TL:DR: Good for the price, but needs some work, I look forward to seeing where it goes in the future.
This review is edited, the reason for this is that the game, while it does have a tutorial, falls into a lot of traps of this kind of game.
You can see in the original review, at the time I thought the maps were randomized in 10 days, but no, that's just the leaderboard reset, it does have a campaign, but because the first setting is an island where you cannot really see the rest of the map, combined with the timer, combined with there not really being a clear "path" that progression should follow at that point (theres a random level upwards and downwards) I got confused and thought the game was something it is not. This unclear communication continues throughout the rest of the game, if you get a chest of items and think you can combine something from it or if you want to see if an item you have equipped that is not in the shop can be upgraded there is no way to tell, you cannot open the bestiary in game unless it is the first time you have seen a creature, small things but they do add up.
another bad lesson this game teaches you is in the level called "the pit" that level basically forces you to use a strategy where you reset your skills, put all the points into archers, and spam them everywhere. This can be a cool kind of puzzle level, but the problem is that in my case, it was the point I realized how much I was handicapping myself by putting points into more then one character, I tested each tower at max output and then ended up putting all my points into archer and never deploying anything else except a couple warriors who just stood in enemies ways and died, but DID slow them down, so that was good.
and lastly the one valid point from the original review, the towers lack any form of personality, they do not gain experience or level themselves, two archers will only ever be different based on the equipment you give them, two archers with the same equipment are completely identical, this is particularly noticeable with only common/uncommon and a very limited amount of rare gear available.
The last issue is that the equipment needs a serious rebalance, units ranges are so short by default and cost ramps up so fast that range is basically required, the weapon that theoretically should be the best in the game right now (the poison bow) is REALLY bad because it adds 0 damage, so you are just tickling enemies and applying marginally better poison with one of the rarest weapons in the game, the on hit equipment is way overpowered because of how much you can ramp your attack speed and projectiles with just the talent tree, and no matter how much equipment you stack on a tank, even with the max skill tree, they cannot survive against the later levels even in this early beta.
PLEASE REMEMBER, I DO RECCOMEND THIS GAME! IT IS GOOD!
just because I have criteques does not mean that I think this game has bad bones, far from it, these complaints are purely with the set dressing because the basic concept and fun is definitely there!
OLD REVIEW STARTS HERE, THIS IS NOT ACCURATE ANY MORE:
The game is really good, but hampered by some of its reliance on specific systems.
1) the fact that there does not seem to be a campaign, just a few rerolled maps,
2) the fact that rather then a sort of "build a hero" system with each of your archers being a character or having levels this game, the only difference between two archers seems to be what you equip them with
3) the fact that the equipment basically overwrites everything else in the game, a run where you find good equipment that matches whatever your skill tree is in will win, a run without those synnergies will lose.
