up individually. Gems Arcane - Highest Fire rate, second lowest damage. Fire rate scales 20% better than normal, damage scales 10% worse. Upgrades: Fire rate, crit damage, healing per wave, gold per wave, item generation, AOE per kill and a temporary fire rate buff per kill. Fire - Lowest damage, second highest fire rate, burn DOT. DOTs are 20% more effective, 10% less damage to slowed enemies. Upgrades: DOT, dealing extra damage on the final burn tick, damage, enemy healing debuff, permanent burn increase per kill, increased burn on crits, gold generation per burn tick, and instant burn application once burn hits 1000. Earth - Lowest fire rate, highest damage. 20% extra damage to armoured enemies, fire rate scales 20% worse than normal Upgrades: Range, stunning crits damage to armoured enemies, stacking damage buff per wave, reduced crystal cost, stacking damage during combat buff, AOE bleed on kill, AOE on kill. Poison - Moderate fire rate, moderate damage, Poison DOT. 5% increased damage per second in combat (up to 50) 15% reduced damage to burning enemies. Upgrades: Damage to poisoned enemies, poison damage, tower exp on kill, poison spread on enemy death, inc poison on armoured enemies, AOE on kill. Electric - High crit chance. 40% increased critical damage scaling, 10% reduced damage to armoured enemies. Upgrades: Chance to double damage, chance to ignore armour, stacking crit damage boost per kill, crit damage, boost to damage fire rate and DOT (as a single upgrade), chance for gold/crit, AOE on kill, Chance for additional chain Cold - Moderate damage, moderate fire rate, slow. Increased damage to slowed enemies, 50% reduced DOT. Upgrades: Increased slow, increased damage to slowed enemies, crit chance, AOE on kill, freeze chance, Tower EXP per wave, chance for additional hits gold per kill. Issues Balance Ostensibly you need to use a variety of towers to achieve a win. In practice you max out the ice progression tree, spam projectile towers with ice gems and then just keep playing the next wave. Why? Because projectile towers offer the best DPS and ice gems gain experience every round which gets them to level 20 very quickly. Why does that matter? Two reasons, one levelling up makes your towers better, and two at level 20 your towers give all other towers of the same type an additional equipment slot (up to 20 slots total) and this lets you put in as many items as you'd like. On top of all of that it slows enemies. Other You can't remove towers once you've placed them. Conclusion Overall I like this game and reccomend it if you like tower defence games.
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Брошена на полпути, как и Rogue Tower. Не исправлен баланс, не исправлен интерфейс. Год без обновлений, видимо так и останется огрызком. Задумка и реализация неплохие, был же потенциал. Но решили просто нагреть гоев на шекели, продавая недоделку.
The upgrade progression system makes the game, along with the 'synergies' - didn't "get it" on the first pass, but now I'm hooked, and can definitely recommend!
Worth the cost of entry
one of thee best Tower defense games that actively being updated still
Fun TDG
While the strategic options all tend to lean toward similar setups, I think that's inherent in the TD genre. This one does it pretty well, though, IMO. It could stand a few QOL improvements, like an option to reduce opacity of your fire, as it can get hard to find your towers (or even the mouse pointer) once things get busy. Those are minor complaints, though, and also common to a lot of TD games.
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i would recommend nordhold over this one, but I have a feeling that was was inspired by this so i still think this one deserves an up.
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