Tower Defense Reviews

The section where you pick the level you want to play in campaign doesn’t work properly. It’s off center and you can’t tell what level you’re selecting. You would think you could avoid it by using the map instead, but any tap there sends you off to the left. I’ve downgraded my rating to three stars because it won’t let me progress past Dry Ice. It doesn’t save, I can’t pick anything else further ahead. Super frustrating to start a game and not be able to finish it. Changing my rating down to one star because this still isn’t fixed. You STILL can’t start D5 to continue the game.

The previous version of TowerDefense was perfect. I don’t even understand how stamina works and there’s no explanation anywhere easy to find. I’m not paying just to get restarts on levels when the levels on easy have been made even more difficult. Honestly would’ve been better off charging for TowerDefense outright.

Also: TowerDefense doesn’t work half the time. There’s a random error message that comes up that forces you to restart TowerDefense . I’ve now lost their virtual currency TWICE because of this error (while beating the last campaign level no less) have emailed their support and gotten no response. I have a feeling this is a cash cow that isn’t being maintained.

Unfortunately this game is super unstable with horrible customer service. While playing I spent $10 on gold and crystals. When I went to use them, the game gave me network errors. Then after restarting the game I login to find that it had taken my gold and crystals despite the network error (which is funny that there was enough of a “bad connection” that I couldn’t play, but not enough to still take my items/money). When I contacted customer service they just said that unfortunately the game is unstable. Nothing about trying to refund my money or credit my account the items they took. Horrible customer service. DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME ITS MADE TO JUST TAKE YOUR MONEY.

Game is addicting and very fun to play if you’re into tower defense. The Stamina limit doesn’t let you play the game for very long. If you have to restart a round you use the stamina. If you lose the round you use the stamina. It increases, but so does the cost of starting the level. If you’re on a hard level you may only be able to play for 5 minutes before having to let the stamina recharge. It gets to a point where you can’t get any further without spending money for upgrades and that’s on easy. Those squids that stop your towers are overpowered and they send an entire wave with them mixed in with 50 other units. Good Luck! Very frustrating!

As others have said, the previous version of this game was perfect and I loved getting perfect scores on most levels. Unfortunately, they have completely killed any ability for me to do that with this version.

I have no problem with even then wanting money after a lot of level restarts but they want me to pay if I restart a single level 3 times? That is all it takes? That is quite a rip off.

Again, when you factor in that the previous version gave unlimited replays, it blows my mind why the people behind TowerDefense suddenly decided to charge for such a small amount of replays in this version....which btw is not exactly an upgrade.

I played this years ago and loved it. I came back to it now and the game just is not fair at all. If all you do is play on easy mode it’s fine, but I want the greater difficulty. In the old version this meant like starting a map with fewer resources to increase the challenge.

Now, in normal and hard modes, randomly an enemy is greatly buffed. Sometimes start the first wave and the first enemy released is buffed and there is zero chance of killing it without paying money. Try again and maybe get to the third wave before a random buffed enemy comes out. There is no fun in it at all, you cannot develop strategies for the randomness, all you can do is pay microtransactions whenever a random element screws you over.

I played this game a few years ago and it was just ok. I picked it back up recently and they made a lot of improvements that make the game a lot better now. I’d recommend this over others, but it’s not without its flaws. Expect somewhat annoying difficulty spikes.

Edit: I previously gave TowerDefense 4 stars and my original review is above and it still stands, but I ran into a game mechanic that seems really terrible. You can enhance towers with specific items to give them specific abilities, but the enhancement has a chance to fail. At first I thought it was a glitch so I emailed the support and I learned it’s an intentional feature to make the game fair for everyone. Considering that explanation makes no sense because there’s no way to get an unfair advantage and you can spend actual money on something that might not even work, it’s pretty scummy for the developers to do that without at least making it clear and obvious, which they don’t. In fact it might not even be mentioned anywhere in game that enhancements can fail. I still think this game is better than most, but I don’t think it deserves an above average rating anymore.

I normally never write any reviews.. however for this one I had to. I’ve been stuck with this game for as long as I remember. I played this from around year 2012.. back then, everything was perfect. I even deleted the whole game several times just to redo the whole stage from the beginning, and it was fun. I’ve also spent a good amount of money on TowerDefense. Now I don’t even know what the hell the programmer is doing to this game since The upgrade system doesn’t even make sense at all, and most importantly there’s a serious bug that wouldn’t let me continue. In the Single Campaign Mode, I CANNOT press, click, touch or whatsoever of the “D6 Descanso” therefore I can’t move on from here.... it’s so stupid and terrible. You gotta do something about this problem if you are reading this review... 제발 좀 고쳐주세요... 싱글켐페인 D6 Descanso가 선택이 안되서 진행을 못합니다...

I played a version of this game ages ago, before the rise of micro-transactions. It was a blast, with players not having to wait for energy to keep playing levels. I understand that the company’s motivations have changed, but I feel like the changes they have made have removed the soul of a fun game in order to try and wring out every penny they can. I think if they made a paid version of this game with the removal of the energy requirements to play levels for between 99¢ to $1.99, I would buy it.

Awesome tower defense game, nice and challenging, and you can definitely beat the campaign on easy without paying for anything.

However, towers cannot be upgraded nor enhanced on iPhone due to that entire section of the game being broken. This makes it impossible to continue playing more difficult settings, and challenges.

