Dead Ground

This game misses much of the tower defense aspect of a TD game. Much like Embers of War (which seems to be missing from the Steam Store), Dead Ground relies too much on your player running around and providing support. Pros: Procedurally generated tower defense ("Unlimited maps", Yay!) Rogue-like Randomly Generated Items ("Unlimited items", Yay!) Cons: Not enough focus on towers Too much focus on "Hero" The sound track is good at first, but quickly becomes annoying Rogue-like If you're a die hard Tower Defense fan this is worth a look, if you get it on sale.

Let me say this: Tower-Defense genre isn't something i enjoy like others, but Dead Ground is an exception. Reason behind it lies in a fact that it feels unique, it has a deeper mechanics than your standard Tower-defense game. You can control a hero (there's variety of heroes after you unlock them) directly on battlefield, moving around map, using skills and shooting at enemies, this one honestly was one of the main reasons why i enjoyed playing this game, cause i'm not a fan of just "place tower to shoot enemies" gameplay. Purchasing and selling equipment, collecting resources, improving base are all part of game too, levels feel unique and road events interesting. Also as a big fan of Soundtracks (In movies and in games) i can say that this one matches mood of game and it's atmosphere and they complement each other. I can't say i have played it a lot for now, but from what i've seen so far i want to give this game recognition it deserves and want to see more games from Dev - ShotX Stu...

DId not have a good time with this one, not gonna lie...

Bought and returned it. Only played two levels. So, the description says, "Procedurally generated levels". To me that meant the lanes were going to be randomly generated, First and only two levels I played the lanes were the exact same, maybe with some random environmental hazards and the mob varied. After my first permadeath, I found a really good sniper gun that made the game much easier, which made me think that the game would randomly make it easier if I just got lucky enough to find a superior weapon early on. I really wanted to like this game since I can't get enough to tower defenses, but the idea of what the game is supposed to be doesn't seem to be ironed out. It almost feels like the rogue-like elements was tacked on with the hopes of it turning this game into a decent game. As I mentioned about finding that really good sniper rifle, this game feels like your success may be dependent on finding a good random drop rather than earning it by other means.

It IS NOT tower defence game. It is just bad design shooter. I will consider to buy it when price will drop to 0.20$. Not worth even one cent more.

Dead Ground is a challenging tower-defense game with a twist that you have to defend somewhere between 30% and 60% (on average) of the total enemy HP pool with your hero. Towers play somewhat of an assistant/secondary role in this game. + No major bugs, no performance issues. + Cool graphics, decent music&atmosphere and steam achievements. + High difficulty. (If you like challenging games) + Some replayability is present as you unlock new characters and artifacts, although they don't change or add that much. - Rarity is implemented very poorly it is effectively pointless or at least it appears to be. - Single campaign 11 missions long. You'll be done with this game after 2-5 hours. Only if you are hardcore masochist like I am and want to collect steam achievements you'll spend 20+ hours in it, but I don't even know how much of that time you actually gonna enjoy. - As I mentioned among positives game is difficult. It has a very steep learning curve. No hand holding, you learn by trial...

Game is fun and challenging, hard at the same time. A good comination of rpg and some top-notch tower defense elements. Worth every dollar, been playing almost 5 hours all day, real addictive : )) waiting for the next game by Shotx ;)

No matter how good you think you are, don't press New Wave, like ever, you gonna regret it, don't be cocky dumbass like me. Both game and soundtrack are dope though.

Dead Ground has a combination of Tower Defence, RPG and Shooter elements and while i can't say, that you can expect too much from this game, it's a steal for it's price, especially on the sale. If you have low end PC or laptop and want to pass some time or something, Dead Ground isn't a bad choice to do so.

"Another TD game?" "Another shovelware crap?" "Google barely brings up any information on the game, must be bad!" Put aside your cynical preconceptions of terrible shovelware games on Steam, Dead Ground is a great, fun, little game. It is best described as an action FTL clone with zombies and lots of different loot and skills. The soundtrack is amazing too.