PixelJunk™ Monsters Ultimate

[quote][url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/33401179/]Follow my curator page for more reviews![/url][/quote] A tower defense with a decent simplistic artstyle and aimed at being more casual-ish, but it's not very fun thanks to difficulty that's all over the place and co-op that's bizarrely implemented. There are many other better casual-friendly tower defense games like Bloons TD, Defense Grid, Kingdom Rush, Sanctum 1 and 2, and the Orcs Must Die series. I only played this in co-op so maybe single-player is balanced better, but it was weirdly difficult one level, then really easy the next, no rhyme or reason. Upgrading towers by dancing is painfully slow and you have to be directly on top of them. Also disliked that you get zero breathing room between waves, often you'll have the next wave come in before you even finished the previous one. Most towers are useless against the boss each level except for the explosive ones. Arrows do a sliver of damage to him even fully upgraded. The way co-op is implemented is a complete mess. First off, whoever creates the room isn't the host. You can't make the room private/friends-only either. To actually begin playing after creating a room it's very unclear, you have to click on a player after they joined the room and send them a request to play. Whoever sends the request is considered the host and progress is only saved for them. If the other person tries sending the request then their map select screen won't show that any of the missions you did together were completed. Coins picked up during a level aren't shared between players, but eggs which you use to unlock towers are? Towers are only temporarily unlocked for that one level, except for three towers that we kept after the first level? I got this for $1.69 and it included a copy for my friend, and I still ended up refunding because I just don't see why we'd ever play this over one of the far better alternatives in this genre. I'm surprised this somehow has "Very Positive" reviews, our experience with the game was definitely not positive.