What Makes Tower Defence Games Good?
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- I've spent many hours clicking away at various tower defence games, and there's something so addicting about them. Taking time to set everything up and watching them demolish everything in it's path. I know I'm certainly not the only one who has played hundreds of hours of TD games, but maybe I can try to pick apart certain mechanics of the game to show and explain to you why me and so many others love it so much.
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Hey guys! I didn't cover Bloons TD 6 because I haven't had a chance to play it yet. If I wanted to do it justice, I would have had to spend a lot of time playing it (Time I didn't have) and this video wouldn't have been out for another month. I chose 5 because I spent multiple periods of years playing it, I wanted to bring up co-op which from my understanding, 6 doesn't have, and I wanted to talk about Bloons TD Battles which uses the same system as Bloons TD 5 so it made the explanation a lot easier.
I understand you may be confused or upset that 6 isn't in there, but please stop leaving comments implying I don't know what I'm doing, that I ignored the game on purpose, or as someone put in a now removed comment "that I have wronged the entire community by not mentioning it."
I praised Bloons td 5 because I really really like it, and I will eventually play 6, but I only have so much time in a day and didn't want to delay the video any further. I'm going to dive into this a little bit more in about a week and a half on "Escaped Reality" which is an aftershow podcast I do, so I'll talk more about this then.
Until then guys, I'm not disrespecting 6 by not talking about it. If I was going to talk about it, I wanted to do it justice, which I wouldn't have been able to do with the time frame I had set for myself.
It's okay, the video was great anyways
nice
Yeah I get it. I would recommend you play it when you have time, though. 13 different game modes per track does take a while if you want to really get the game, lol.
Hey RealityEscape, i don't think so, but have you tried Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare, it has a bit in common with the first person game you showed in this video, but it' mostly based on pvp, where you have to defend/capture a garden, and a standard defend the garden mode, only playing against bots.
I whould really recomend it too, liked the video, bye.
is you wanted the full td5 experience you should have got the steam version which has better graphics and more towers... (But you probably already new that)
Ah yes, my favorite dungeon defenders character, heavy from tf2
POOT HEALING AURA HERE!
Brass beast heavy with a medic haha
I miss the modded weapons from that game - Staffs that killed the entire map, pets that just expolded
Cool you noticed to! Pootis!
@@qyline8008 I really didnt, it ruined the game on Xbox 360 for people like me who wanted to play legit
"The most common themes are: Military themed, which, makes sense. Medival themed, which, makes sense. Futuristic themed, which, makes sense. And monkey themed. Well, sure. Why not"
Lol
Haha it makes sense though xD
Wow it’s almost like we watched the same video
Chris well, technically it wasn’t due to difference in system quality and pixel count
as a "fellow gamer" ive got to say dd2 is a compete flop... its p2w now with crazy special OP tower mods you can "grind special coins" for or quickly hush over 10 bucks for a very much unbeatable flamethrower tower or massive AoE bosskiller dmg earthcuake towers... not only that but the devs dont respond to absolutely nothing from me after they pretty much trashed my gamefile of over 2 years and just gave me a few million coins and emblems witch are completely useless and can buy me a pretty crappy set of armor from the tavern... and then i would be broke again.. my file got so broke that i cant even finish the tutorial... all my chars are lvl 50(max) without any stats or points to spend.. all my legendary harbinger 7 nightmare stuff got tossed out and my legendary event pet dragon got dunped.. im all sorts of furious with this game but the things i listed are factually objective... and noone even took a look at my acc or tried to fix the mess
I can't believe I never caught "Cameo Bloons". Don't write and record and edit late at night, kids.
Lol
I had just bought something on the cameo site and welp. As a kid I always got it confused. I really want to delete the whole video and redo that bit but oh well.
@@RealityEscape There's really no need for that. Its such a minor thing that it doesnt matter.
@@RealityEscape Don't delete the whole video, it's a little typo, it doesn't matter. Besides, it sounds cooler.
you should play the tower defence game on roblox called *mecha cubes* (edit) its good if you want 30 - 1 hour + games (edit edit) theres also coop and pvp mode and theres a speed button for the enemys and it has tower perks and you do get less starting money but you also get the same ammount of money liek the money shares too (edit edit edit)the video is great! no need to redo
Would love to hear your thoughts on Bloons TD 6 once you try it, it's without a doubt the pinnacle of the genre. And you summed up my thoughts on Co-op really well: it needs a major overhaul before it gets added to 6, because right now, it just isn't very fun.
