Anx Defense

It's more of a puzzle game than a tower defense game. The difficulty curve is too unreasonable, and the difficulty increases sharply after the tutorial. The levels don't give me a sense of design, and the restrictions are extremely harsh, as if the developer first decided on the solution to the level, and then designed the map based on the solution and killed other possible solutions.

I'm only one hour in, I'm sure I'll be playing more but I don't wanna forget to leave a review. There are a lot of really good things going for this game, and make it stand out from other tower defense games. Losing a wave only deals 1/5 damage, so it doesn't matter how many enemies get past your defenses. You can sell everything for 100% of its original cost, so if you setup isn't working you can start from scratch, you can rotate and move buildings during a wave, and more. My favorite thing though, is the reflector mechanic. Also, it's grid-based which is nice.

A very tentative thumbs up. Not sure I really consider it tower defense as much as a puzzle game. You only get one tower that shoots 'glimmers', mirrors that can alter the trajectory ninety degrees, then a series of towers that add to the glimmer in various ways. Increased damage, and so far add piercing, and speed up, though the speed up seems broken. I had a glimmer go thru five different speed up buildings, and only had a speed of 4. When they went thru one, they had a speed of 3. There are also farms to grow money, but they have four or more turns to pay for themselves. None of the towers can be upgraded thru coin, you can only buy more towers, and I don't always (or so far often) have new towers to build. I feel like you need to have figured out the exact right way to lay things out to win, which isn't really my kind of game. Nice slow tutorial though, and everything seems to work, so I gotta give it one thumb up. Don't think it is ever going to be a favorite though. Got it in a good sale (two bucks US), so should you. ADDENDUM: About two and a half hours of entertainment. There is more game, but it got too frustrating for me. Still, got my moneys worth. Might come back for …

WHY THE ACTUAL HELL DOES THIS ONLY HAVE 30 REVIEWS?? More people need to buy this game, it's good, I may have only played for 2 hours but I assure you I'll be playing more (it's programming and wiring but also a tower defense puzzle game, I've managed to make spaghetti akin to Factorio-esque spaghetti, it's glorious I love it more people need to buy this game).

Fun take on the tower defense genre, I find it similar to some Zachtronics games for example, you can build elaborate contraptions and complicated machines to defeat the waves of enemies!

A bizarre and unique puzzle game masquerading as a tower defense. Very polished, and has a strong audiovisual design. Very challenging.