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Tower Defense

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A type of gameplay where the player chooses and builds autonomous towers to protect a location from waves of enemies.

Favorite Tower Defense game?

#1 Posted by Vigorousjammer (2230 posts) - 2 years, 16 days ago
#2 Posted by EliminatoR (235 posts) - 2 years, 16 days ago

The Warcraft 3 mod was the first I played and the best IMO.

#3 Posted by Hizang (8536 posts) - 2 years, 16 days ago

Plants Vs Zombies, Fieldrunners and PixelJunk Monsters are some of my highlights, Man I love TD Games!

#4 Posted by Bobdaman18 (699 posts) - 2 years, 16 days ago

Plants vs zombies

#5 Posted by Adamsons (876 posts) - 2 years, 16 days ago

Sanctum Co-op is pretty fun, some crippling gameplay issues that need to be ironed out though.

If you like TD games - look out for Dungeon Defenders, supposedly cross platform too.

#6 Posted by Animasta (12784 posts) - 2 years, 16 days ago

Defense Grid is really good, also PvZ

#7 Posted by StrawHatLaw13 (162 posts) - 2 years, 16 days ago

Bloons Tower Defense was the only one I really got into.  I got to the point in the circular level where I can leave it alone for hours, in part because lag was involved.

#8 Posted by swamplord666 (1742 posts) - 2 years, 16 days ago

tie between pvz and pixeljunk monsters.

#9 Posted by Management (591 posts) - 2 years, 16 days ago

Fieldrunners and Warcraft 3 mod.

#10 Posted by bobafettjm (1009 posts) - 2 years, 16 days ago

Plants Vs. Zombies for me.

#11 Posted by marvin_martian (91 posts) - 2 years, 16 days ago

I simultaneously love and hate TD games.  They tend to suck up so much time.  Anyway, the Gemcraft games have always been my favorite.

#12 Posted by JoshyLee (153 posts) - 2 years, 7 days ago

Defender Chronicles for iOS is amazing!

#13 Edited by NickL (2246 posts) - 2 years, 7 days ago

The starcraft mod was the first I played and that was pretty awesome.
Desktop tower defense was probably the best one I have played, although it has been "upgraded" to the point where it is unrecognizable as the charming little game I played many years ago.

DesktopTD is browser based and free, i'd recommend it to anyone that hasn't seen it and they have the old versions archived at handdrawngames.com, I personally think the older versions are far superior to the new ones.
#14 Posted by Marcsman (2332 posts) - 2 years, 7 days ago

Pixel Junk Monsters
#15 Posted by ZZoMBiE13 (232 posts) - 1 year, 4 months ago

@NickL said:

The starcraft mod was the first I played and that was pretty awesome.
Desktop tower defense was probably the best one I have played, although it has been "upgraded" to the point where it is unrecognizable as the charming little game I played many years ago.
DesktopTD is browser based and free, i'd recommend it to anyone that hasn't seen it and they have the old versions archived at handdrawngames.com, I personally think the older versions are far superior to the new ones.

This is pretty much spot on. I loved DesktopTD but the latest and greatest versions aren't what I'd call the best the concept has to offer.

If I had to pick a favorite TD game... well I doubt I could. I really like Defense Grid and put more hours into that on Steam than I care to mention is mixed company. I enjoyed Sol Survivor quite a bit too. PvZ is pretty fun.

I dunno if I could pick a favorite. If I had to, I'd probably say Trenched (Iron Brigade). Though that's as much shooter as it is TD.

#16 Posted by ESREVER (2367 posts) - 1 year, 4 months ago

@marvin_martian said:

I simultaneously love and hate TD games. They tend to suck up so much time. Anyway, the Gemcraft games have always been my favorite.

The Gemcraft flash game took one of my design classes by storm. My instructor was hopelessly addicted, as well as 3/4 of the class. I can't stand TDs, so the next couple of classes were annoying.

I guess Sanctum is the only TD I can tolerate really. Do not like the genre.

#17 Posted by Clinkz (1118 posts) - 1 year, 4 months ago

@EliminatoR said:

The Warcraft 3 mod was the first I played and the best IMO.
#18 Posted by Dagbiker (6373 posts) - 1 year, 4 months ago

trenched.

#19 Posted by StarvingGamer (5980 posts) - 1 year, 4 months ago

PvZ

Fieldrunners on iPad for second

#20 Posted by xXxLYNCHxXx (154 posts) - 1 year, 4 months ago

Trenched was my 3rd favorite game of last year. I also really like PvZ, though I'm not a big tower defense fan. Also Iron Brigage was pretty good too...

#21 Posted by Swaboo (424 posts) - 1 year, 4 months ago

I played and enjoyed so many tower defense games it's hard to pick a favorite... I sure would love a sequel to pj Monsters. Lately i have been playing Kingdom Rush and thats a pretty enjoyable one.

@Vigorousjammer: Just played through Monster castle defense on normal and that was pretty nice!

#22 Edited by Vorbis (2746 posts) - 1 year, 4 months ago
#23 Posted by BeachThunder (8916 posts) - 1 year, 4 months ago

Definitely Plants Vs. Zombies: That game was great in every way (well, except for the part where it erased all of my save data ;_;)

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#24 Posted by Jimbo (8910 posts) - 1 year, 4 months ago

Defence Grid. I was enjoying Kingdom Rush on iPad but then I lost right at the end of one level in a really cheap way which I had no way to prepare for at all, so I ragedeleted it.

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