9 thoughts on “Saturday Morning Gaming: Tower Defense Distilled

  1. Thanks for the tip. I need some light entertainment after going back-to-back on The Last Of Us and TLOU 2. They were amazing games with great voice acting and writing (I actually cared about the plot, which is rare for me) but they were hard to get through.Report

    1. Gemcraft is probably psychically safer.

      Orcs Must Die! has you kill hundreds (maybe even thousands) of Orcs. As you’re plowing through the hundreds, the voice actors are saying things like “Just one day until I retire!” and the like. In Gemcraft, the monsters look like bugs. If you bother reading the text, you’ll see that they’re not bugs, they’re demons.

      Guilt-free, compared to the contemplation of the ripple effects of violence that The Last Of Us asks you to do.Report

  2. Black Mesa.

    I am stuck and frustrated because I’m at the part where I rescue the scientists from the robot autopsy/surgery room in Questionable Ethics, “It’s too easy, you go first” then a shitshow with HECUs. I survived, and now there’s a parking lot full of HECUs and there are fucking sentry drones as well?

    Fifteen times. I can’t get through.

    Been told on Twitter Black Mesa is supposed to be more difficult than the original Half Life, but I’m playing on easy.Report

  3. What’s always interesting is how there hasn’t seemed to be a really good mobile-app version of O.G.R.E. which I think is the original tower-defense game.Report

    1. O.G.R.E.

      My bête noire. I first heard about it in the 80’s. Since then I’ve been looking for a version that came *CLOSE* to what I imagined.

      Closest, ironically enough, is now a free game on Steam: Sang-Froid: Tales of Werewolves.

      You’ve got an invincible juggernaut coming your way. Stop it.Report

  4. I’ve played the Plants vs zombies tower defense game. I liked it, but it was frustrating in that as soon as I had a good defense going, the level would usually end. I get how not everybody would want to spend a lot of time on one level, but some kind of free play would be fun. I should play some other games in this genre.Report

    1. Orcs Must Die 2 has an “endless” mode where you can set up traps exactly the way you like and, eventually, it won’t do any good.

      But for, like, 15-20 levels there in the middle, it’s perfect.Report

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