Royal Defense

Generic mobile port TD game, Are you looking for a 100% with a dozen or two mind numbing grind investment? Step right in, otherwise might want to look for other games.

if you like castle defence games it don't get better than this

Meeh~
Royal Defense 5/10
Heisen

thanks for the game, please continue the good works and then combine them into one through use of cosmetic purchases?

a single game to run them all :)
good days to you and you all
sorry for any bother and thanks for your time

Game is alright, same as any other similar version of this game. But you need to buy DLC to get all achievements. At least 1 achievement is broken, you can't get it, it's a struggle for completionists.

Royal Defense is an enjoyable tower defence game that somewhat tries to be a Kingdom Rush clone. Although it's not as good as Kingdom Rush it's not a bad game.

Can you recommend this game?
No.

But you have so many hours in it?
Yes, but that's only because I'm a completeionist and was dead set to get all achievements, but it was torture.

Was it worth it?
Most probably not, but at least I have completed this game and never have to look back.

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I'm a huge fan of Tower Defense games. All kinds of Tower Defense. I enjoy simple ones like Witch Hunt, and the well known Bloons TD series, as well as Cubecraft's TD in MineCraft. But I didn't like this game, at all.

So I've seen people mention that this is a mobile port, which would explain how bad this game performs on PC, and I actually looked that up. I searched online, mostly to get any information, or any wiki, but all I found was people complaining about how bad this game is. On AppStore people are saying that this game is full of micro transactions and it's impossible to complete the game without paying. Thankfully they've removed the micro transactions on the Steam version.

There are 4 different towers in game and you are literally forced to use two of them, which leaves no room for own strategies. Especially in the DLC, which I felt forced to buy since several achievements are locked behind that.

The game is lacking any information on towers and enemies. What little information you get is one sentence written in very bad English when the towers/enemies get introduced, except for the last chapter, where they seem to have completely forgotten about the last enemy. What's even worse is that there's no way to re-read these unless you replay that level, so if you're on chapter 6 and want a reminder of an early enemy, then good luck finding it.

The game also feels very, very, slow... there's only two different speeds, normal and x2. But normal feels like slow motion. This just makes the game take more time with nothing for the player to really do, except getting overly bored.

The game doesn't support basic keyboard shortcuts, like "space" or "p" to pause, like many other games have. Here everything is with your mouse. There's also no difference between left and right click, further showing the touch controls. Sometimes when you try to click to upgrade or place a tower you accidentally use a spell or pay gems to recharge a spell, even though you're no where near the spell button. I think it may be because it should be easier to use spells and spend gems in the mobile version, but they never adjusted for the PC version.

Well I could go on forever but I'm just gonna end it here. Doubt people read the whole thing anyway, but if you did and have any questions, feel free to write a comment. I do have 100% achievements and I couldn't find any guides, but out of frustration considered creating one, so write a comment if you'd like a guide for this game if you for some reason decide to try this game.

I like the spells. I like the tower upgrades. I like the enemies. It's tower defense. I like it.

Very fun, lots of levels, [retty smooth gameplay no lag yet, lots of upgrades and i like the art style.

TL;DR™ Volume 5

Well done little tower game. Pretty standard fare, which is just fine with me. Easy to pop in and out to play quick rounds.

It's annoyingly simplistic and redundant. But the quick rounds (each under 3 minutes, usually) are damned addicting. "Just one more round."

Of course, it's fun to replay to seek a higher score. And you earn gems to level up your weapons.

I"m a little embarrassed I play it. But play it I do.

Get it on sale, if you can. You won't hate yourself for buying it. Jut don't tell your friends how you waste your time.

Starts out boring, but quickly gets interesting, like any tower defense. There is a good amount of challenge and I like the level design: although it has dividing routes, you can always find a single choke point to save your money on. A solid design.

Annoyances are...

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After the 1st tower green/stun upgrade and the introduction of flying units (around 1/3 into a difficulty or 1/9 of the game), the first tower becomes the obvious one to invest all your effort on, and with it, clearing the rest of the game becomes ridiculously easy.

When you max out your "money from enemies" upgrade, all levels become passive from the halfway point on when the map is filled and maxed out.

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The 1-click quick buys for the on-demand abilities which become visible if you use the free ones. You lose your hard earned diamonds if you click too close to the bottom right screen, so I choose not to use them at all, which fixes the issue.

Also the easy, normal and hard difficulties are so close to the same that the latter difficulties are actually much easier because you have more diamonds by the time you get to them.

Still this game was one hell of a time killer for 50 cents.

It's not a very "nice" move to tie achievements to DLC-only-contents. Luckily, the DLC bundle was on sale. Overall, a playable tower defense without glitches. All achievements attainable only if you get the DLC too. Fair amount of farm and grind needed.

