Gem Miner TD

Gem Miner TD is one of the best tower defense games I've played since the Warcraft 3 days. Mazing really matters, there is fairly heavy run-to-run variance due to an appropriate amount of randomness, and the towers are fun and allow a lot of choice of strategy. I've been really enjoying the new "async PvP" mode. It's a run with preset modifiers so that everyone is playing with the same rules. At the end of the run, if you clear the final boss, you have the option of sending that boss to other player's mazes on the leaderboard. The boss loads into their maze with its health equal to the amount of damage you dealt. If it survives their maze, you beat them. If it doesn't, you lose to them. It continues this until it narrows down where to insert your current maze into the leaderboard. Usually it takes 3-5 runs until it finds your spot. You get to see other people's mazes, what strategy they went with, how lucky they were with RNG, etc. I think this is a wonderful way to bring PvP to the tower defense genre, as it's something that has been severely lacking for over 15 years now. While it doesn't have quite the magic that real-time PvP has, it's still a very fun feature that adds a lo…

Genuinely good, it's like the old tower defence flash games but with a lot more stuff and a couple of interesting twists on maze design. During the waves there aren't active abilities to use and you aren't even allowed to build/upgrade, which personally I like. I always thought micromanaging active abilities during rounds took away from the tower defence gameplay in these types of games. It offers a fair challenge and the health point system gives you some margin of error, so far in my experience you don't just randomly die out of nowhere which was one of my main frustrations with TD games. The UI and quality of life features could be better but for the price it's great value. Graphics are nice, sound is nice.

Well done TD, would recommend if you are into that kind of game. A ton of depth/flexibility in builds.

Do you ever dream of new GEM TD with good replayability value? It IS this game! More gems, more combinations, more upgrades. Added perks, heroes with different mechanics and specializations which you can acquire through rogulite elements... This game is GEM!

I like this game, the optimizations possible are actually kind crazy, and the way that there's a few different methods of acheiving near-infinite scaling is pretty great! I've had a lot of fun, and within the first like 10 hours i managed to make it to the top 5 on the endless leaderboard. It's not necessarily a hard game, but it certainly has a lot of replayability. Plus it's a steam game, so y'know i got it pretty cheap

The children yearn for the mines