Kingdom Rush

Since purchasing this I've played almost every variation it offers [and there are many for each campaign] in order to obtain to challenge myself to 3 STARS.... Kingdom Rush proved to become extremely addictive gameplay for me and I SO wish their newest game played on PC. The developers obviously have incredible talent and every aspect of the game is immersive and intense... from the ongoing storyline to music to characters, humor, challenge... ALL is sheer genius yet it managed to shine with cartoon-like graphics which I typically avoid. The artist actually managed to reflect so many created personalities encompassing, wit, pomp, sleaze, creep factors, aggression, cultural twists and just about every possible human characteristic imaginable into the various 'enemies' and 'heros'. There are subtleties and blatant outcomes that mesh to draw your attention and keep it and then won't let it go; at least that was the experience for me. I LOVE KINGDOM RUSH! I LOVE IT~!! Bottom line... GET THIS GAME! Even at "full" price it is a steal.

This is of course dependent on one's preferences. Personally, I played a simpler, F2P version on Kongregate and it still was a 5/5 for me: - polished visuals and gameplay - no bugs whatsoever, and well optimized - great humor - I played it on an easy difficulty and it surely is a jewel for casual players; however I can't say how harder modes are balanced. There's really no point in writing more, just check it out on Kongregate.

Suffers from the same problem Defense Grid did: it's a fun experience until you realize that the best strategy 90% of the time is to just spam the basic gun tower. In Defense Grid is was machine gun towers. In Kingdom Rush it's archer towers upgraded to rangers. At that point they become the best dps tower in the game with AoE damage AND enemy freezing ability way better than the tower that's supposed to fulfill that role (barracks). I was tearing my hair out at some levels until I just spammed ranger towers and breezed through the entire game.

Kingdom Rush is probably the best tower defense flash game out there, but the content doesnt worth the nearly 10 bucks at all. Just play the free flash version, which is pretty much exactly the same...

+ Music + Visually pleasant - self-repeating -not much of variety -Tower AI is... dumb as a sack of rocks -only handful of upgrades, 2 spell ?! Don't waste your money, just play the flash game.