X-Morph: Defense

Game is awesome. Loads of fun in coop.

X-Morph: Defense is one of those rare gems that masterfully blends two genres—tower defense and twin-stick shooter—into a cohesive, chaotic, and incredibly satisfying gameplay experience. You play as the alien invader for a change, and it's a blast (literally).

Pros:
✔️ Unique gameplay hybrid – The combination of strategic tower placement and fast-paced, arcade-style shooting is smooth and addictive.

✔️ Destructible environments – Buildings collapse, bridges fall, and everything feels weighty and reactive.

✔️ Stunning visuals – For its size, the game offers beautifully detailed levels and explosive effects that hold up well.

✔️ Diverse arsenal – Multiple tower types, each upgradeable, along with powerful alien ships that can switch modes on the fly.

✔️ Well-paced difficulty – Campaign gradually increases challenge with thoughtful enemy variation and boss encounters.

✔️ Split-screen co-op – One of the few modern games that still support local co-op, and it's done right.

Cons:
❌ Limited ship variety – Only a few core ship types. A sequel could really expand on this.

❌ No online co-op – The local co-op is great, but online multiplayer would make this a next-level experience.

❌ Story is basic – Functional but forgettable. A more fleshed-out narrative could really help with immersion.

❌ Some mission repetition – Later levels can feel like re-skinned challenges with more enemies rather than new strategic depth.

What Could Be Improved for a Sequel:
🛠️ Customizable ships – Let us build or modify our own ships with specific weapon loadouts or passive abilities.

🛠️ Online multiplayer support – Even if it’s just 2-player co-op, this would add a huge layer of replayability.

🛠️ Dynamic campaign – A branching or non-linear campaign with consequences for missions would boost replay value.

🛠️ More enemy diversity – Introduce stealth units, aerial-only bosses, or enemies that mess with your tower grid.

🛠️ Map editor / workshop support – This game screams for a modding community.

If you love tower defense, twin-stick shooters, or anything involving big explosions and satisfying strategy, X-Morph: Defense is a no-brainer. It's polished, unique, and just downright fun. Hoping for a sequel—this game deserves it.

I love this game so much i spent so many hours just making costom maps alone and the campaing is Exlent. The base game Bosses is what makes this game so good! I really Like the Final Misson (no spoliers) The games first boss is a great wau to kick of a game!

Are we ze baddies?

great game love playing it.

I think this game is an interesting mix of tower defense and twin-stick shooting, offering a unique perspective by putting players in control of the invading alien forces. The game stands out with its destructible environments, strategic base-building mechanics, and action-packed combat.
Pros:

✅ Unique Gameplay Concept – Combining tower defense with direct combat makes for an engaging experience.
✅ Destructible Environments – The ability to reshape the battlefield by destroying buildings adds a dynamic element to the strategy.
✅ Co-op Mode – Local co-op is a fun addition for those who enjoy playing with a friend.
✅ Varied Enemy Waves – Different enemy types require adapting your tactics, keeping gameplay fresh.
Cons:

❌ Difficulty Spikes – Some missions can feel overwhelming, especially on higher difficulties.
❌ No Online Co-op – The lack of online multiplayer may be a drawback for some players.
❌ Repetitive Elements – While fun, the gameplay loop can become a bit repetitive over time.

Overall, X-Morph: Defense is a solid game for fans of tower defense and twin-stick shooters. If you enjoy strategy with a mix of fast-paced action, it's worth checking out, but be prepared for some challenging moments.

With all said, I give this game a 7/10!


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Pretty gud tower defense... also go play The Riftbreaker (it´s from the same devs).

yes.

A masterpiece of tower defense combined with bullet hell gaming. Fully recommend it to any gamer with interest in either genres.

We've been playing co-op and it's a great 2 player tower defense and shoot em up.

It feels like a mix of Renegade Ops (one of the most fun and polished coop games) and traditional tower defense games.
So far i've enjoyed this more than The Riftbreaker.

very good game

Great Game

This is a good mix of tower defense and top down shooter and overall, a very polished game.

If you like base/tower defense in rts style with a hero this is your game :) X-Morph: Defense is basically the counter game to Anomaly: Warzone Earth. You're part of an alien invasion force, which's goal it is to gather the ressources of Earth, and must defend your Core structures in 14 levels from human attacks.

Like the game description and screenshots already tell, this is a tower defense game, where you actively participate in the fight. You're controlling an alien ship, which can switch between attack mode and ghost mode on the fly, whereby the ghost mode is both a defense mode and your building mode.

The ship itself hast four attacks. A rapid fire dual plasma gun, bombs, anti air rockets and a laser beam, which all offer a secondary fire option. The Plasma gun can be charged to fore a single plasma ball, the bombs can be charged to the Dark Matter bombs, which can destryo buildings, the Rockets offer an EMP attack and the laser creates an anti gravity hole, which is basically a block hole that instantly destroys most enemies. During combat, your ship can be damaged, but also regens health when being out of combat. This also goes for the ghost mode, which makes you invincible, but disables your weapons.

