Domain Defense

I cannot recommend this one, even at its current price point. It seems to have been designed for a console, with PC support added as something of an aftertought. It wants you to use a controller. The gameplay itself is about as basic as one can get with tower defense. The critters move along a path, you shoot them. Oh, those unique towers? 1. The cheap tower. 2. The splash damage tower. 3. The slowing tower. 4. The damage over time tower. 5. The chain damage tower. It does have multiplayer, but local only - no networked gaming. You won't find anything new or innovative here. Pass on this one. It does run, and the graphics are okay, but that's about it for the positives.

After exactly 60 minutes playing DD and countless hours playing other TD games, here are my thoughts. I finished the first level (40 waves) after 2 tries. It felt long and I wanted it to be over sooner. 30 minutes is way too long for a round of td to last unless its endless mode or something like SC2 Arcade Squadron TD where multiplayer is involved. The graphics are pretty good a solid 8/10 for td games. I like that you can generally place towers wherever you want. but I don't like that the path is set and there's no mazing. You get upgrade points every 5 waves that let you boost a tower. I used Tesla so I took "hits 2 targets" at 5 and 3 targets at 10 , 15 is a waste with no bonus just to unlock "advanced" bonuses such as +10% range damage or attack spd. By wave 40 I had +20% damage, +20% Attack Speed and Tesla hits 3 targets. Maybe if the upgrades came every 2-3 waves it would be more engaging but as it was they seemed limited. There is so much more potentail for a progression...

Look, this is not the best tower defense game ever made, it's not the second, or third, or fourth best... but it does something no other tower defence game (and very few games in general) do, it offers full controller support for up to 4 people and allows everyone to play on the screen on one level all at the same time... I've already tried it with a few friends and its loads of fun, and even though there were other tower defence games out there....

This game should have been a Pre Alpha for $5, save your money and buy something else! First off, the game forces you to use a gamepad, you can not navigate the menu without using an xbox controller or something similar. The view controls in the game do not work, you should be able to press X and manuver the camera but you get no response when you try to do this. The interactive menus for the game are incredibly awkward to use, in order to place turrets, you must hold down L1 and select the type of turret that it displays on the bottom of the screen. Then in order to upgrade the turrets later in the game you have to use a 'cursor' by holding down the R1 button which latches onto turrets magnetically. The only problem is you are encouraged to group turrets incredibly close together so the magnet feature of the cursor does not work well when you are playing the game. Gameplay is awful, the turrets do not have finished animations for their actions, the later gatling gun, doesn't...

The game makes steam to crash on launch. I couldn't even start it. Refund done.

Alright, I've plowed through about 10 hours now and I think I have the gist of it. The good: The grind is relaxed yet satisfying. Even if you only play 10 rounds and lose, you always get someting out of it; 0.1% damage here and 0.2% range there. I think those small rewards are pretty clever, and it doesn't seem to be too lengthy either. I'm guessing another 5-10 hours and I'm done with the 100% achievements. Graphics and atmosphere is charming. Levels and tower-balance are so-so, nothing remarkable, On my poor budget I'd say this game is probably worth a $3-$5, (but then again I'm a hard core tower defense fan, and I've seen my fair share of really shitty tower defense.) The bad: What really gets to me though are the small, really simple issues, that soon a year after release really, REALLY should have been fixed. Like every map has 30 waves, when you complete them there is a "Congrats, you have cleared all [b]40[/b] waves!"-message. It's a small and silly thing really, but since ...

I was excited to try this as i was looking forward to a fun CO OP PC tower defence game. Unfortunately, for me this was just not a fun experience. Trying to play split screen on a tv was the worst part. for a game that totes multiplayer as a core component the entire interface just makes the game a chore to play. Everything is way to small and the controls make little sense when trying to play with a controller. The difficulty seems to ramp up like crazy in single player as well. even the first level was a pain, with it getting brutally difficult by 10-15 waves in. Will check back later and see if there have been any updates to make the game more enjoyable but for now i wouldn't be able to reccomend this to anyone except hardcore fans of the Genre.

Uninspired and boring.

Pretty good tower defense game but I do wish you could upgrade towers further

I had enjoyed this game at first, but it sadly broken and as near as I can tell, unsupported. The crux of the game is strategic upgrades. They are very incremental and there turned out to be a massive amount of grinding required, with only three maps to grind on, which got very repetitive. The broken part however was that the upgrades were not being saved all of the time. I got extra damage up to +.05%, then every time I added to that, when I would quit out and return anything beyond that would have vanished, it stayed at .05%. That caused me to uninstall the game and change this review to negative. In addition I found some monsters were just so fast my towers could not target them, they would just walk right thru my defenses, and there was no upgrade that looked like it would deal with that issue. Three thumbs down, avoid at any price.