Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition)

Amazing RPG/TD hybrid, one of my all time favorites of the genre.

been one of my favourites since I was a kid.

still good to just enjoy my playing & the story

Last update broke mods, you can't even see the workshop from inside the game.

A really effective story-based tower defense game. I really hope the sequel ends up coming out. This game is a lot of fun to repeat, an enjoyable challenge to try and complete, and an enjoyable set of characters going through a very well-done narrative.

I remember playing the demo on Kongregate in i guess 2010, somewhere round that time. Always like TD games, played it. Finally bought this game maybe 3 years ago and just recently played through it for the first time. The game is grindy, but as a core aspect and meant to be grindy, not hit a tree and rocks for 2 hours to build a base and get raided. Grindy and difficult but a simple and fun TD game. Worth a few bucks on sale.

Don't get me wrong - there's good reason so many people like this game: there's a deep, well developed storyline that's well written and fun to follow along. I just feel like with so many positive reviews I expected more of the TD aspects - but at the end of the day the TD mechanic is pretty bland, and for me, personally, not worth spending full price on. After about 4 hours I was bored of the TD elements and feeling like I had no control of the pathing or any way to play more cleverly to win levels I might not be expected to - I was just going to have to grind until my characters (towers) were strong enough. For me, I kind of wish there was a review that told me to stay away and look for TDs with more interesting stuff than the ol' 'put towers by the path and upgrade them' route.