Harvest: Massive Encounter

Well, now you've gone and done it. You've made a remarkably unique Tower Defense game, and that takes some serious effort these days, along with a whole lot of crazy. Harvest: Massive Encounter is honestly just that: a TD game. If you like TD games, you're going to enjoy it. So what makes it so unique compared to the others out there on the market, from the starcraft 2 maps to flash games? First off, resource harvesting. You get nothing for killing enemy units; you're dumped into the middle of an endless field full of minerals. Your job is to mine as many minerals as possible, and survive as long as you can. (With some variations on a theme for different game modes). The map starts out small, but if you build towards the edge of any one side, it'll stretch out, expanding the minimap further and letting you move farther away from your base. As such, you have pretty much unlimited room to build, but the most dense packs of minerals will be close to where you start off, and the farthe...

☺ A different twist on Tower Defence. ☺ Heavy on strategy. ☺ Solid mechanics. ☹ Limited diversity. ☹ Repetitive. Harvest: Massive Encounter is appropriately named. It's up to you to defend yourself against large waves of enemies that attack from all sides rather than predefined routes as you harvest a finite amount of resources and build up your defences, enabling you to expand your territory to harvest yet more resources and defend against even larger and deadlier waves of enemies. Unlike a lot of tower defence games, Harvest: Massive Encounter is all about the known variables and a synergy of mechanics. You require resources to build Harvesters, Solar Plants, Laser Towers, Missile Turrets and Link Nodes - no endless stream of unlockable buildings here, just the tools for the job! The Solar Plants produce the power you need to operate the harvesters and fire your turrets and everything needs to be connected via link nodes to allow for a smooth transfer of energy, should a...

Not sure when it came to steam, but I bought it directly from Oxeye nearly a decade ago, and I frequently come back to it. Gladly bought it again. With tough acchievements to keep challenging you, this unique Tower Defense might have you yelling at the sceen, or even going out of your way to destroy any spinning yellow disc-like objects. I've found myself getting into the 'one more run' mentality about it on more than one occasion. The only issues I have with the game are that there are only 3 planets (lack of scenary options), and I find at times linking/unlinking towers can be needlessly complicated, especially when I'm trying to get very specific owers to link, unless theres a shortcut command like shift+click that i've been missing all these years. But those minor gripes aside, it's definatly worth a look, for both casual and hardcore TD fans, and casual gamers in general, the general hardcore crowd might not find it intense enough to start wiith, but it does ramp up later.

Tower defence with a touch of 4X resource gathering. The seemingly unlimited units allow a truly epic scale. Also the ability to link weaker laser towers together gives a creative freedom not often found in the genre. As ever, balance is the key but like most great RTS/Tower Defence games there are myriad ways of achieving balance and victory.

It's like this hot spanish girl you fell in love and spend the time of your life with. But after a few months it dawns on you that you are not compatible for a long term relationship. This game is very unique, very beautiful and encourages you experiment a lot. It shows you how to be creative, build something and invites you to experiences you never had anywhere else. But ultimately the dread of routine sets in and you are starting to realise that this is not going to be a match for a lifetime. You are trying very hard to make this work and tell yourself that the levels are all very unique and every time is as fresh and as new as the beginning. You burn out and clarity hits you like a truck that this game has not changed since it left it's developers and is ultimately kind of shallow. You had the time of your life but in the end start to question if it was worth the time. But hey, whats life but an experience? Maybe it will work for you after all.

RTS/Tower Defense game with simple mechanics but with the potential for a high level of strategy, with resource management and the way buildings interact with one another. Gameplay is mostly survival based, where you just try to to not lose for as long as possible against ever increasing numbers of enemies. Also unique in the sense that as far as story goes, you are sort of the antagonist, stripping resources from alien planets for money, with the local alien populations understandably irritated about this and attacking you.

It's just a bit of a spam-fest. Probably not the tower defense game you're looking for. Price hasn't changed since it came out in 2008. Clearly more like a £1.59 game.

Game no longer works for me and many other players. Seems to be a common issue with turrets not attacking anymore.

YES YES YES YES YES. Excellent defense game. Feels good, like retro good. Old school video games good.

I hate this game so much . . . . . So why do i keep coming back for more?