Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense

I've been playing strategy and tower defense games since I was a kid. However, this might be the only tower defense game that doesn't actually feel like a tower defense or a strategy game at all. Instead, it feels like playing an unbalanced, grindy flash game. And that might be the reason why the devs wanted this design choice: just to make the game longer artificially. And I understand it since the game is kinda bit old. Even on normal difficulty, you always feel completely underpowered. I never get the satisfaction of watching my towers tear through waves of enemies. While the enemy variety is great, the game only introduces new variants to artificialy spike the difficulty. For instance, you deploy infantry to hold off enemies, but then the game spawns archers to pick them off from a distance while your infantry just stand there watching. If you build an archer tower to counter them, the rest of the extremely armored enemies will overwhelm you just because you built 3 magic towers instead of 4. This endless cycle means the game never lets you just have fun. Success relies entirely on tedious trial and error, and the difficulty spikes are brutal. I love a good challenge and a heavy brainstorming session, but this game just feels like trying to drink peanut butter through a straw. I come here to relax and have fun after a tough day, not to be frustrated.

I did enjoy the game and I do plan on replaying it a bit more. However I only recommend buying it on sale. the base campaign is really fun and the final battle gave me a good challenge, but the post game? Oh brother don't bother. I love a good challenge that makes me think but damn does it get extremely hard. Which sucks cause I like the heroes and a good number of the towers powers and upgrades. It's a shame it does that old flash game thing of "Do things frame perfect about 100 times" TLDR. Good game, buy on sale. DON'T bother with post game.

The beginning and most of the campaign is really fun. Then it turns a corner and becomes nearly impossible to beat. Once the campaign is over the levels are so insanely hard it just loses all the fun aspects of it. On Casual level you should at least stand a chance.