To the gameplay itself: Each level starts with your Core landing on Earth and you have to defend it from waves of attacks, which become harder the longer the level goes on. At the start of each round and between waves, you have an unlimited amount of time to place defense turrets. Like the ships, these turrets have various weapons. Each turret starts with a plasma cannon, but can be upgraded to wield flamethrowers, artillery guns, lasers and anti air weapons.

The amounts of turrets and upgrades you can build is limited by a ressource meter, which is filled up by beating a wave, killing enemies or collecting their scrap with a ship upgrade. Additionally to their weapons, turrets also have impassable laser fences, which can be used to block off enemy routes, so that it takes more time for them to reach your Core and to funnel mutliple enemies into a choke point. Between the waves and during combat, turrets can be relocated and reconfigurated. For example, if you fought of a bunch of bombers and now a group of soldiers is walking along the turret during the next wave, you can change the anti air gun into the flamethrower free of charge. Relocating turrets is also free and you also get your spent ressources back, if one of your turrets gets destroyed, which makes the game player friendly.

The enemies are a slightly futuristic, global army, which resemble the GDI from Command and Conquer. They have tanks, APCs, helicopters, fighter jets, anti air units and other vehicles, which all are serving different purposes. Tanks for example, just attack your core, anti air vehicles are serving as a medic unit and attack the placer, APCs deploy infantry units if not destroyed and bombers target your structures on their flight path. Additionally to that, the game also has three boss enemies, which all work a bit differently and bring a small bullet hell element into the game.

Great game
The tutorial with the boss fight just make it a cherry at the top
The graphics are fine and the difficulty is generally fun and not just braindead spam

This game is , somehow, a combination of strategy, arcade and puzzle. You have an aircraft to fight, meaning, shoot enemies in the skies and on the floor, but also you use towers that you "plant" on the flor to help you and , beside that, you use your towers as laser barriers to create pathways that for your enemies on the floor to follow, so you need to solve the problem by being efficient, maximizing your power of causing damage and minimizing the opponent unit's damage. I could not recomend more. Exor Studios made a excellent game.

pretty cool

I got this for 75p. Best 75p I have ever spent.

A great villain protagonist tower defense SHMUP.

I experienced it as a mechanically decent game with some interesting twists.
Music, graphics, voicing and so on are decent, given the genre.
Well worth its price.

The best tower defence in my life

This is one of my all-time favorites!
It's one of my go-to games to to just casually have a bit of fun. Try out new "strategies" and just blow stuff up. It is not particularly challenging in depth or scope but just pure arcade style fun.

It is a good tower defense game.
It is similar to Sanctum 2, you pilot a ship that can also attack enemies.

Very VERY satisfying destruction.

Great Game. Must try for tower defense fans. Has story, strategy and action.

This looked good but became boring very quickly.

DOES NOT HAVE ONLINE MULTIPLAYER!!!
COUCH CO-OP ONLY!

That's my one con of the game. Other than that, great tower defense. You can use steam "play with friends" or whatever it's called to play 'online' but then only the host is getting achievements. Very strategy based, you actually have to think and get creative with your routes. Loved the challenge.

Pretty entertaining game, where you can use interesting and very creative strategies. It features simple but pretty efective upgrades and skill tree. Easy to play, hard to truly master.

Cool

Hella good game not gonna lie

ok cool!

as a top-down tower defense real-time strategy game , personally recommend :

1. almost included all kinds of military attacks simulated here. (except of Guided missiles and navy forces)
2. basic tutorial is easy to learn , but missions are hard and Challenging. (it wont be bored and cold.)
3. the degradability of the environment is High , So you have more freedom to take actions.(enemies and cities designed as reality)
4. During defense planning , able to fight with Quadruple physical technologies. (like Gravity hole and EMP bomb)
5. after finishing the waves , you will challenge with heavy armored bosses. (this is literally addictive and fun as hell.)
6. It doesn't require strong hardware to run.
7. Musics match with game-play.
8. available to try on co-op , survival mode and also few dlc.
9. the Demo version exist for testing.
*even If you have money problem, next Steam discount will Satisfy you.

Game will not launch on screen set as main and/or default screen in Windows. There be no setting in game to set default screen. I must disconnect my screens from box for game to play on screen I want to play on. Devs do be a fail.

Very cool. The destruction physics are a treat I wasn't expecting in a genre I already love.

As soon as you load into X-Morph: Defense you know nothing should be taken seriously. And this is a good thing. It is immediately shown to a player by the art style that has been chosen here. It makes you forget about any kind of logic explaining how any of this is possible and focus on the only thing that matters: stop the waves attacking your core by using towers.

