Thronefall

I am not a big fan of indie games to be honest, but this game surely bought me, and I think a lot more people should give it a try even if you don't typically play them. The gameplay loop is similar to most base defense games, but with a few little tweaks that reinvent the genre. (BTW the game was totally inspired by Kingdom Two Crowns if you like it you will like this game.) If you've never seen it, during the day you spend gold to build your economy, walls, towers, and troops. During the night you get attacked, but you can still fight with your King, command your armies, and then repeat. To get to the point of why it is worth buying and why it consumed 40 hours of my life: - [b] You aren't forced into one playstyle, [/b] Because there are "Perks" you can go all-in on towers and boost them entirely, or you can create a beast of a King that decimates whole waves of enemies. Just stack all the dmg boosting perks on your King. There is a lot of room to experiment and build strange synergies between perks. But you can choose max 5 during one run. - [b] It never gets boring, [/b] you would think the game would quickly get repetitive because of the same loop, but each map has its own challenges and unique features. After a few maps, Bosses start to appear (I didn't even know the game had those) and each one is unique to the map and really hard. There are also bonus challenges, like playing a whole map as a rolling snowball. You just don't get bored. - [b] Toxic competitiveness, [/b] Opposite to perks, there are "Mutators" which you can willingly activate to get a bonus score multiplier, essentially replaying the map with a harder challenge. Why would you even do this? Because each map has a leaderboard with your Steam friends. You suffer just to beat their score. Toxic competitiveness in a small indie game. Love it. - The review is getting long, so to finish [b] the runs are very quick [/b] like 20 to 30 minutes max If you are busy, it is great to just squeeze one run in between work and the gym to have some break time. It costs less than a pack of cigarettes, but can surely consume more hours of your life than one. Totally worth the money. I actually loved the game so much and was so fascinated by its success that I made a full video breaking it down. You can watch the video here if you are interested: https://youtu.be/LI1_n8wSA5A