The Base

The Base

GMGame · May 25, 2018 · Strategy, Indie, Tower Defense

Buy The Base from Steam at $4.99 — the cheapest of 1 store we compare.

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The Base price by region

The Base costs €3.99 in Europe (EUR), £3.99 in the United Kingdom, $4.99 in the United States, $4.99 in Georgia (USD), CA$5.69 in Canada, NZ$6.29 in New Zealand, A$7.50 in Australia, R$10.89 in Brazil and zł17.99 in Poland right now.

Cheapest The Base offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
Europe (EUR) €3.99 €3.99 — 1
United Kingdom £3.99 £3.99 — 1
United Statesyour region $4.99 $4.99 — 1
Georgia (USD) $4.99 $4.99 — 1
Canada CA$5.69 CA$5.69 — 1
New Zealand NZ$6.29 NZ$6.29 — 1
Australia A$7.50 A$7.50 — 1
Brazil R$10.89 R$10.89 — 1
Poland zł17.99 zł17.99 — 1

Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.

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About The Base

PC only tower defence inspired by oldschool RTS games. Build up your defence in realtime under the constant pressure of creeps.
Your mission is to clear planets with hostile monsters to prepare these planets for colonization.
  • PC only game. Focusing on PC platform allows us to create unique tower defence for Steam users.
  • Many build strategies and playstyles.
  • Non-standart payment for creeps elimination mechanics.
  • Creeps attack from all sides in realtime.
  • Turrets, traps, transport, platforms and more items to protect the base.

The Base — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Players universally describe The Base as a bare-bones, overly simplistic tower defense game that feels more like an unfinished hobby project than a commercial product, with primitive graphics, dated audio, and AI enemies that don't pose real strategic challenges. While a few appreciate its basic concept and potential, most agree it's not worth the price tag and lacks the polish, features, and depth expected even for a budget title. The consensus is that free alternatives offer better experiences, though some hope future updates might improve the game.

Not recommended Aug 20, 2023
The Base is a simple bit of Russian GameMaker Studio pixel shovelware dumped on Steam as a cash grab. It's not an asset flip, the game assets are too primitive for that, this is more of a homework project than a real game... which begs the question, why is this on Steam with a price tag attached to it? Obvious answer, Russian shovelware pusher wants some roubles. So, let's do as we must and evaluate this as if it was a serious attempt at making a game. It's a very simple tower defense game with a few base upgrades that you need to do to build more towers. The mobs are idiots and just rush the base (they don't attack towers) so you're free to do pretty much whatever you want. You can't place upgrades, but you get to place the towers so I guess that's "gameplay". This is really shallow as far as TD games go, and the technical execution is incredibly poor. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual qual…
4 found this helpful
Not recommended Mar 11, 2018
Going through my entire steam library and writing reviews This game is pretty bad honestly not something you should pay money for, you could probably find a free app with the same functions.
3 found this helpful
Not recommended Jan 22, 2018
At the time of writing this review, the game is in a bare-bones state and not fun at all. It is a very generic RTS with bland graphics and the music of a 90's DOS game. The resolution is a forced-fullscreen 4:3 at a fairly low resolution for that. For 99 cents, I suppose it is everything I paid for. Hopefully updates keep coming and the game gets better. If that happens, I may update this review. If you only have one dollar, I'd recommend even Dead Bits above this game.
3 found this helpful
Recommended Jun 6, 2019
I think there should be a online mode and that u can choose where the base is. There should also be a sandbox and a mode that you can choose when to start the wave every single time. but otherwise ths game is great!
Recommended Jan 19, 2018
Great project! Keep working in this please, looks cool.(I can't pass the planet 1 is so hard xD)

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