This game focuses mainly on tower defense while giving you a highly active role of helping your towers with a small fighter jet kind of spaceship, and on more intermediate levels demands of you to alter your towers and enemy paths as wave is incoming. And you will never ask a question: "How does a energy shield work?" or "What is this morphing metal actually?".

A trill filled game with nice graphics and great art style. And yes, a tower defence game that is worth the money.

What started out as a fun, arcade experience quickly became an unfulfilling slog of a game pretty quickly

There is never a feeling of advancement in the game. All of the upgrades are new tower, new ability you have to remember to use & the most miniscule ship & core boosts.

Debris is next to worthless in the grander scheme of a match & it is bullshit it is an ability we even have to unlock.

Weapon targeting priority is just awful – It has NO consistency to what it targets when you are using weapons like the laser & your AA defense just randomly stops targeting an incoming bomber for the fighter-escort that can’t even do anything to it.

The 3 bosses I’ve fought are a scale of just mid.
Tarantula iterations were both fun. It is a solid, well designed hitbox boss and its gimmick works. The Jaguar sucks. Its hitboxes just don’t work to such a point that your AOE attacks can do the most ball-tickling damage if it isn’t perfectly on the pixel.
The big aircraft thing improved on the hitbox issue of the Jaguar but there was just. too. much. Holy fuck learn what FUN is.

The fact that each mission is the exact same narrative flow of “aliens landed, rally!!!! Im SenDinG In mOrE TaNKs” like at some point you have just made your opponent so dumb there isn’t any satisfaction in beating them. After Germany the matches should just spawn with double & triple, with the starting resources to match – show PROGRESSION in what we are doing

Paths just randomly change to with no justification as to why. In the prep mode they will be going one way, you change NOTHING about the route via towers, lasers or collapses and then when they spawn they just choose a different way you had unguarded with no prompt - what the FUCK is the point in giving us this battle phase if the AI just gets to ignore it?
Survival mode is less than mid.

nice game, a litlle more focused on strategy than tower defense

Very good game although the game needs performance optimization.

good game just wish i had a model viewer for the turrets and everything 10//10

This game tries hard, really hard to be a little bit of everything..and it just falls flat on each side.


Jack of many trades, mid tier at best.


Grab it on sale. 5$ or less.

hell y eah

Fantastic mix of genres! Very addictive

yes...BUT


GAMEPLAY
- if you're looking for a primarily "tower defense" gameplay, look elsewhere
- the "towers" are more like cosmetic walls to block paths
- you're the one killing enemies. The towers' damage are nearly insignificant
- you have very few weapon options

VISUALS
- ok overall environmental graphics
- UI is unnecessarily detailed
- UI is very slow because of animations
- enemy visuals are boring aside from the big bosses

SOUND
- robotic voice can be grating and gets old fast
- UI sounds are very annoying

Honestly very simple concept, but it's really solid gameplay and the code is well optimised.

This game is very addicted and you have a lot of fun destroying the tanks and helicopters. Devs should be proud of this one.

Doobra tower Defense game, Niekedy kus narocna ale perfektna hram ju druhy den,, a neviem sa odtrhut.. Levely nie su vyvazene velmi, ale o to asi je to lepsie,, raz za cas mas tazku misiu.. a ostatne sa da prejst kludne,,,Aspon sa nestresuje clovek kazdy levell,, a hra dalej dalej dalej

A simple to understand Tower Defense game with plenty of strategic options. fun dynamic environments and enemy compositions. Thanks for making this!

👍

Among epic cRPGs, vast big-budget open-world adventures and classic horror games... X-Morph is one of my favourite games, despite being... Tower Defense?

How did that happen?

... They just made the best tower defense. By such a great degree there's no real competition.

It's beautiful, deadpan funny, has an incredible dedication to a 90s aesthetic that never was - brighter, more vibrant, more detailed and richly animated. It has some of the best physics simulation in the industry for flexible complex structures collapsing dynamically in response to accidental or intentional damage with great tactical and strategic effect.

The boss battles keep escalating into the absurd, turning the tower defense into outright bullet-hell (that you can avoid at any time by engaging Ghost Mode, to return to the building system and escape combat to heal), and the game never gets boring, despite some missions being technically optional, allowing you to play a shorter or longer campaign.

It's just so well designed, and so satisfying. I'd need to write an essay to break down the psychology of how they nailed tower defense's best qualities as a genre while removing or ameliorating its many flaws. It's a deeply satisfying casual spaceship shooter, the peak tower defense game strategically, and an epic spectacle.

You should play it and make everyone else you know play it.

May I one day be awake enough to rewrite this a little more persuasively instead of just insisting it's incredible... but it is.

really cool i like it

Ok