There's other bugs too, but you cannot report them as the company contact page errors on submit. This game isn't even listed on their site any longer so I'm guessing it's not a priority for them now.

I love the game itself. Very addicting. I would love it more if I understood how the tower upgrades worked. I’m deep and still don’t understand how to upgrade my towers. Need to be able to get resources for upgrades a powerups a little easier. The mechanics are a little buggy. You can’t swipe across the screen without choosing a location you don’t want to click on. Same with tower selection. You can’t swipe up and down without selecting or unselecting towers. Fixed in those areas would make the game incredible.

This game is a lot of fun. As someone who has played tower defense games for decades, this has just the right amount of difficulty and variety of towers, enemies, maps, and strategies. The fact that you can only bring up to 6 towers per level is a nice strategic feature as well.

My only suggested improvement is permanent tower upgrades. That menu is glitchy and doesn’t work. It doesn’t allow you to select a tower in order to upgrade it. Please fix this and it will dramatically increase replayability.

It’s actually a decent game but they need to get rid of the stamina in this because it actually keeps you from playing the game. There are supposed enhancements and upgrades you can apply to the towers but I find having played half way through the campaign, they’re are no materials or instructions for upgrades or enhancements in sight…I’m kind of disappointed because this actually seems to be the best looking td game I’ve found but it’s a money pit.

This has always been one of my favorite tower defense games, but through the years it hasn’t changed in the slightest. No new towers, no new ways to power up your towers, no updates even. Through campaign mode, the enemies get stronger and stronger, but the only thing to balance that is purchasing gems for power ups. So if you aren’t loaded with cash or you’re not an absolute genius when it comes to TD strategy, then good luck getting very far.

I wish they would add some way to get the current upgrades in-game without purchasing them with real money, that alone would make the game better to play.

Update… new iPhone 14 (previously XR) and the game will not work at all now. Gives an unstable network error. Oh well. Been a good run.

There is one iOS related bug and that deals with TowerDefense not rotating at all. It usually will auto rotate to landscape mode. I found by not clicking on the remember checkbox it helped. However, sometimes that initial window does not appear and you’re stuck with a portrait view. So the mapped button icons will not work. You will have to wait till tomorrow to play. I guess all in all not bad for a nearly 10 year old game.

This game is a classic for me that I have always come back to off and on, from 2012 until today. I recently re-discovered it after getting disgusted with Ace Force: Joint Combat, and the endless hacking that the developers have turned a blind eye to. I've waisted countless hours and dollars for 2 years, after finally realizing the stage 4 cancer that it truly is.

This game however, is pure and hacker free. Just me trying to outsmart the game itself...and there is something genuine about that. I will always come back to Tower Defense as long as it's available.

No annoying ads. Just one simple ad when starting the game up. There are resources you can buy, but like any good game you don’t NEED them to win. In fact, you don’t need to to even buy them. By playing the other game modes, you can grind out the resources needed. It’s not too challenging of a game, but it does make you think a little. The fact that’s it’s a free game as well boosts it’s rating in my opinion. Great quality, no cost. I honestly recommend buying a pack of resources just solely to support the devs, because we need more developers who make games like this.
Only issues: the recharge mechanic is a bit annoying. But I never found it too problematic.
The slow tower is severely under powered and useless. It should act as an AOE attack, unless the player targets an enemy, in which it will double the slowness at the cost of the AOE.
One more suggestion: The rockets and flame towers also should be able to hit more than one enemy. Their dps is slow enough to make the current tower that hits multiple foes redundant.

I have been playing this game on and off for years. The gameplay is a lot of fun and the enemies and towers perfectly compliment each other. Each tower feels unique and vital in defeating specific enemies. The gameplay also changes from mission to mission. So mission require you stay alive for a certain amount of time, while others are objectives based off of the map ,and still some are the standard td wave style.

The game also has a great story that made me want to keep playing. The images paint a picture of a far alien planet ,and I started to feel as if I was actually there fighting.

The one problem of the game is it’s obscene difficulty. Sometimes the levels feel impossible. This is probably my main issue with this game ,but when you do beat I level you feel great like you have won a war.

A balanced power experience that is hard to replicate. A bit of a learning curve and can be very challenging. But even then, every mistake
is never without a lesson or two. Hints are a bit hit or miss but never useless.

I do find that the tilt feature for poison gas / gravity shift to not be working for some reason? I don't know whether or not that is a hardware limitation (based on phone model)?

I have been playing this game for so many years now. I have gotten hooked on many games. Short phases lasting anywhere from 1 month to a year at a time- I’ll be playing a game constantly. Spending more of my free time playing it than doing anything else.
But whenever I’d get mad at the game or bored with it or needed a break from it, I ALWAYS fell back on my good ol’ TD Infinite.
As of lately ( >6 months ), I’ve been on TD Infinite as my primary rather than my fallback. I just suddenly became determined to complete all the achievements (still working on it. Got like 3 or 4 left!) as well as keep up with the daily missions as an extra little challenge every day. One of the incomplete achievements I have is to do all the campaign levels on hard. I’m so close. And that was one of my ultimate goals I’ve set for myself with the game anyway. I’ll get there.
And most importantly: I’ve NEVER spent a dime on this game! I feel like that would be cheating. You can easily get up the resources you would like to use by playing the game. And that’s exactly what I do which just makes it that much more challenging and who doesn’t love a challenge.
BEST. GAME. EVER.