Steampunk Syndicate

Should have checked before purchase but it's just a port of mobile game. I can't recommend it. Now if you really want to play a mobile tower defence game on PC then then sure go ahead. Cons: * Time gated mechanics. Upgrades and rewards are delayed by real time like in mobile games. Can skip time delay by spending crystal resource which would typically be the purchased resource on mobile but doesn't seem to be option to purchase here. * No options other than audio levels and fullscreen or windowed. Can't change resolution or anything else. * Tutorial popup windows tend to block actual information on screen preventing you from really understanding what's happening. * Made for touch screen interface so incredibly simplistic and doesn't understand things like right clicking or other actions that are intuitive on PC for getting information or options. Lots of drag and drop actions required. Pros: * Nice art style * Seems to be a decent number of cards though haven't played enough to...

I came to this game after seeing its trailer on a co-optional podcast. I thought, huh, it has been while since I had tried a tower defense game, especially one with some form of meta customisation so I thought I would give it a go. At first? Solid enough, I loved the initial carddraw mechanics and gradual raise in power as you went and combined more and more cards. Every hour you even got an increasingly large card reward with some "legendaries" which certainly helped. But then I hit it, that wall. Suddenly upon reaching the first survial match I went from getting all 3 stars to getting 1 star. Without getting three stars I had no more gem income, without gem income I couldn't "buy" the card packs. So I was basically farming the survival match getting one new random mech piece (and one random pointless area attack thing). I couldnt reach the gems level, so I couldnt farm cards. The game had slowed down to a crawl in more ways then one however. === This section has now been fixed. T...

That timer simply should not be here. If they rebalanced the game, removed all timers and added support for higher resolutions (graphics are blurry), I wouldn't mind paying 5 euros. As it stands, it's dirt cheap and also minimum effort mobile port. I've played much better tower defence games for free in the past, because they were actually designed for PC. The game is simplistic and lacking so many standard features. You can't sell any of the placed towers. Heroes seem worthless after few tutorial levels, unless you get lucky and get some of the legendary ones. There is no targeting, where you would choose which enemies to prioritize. There is so little information about enemies that it's almost ridiculous. All you get is summary of all enemies that you end up fighting before the actual mission happens. Then all you get are health indicators, and on which round you currently are (they won't even tell you how many enemies you are facing in current round). I don't know what level the en...

This game defines 2 out of 5 stars. This is a poor execution of the standard Tower Defense formula. This game features: A customizable tank, with several slots to customize your offense and defense. [list] [*]There are a total of 2 decisions to make on parts. All other parts are just less useful filler. [*]Those two decisions are, "Which power do you want for your in fight cooldown?" The powers are, essentially, the same. [/list] 5 towers, of differing damage types and targeting. [list] [*]This is bog standard. There is nothing new or exciting. [/list] Several different heroes to command. [list] [*]They are roadblocks, and poor roadblocks at that. They do nothing interesting. [/list] Many different allies to temporarily summon. [list] [*]They are expensive ways to deal with exactly 1(one) type of enemy. [/list] A card collecting progression system. [list] [*]You will have to play over a thousand matches to upgrade the 7-9 cards you actually want to their max. [*]It takes about 5 ...

[quote]A tower defense with overreliance on randomness and a huge difficulty spike.[/quote] [h1]Pros[/h1] [list] [*]A competent tower defense with upgradable towers, heroes, spells and a robot [*]Functional graphics [/list] [h1]Cons[/h1] [list] [*]The game relies on two bad gameplay elements: Randomness and timers [*]You have to fuse equal cards to upgrade them. Your rewards are random, so you are never guaranteed a certain level card [*][strike]There are timers everywhere. You have to wait for a card to upgrade, for a reward chest to be available. It very quickly becomes very annoying and the main gameplay element.[/strike] [*]There is a huge difficulty spike after 30 stars that is probably solvable by waiting for random rewards and then waiting while upgrading them. This is not what I consider fun in a game. [/list] Overall this could have been a good tower defense, if it didn't contain annoying gameplay elements that are so usual in mobile gaming. Even though it can provide fun fo...

Interesting take on tower defense, inspired by Kingdom Rush (in my opinion)! Developers brought nice arts and animations to put us into steampunk world there rebellion is going on. Gameplay wise there are some familar features - Heroes (few of them) and less to more powerfull towers (4 types) to be unlocked with game progress. But also there are major additions to overall strategy and in every battle tactics: - we're allowed to chose wich towers or heroes we want on every location - we pick them as cards to fill a limitied deck. Yes, towers and heroes and other stuff - cards here - every hero, tower and robot part (see below) are subject to upgrades (simply by stacking cards of same level in separate interface we may craft a higher level card) - winning round rewards differently depending on how good you performed - additional cards or crystals and crystals are very useful. E.g. to revive hero on the battlefield or remove wait timer on cards crafting. Crystal can also be used as curr...

I decent but flawed tower defense game. The game has strict limits on where you can place towers and how many of each you can place. As far as I can tell, you cannot sell a tower after you've placed it. It relies heavily on buying random card packs, which requires grinding. Not a terrible game, but there are definitely better tower defense games to play.

The game uses a somewhat unique system of having you choose a hand of cards. Out of those cards you can pick towers, units, or quick use defenses. This was a unique feature that not many games use currently. You could then upgrade the towers played once you deployed them to preset places. While the game itself is somewhat enjoyable, the lack of information and lack of options during a map to place towers (your given preset placement options) that most tower defense and building games give is a deal breaker for me. The further into the game i got the more I realized I was going to keep being limited by the maps forced placements, the RNG that is the ingame booster packs and the fact that I had to grind a few times to ugprade towers through their combining system is what makes me give this game do not recommend. As for the lack of information. You could see how much damage a unit could do, you could upgrade units and towers to do more damage. What you could NOT do is see how much healt...

Low quality game - lot of small bugs, awful animations and annoying sounds, graphics is blured in full-screen mode. Game balance is disappointing.

It´s a new setting for a tower defense game and the graphics are nice and cartoonish. The basic gameplay is as it is in every TD-game. You can upgrade your towers (tesla, flamethower, machine gun, bombs) in battle and you even have a mech which is your base but it can defend itself as well. You also control your heroes or special troops and all can be upgraded outside the battle. For winning a level you get a reward - cards and jewels. The jewels can be used either to buy new cards or to bring your heroes back to life in a battle. Two cards of the same kind can be merged together to one card of a higher level. By doing so, you increase your strength, be it heroes, towers or mech. The mech you can also equip in the hangar with weapons of your choice. So in the end the only thing of a card building game is the cards as a way of improving everything, but not being a card game itself. There are a lot of levels, where you can try to get the maximum of three stars, they are fun to play, s...