Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense

The best game!

Goood TD game)

Kingdom Rush Origins is the second game I played in the series, and it didn’t disappoint. The art style is colorful and fun, and the gameplay is just as addicting as before. I really liked the new towers and heroes—it made things feel fresh. Some levels were pretty tough, but beating them felt great. If you liked any of the other Kingdom Rush games, this one is definitely worth playing too.

Awesome game, grindy achievements.

All the Kingdom Rush games are great. Best tower defence games you'll find anywhere.

(Overall Rating: 7.5/10)
I was excited to play this as I played the previous Kingdom Rush games when I was younger. This game helped me relive that enjoyment.

Enemies feel challenging, especially during the mid and endgame. However, it can get really repetitive and frustrating and you have repeat a level, especially when each are so long. There was one hero in particular that felt absolutely amazing, Catha, but the other heroes felt lackluster especially if they're solely melee.

I may have felt burnt out by the end, but I overall enjoyed the strategic puzzle solving of this game

If you ever feel useless remember that non barracks buildings exist in this game.

is great

Arcane Archers go Kaboom + Barracks :)

A classic choice for tower defense games.

good

Achivments were a bit grindy but one of the best of this series! :D

yuhhh

10/10

Still a nice addition to the series. It also felt much easier than Frontiers, despite the introduction of Impossible difficulty — probably due to some heroes & upgrades being almost obnoxiously strong.

Best TD games there are. This applies to all Kingdom Rush games. They never miss.

game perfect

There is a bug in the early game, where the hitbox for wolf enemies doesn't work and they just go trough your soldiers, making it impossible for me to 100% this game. I have owned this game for years and tried in 3 different computers

good game

My favourite of the series. Completed it on Impossible

great time kill and super fun...DL and chill have fun

Excellent KR entry on the series.

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I mean if you are bord this is a good game to play

Another masterpiece from the Kingdom Rush series, i personally don't like it as much as the KR:Frontiers but its still very good. Unfortunately, there is no Endless Mode, but it has Impossible difficulty that previous parts missed.

This imo is THE BEST Kingdom Rush game, I love the setting, the music, the levels, and although this is not the hardest Kingdom Rush game I think some of the levels towards the end especially are pretty hard. But overall this game is amazing and I think it's the best Kingdom Rush game.

Gooooooood!!!!!!

while the towers may not be as good as the other games, the challenge this game offers makes up for it.

Best tower defense game I've ever played

If you aren't using Vez'nan you're playing the game wrong.

One of the best Tower-Defense games out there, lots of levels and enemies, great music, overall a very entertaining game.

Good game ... Worth playing .

gg

Way, way less fun than the other games. They added too many bullsh*t mechanics

Thumbs up!

Trees are op

Kingdom Rush Origins is the third installment in the Kingdom Rush series and the chronological prequel to the first Kingdom Rush game. Taking place on the southern continent 30 years before the original game, the enemy factions and towers are entirely new as we play as the Sylvan elves instead of the Linerean Army like the first game.
The game follows a typical tower defense formula with plenty of other systems that improve the experience. The main gameplay consists of building towers in strategic areas to form choke points with barracks and your hero, and using spells when necessary to support your defense. There is plenty of strategic depth to be had- enemies have special abilities and armor, so you will need to consider that when formulating a defense to beat a level.
One thing that this game does incredibly well is the down time between upgrading your towers. In other tower defense games, it can become mindless and boring quite fast waiting for enemies to die so you can get the next upgrade. Kingdom Rush Origins completely subverts this typically genre complaint by always giving the player something to do. Reinforcements can be placed anywhere you desire and have extensive techniques to support your defense. Your hero has special abilities that can be micro-managed to get the most benefit from them. You have a variety of spells that can be used strategically to clear hordes of enemies that would otherwise break through. Almost every level has some kind of interactable to soften up or kill enemies, bringing benefits if you care to pay attention to them.
The content flow in this game is immaculate. Every level has something new, whether it is an enemy, tower, interactable, bonus tower, or mechanic to strategize around. In addition, every level has 2 challenge modes by completing the base level, and these can be fun and challenging to try and complete.
There is also metagame progression to be made if you're interested in that kind of stuff. Completing levels will give you stars that can be used to purchase permanent upgrades for your towers and spells. Each hero also has upgradable abilities and XP can be earned for them simply by playing levels. It's very satisfying to get each upgrade as they all feel considerably impactful.
Audio and visuals are excellent. The drawn graphics and animations convey so much character rarely seen in other games, and the towers all feel badass and awesome once you upgrade them, partly thanks to the neat little one-liners they deliver. The comics seen at the beginning of some levels are great too, and help the player feel invested in the story. Speaking of which, Kingdom Rush Origins does the best job conveying a story of the 4 games in the series. It provides plenty of character development and fanservice for the original Kingdom Rush game.
This game is probably the best tower defense game out there. If you're considering it, then I would highly recommend, even if you haven't played the original KR!

