Repel The Rifts

This is a great little game, I've really enjoyed it. Only complain is that the highest difficulty level isn't hard enough for people who have played a lot of games in the genre so the game is sorely lacking an Ascension style difficulty ladder to keep the challenge going. Once you've got some tech tree points you'll win 100% of the time on max difficulty without much challenge. I know there are the custom game options which is a nice start but I'd recommend formally making an ascension/heat/whatever you want to call it system to keep players interested in chasing a challenge. That would really really be huge for this style of game and should be in there for 1.0.

This is everything I want in a tower defense game with modern quality of life (QoL) enhancements in play. To be honest, this is easily my favorite TD game out right now. What's not to love (except the BS tech tree - which I think... hope... is in active improvement. It's not designed in a way that I appreciate or want to use, but maybe i'm a weirdo - who knows). Anyways - this game rocks. The commanders rock. The towers rock. The gameplay loop rocks. I can't say anything bad about it (except the bs tech tree) - and truly, I only have glowing awesome things to say about it :) HARD TO PUT DOWN!!!! :) AMAZING replay value. The first and second runs of the game will feel overwhelming (as any stats heavy card-style roguelite does), but by playthrough #3 I WAS ROLLING.

Really fun TD game, but feels incomplete. All around worth taking a look but not a ton of depth to it

Kind of like Nordhold, and whatever games inspired that. If this game nails the meta-progression, strategic choices, and roguelike randomness, it might turn out to be better.

I like the idea, the concept is very good, but it doesnt play out quite well, especially considering the set price. It's still Early Access, so I'll definitely come back for the release and revaluate. Some examples are: 1. selecting random tiles makes it interesting and roguelikey, but you only select a handful of times, and in the first half tiles is where your towers are placed (no point splitting ur towers at the last pieces), and there isnt much of a variety anyway. 2. there are mechanics for cold, curse, armor reduction various debuffs and some combos, but... you cant really combo them unless you get lucky and you've already placed the needed towers, since you cant sell and place completely new towers to match the new strategy, meaning all those possibilities are almost always just not used. 3. same for the tower types, the concept motivates you to combine towers and try stuff, but the reality just gets you spamming strong towers, because the combinations depend on RNG, meaning you lose 10 win 1. To be consistent, you go spamming strong towers.

A fun little tower defense game. ATM it's good for a couple of hours, but becomes rather repetitive after some games. I hope that leaving EA will add more variety.