Riftwalker (2019)

This Tower Defense game is still very early in development, but I can already see the potential and the basics of a TD game are all there. This TD game is unique for two reasons: 1) The setting, which is very dark (you actually fight against the darkness) with a mix of tech + magic. 2) The story: you have to find knowledge "pieces" inside the dungeon while defending your portal. Later you can upgrade your "skills" tree with what you found (note: this part is still in development) The dev is very responsive to feedback but the updates are not so regular (depends on dev personal stuff from what I gather), even though he surprised me releasing a patch with new content just ONE day after I gave him feedback! So all in all it's a thumbs up for me.

Here's a Totally Objective Review of the Game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhdtztzqZHc (10/10)

Great game!

OK, so it turns out my Win7 machine can't run this (I know, I'm behind, don't judge) but I got to play the game a bit at Comic-Con Africa and again at rAge, so I'm just going to put down here the suggestions I made then, plus some extras. As far as my review goes, this game is great so far – it’s been a long time since I’ve played an engaging tower defence, let alone one that looks so good. You had a functional build that didn’t seem to break at any point (always a good sign when your code decides to play nice while on display to the public). As it stands, my only real qualm is the tutorial – there isn’t one. You have floating paragraphs spread across your map, which can be a bit of a mission to read when playing for the first time, as most players will be trying to get a handle on the camera controls first, so maybe take those informative paragraphs and turn them into actual popups (making them a little easier to get to). Maybe have the player place down a few lamps and turrets (explaining why they should put each one down as they go; as you’ve made light a mechanic, that will certainly require explaining). Pause the game with a popup or two while a wave is attacking, take the op…

This game has a lot of potential and cool ideas. I'm loving the darkness creeping in with hords of creatures from it. It gets difficult later on when better and stronger creatures runs towards your portal. I also like the random maps you never know whats going to spawn, if it will be in your favor or not. Overall enjoying the game already upgraded a tower. Just experiencing a little frame rate dropping passed the 10 wave on endless, but then I'll start over with a new map.

I'm loving the aesthetics so far. My only issue is that it's broken at this stage to the point where I can't play it. Tutorial mode doesn't work (The play button does nothing). Endless mode works, but the enemies are invisible and invulnerable, so I lose on the first wave Demo mode never spawns anything Will come back and give proper feedback once these things are fixed.