Lol I don't think I've ever seen you comment on a video that's not made by the bloonstubers. Love the challenges and collabs btw!
Ayyy Tyler love ur vids. I don’t even play BTD6 but I’ve been watching since Battles and you’re so funny I watch the BTD6 videos becuase of you. Keep doing what you’re doing, keep it up
Wow, thanks for the comment! I remember watching your stuff back when I was really into Bloons TD stuff. I'm thinking I'll most likely make a follow up video on it at some point once I've actually had the time to sit down and play it properly.
Love the collabs man keep doing it
I love ur vids
Ah yes, cameo bloons, my greatest adversaries
Ugh. As a die-hard Bloons fan, I just cringed every time I heard that. Seriously, dude, it’s CAMO, it’s even spelled out in the game hints!
Same here
I know, right? You’re sitting with your defense, having a good time, when suddenly Will Smith Bloon turns up for no reason. How do they expect to keep long-term engagement with this kind of shit?
I just die at the end of 98 because I like the Wizard Lord Phoenix because I like phoenixes, but how I get to 98 is the druid, super monkey.
Sometimes I just spam necromancers or just a prince of darkness. But the Brewster always comes in clutch. Along with the alchemist to deal damage
Kingdom Rush was really well designed. I loved how you could only build towers in certain places as it meant you had to think way more about placements than just dumping hundreds of towers in one place
I feel like it's the best out of its entire genre
Its the best one, huge variety of enemies, a good variety of towers, post-game campign is really challenging, BOSSES, most things are easily understandable and the best thing is the wave reduction updates (mobile KR) where u dont have to play 30 waves for a boss to come out.
So true. Love all of them
I have trouble deciding which one is better. Kingdom rush or bloons
@@zoont_ Kingdom Rush, I've played both and, while Bloons is more complicated, the only goal in the game is to get as far as possible. In KR, there is the campign, post campign, challenges, bosses and other stuff
I'm surprised you didn't include anything on Warcraft 3 custom maps. That was a huge part of the tower defense history. One advantage of the WC3 maps was that they were for the most part all multiplayer, and usually had several "classes" you could choose from, so your towers were usually distinct from the other players. Most were either coop or had independent players, but some of the coolest were competitive. Line tower wars was really good, since it forced you to balance defense and attacking other players.
I miss Mafa TD
Shibi's still the best td ever!
Azure TD was one of my favorite TD's. As I'm writing this, I remember pokemon TD as well but there are some maps that I definitely forgot that were my most played maps back in the days
Element TD was a favorite
Legion TD even became its own standalone game on Steam, fully FIFTEEN YEARS after coming out in WC3
The Kingdom rush franchise is my favorite tower defense games. Although it was showed I was a little bummed that it wasn’t looked further into because it does bring unique elements to the table.
Yea ikr I think kr is a rival to btd6
@@justthatonekid2491 It defiantly does.
I agree Kingdom rush has just an unique charm to it.
Yes
unfortunately, he isn't going to spend hours playing every one of this games, I do agree kingdom rush brings up a lot of unique features, but he also missed many features about bloons series, and i'm sure he also missed features of the other mentioned games.
OCD people playing PVZ will always want to make their garden look nice
I got too organized there was a time i kept losing bcus i do it by lane, and ignore the most vulnerable lane. Ahh, good times...
I can confirm this.
Symmetry before anything
BP_CherryBlossomTree um....... I totally don’t try to do that...........
I agree so much
6:51 The name's Kingdom Rush :)
He put it once early one and later fogot about it, it seems
great game! made my TD god of mobile Ironhide
my favourite is kingdom rush origins
@@tgnm9615 What's your opinion on kingdom rush vengeance??
劉宇軒 haven't tried that games yet bc the game is 5$ my god
@The Shpee Or just buy the steam version to get all of them
“Copying and pasting code”
Well yes, that’s what coding is
Seraphendipity unless you're a super brain genius who can code without doing that
but where does that code come from? what came first? the coder or the code?
DaGido LP very obvious answer
The coder did
As I said if you're a super brain genius you can do it
Well..or if you're a massive group of people collectively figuring out how code should function
@@fortnitesexman a super brain genius would know not to waste their time reinventing the wheel and would know the best places to copy code from
Exactly. It is logic. It is consistent. We want order and organization.