When I saw this, I was excited because I love a good Tower Defense and from the graphics in the video and image previews, I was excited. However, I was quickly disapointed and I'll tell you why in my Pros and Cons below:

Pros:
♦ Price probably seems reasonable (If you are into Generic Tower Defenses)
♦ Decent Number of Levels and Campaigns (This is good as no level is 100% the same as another)
♦ Great Campaign graphics (Each campaign has amazing level graphics for a TD)
♦ Selecting which enemy to attack is great (This is great to when it comes to nonmulti-lane levels)
♦ Good Number of Upgrades
♦ Good Number of Easy Achievements Just for playing the game (Minus the DLC Achievements)
♦ Steam Trading Cards

Cons:
♦ Same old towers throughout the whole game (You quickly unlock all the towers in the first campaign and never unlock any others which using the same towers over and over again can get quite boring after a while)
♦ Very Grindy (You have to play levels over and over again in hope of getting lucky to get enough purple gems to buy upgrades to be able to even stand a chance in the next level you have unlocked)
♦ False description as the description says it has a Story when there is No Story whatsoever (Could have easily added a background story to each Campaign to give the game that bit more of an edge)
♦ Wave start timers are pointless as you can just pause the game everytime to set up for the next wave (This makes the game way too easy)
♦ Need to buy dlc to get 100% Achievements from get go (Should have to buy DLC to see the DLC Achievements)
♦ Repetitive (Have to replay levels over and over to get purple gems to even be able to progress even if you three stared the level before)
♦ Gets real repetitive by the third Campaign (This is because there is hardly anything that changes per Campaign)
♦ Generic Tower Defense + Doesn't add anything new to the Genre (This is annoying as it's a basic place a tower, kill a wave, upgrade a tower, next level type TD which get's really boring after a while)
♦ Sound Crackly in Second and Third Campaign (Really, Really annoying that I had to mute the game)
♦ Each Campaign is just a new level skin (No new towers, upgrades and hardly any new enemies).
♦ Once you upgrade lives you have too many (Litterally 99% of the time you'll never die)
♦ No way to tell what type of enemy is coming in the next wave (This makes it really hard to judge what towers to buy)
♦ No way to tell what enemies are immune to or weak against (This is annoying as you have to figure it out yourself after you've already placed the towers making you more likely to sacrifice that wave)
♦ No way to see how many spells you've cast for the 200 spells Achievement (This is annoying if you want to get all achievements quickly)
♦ Once you select a spell you can't quickly cancel it (Right Clicking and or Left Clicking casts it)
♦ Can't individually tell a tower which enemy to attack (This is annoying when it comes to multi-lane levels)
♦ Number of Stars are incorrect on Campaign Select (I have 198/189 as it only factors in stars for beating the game on one difficulty and not multiple)
♦ No incentive to play the game on Medium or Hard difficulty as there is no achievements or anything to draw you in.
♦ Level Highscores is pointless (Why does it tell you your highscore if you can't see it anywhere after the level?)

Overall it's a good generic Tower Defends with minimal bugs and glitches that at most you'll get one playthrough out of. However it quickly becomes grindy, repetitive and has nothing to draw you back into the game once you beat it once. Therefore, as there are way more cons than pros I have decided to vote no on it. Although, if you like grindy, generic Tower Defense type games by all means buy this.

terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, not worth playing even if it was free, not fun, i was clueless during the hole playing experience of this game, graphics are horrible, worst Tower Defence I have ever seen in my life, i'll buy Bloons td 5 as soon as i gets a sale, The HUD is bad the sounds are bad the maps are bad, the towers are bad, some of the enemies are unbelievably annoying it makes the game experience even more painful.

I loooove Tower defense games, I got this one in a bundle i think I cant remember now ive given it a fair bit of time. after 10 hours of play I cant tell you how frustrated I am. Some of the "story" has typos, along with the fact that you can lose the gems you earn... If you click on an upgrade ( on the menu screen ) that isnt even available it will take the gems and not give you the upgrade ( found this out first hand ) Also when you click on the map at times to use the spells there are tower areas that you can "purchase" for gems to have those better spots? well yah that eats up your gems as well.. Personally Im uninstalling I wouldnt recommend this tbh... It feels cheap and very wonky.

Royal Defense is an enjoyable tower defence game that somewhat tries to be a Kingdom Rush clone. Although it's not as good as Kingdom Rush it's not a bad game.

