Technotron Defense

I've been on a tower defense kick recently and bought seven tower defense games at once; Technotron is the first out of the batch I played. It was cheap and I was attracted to its bright retro aesthetic. In terms of tower defense, Technotron is the barest minimum. If, like me, you found your love for tower defense by playing browser TD games two decades ago, you'll find Technotron is nostalgic of the era and has nothing new to add, nor does it do well at the bare minimum. The retro aesthetic makes it hard to differentiate one type of tower from another, not to mention one upgraded tower versus its lower-tiered brethren. Waves start, come and go, and lives are taken without any indicator at all, oftentimes making it hard to make sense of the neon mess on screen. Upgrades are standard (+ to damage, range, etc.) and don't seem to help enough to justify the cost. Technotron is the type of TD game where you can set towers and/or walls down to block certain paths and make enemy pathways lo...

For the price, this game is very easy to recommend. Even if you just play long enough to hear the entire soundtrack once or twice it is worth the experience, because this game does have quite a bit of personality. However, I bought this game because I thought it was going to be super chill and casual but that was definitely not the case. I wound up pretty much giving up on being able to complete the campaign because the later levels are just plain rediculous.

I bought it for the soundtrack and was not disappointed. The game is very simple, there barely are any controls, but the 80's neon punk feel it brings is just amazing. For the price it's a nobrainer. Just buy it, because it's almost free, while also being an amazing 80's nostalgia trip with some TD mixed in that actually is not just a self playing game. I did find some challenge in it and have to admit that thre is fun in the gameplay as well, as there is awesome music.

This is a very bare bones tower defense game with a unique visual approach. Nothing pushes the genre forward, but it is a decent timewaster. Be warned that in my short playtime I had several waves fail to spawn, leaving my game stuck on x3 speed and no way to finish the level. Get it on sale.

Decent simple tower defense game, with a fun aesthetic. A few key elements are not explained at all (such as how to build a detector) but with enough clicking around I found everything. There are a few waves I wasn't able to solve with towers alone, but manipulating the pathing mid-wave beat them. It took around 6 hours to get though all of the missions. The Trials mode pits you against unlimited waves in a randomly generated map. It sounds cool in theory, but there's no score at the end so you don't have a way to compare plays. This one feels like a wasted potential. Some bugs I ran into include occasionally not being able to click on a tower (which makes it impossible to upgrade or sell), and Trials mode setting my starting money to whatever I had left in the last game I played (which can make things hilariously easy or impossible to buy anything). All bugs I saw were fixed by restarting the game. Despite the oddities the main game is worth a play through if you're into this...

Music and art style create a soothing atmosphere contrasted by challenging and fast-paced gameplay. Pros: - Great soundtrack - Simple clean art - Very difficult, later levels require solid shaping plan and build order - Great price Cons: - No simple way to restart the level before failing it. - First wave comes too quickly, forcing level review offline - No targeting priority options - No Achievements

It's a cheap and fun little game, The Tower defense is engaging, the variety and types of enemies keep you on your toes, and the challenge is often a lot greater than it first seems, which makes succeeding all the more satisfying!

Thirty minutes in, and I feel I can already write a review on this one. Basic bare-bones TD game. It seems to work, with a few odd bugs (For example, I have never gotten a score, even though I have beaten quite a few levels) and from the look of it, no support. To be fair, I am not returning this game, and expect to play it thru to the end, TD games are too few and far between. That said, the look is nice, mimicking the vector graphics of some arcade games from the eighties. (Battle Zone comes to mind, easy to imagine them being in the same universe.) The techo-music is pretty cool as well. There is pathing, though so far the options are pretty basic. There are flying units, and I guess there will be cloaked ones as well, as there is a tower that reveals them. One interesting idea is that the blocks you use for pathing, which are often simply cheap and do nothing, can be upgraded to do a few things, see cloaked, zone of slow, zone of buffing other towers and one other that slips my...

fun game. great music. smooth visuals. challenging.

Completed in under 10 hours. Still found it fun.