Tower defence games have to be one of the best genres of games, especially the large, notable ones like BTD5/6/battles, Kingdom rush and PVZ (OG) which practically raised children.
This series is my chillhood
I wish I had the money for btd6
Those 3 series raised me more than my patents did lmao
Gemcraft should be up there as well
@@skeletizer same
I grew up playing against the AI in Starcraft, unknowingly treating it like a tower defense game where I would absolutely saturate my bases with defensive structures - almost to the point of not having enough resources left to build an army.
When it finally felt like my base could handle anything that came its way, I would then build a massive fleet of units and just attack-move them across the map. This was most satisfying to do as the Zerg with like 80-90 Guardians, as they had that nice long range and heavy air-to-ground firepower.
It was quite a rude awakening to find out much later that _that_ wasn’t how the “professionals” played the game at _ALL._
Totally same. I wouldn't move out of my base until I had 200 supply of carriers.
Exactly how I played Warcraft 3 xD Many towers and would not leave my base until I use up all the unit limit))))
Of course. It's called turtling, and most players use that strategy at some point. Some make it their playstyle. In single player, it is a very viable way to play. In pvp, most people know how to break a turtle, so you have to do things 😂.
I saw your clicker game video when it came out and scratched my head when I didn't see 100k plus subs. I'm glad I subbed. These videos are great! Great quality and you definitely deserve more subs
I noticed that there are more channels with amazing content but not with many subs these days
You know channels who make videos like this? Videos that are really long and make a "documentary" about a topic.
Those channels are amazing but don't get the recognition they deserve, well we are Lucky we found them at least.
Same
@@b-rad9270 Razbuten makes fantastic documentary style content about video games as well.
4:00
enemies: 300k people
towers: usa military
track: nevada deserts
ME AND THE BOYS RAIDING AREA 51
more like 3 people tbh
7:30
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LOL even the destination is named "Area 51".
@@gabijota11 more like 1
basicly i had the same experience with tds , staarted with w3 mods and than flash games , and than all tds on earth , now i am trying to do my dream and make the best TD ever , studiyng what is best in all of the ones i ever payed , i am on the estart of this journey and i hope i get to where i want , thanks for the video
Game:
“Tower Defence”
**shows kingdom rush**
It's still tower defense
A man of culture I see
I know this is old and sry, but I really don't get what you mean
What
@@burgerman72. Is kindom rush not a tower defense game now?
I think my favorite Tower Defense game is Defense Grid -- I really liked what felt like a great variety in levels. As for what makes a Tower Defense game good, I think being able to understanding what makes a strategy effective is really important to me, which means being able to predict how well a tower will function. I really appreciate it when the tradeoffs for each of the towers is presented clearly and accurately, and when I can easily tell how well a kind of tower is performing. This is why I really liked PvZ, because it always felt extremely obvious how many shots each kind of zombie took, how effective each tower was and why exactly a plan fell apart. Defense Grid likewise felt like it was possible to quickly determine what towers worked best in what contexts; in contrast, I never really got a good sense of how to play effectively in Gemcraft; I gave up on it pretty quickly because it never ended up feeling satisfying.
I want to double down on this: what made Defense Grid so enjoyable to me were clearly defined towers and save states. In Bloons, when I lose, it's generally to late-stage rush, and I have no clue what I could have done to achieve more power. In DG, the threats and counters are so specific that I instantly know how I could have been more clever last round - and then I can just hit backspace and play the last round again!
Also, Dungeon Defenders has Heavy, but Defense Grid has GLaDOS. So I guess there is no clear winner 🤷♂️
I don’t know if you already knew it but there is also infinitode (1 and 2) as a tower defence game . If you didn’t know this game, his particularity is that towers can be upgraded with a skill tree in the menu which use materials that we collect through the levels.
Thank you! I've been searching for that game for a while now, and finally remembered it's name because of you. Thank you for help!
You speaked so little about Kingdom Rush it almost makes me sad, well, it actually does make me so sad.
“Me too kid, me tooo
its the best tower defense game with 0 doubt
@@oom-3262 nah BTD is
@@systeminvalid6906 if a kingdom rush game released with the same amount of content as btd 6 it would be the best td of all time
@@systeminvalid6906 They're different sub-genres of TD games, it's not really fair to call one "better." The main difference is that Bloons doesn't really have "stall" units that stay on the path, whereas a huge part of Kingdom Rush's strategy is to use path units to block enemies while DPS towers clean them up. In Bloons, there's really very little strategy aside from good placement and tower combos. Defeating a wave of bloons is _really_ just a damage check, when you think about it.
