Stop Santa - Tower Defense

[h1]Simple but mediocre tower defense game[/h1] Cheap tower defense with a Christmas theme, [i]Stop Santa[/i] is "just fine". Here, I'll try to provide some feedback to the solo developer. With 9 levels and enemies only varying in levels of tankyness (and maybe armor or dodging; not sure if those are a thing in this game), it's very simplistic. There's 3 different towers, with varying levels of attack speed and damage. All target single mobs. Enemies have visible health-bars and usually take damage on hit but for some reason not always - can the towers miss or some enemies dodge? It's unclear. There's no tutorial, but with only 3 towers and obvious spots to click it was easy to experiment on my own. The towers can only be built at certain spots. Towers can be upgraded twice by clicking them and the appropriate icon (i.e. the usual way for the genre, is good) but when you click the tower, the sell button is immediately under the cursor. In the couple of the first levels, I accidentally sold my towers instead of upgrading them because of this. It would be prudent to have it at a different spot. The enemies move very slowly. Particularly it feels so in the first levels, where th…

3/5 Missing basic Quality of LIfe features most TD games have. No radius shown for towers, no speed settings. The towers appear to have some elemental effects on the more powerful enemies but I can't be sure because the game explains NOTHING. The gameplay is fairly enjoyable, even in the harder levels and if I could just figure out what things did, I might have stuck with it to finish it. I gave it an extra star because it is only a dollar.

The game is okay, but it's not challenging at all. It has a lot of potential and is decent to play, but extremely short. I finished it the first time I played it, which was in .6 hrs. I earned all achievements, but one and I'm not interested in getting it. I'll probably never play it again. I would only recommend it if you're purchasing for your child, who is age 6 or so.

Solid game, 9/10. Very basic but simple to learn and grasp. I love how the information of the towers attack damage and attack speed is listed. You can very quickly see that upgrading is tremendous value. I fault a lot of games for not being clear with what things do. The game could be a little longer, I felt like I wanted more game, but for the $1 price tag - hard to really complain. Also a great add for any achievement hunters out there.

Less than an euro for two hours of game. It's fun, it's well balanced, i don't ask for more

Full review at: https://thegamehoard.com/2019/12/27/12-games-of-christmas-stop-santa-tower-defense-pc/ For all the things done poorly in Stop Santa – Tower Defense, it also shows that the tower defense genre has an inherent strength when its raw ingredients are at least decently balanced. You need to build and upgrade your towers in a way that keeps pace with your cash income from killing zombie elves, tougher enemies existing to ensure you’re at least balancing your layout well. The problem is, everything is just about the most basic of strategies, none of the towers or enemies packing any unique variables or behaviors. It’s all about the raw strength of what you can build versus the numbers and health bar sizes of incoming enemies. There is nothing wrong with the level designs or even these concepts if they were the basis of something that would later introduce greater complexity and variety, but these fundamentals are all Stop Santa – Tower Defense has across its nine levels, and it doesn’t bother to try and be anything more than them.