You will end up letting some past even on the easiest difficulty levels this is more about, well, survival, really. That last one is doubly important because near as I can tell, VectorTD is not about a flawless suppression of the whopping 50 waves of enemies.

Certain enemy waves will drop a bonus point that can be used to boost attack power, range, money earned or boost your available stockpile of lives. well, they were supposed to slow down enemies, but I couldn't really get that work.

Green towers attack enemies (and more powerful tiers can bounce those attacks to hit nearby enemies), red ones fire projectiles that can hone in on enemies, purple towers will drain energy and then send it back at the enemy (with the most powerful ones actually freezing enemies in place) and blue ones. Each comes with increasingly expansive deployment and upgrade costs but an appreciable difference in power. For instance, every tower can be upgraded to level 10, but there are also three tiers for most of the towers. Though the familiar elements are here - constant waves of ever-stronger enemies, towers that can be upgraded or sold, a set number of 'lives' that are lost as each enemy sneaks past your defenses into the home base - not everything is rote tower defense mechanics. Unfortunately, they're not completely flawless either. But unlike a lot of the Minis that have hit lately, that doesn't mean things are entirely devoid of depth.

From the grid/line art-based visuals to the eight map options to the single, looping music track that damn near put me in a trance, there's really little here in the way of fluff even the story is a simple 'aliens attacked, time to work in a simulator to improve repulsion skills' affair. The Space GameĪlso a TD type of game…but in space and with asteroid mining thrown in …I enjoyed it immensely!Īll the links are to Jay is Games as it was (and maybe still is) the best free page for small indy online games and where I found these games for the first time.VectorTD's approach is simple - in more ways than one. Gem collecting and fusing as well as skill upgrading add to this almost RPG tower defence game. I got the whole internal post service of a bank addicted to this one…the possibilities were endless! GemCraft I still love the graphic simplicity to this one. I have had my head stuck in the LOTRO for so long I am sure that TD games have come along way since I used to play them. (Only if I have to!) Ancient Gaming Noob is giving away a key to DG2! I would have thought the world of LOTR would have spawned a few tower defense games by now…īack to reality.

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