Nothing against Bloons btw, I love both game series to death. I just wish there were more games like Kingdom Rush - games where you have clear-cut areas where you can place towers (like building plots, or tiles, as opposed to just placing them anywhere they can fit). It makes your tower placement feel much more strategic and important. Recently, the closest thing I found is Arknights, but that game has so many different mechanics as well, that it can barely even be called a tower defense game.
Rip battles. Also who else was low-key only here for bloons. Also also bloons and pvz have amazing music
Bloons
me
What happened to battles?
Kingdom Rush also has legendary music
Lol
"The tower that just slows things down."
*Shows CORROSIVE glue gunner which pops bloons once every 10 secs.*
*Edit: It's once every 2 seconds not 10*
DrStepan *once every 2 secs
@@atcampbell123 thnx
At least it slows them down right?
I get the best BLOON LIQUIFIER
@@arjunamalinao8312 i got me a 2-0-5 so i can pop camo regrow reds
One Game I loved was Sanctum 2. It's like Dungeon Defenders but in 1st Person and with a lot of different guns and characters. You can (and need to) change the map by placing walls so the enemy takes longer to reach your base. I really have some fond memories of it!
Who's the best? Sweet's the best! Ayyyeeeee!
Ahhhhh the Pain Station
*Laughs in Defense Grid: The Awakening*
The story progression is pretty basic but also cool
Onslaught 2 predicted the Area 51 raid
KINGDOM RUSH!
The first one was unbalanced but it got much better after that.
Vengeance was too easy lol
frontiers is way harder on steam than flash
@@weloniko wait, really? I can beat KR 1, Origins and Vengeance on any difficulty, but i have big problem with Frontiers even in casual difficulty...ON MOBILE! xDD
I would rate it Frontiers is Hardest, then First, Vengeance, then Origins. Giving barracks bows just made them too OP
Really? I cant finish vengeance
What should i use as tower
I only don't like about kingdom rush was it's so short you can finish it in 1day
GemCraft is probably my favorite of the bunch since there's so many maps, so much scaling and a massive variety in how you go about it.
Moreover, in my opinion it should be treated as a saga, 5 games as of now. The first of the series was much simpler than the later ones, I think it's a good starting point. You can see that each game had a bit different approach, with different balance and overall game strategy. Also the controls were evolving - in Chapter 0 you had to combine gems manually, but in Labyrinth it was simplified with the U key shortcut.
I liked the lore element to it, although not a selling point, a nice touch nonetheless.
But for me the biggest differentiator would be the quality and the attention to detail. The sprite design, the graphic and sound effects, the music, the UI, the overall atmosphere. Since the first game it was showing that it is more than a simple Flash game. It's good to see that the series is alive and, despite the demise of Flash, continues its journey, this time on Steam.
@@pepkin88 I've been playing gemcraft labyrinth again recently, using a program called flashpoint that archives all flash games from back in the day
I was so happy its still on there, as even though I like the 2 gemcraft games on steam, labyrinth hits different
@@vaderciya Yeah, GCL is the last "Classical" Gemcraft game before Chasing Shadows just completely upended everything. It's still rather playable for those who's experience is limited to GCCS or GCFW, since the gem forge is the big quality-of-life addition that the later games adapted and continued on with.
Pokemon Tower Defense and Minecraft Tower Defense are two that I remember loving a lot. All of the games mentioned in this video are super familiar, but I've forgotten the names of all of em except for PvZ and BTD
pokemon tower defense was truly visionary, I'm surprised it wasn't more popular
@@starryyknight It was very tedious to farm xp to level up your pokemon, that's probably the main reason.
I don't see anybody mention Cursed Treasure. Really good browser TD.
The lava/volcano tower is op
Thanks man for mentioning this TD since I forgot what it was called and now I enjoy it more then I should.
@@GDO9099 you need something op against op ninjas :D
@@carloscharles9689 You are welcome. Probably my favourite browser TD. Btw just in case you didn't know there are 2 games and the first has a level pack with the same amout levels as the basic game. So basically 3 games.
really good game, also do you know incursion? its also in my opinion just as good as Cursed Treasure
19:45 That Heavy from Team Fortress 2 running around though.
