Bloodtide Tower Defense

Great bang for the buck! Spent five hours playing this game before I realized it. Laid back gameplay but just enough to keep me actively engaged. Some challenging levels that make you think about your tower placement. Simple and effective. This is a perfect game to play when I just want to fill some time and relax.

got this game for a gift on my birthday it's a lot of fun

First impressions are very good. Fun! But I will start from the beginning. Only five regular towers and two support tower. In game, each tower can be buffed two ways, once each. There is a strategic upgrade tree that allows you to upgrade them as well. There is a real nice balance between spending money on a new tower, or an upgrade, an important aspect of a good TD game IMHO You can even move your towers, for a small price. I am as yet uncertain about something though, there are two kinds of upgrade points regular and variable I think. Each tower has two types of upgrades, regular (incremental improvements) and variable (variant?) It adds a special effect to a tower, for example with the poison arrow towers, I have one that also creates a gas cloud that damage others that pass thru it while it lasts. There are no tactical options, other than building and upgrading, which is kind of weak, but I didn't say it was perfect, just fun. There seems to be a variety of monsters, and they have an interesting mechanism. Some, when they die, turn into puddles of goo that buff the following monsters in various ways. I felt these puddles were a perfect opportunity for a tactical option, as th…