TinyWar high-speed

TinyWar high-speed is a mixture of different genres: it has elements of a Tower Defense game, a strategy game and a sort of clicker game all plays out in realtime. Each level has a map where you are the red person. In the beginning you only have one enemy (blue), later you have more enemies.The map is divided with lines to mark your territory and that of the enemy (enemies) The point of this game is to defend your territory and at the same time conquer the territory of the enemy (enemies). You have limited money so you have to choose (fast) what you will do, built more defenses or more offenses. All defense and offense buildings do have different prices. They can be destroyed by the enemy, so you have to rebuild them. You can speed up the game, although the game isn't slow at all at normal speed. After a while, the game feels a bit like a clicker game, because you only keep adding new buildings. After you win a level, you can choose from 4 maps for your next level. All maps are randomly generated. Graphics are in 8 bit, that is ok for this game. The music was really annoying for me. The game is okay, but it is getting very repetitive after a while. The price for this game is, in …

Perpetrated mainly by those pesky Indie devs, there’s been a growing trend of taking popular genres and devolving them back to the 8bit days. That’s where we stand with Tinywars, which approximates the RTS format and pretends really hard it’s the NES generation all over again. It’s clever about this; it knows it’s not going to be a 1980’s reinvention of Supreme Commander 2, so it scales everything right back and focuses hard on funds gathering and base building. For the most part, this never deviates from the well-trod RTS formula. You have various factories you can use to manufacture different kinds of units. There are five in total; a base that spits out soldiers, two that produce ground-based artillery and two that offer an aerial threat. On top of that, you have limited defensive options that start with a puny, cost effective watchtower and expand into considerably more expensive options comprising of armoured pillboxes or anti-air placements. The idea is to take over a map, which is pretty easy going in the opening few stages. Each area of land is governed by a headquarters and, if that should fall, the area is lost. To begin with, all you have to do is stem the tide of inv…

6/10 - A tower defense game, with decent potential. $10 is a high asking price for what you get however, and I would strongly recommend waiting for a steep discount. This is RTS in the sense you build a base, however you have no control over the units themselves. The ability to specify specific targets even would greatly improve this game. However, it is easy enough as it is, so that would likely make it a cinch. Unlike many tower defense style games there are no waves of enemies from off screen. Instead you control cities and territory on the map. Within your territory you can build unit structures which automatically spawn specific unit types, or you can build defenses. The units have no AI and will simply move towards the closest enemy city. This means defenses are easy to setup as you can simply build defenses only in the enemy path. They have no AI to divert and go around defenses. This makes many of the maps frustratingly easy however. As you can build your spawning structures away from the city and simply layer defenses around your city. The enemy AI will always only build directly around its city, and it seems to stop expanding beyond a certain point. This makes it easy …

fun and challenging

Lots of fun. Starts out simple but the difficulty ramps up (and remains a good time). A top Steam game.

A rather basic strategy game where you build buildings using money that ticks up over time, and said buildings spawn units that home in on the closest enemy territory (With an option to turn pathfinding around defenses on or off) Smaller infantry units are needed to capture HQs while heavier armored units are used for destroying defenses. As you play through you are given a gameplay bonus of some kind (abilities, new unit types) for finishing levels. It tries for and captures the feel of something that could have appeared on an NES/Famicom back in the late 80's to early 90's. The game is rather simple and feels like a short coffee break style game that offers replayability through randomized maps, but the style of it is on point and makes the short bursts I play it for enjoyable.