Man vs magic
Ya da da da da da da da da da
@@meepoffaith6153 It is good day to be not dead
I vaguely remember a futuristic TD game where certain towers had certain upgrades and arguably the best was the laser: If a laser shoots into another laser, it transfers its own damage and range into its target. So you make groups of lasers firing on a central one to make a single big laser. Or cover the map in lasers and make a Death Star. Good times.
Pretty sure Onslaught 2 does this
Maybe this is Defense Grid?
You mean "Harvest: Massive Encounter"?
The white laboratory perhaps?
Sanctum 2 friendship lasers?
Well, UA-cam recommended this video just before I was planning to play some Creeper world. So I might as well tell those who don't know that Creeper World is a tower defence game that exists. A tower defence where you fight an ocean to be precise. Kinda puts the traditional tower defence games to shame.
Creeper World’s a good series, though 1 and 3 are the better ones, and 4 basically takes the way those two work and brings it into 3D, with some better realization of fluid dynamic. I’ve beaten 1, I’m stuck on day 12 (I think) in 2, I’m stuck at a particular system the number of which I don’t remember in 3, and I’m stuck on the final main story level in 4 not including the secret one after the story. On a scale of One to worse than the flood from halo how would you rate fighting an ocean?
Minecraft vs Zombies 2 by Zor Cuer
I really do wish more people knew about this absolute gem of a game. It combines the best aspects of tower defense with the freedom of an RTS game.
I remember logging in to Armor Games and played so much of it during my high school years. I really loved it
I like creeper world, it doesn't (usually) force a "get this level done before x" (apart from i think level 5 or 6 in cw1 level 18 or 19 in cw2 and the 2nd to last area in cw3)
i just like the whole "surrounded by enemy" thing :/
I would suggest trying Orcs Must Die if you have ever wanted to cause looney tunes levels of violence.
It's also more logical. Which I quite like about it. It's not just gore, because it's really not that violent. It's much more complex and satisfying then that, like a high class desert. Wonderful game Orcs Must Die.
@@tomhill3248 aaand it's gone :(
@@Penitten what is? the game?
@@rebooteed_3434 yep, the game sadly got booted by the devs, because of low player count and high server maintenance costs :(
@@Penitten Yeah but not the Original 2, its sad that theire Online F2P Game didnt go well but the 2 Standalone Games are still playable since they do not require online play and they are also more coop focused
finally, i've been waiting for another one of these since the clicker!
Who loves kingdom rush. I also played the flash game bug attack.
Played all kingdom rush games. Kingdom rush, Kingdom Rush Origins, Kingdom Rush Frontiers and I’m about to play Kingdom Rush Vengeance.
@@flamo2666 absolutely love them all
i got them all on steam and i was not disappointed. Just waiting for Vengeance
Best tower defense game
I love the kingdom rush series, although I don't think Vengeance was as good as it's precursors but it is still a good game
Infinitode 2 is a TD game on PC and mobile and it takes what you know about tower defense games and flips it on its head with research, upgrades, leveling (upg and lvl are different), mining, "green papers", build-your-own-level, and much, much more to be coming and on it rn. I play it a LOT.
6:55 Game:Tower Defense. What a descriptive game title about having kingdoms and rushing
Oh damn, I just realized.
PvZ is having its 10th anniversary soon.
(May 5th, so about in about 2 weeks)
PvZ 3 suprise????
News about a shooter is coming on May 5th I think
oh. that's why PvZ is lately taking over everyone's recommended list
Oh wait, that's my birthday.
@@derpmarine216 mine too, grats
As a Game Dev. in the making these videos are great to analys. i find these two videos great. as they look at these popular game genrer from a gamers P.O.V. they are also great as they display what works and what doesnt work. I am gratefull for the work you do andi sincerely hop that you continue making this sort of videos.
What game(s) did you make?
/work on
Arknights is an amazing tower defense game that also shows that tower defense games can go to the "offensive" specrtrum
Finally I've found an Arknights comment, good luck dokutah
@@soul3r248 good luck too doktah! I wish you wished me luck before i got an offbanner on ash :D
@@kyarumomochi5146 Stay strong, you'll see in the kal'sit and skalter banner ;)
Tower Defense game for weebs ngl
Surprised I had to scroll so long to find Arknights.
Another great video!