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Very good but also VERY hard to 100% you're going to spit blood

Fun just to shut your mind off and play this.

I used to really enjoy this game, and I 100% it multiple times on mobile, but steam version keeps crashing, and there doesn't seem to be active support.
Game becomes unbeatable on later stages, purely because it can just crash at any moment.

I'd say that even if you enjoyed these games in the past, it's not worth a purchase in its current state

it's fun

A classic tower defense game loaded with engaging mechanics and chock full of charming pop cultural references, fellow fantasy worlds, and classic literature. A game made by nerds, for nerds :) Hero system is fun, with some being far more useful and memorable than others. Trophies are a grind, but I appreciate games that work to separate the casuals from the try hards.

It's an excellent tower defense game that continues the legacy KR series created.
If you've played Kingdom Rush series before, you know what to expect - if you haven't, do yourself a favor and try it.
One of the big benefits of Steam versions of KR games is that they're moddable, and community came up with some very good mods.
Again, do yourself a favor and try it!

Its ok. I agree with other reviewers that there's something not quite right about this game. But I cant identify what it is. Good fun though and worth grabbing if on sale.

wheres my endless mode ironhide

A really fun Kingdom Rush entry. The most glaring downside for me is that the artillery options are not particularly exciting; the Arch-Druid Henge isn't great IMO, while the Weirdwood is cool but expensive (both have their uses, though). But there are a bunch of viable heroes and I like the upgrade paths more than those of the base game and Frontiers. And it's really fun that both barracks units are fantastic and have distinct uses from each other.

This one's different. Feels different, looks different. Still great, play it, simple as.

An interesting addition to the series, with a more unique core 4 towers to use. I feel that the changes to these towers suit the game greatly, not feeling wildly different mechanically and putting an interesting spin on the campaign with some changes (e.g. barracks soldiers being able to use ranged attacks now). Overall a solid game with fun new ways to play and develop strategies for each level.

Weaker than its predecessors. Why? In my opinion, it boils down to a few things, starting with the active ability. In the first two games, the meteors you call down can be impactful, but they always felt like an "extra" thing you were doing (rather than being "needed" to complete the stages).

In this installment, you call down thunderstrikes. They're significantly more powerful right out of the gate than the meteors from the first two, but they're also very frequently "needed" to complete the missions. I'm not saying that the missions can't be played efficiently and completed without them, but they become a constant way of completing stages. Over and over again, I find I've really just been slowing down the monsters to buy time and hold on for another cast of the thunderbolts. It makes for a less interesting gameplay experience. Yes, in the first two installments, I would have moments where the meteors "saved the day", but nothing at this frequency.

Furthermore... I also think that the overall tower set in this game packs less punch than in the previous games. There isn't any combination of towers that the game allows me to go for that I get excited about setting up.

One bright note, there are fewer lone "air enemy waves" on maps to catch a player off guard who's doing great but skimping on anti-air (how dare we skip anti-air when we've seen zero air units until half-way through our waves...). Instead, this game opts for either 1) waves that suddenly overwhelm your barracks and push through (and then the monsters split two separate ways so you can't drop soldiers to plug them up), 2) enemies that disable your infantry and walk past, or 3) big golems who smash soldiers quickly, causing you to have to call-down on them and juggle with rax/hero to buy time for thunderbolts.

There's also a notable uptick of "annoying" achievements to chase in this one. Use X ability Y many times. Kill X enemies while they're under Y affect. While the previous ones had maybe 5 or so maps I had to go through to click on some things for completion, they decided to make the worst installment the one where you have to chase after more things. I don't know if I care to 100% this one. I've been looking forward to wrapping it up.

One last note before closing - the actual animations and the "feel" of the gameplay is somehow getting worse for each game. It's getting floatier.

So... I've finished the game and got all my stars... time to move along, perhaps. If this is where the franchise goes in the sequels, I may end up quite happy that I didn't buy the collection.