Brink of Extinction

[code][url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/32732116-IndieGems/]Follow our curator page: IndieGems if you like and want to see more reviews like this one.[/url][/code] Brink of Extinction is a Tower Defense game with beautiful graphics. Each level begins as you place your Turrets (towers). There are 9 different Turrets in total. Each level has limited options for you to choose from (not all 9 are available in each level.) You can place a maximum of Turrets specified in each level, with specially designated locations for them. Lack and limitations of funds makes this game rather difficult. Most of the money is available at the start of a level. You earn more money by killing the enemies, but that does not amount to much. You need money to place, to upgrade, and to use special attacks from your Turrets. To repair your Turrets also cost funds, and more so if you are unlucky and need to replace them. You have to allocate your funds to maximize impact. The onus is on you to decide to upgrade or to buy new Turrets, to use special attacks, etc. Often it is wise to upgrade your Turrets, this means more health, wider range, more attack power and higher speed. Each of these can be …

Unplayable. Stuck on Main Menu regardless of what I do. Click New Game, return to Menu Click Continue... Return to Main Menu.... [Above is regular review] Developer has attended to my issue with the utmost urgency and haste of which is rare and certainly appreciated. Upon playing, I can say the wait was well worth the time and patience. I will have to agree with most reviews that claim the game to be "hard" as it is; but to those with TD knowledge this proves just a challenge. And an enjoyable one at that.

A failed Tower Defense game, indeed it is rather a puzzle game. The graphics are nice and software runs fine, without bugs, but there isn't better to say. The mechanics is good at theory: there are 9 types of towers, each one with 4 parameters to upgrade 4 ranks, and about the same number of foe kinds. But gameplay soon reveals that there ins't freedom to choice emplacements, zoom cannot be fixed to desirable distance so maps are too small, there isnt way to know in advance when a wave begins and which kind of enemies will come, destroying the sense of build planning typical of the genre, and the worst issue: upgrades are expensive but aren`t permanent, must be bought on every map. Towers can be repaired, but regeneration system is slow, expensive and all repairings stops when player runs out of money, needing to be reset on every damaged building. As towers haven't status visual bars and there isn't an ingame pause option, is easily to loss buildings due a lack of repairs, and the missed ones are hard to replace due their high costs: loss 3 towers generally lead soon to see a "game over". All enemies attacks towers directly, and would not be a problem if it weren't for the m…

Pros: 1. Pretty 2. The perspective was interesting. Cons: 1. minimal explanation for what gun types are or really what the difference between anything is and as such it was far too easy to just get a single machine gun turret and max it out (at least for the first 4 or so levels then I got bored because I had no idea what was what).

Brink of Extinction is challenging but entertaining take on tower defence games, set in a post apocalyptic world. Each level feels like a puzzle, requiring careful planning on what types of turret to use and where to place them to handle the variety of enemy types. Even if the difficulty may seem offputting at first, with the game requiring a certain amount of trial and error to work out what does and doesn't work, learning from your mistakes to fine tune your strategy is enjoyable and rewarding. The endless mode in particular is fun as you have a lot more money to work with from the start. The game looks impressive, and the visuals are well complemented by a rather relaxing soundtrack that still fits the tone of the game and does a good job at establishing the atmosphere. Turret and enemy variety are both good: all turrets have their uses, and the different enemies require you to adjust your strategy to suit them. Overall, Brink of Extinction is fun with good designs, but some people may find the difficulty excessive, especially if they are not used to the genre.

I was surprised how challenging Brink of Extinction was just right off the bat. The early levels had me struggling real bad and I had to restart many of the maps to figure out how to sort things out. Once I began clearing levels I went back to complete them without taking any damage (Achievements), this was even more challenging! If you’re like me, need to optimize everything, I think you’d really enjoy this TD! It’s solo developed, everything from models, texture, music and animation. Which makes it all the more impressive. Many recent updates indicates that the developer is active to respond to any sort of bugs or critics. You can read more about the developer here: http://www.neocrisis.com/interviews/featured-interviews/10014-correcture-games-interview There are a few things I’d like to see in future patches that would improve the game experience: 1. Life bar over enemies and weapons. This would make it much easier to keep track of things. You can spot the bar already by clicking on the objects, but with my 6 actions per minute it would really help with a visible bar at all times. 2. Increased visibility of the range of weapons. Maybe it’s possible to tweak via settings, …