I would like to recomend the pokemon tower defense trilogy. They are great TD games because they have their own story mode and they implement diferent mechanics from the pokemon games.
My favorite of the trilogy is the second one but all of them are very entretaining.
The second one is the best because you can actually walk around the world, wonder why they removed it in PTD3.
Yeah. Really think that game(s) should have more recognition.
Haven't played the third, but the first is my personal favourite. PTD2 has an extremely entertaining 1v1 mode, however!
Oh, man, I forgot about those XD
They were pretty great, but I think I preferred the first :D
I'm so glad someone mentioned the PTD trilogy, those are.some really fun games which can be really challenging as well
I must tell you that Tower Defense is my favorite genre of game, from PVZ, BTD5, Kingdom Rush, all of them are special to me
Same I love to play strategy games and the ones you mentioned are my favourite
they are also really easy to make and really easy to add more features
What about btd6
Yup
I will say, kingdom rush is the best tower defence in my opinion
Agreed, it has a huge variety of enemies, a campign, a good variety of towers, u can clearly understand what ur suppose to do, constant action with your Abilities and Hero and to end if off BOSSES
Same, all the kingdom rush games
👌👌👌👌👌
Soo true
I actually got my start in tower defense games in the early '00s with StarCraft.
I've played tons of tower defense games but haven't come across many that scratch that particular itch for me.
My favorite tower defence game is mindustry classic. It's a complicated minning based tower defence game u fight enemy's in waves and see how long u can last a very simple concept and has a lot of defences and different ores with a random generation which could make life easy or difficult
if u get bored of it I say play mindusry(mindustry two)it has a Campain concept to it but u can switch to infinite waves if u want this one has more ores more complicated defences and more powerful enemy's it get really complicated play it if u want a challenge
New game called mindustry
@@arlenedemetria8746 yea it's a pretty good game just search it an play store
I have it in my phone
@@arlenedemetria8746 nice
Ohh thank you so much i forgot the name of the game and couldn’t find it anywhere finally i remember the name😂
One note about Gemcraft is that "Gemcraft" isn't the full title of the game. The Gemcraft game in this video is "Gemcraft: Chasing Shadows"
infact there is a whole series of Gemcraft games
I can't wait for frostborn wrath 😫😆 😊 😃 😏 😍 😘 😚 😳 😌 😆 😁 😉 😜 😝 😀
Gaby Morgi sorry i don’t speak cringe
@@gabymorgi9465 you used... so many emojis... holy sh!t, were hitting cringe levels that shouldn’t even be possible..
@@rebooteed_3434 😀😃😄😁😆😅🤣😂🙂🙃😉😊😇🥰😍🤩😘😗☺😚😙😋😛😜🤪😝🤑🤗🤭🤫🤔🤐🤨😐😑😶😏😒🙄😬🤥😌😔😪🤤😴😷🤒🤕🤢🤮🤧🥵🥶🥴😵🤯🤠🥳😎🤓🧐😕😟
@@trutwhut6550 wtf
Sad no mention of Defense Grid, but good stuff none the less!
A great underrated tower defense is the sanctum series, and it's a shame so few people know about them
TD didn't really start with flash, it started with Starcraft's map editor. Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne is where it exploded and pretty much every mechanic you see in modern TDs first appeared in some custom map there. I'd recommend picking up the remaster for WC3:TFT when it comes out as it is supposed to be backwards compatible with custom maps made in the original.
A couple TD's that are unusual:
Terrorhedron; cheap, short, and 3D. Probably a student project.
Space Run; the original not the sequel. Limited build space, timers, and cargo.
Sanctum/Super Sanctum TD; Sanctum is an FPS TD that leans on shooting skills. Good example of putting TD into FPS map design.
Deathtrap; diablo meets TD. Not as open as I'd like, but well built.
Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal; the enemies are water.
Dungeon Warfare 1 and 2; Physics traps actually work to kill enemies, fantastic TDs.
TD's I'm looking at trying:
Siege of Centauri
The White Laboratory
Dungeon Manager ZV 2
Hellhalt TD , légion TD and for maze some Maul one !
SC colored turret defence mixed was awesome. Still remember the glitch of loading the civilians in the shuttles amd running it into the buy beacons for infinite goliath. Lurker def was awesome too.
@@MysticLoser I could never get past the dark templar wave in lurker def, needing to attack your own units to hit large numbers of invis heroes was hard.
