This experience can then be used to buy skills that increase every in game ability. Gemcraft also has an experience gain element where you get experience for finishing stages. Each color of gem has a different special ability (the usual: poison, splash damage, slow, etc) and gem traps, extra towers and gem bombs can be purchased.
In Gemcraft you spend Mana to create gems to put into towers to shoot at “creeps” that give you more mana to make better gems, etc. Gemcraft 0 (a prequel) makes the game a lot tougher and adds a ton of improvements to the original to make a much more diverse game. The first gemcraft was a lot of fun, but was a bit overlong and got trivially easy in the later stages. Out of all the games on this list, this is actually the only one I really feel comfortable recommending without qualification. The addition of investing in money generating banana plantations is great too and adds a lot of tough “pay now, reap rewards later” decisions to the game. Sometimes in Bloons 3 it felt like “save money, buy a super monkey, rest easy”, but in Bloons 4 there are any number of routes to victory. As you play the game you will unlock better towers, and the “level 5” upgrades are for the most part all very cool and useful. I especially like how varied the strategy can be in this game. The towers are plentiful and interesting, the difficulty stays difficult (but not impossible…well except for the last track maybe) throughout instead of switching to a cakewalk as soon as you manage to get ahead of the curve, the graphics are great, and finally, there is just something satisfying about popping balloons with sharp things. This is a tower defense game that does everything right. Red balloons take one hit, but blue balloons are faster and pop to reveal a red, yellows are faster still and pop to reveal a blue which pops to reveal a red, etc. Anyway, for those that would like to waste dozens of hours of their life, read on!īloons Tower Defense 3 was good enough to get the top spot by itself, and Bloons Tower Defense 4 is even better! In the Bloons Tower Defense series you place armed monkeys along a fixed track to throw sharp things at balloons. The top 3 are highly recommended, 4-8 are pretty good and the last 2 are at least worth checking out if you really need more Tower Defense games. So here is my list of my favorite Tower Defense Games. But I have also found the rare few that not only managed to get the difficulty curve mostly balanced (Tower Defense games are all about building enough towers to stay ahead of the toughness of the creeps–and this game balance is surprisingly hard to maintain), included interesting towers that upgraded in fun ways (the Tower Defense genre is all about slowly improving your defenses–this is a lot more fun when your defenses do progressively cooler things than just “shoot more”), and best of all, required a bit of strategy in your tower choices and placement (ie, something more than “close to the road”). And to be fair, there are tons of these kind of games out there, and the vast majority do just that. It seemed like the only decision you made was where to put a tower and then you sat back and watched the game play itself as the towers automatically shot the enemies for you. Now, I initially had no interest in playing these kind of games. As you kill enemies you are rewarded with money to buy more towers to help combat the next wave of tougher enemies. The typical Tower Defense game will have an overhead perspective and confine “attacks” to a road (usually leading to the heart of your “base” or off screen) along which you will place various towers to shoot at the “wave” of enemies (“creeps” in Tower Defense lingo). For those who have never heard of them, playing a Tower Defense game is similar to playing a real time strategy game (like Command and Conquer, Warcraft, Starcraft, Age of Empires, etc) where you only build towers to defend your home base against an ever growing horde of enemy attacks. When I wrote my last flash games post I was still of the mindset that “Tower Defense” games were lame.
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