Emberward

8/10 - Addictive, fun and a solid entry in the pantheon of TD games. I think Emberward is a special title, the kind of games that steals a weekend of your time. The gameplay is great, the graphics are ok and the overall art design feels a little confused. I think the music/sound design is abysmal though and the game could do with a little fleshing out. Overall I think it's an excellent basis for something bigger, I hope we get DLC and sequels in this series I'd love to see where it ends up in a decades time.

I think it's really rare to find a tower defense game these days that actually manages to take the genre and turn it into something new and interesting. Emberward balances it's cute little charm and some real challenge really well. This game has been great so far!

Awesome game... most fun I have had in a tower defense since Warcraft 3 Customs!! w000000

One of the best tower defenses I've played in a long time - probably since WC3 customs. If you like TDs with good mazing mechanics, then in my opinion, this is likely the best on steam.

One of the best tower defense games I've seen in years. I never really enjoyed fixed-route non-mazing TDs like Bloons, so I was really happy to see a new TD game that's actually doing mazing, and what a great concept with the tetrominos to keep it fresh! I love how the combination of the fixed parts of the level and the tetrominos means you can *mostly* maze how you'd like, but you have to be strategic about how you actually build your maze. The other mechanics are great too, it all comes together to make the game have tons of interesting strategic decisions. Do you expand your maze, or do you place some blocks on a buff tile to power up some towers? On top of this, each new world you progress into adds even *more* new wrinkles to the gameplay that force you to think in entirely new ways about how you want to build your defenses. It's really great, even though it can be *very* challenging at times! The towers themselves are fun, there's nothing *super* unique, most of the tower types are things you'll have seen before, but there's a ton of them and because of the slay-the-spire-esque roguelite progression, every run will have a different "vibe" based on which towers you'r…

Very solid tower defense game. Easy to pick up, easy to understand, great little time waster. The roguelike elements add a nice little randomness to each run compared to Bloon's more stagnant gameplay. Alot of towers, alot of playstyles and combos, bosses are fun, levels are unique across its worlds, just a good old TD time. 20 bills? Absolutely worth it. Only complaint is the lack of borderless windowed so i can click off tab without alt tabbing out. A petty complaint, but something that would be a neat update.