Element TD is my favorite in wc3
@@faulespack2985 That was a fun map, I liked the older versions of it with the upgradable forge towers before they were made terrible.
You should try the "orcs must die" games. Its a lot like Dungeon Defenders
Adrian Ceku it’s shut down
@@cullitonarchives It's a series. How could they shutdown the first two offline games that weren't that pay2win crap?
4f52 I honestly didn’t know others existed....sorry. I only knew of the one shutting down....
@@cullitonarchivesThe 2 originals are actually really fun and hold up well even by today's gaming standards.
The servers shut down April 16th
I'd like to add Sanctum and Sanctum 2 for anyone looking for a more futuristic version of Dungeon Defenders :)
Would have loved to hear what he thought of these. Some of my favorites, and I've never even tried co-op mode.
Same
The nostalgia as I see my whole childhood in those flash TD games :)
Canyon defence introduced me and made me fall in love with this genre!
Canyon Defense introduced me and got my love, Kingdom Rush made me stay.
Tower Defense Simulator on ROBLOX is the king of them all.
Creeper world anyone? No? Just me? Okay.....
NOT MINECRAFT BTW
Hell yah. Hard AF but rewarding
I love creeper world dude, its basically all I play.
Creeper world serie are one of the best tower defense ever made.
I lpve creeper world!
Creeper world gets repetitive from shooting the color blue
Squadron Tower Defense, anyone?
There's a reason it stayed the single most popular game in the Starcraft 2 arcade for years.
Ayyyyyyy
I love that game so much half of my hours on SC2 are on arcade games like Squadron TD
eyyyy std
Look Behind You STD is fun
The open concept style is by far the more fun kind, imo. You get to make all kinds of mazes with your towers and that is a big part of the fun. It also allows for a lot more towers to be placed on the map. The best game I ever played for this was Tower Madness 1, which had a good choice of towers and you could upgrade them a lot. An AOE mortar tower eventually became a nuclear missile silo, rofl.
I don't really agree. It always felt to me that there was the meta formation of tower placement that was the most cost effective, and once you knew you had to do that it was like... every game felt the same and like i had no choices to make, just tasks to complete in a time limit - it was really unrewarding for me so i stopped playing them after a couple of weeks 😔
@@Loctorakbecause it's limitations that breed creativity.
Hi. I made the original WC3 Gem tower defence nearly 15 years ago when I was 17. It is so great to see people still mention it. It has been remade in SC2 and Dota2 with no input from myself.
It's to this day my favorite TD. The orginal WC3 that is.
That game was superb!
I think "creeper world" is a pretty genius twist on tower defense, where you creep your grid forwards gradually to finish the level.
Aw man
so
I'd class it more as genre-adjacent than as a "true" tower defense game.
- the enemy is a simulated viscous fluid that spawns at pump-like nodes and flows outward respecting terrain elevation rather than discrete units that advance toward a specific goal.
- the goal is to capture certain points on each level, rather than to defend.
- a large chunk of gameplay is building up and extending an energy network to claim and control territory. "Towers" are only deployed at the front lines.
On the other hand, it's a pretty cool game, with two sequels - the second game is side-on, meaning gravity is an issue - and rather than activating nodes to escape, the main objective is to destroy all creeper (specifically the emitters), but you also gain the ability to generate anti-creeper, which is harmless, and annihilates with equal and opposite amounts of creeper.
The third game is rather closer to the first, though on a somewhat larger scale, with the option to drop in multiple command centers to allow you to build out from multiple places, a terraforming ability, and bottomless chasms separating terrain into chunks on some levels, giving a more varied experience.
There's also a fourth game in development.
And there's another game from the same developer, Particle Fleet: Emergence, which, while it's not in the Creeper World series, has a fair degree of family resemblance - it's mostly ships in space with free-floating particulate in place of the fluid Creeper, with fixed energy nodes rather than the ability to construct an energy network (though certain ships can act as relays).
Again, none of the games are "pure" tower defence - rather they have TD elements. Then again, so does StarCraft...
Hi, another good tower defense is "orc must die " 1&2, both of them are great (its a bit like dungeon defender but less chaotic). It has a good campaign, good replyability and a coop mode that work well. I really recommand you both of them! there is also sanctum that is not much talked about but is really good. Hope you ll see this comment and try them. Love your vids.
