Hold The Fort

It's hard to believe at first: But this is actually a great TD game!! The obvious two main issues when you play it for just a little bit are: 1) the screen which would move awkwardly when you use the mouse to move the edges, and 2) the slow pace of this game. Well, here are two big 'hacks' to fix those simple problems: 1) Use the ‘WASD’ keys to control the camera and 2) hit the fast-forward button to speed-up the game. Tada!! If you move past these early annoyances, you’ll discover a really well-made and well-balanced game. I particularly like the combination of towers with also lots of ‘arcane’ (i.e. magic) options. Almost giving it a feel of a good D&G game on top of it all. As such, managing your upgrades and ‘mana’ is a huge part of the strategy as well, as you won’t do it with just the towers alone! How many TD games offer you that much?! Now, ready for more? The setting options also allow you to let the enemies damage your towers (or not), depending on how muc...

I gotta say, I really dig this game. The persistent skill tree is awesome. I found the levels fast-paced and pretty difficult. Finding a balance between managing the health of the towers (and sometimes upgrading them mid-fight) and using spells/abilities makes this TD game stand out. Since you don't get gold during the wave of enemies, you also need to budget for repair costs. I watched a couple streamers play early builds before purchasing. I was surprised at some of the extra QOL features that have been put in since then (at least as far as I could tell). Not having to click towers before using hotkeys is amazing. Edge scrolling is there, but I found it easiest to just keyboard scroll. It's obvious a lot of love was put into this game. If you're into indie or tower-defense games, it's definitely worth a shot.

Clickfest. I could tell right away that I wasn't going to enjoy this tower defense game. The enemies damage your towers, so you have to constantly scroll around looking for towers to heal. This requirement of constant active attention feels like busywork and defeats my purpose in playing tower defense games. I like to leisurely think about my strategy while I watch TV or otherwise multitask.

This is a very specific type of tower defense - almost more of a puzzle game than an OG free-form TD. Each level requires a bit of thought into how you're going to spend your talent points and combine leveling tower abilities with leveling player abilities. The difficulty increases at higher levels, so you'll want to play around with spells and towers early on to get a feel for how you want to solve those later murder fests. It's light on story but has that gimmicky classic TD writing style to it that made me pretty nostalgic for Warcraft 3 days. It's the perfect summer evening puzzler, and if you love tower defense you'll love Hold the Fort. [i]Disclaimer: The dev once bought me a boilermaker. This in no way or shape influences my review, but now means I owe him a few beers soon![/i]

For the first hour or so I was totally involved. Learning the game, interesting talent tree and some nice spells. However, it has fairly quickly become very repetitive and I am wishing the levels finished before time. The game does not seem to have enough variation and the pathing is very nondescript. Perhaps a good game trying to get out!! Overpriced at this stage of development, Would be happy to amend review depending on further updates,

If you are interested in spending all your time repairing and replacing towers, then this game is for you.

While Hold the Fort is not trying to reinvent the TD genre, it introduces enough tiny novel elements to be pretty catchy and pleasant to play. The mix of deployable soldiers and towers taking damage from the enemies spices up the gameplay enough compared to a too classic TD style, while a pretty big talent tree, and a good variety of enemies and towers prevents it from getting too repetitive. It's solid, clean and I see the developer is working on it pretty actively with updates and fixes already. Good game, glad I got it, it was a while I didn't play a Tower Defense, and I had forgot how fun is the gameplay loop of such games.

I love tower defense games, been playing them since the first starcraft mods, lately Warstone TD, Gemcraft Series and of course Kingdom Rush + Frontiers. I couldn't resist buying this TD game with 50% discount. Good:[list] [*]There is a wide variety of towers (including flame, ice, laser) and clearly, some are much better for certain levels or placement spots than others, e.g. obviously placing the AoE towers in front and the hard-hitting single damage towers towards your base to pick of runners or the heavily armored foes that get through the slaughter, also it's very satisfying to place a few flame towers on a very long path and watch the enemies just slowly burn to a crisp as they try to get through a mile of burning hell. [*]There is an even bigger variety of mostly flashy and very effective spells that cost mostly mana and sometimes gold, including fire tornadoes, blizzards, flash freeze, traps, mass repair. [*]You get exp for every enemy slain and are totally free to distribute s...

Really enjoying Hold the Fort! For a tower defense game it keeps me really engaged; usually its a set it and forget it kind of game but it was a really nice change to be constantly engaged! You have to repair your towers during the rounds or they disappear! I really also enjoy the zoom feature so I can get really close to the action and see a ton of details on all of the incoming bad guys. It takes a little bit to level up so the first few rounds seem like they take awhile to get through using the same few towers, but it made me really aware of what each upgrade and power did. Love love love the mana and extra powers for random extra attacks, especially the two guards one. Its like having a free safe guard to throw an extra few guards on! My favorite is the fire tornado!!!! Would like to see the number of kills for each tower so I can know the deadlier tower combinations, but aside from that I am really enjoying Hold the Fort and can't wait to keep playing! I definitely recommend!

A mediocre game. When I use the mouse to scroll down-right I move up-left. Use of asdw is a must. Repairing the towers was just boring. Just getting less money would have worked as well with less hassle. Using the spells was actually more fun than anything else in this game. For the effects.