Tower Dominion

Addictive, easy to learn and really fun game!

Прикольная игра. Для любителей жанра Tower Defense и внутриигровых челленджей самое то. Оценка: 8.5/10

I don't have it in my heart to give a negative review to a game that let me play the full version for free for a few days and that I pretty happily plowed 7 straight hours into on the day I downloaded it. Tower Dominion is doing some really neat things and making some really solid choices. - Some tower attack ranges are quite interesting, some are the expected "circle radius around them, possibly with a minimum range" but many have some combination of blind spots behind them or have weapons with independent cooldowns on multiple axes, or EXTREME minimum ranges where you need to set them multiple map tiles from where you want to aim them. - Enemies that destroy themselves on your HQ or walls grant (AFAIK) supply as if they'd been killed, which means you don't have a death loop of "I didn't kill enemies and I took damage => because I didn't kill every enemy I have less resources => I fall further behind next round and it gets worse" which I feel I've seen elsewhere. - "Pick the best choice of 2 things from 3 choices" is a much more interesting choice to me than "pick the best 1 thing from these 3 choices" That said I for a game that seems to expect you to play it a LOT (I've played for ~8 hours and collected ~45K supply across those, with one commander taking 350K supply total collected to unlock, so I'm approximately 1/7th of the way there) and I'm not sure if it has quite the legs (for me, anyways) to make that an interesting proposition. My beefs would boil down to: - I feel like I don't have quite enough control over RNG to make things work out for me consistently (which could be a skill issue, maybe with another 10-15 hours of play that'd click) but some of rarer buildings/upgrades MIGHT show up once a run it feels like, or they might not, and due to the aforementioned "some buildings require a lot of consideration in their placement due to interesting lines of fire" this can mean that to optimally use them you need to build your map as you go HOPING that those weapons/doctrines will show up eventually. Placing a 1 tile tower isn't an issue but when it's something like a 2x2 that can only fire ~15 tiles in one direction you need to be doing a LOT of advance planning AND hoping RNG favours you in time for your planning to pay off. The largest ones I've seen are a cross shape 3 tiles wide and a 3x3 block, and all your tiles need to be at the same level, meaning either finding flat ground or employing platforms to level things. It's doable, but now you're looking for a good spot in terms of your lanes, that also either has the right shape to fit something or can be fixed using platforms (which require MORE RNG to actually have show up) and you need to actually draw the blueprint. Of those you can only reroll the tiles, and only as you're placing them. - Death seems to come almost without warning, with spikes that feel like they kill you out of nowhere. I can be cruising along taking zero damage and kill most enemies before they make it 2/3s of the way to my HQ in one wave and dead the next. Sometimes I know what I could do better, sometimes it's not very obvious. - Not all pits and not all neutral buildings are created equal, which is fine, but given the work needed to make a pit I'd hope they'd be a LITTLE closer in value. "Each building adjacent to this reduces enemy HP by 1%" feels like it pales in comparison to the other pits I've seen so far, but whatever. Overall I think the game is really neat, I just don't know if it's "spend 56 hours playing it to unlock every character" neat. It's probably worth it on sale, and it's clear a lot of work went into it so I WANT to like it, (and I'll probably play more of it for free) but I personally wouldn't pay the 22CAD for it (but I'm also a cheapskate).