M.A.C.E. Tower Defense

I have spent close to 90 hours on this game and it's well...linear. There is no mazing or shaping the enemies path but the strategy of this game is more about timing and resource management. I have almost come to the conclusion that it is the souls-like of tower defense. It's unforgiving, it's pretty hard, in order to get a perfect score you may have to play levels over and over. It's a pretty fun basic tower defense game, i keep coming back to it. It doesn't have the charm or number of things to do as something like either Defense Grid game and the graphics are just flat 2D and do enough of a job to get by but I keep coming back. All in all it's a good little (hard) tower defense game that scratches the itch of mobile games like Turret Defense King and thing like that (if I got the name right). I heartily recommend this game just don't go in expecting it to be Defense Grid or really fancy in much of any way. The game would benefit from a rewind or restart button in the games UI instead of having to back back to the main menu when you want to restart a level (which for me is pretty often).

Ok Steam states they are still looking into Deck compatibility. I bought it anyway as I play this on my PS5 (Yes old guys still game lol). I thought I would give a heads up to anyone wanting the game but not wanting to 'RISK' not being able to play it on deck. YES it plays perfect on deck and touch is so much better than a game controller, you can react, place towers and upgrade so much quicker than you can on a console. Now there are a lot of defense games out in recent months that just are not very good. This is not one of them. This game is actually very challenging (Wish they had a more relaxed mode for when you just don't feel like trying). That said it builds nicely in difficulty and gives you some time (on the earlier maps) to become proficient. It is a really fun game and from what I can see there are 70 maps YES 70, I have unlocked 6 on my deck since yesterday early evening. Although I have gotten that far I think I only did two of the maps with 100% of lives remaining. Another cool feature is the number of waves increase as you progress to new maps. I think the first map has 10 waves and now on Map 6 their are 15, I imagine they will keep increasing every couple maps. These waves are what you would call primary, so they feed to your overall score, and it's within these waves that you make money to buy new weapons and upgrades (LOTS of weapons and upgrades available). The cool thing I like is, let's say you complete your 15 waves; it tells you how much money you banked and your score and such. Then you have the option to continue to the next map OR keep playing the map in endless mode that you are on. You will not bank more points, status, or money towards upgrades, but you, of course, still make money within the level so you can keep upgrading the weapons you have places, keep placing additional weapons, and sell guns you have in place so you can build something else. Not only is that fun but you can use this to build strategy so you can reply that level, or any other levels and and do better. Last comment you can reply any of the levels you have played as much as you want and you still earn upgrade cash so if you are having trouble on say, level 6 (lol) and you need more money so you can go buy better guns to help with said level you just reply levels you know you can get through. In closing, it is GREAT on Deck, has no issues at all, can see and control everything perfectly, and makes for a super fun mobile game.