Pros:
- nice graphics
- decent music
- DLC has as many levels as the main game
- each tower can be upgraded three times
- towers can be upgraded into special towers
- base settings of towers can be permanently upgraded by collecting gems
- higher difficulty makes the game more challenging
- some locations offer a further view
- some locations increase your attack power
- some locations need to be purchased with gems, which makes the game harder
- invisible enemies force you to build radar towers
- magic attacks that reload in time or can be purchased for gems
- option to pause
- add or upgrade towers in pause mode
- call magical attack in pause mode
- two times speed
- some enemies are immune to certain type of attacks, which enriches the strategy level
- walking and flying enemies
- enemy magicians can temporarily deactivate your towers
- some enemies produce new enemies
- option to manually direct fire on a specific enemy

Neutral:
- fixed tower locations
- only four type of towers (arrow, cannon, mortar, money tower)

Cons:
- DLC is better than the main game
- repetitive gameplay, most of the time you can stick with the same tactics
- gems appear randomly
- no option to reset tower abilities you already purchased
- no in-game opponents wiki
- no in-game tower wiki

Nice, classic tower defense game. Good graphics.
It has some great downpoints though: even if you need only to complete one mode to get the achievements (easy, normal or hard), there are almost 30 levels for 6 different worlds (dlc included) and it tends to get very repetitive, the maps are quite all the same and you have only four types of towers.
But it's still fun, for some hours!
If you wanna complete it, be aware that it took me months to! :)

A little middling Tower Defense game. Graphics and effects are decent, but consume an excesive amount of hardware. There are only 4 kind of towers, each can be upgraded of two ways by a system of coins and gems. Foes are diverse. Brings 3 campaigns, other 3 must be purchased by downloable content, a dirty trick. Maps can be repeated 2 o 3 times en each campaing. It is too easy, perhaps is good to introduce children in the genre, but for an adult only serves to pass whiles and forget. Complete all game with 100% achievements takes about 36 hours. Its a mere explotation of the great Kingdom Rush. Only to buy with a high discount or in bundles.

It's ok, but there's just nothing here that makes it rise above every other vanilla Tower Defense port. The only reason I can recommend it is because I got it on the holiday for less than $2....it's not worth any more than that.

I'm an addict of tower defense games, here's the ones I recommend if you want a new game in this genre.

1-OTTTD(the gore, the amazing art and creativity of enemies, and the hero system is just dynamite)
2-Defense Grid 1. (2 is ok, not in the top 5)
3-Bloons TD5 (epic challenge, will stutter and delay if you have an old rig)
4-Garden Rescue(original and christmas edition)
5-Toy Defense 3-fantasy (dragons, wizards, fun)
6-Fat Chicken (very cool and very different. But it really needs more content)

TL;DR review: An ok TD, not great, not terrible. Ok graphics, ok mechanics but sometimes frustrating. Like the stages where it gives you no starting money and the enemies that sleep your towers (that have no clear counter other than hope you can select them / hit them in time)

I'm going to recommend this game, allthough there are plenty of things I'd like to point out first. As in the description of the game,

Follow the exciting story of the dwarven kingdom's eternal struggle against the troll hordes, who want only to crush the dwarves and claim their territory.
^ After having played this game for seven hours, I have never been introduced to any shape or form of story.


Unique units, a wide range of structures, spells, gold and various resources make this game that you will return to again and again.
^ Nope, nothing unique. It's your typical TowerDefence game with the typical towers. Nothing new implemented.


Tap anywhere you like for a handy pop-up menu listing all the units and structures you can build in that location. Tap existing structures to see how you can upgrade your forces with ever-more powerful improvements!
^ This hints towards that the game description is the same as for the mobile version.


Each level also brings new units and structures to help you fight the troll menace. You’ll never be lacking for new and exciting ways of decimating those nasty trolls!
^ Sure, it does vary this, but not nearly every level as this description claims.

- 60 different progressively challenging levels
^ True

- 3 unique game settings
^ If they mean the difficulty settings? Then sure, but I'd hardly call having Easy - Medium and Hard options unique.
EDIT: ^ There are three different biomes. Forrest, snow and desert.

- 17 kinds of creatures
^ As with every other game, lots of reskins.

- 12 kinds of towers and structures
^ True. Also very basic for most TowerDefence games.

- Extensive magic system
^ Can't think of a more basic system ever implemented. Nothing extensive about this.

- Various upgrades
^ Pretty fun to upgrade towers and such. Pretty typical to TowerDefence games.

- Fascinating gameplay
^ Facinating gameplay, what does that even mean?

The game lacks keyboard support, which is a huge nuisance to me as a PC gamer. Obviously this is due to the game being ported over from the mobile version.

Lacks a options menu. Two volume sliders isn't an options menu, however the ability to toggle between fullscreen and windowed is a good addition.

The game only has three soundtracks that loops. Hope you have a playlist on Youtube or Spotify ready.

So with all of this, why am I recommending this somewhat discount Kingdom Rush clone? Well, as far as a Tower Defence game goes, it handles more or less as you'd expect and it's not bad at what it does. It doesn't do anything unique or great, but it's still solid for killing a few hours of boredom.

It's a good tower defense game. For every kind of player casual to hardcore . For 6,49 CDN$ this game completely worth it. I played already 5 hours to complete the game on easy and i have only the act 1 and 2 completed. If u want a really good challenge you can play hard mode and heroic mode and your game will be longer than 10 hours i would say at least. Some fight are really hard and others are really easy. It will not be easy for most players to reach 100% of the achievements because u need to put some time into the game for it.

I would give it a 3.5 out of 5

Sorry if my english was bad and i hope you will enjoy this game

Melovia