Shepherds of the Abyss
Impulse Games · 2016 · Tower Defense, Action, RPG, Indie, Strategy
PC
Mixed50% · 20 📈 Making a comeback 68%
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About Shepherds of the Abyss
Shepherds of the Abyss is an action-packed, multiplayer tower defense game - one inspired by some of the best tower defense mods for Warcraft 3. Some of its key features include:
"Mazing" is the art of filling a wide-open space in a tower defense game with your towers to build the longest possible path (the maze) that the enemy's units must travel before reaching your throne. "Mazing" is a core skill in Shepherds of the Abyss, and it's put to the test with random obstacles and waypoints spawned each game to prevent you from memorizing the strongest maze setup.
Every unit in Shepherds of the Abyss is granted various buffs with significant strengths, such as making them heavily armored, increasing their movement speed, granting them high regeneration, or giving them shields. The towers all provide hard counters to these buffs, so building the correct towers in optimal locations is key to success.
Shepherds of the Abyss is a dual resource tower defense game. Gold is used to build and upgrade, while the power of souls you've collected from dying units is used to empower towers on a wave to wave basis. Empowering towers unleashes additional strength and functionality to help them overcome the units' buffs. For example, some towers gain damage over time while others snare units they attack.
Gameplay is separated into multiple phases - Preparation Phase, where all building, upgrading, and empowering is done, and then Combat Phase, where units attack all players at once and souls are harvested.
All of the buffs possessed by the incoming wave of units appear in a grid during Preparation Phase (see screenshots above). Buffs that are adjacent multiply each other's strength, so it's important to move matching buffs apart. However, the movements of these buffs are limited, so you must study the entire grid and make your moves carefully.
"mazing"
"Mazing" is the art of filling a wide-open space in a tower defense game with your towers to build the longest possible path (the maze) that the enemy's units must travel before reaching your throne. "Mazing" is a core skill in Shepherds of the Abyss, and it's put to the test with random obstacles and waypoints spawned each game to prevent you from memorizing the strongest maze setup.
unique Unit Buffs
Every unit in Shepherds of the Abyss is granted various buffs with significant strengths, such as making them heavily armored, increasing their movement speed, granting them high regeneration, or giving them shields. The towers all provide hard counters to these buffs, so building the correct towers in optimal locations is key to success.
empowering towers
Shepherds of the Abyss is a dual resource tower defense game. Gold is used to build and upgrade, while the power of souls you've collected from dying units is used to empower towers on a wave to wave basis. Empowering towers unleashes additional strength and functionality to help them overcome the units' buffs. For example, some towers gain damage over time while others snare units they attack.
round Separation
Gameplay is separated into multiple phases - Preparation Phase, where all building, upgrading, and empowering is done, and then Combat Phase, where units attack all players at once and souls are harvested.
Incoming Wave Manipulation
All of the buffs possessed by the incoming wave of units appear in a grid during Preparation Phase (see screenshots above). Buffs that are adjacent multiply each other's strength, so it's important to move matching buffs apart. However, the movements of these buffs are limited, so you must study the entire grid and make your moves carefully.
included Game Modes:
- Single-player Survival - survive as many waves as possible.
- Cooperative Survival - survive as many waves as possible with the help of a friend.
- Head-to-Head - play against another player in a 1v1 battle.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Very disappointing game. Save your money. There is just one survival mode. Only 5 towers. There is an interesting mechanic with moving buffs the creatures get... but thats about as far as it goes.10 found this helpful
Here is a "tower defense" game that falls very flat. It just lacks variety, not nearly enough variety in towers. It gets boring very quickly. The soul catching mechanic is very awful, you end up getting nothing for many waves because of its cool down, just an awful way to do this. This is obviously a game that the developer probably planned much more for and then gave up half way through and just released it.1 found this helpful
Nothing special, 20 years ago this might have been a good TD but these days you get so much better...1 found this helpful
Awesome tower defense game. Great polish and mechanics.1 found this helpful
It's a fun tower defense game.
Shepherds of the Abyss is a top notch indie game and I really enjoyed it. I had no problems with the gameplay and no issues figuring things out. Optimization and performance were stellar; It ran perfectly fine on my aging 670. Well done, I can’t wait to see what these guys do next!
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