What is a challenging tower defense game ?

Hi guys !

I’m happy to open this blog ! I’m a very big fan of Tower Defense games. I study games ! I enjoy interviewing games developer, talking with researchers about this subject ! And I hope we will share together about these games ! Please feel free to comment my posts, talk about games and so on !

On this blog, I will review TD games I’ve tested and I will analyze the differences between them. I hope I will interest you guys ! So, let’s begin !

Over the past few months, I have played on ZDefense Lite, published by the chinese studio Zstudio. I was just angry not to find the good solution for this level ! I’ve tried 12 times before succeeding !  And if you ask me, i will tell you it is a very challenging game !   His conceptor has previously considered the fact to lose 10 times for each level as normal…

Really ? Are you serious ?
The question is in fact : why and how is it possible to say a game is easy or difficult ?

I’ve made some research on this question. I’ve currently tested about 40 games and it was not easy to find the answer.

Thank to my research, I have succeed in ! The goal of Tower defense games is to find a strategy and test it against waves. If you win, congratulations ! Your strategy is a good one ! But if you lose, you will have to find another one. The more you lose on a given level, the more the game is difficult because you have real difficulties to find a winning strategy !

The beginning of Tower Defense genre has to be found on Warcraft III. In this game, you can find challenging tower defense maps. Challenging ? Yes ! To win, you’ll have to deploy several levels of strategies. And sometimes, you need to think differently.

Labu Games, a studio based in Neo-Zealand, has published on 2013 the excellent games Giants and Dwarves TD ! This is an example of high challenging games. I have to test 5 to 6 times a level to win ! Why ? Simply because on this game you have to fight against big creatures, such as trees, mamooths or Wood horses ! And it’s very difficult to define a strategy allowing you to win against them !

Do you love high challenging TD games ? Ok let’s talk about, according to me, the worst of it ! I’m not able to pass… the first level ! I’m talking about Toys base Defence. This game has been published on 2010 by Fire fly.

 

This game is very difficult. First of all, the design let you think it’s an easy game. Because of toys ! But I assure you this is not the case  🙂

 

Ok then let’s talk about. Have you tested some TD games in which you have lost at least 9 times before succeeding in a level ? Please tell me in comments !

Thanks to Tauxruxbis for his comment !