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@@benjaminswartley1803 he never gives the game a review he just says someone made an article about the genre with that game as an example
"less chaotic"? Smoother is the right word bro
I recommend Mindustry, It is Tower defence and ""'sandbox""" like factorio, and 2d, It is N I C E
Mindustry is a good game but I think it's either too small or has too little content to be in this video
@@leontius5502 ikr. i mean theres multi player but it doesnt satisfy my hunger for content
@@leontius5502 tfw, I've spent 100 hours on the game on V5, which was like 2 times smaller than V6. Also, you can make mods for this game or play ones made by other players, possibilities are almost infinite lol.
@@cancerguy5435 true. When I play time just flies by. It's also very satisfying to see your factories work and grow.
omg I love that game
A 20 min video on Tower Defense? YES PLZ.
Hearing that Dungeon Defenders theme brought back so many happy memories! Thank you!
Same I'm getting nostalgia
Favorite tower defense is kingdom rush who's with me?
Olympian Adamas for me it’s bloons
vengeance came out and I'm so excited to play it
Not me
Me but u like bloons more
Hell yeah man
Arknights is PvZ mixed with BtD, the ads are cringe but god damn the TD is amazing
And the BGM is also top notch. But yeah, the initial ads of the game are really cringe, until you watch the official trailers from the JP server and the recent ones on Global
BtD?
Those are literally my 2 favorite tower defense games, this game sounds really cool.
One tower defense series that I like but which doesn't seem to get talked about much, is the "Protector" series. They're pretty basic, but satisfying, and one unique thing they have is the ability to "pave" squares, which means _you can give yourself more places to stand_ ! The "towers" are wizards and knights, who can level up along branching paths (which changes their appearance over time) and they all have names, many of which are funny.
(even better is the fact that if you click on the developer's name you'll find that the "Protector" games are only part of a LARGE suite of games that all take place _in the same universe_ and span different genres, but that's a story for another time.)
Same with battle cats. Nobody seems to really mention it and the "towers" in this game...are cats. It has lore and has TONS of towers (in this game they are called units) and it is way more different than other tower defense games since you have to use meatshields and long rangers and all that. Not sure why but it almost never appears in tower defence lists.
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Cameo bloons: Like regular bloons, but they have an actor's face on them.
And then with 2020 Arknights for Mobile came up on use to be played.
This is like an insane nostalgia hit of old flash games back when that was so popular. Man I miss those Flash days...
Ever heard of a game called "Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten"? Definitely one of my favorites.
Wow, I'm surprised, I JUST found this channel, and while watching this video, I got the impression that this was a big channel, so I was very surprised when I found out you had only put out 2 other videos, and only have 6500 subscribers! This is actually high-quality content (Which I find hard to find these days) and you earned yourself a sub man! Great job!
Infinitode 2 is the tower defence that ive spent the most hours into. It's very grindy tho, so if you don't like that, it's not for you.
Everyone always seems to miss that BTD5 *did* in fact have a chat system, which you access simply by pressing Enter/Return.
Which is why btd6 chat is infinitely worse
@@lolucorn1 what chat
@@Somerandomguy2763 that little icon on the top of the money giving tab
@@lolucorn1 oh i thought it was like free chat
the flash version, not the steam and mobile version
You should try out Cursed Treasure 2. It has a nice history mode, a wide variety of enemies and a couple of gameplay gimmicks that may seem limiting at first, but have actually a lot possibilities.
I started playing TD games because of this one!
My god I played this wayyy to much during covid XD
That one is probably my favorite. The balancing and scaling just feels right and it gives you a lot of interesting positioning strategies with the later upgrades.
Its like every time I see one of your videos I think “oh thats a cool thumbnail!” And click, then I see its you and I just am happy that someone is making these great videos, and has a thumbnail and title that draw me in every time without being clickbait garbage.
I LOVE how I can just tell what game comes when the Music plays.. Good days.
I am quite sad that I feel like PVZ is underrepresented in this vid. It is a very popular TD game because of its distinct format and crazy and different concepts of towers (the plants) and targets (the zombies). And that PVZ2 is not mentioned as well, in which, the game is brutally challenging when it comes to also added missions and it has quite different mechanics in objectives and levels. You can tell much about it after finishing PVZ. And PVZ: GWF and PVZ: GWF2, in which, stemming from an FPS shooter game combining it with its TD roots is absolutely a clever idea to ramp up the franchise, seeing the plants and zombies in 3D action and in a more real-life scenario.
I completely agree man, PVZ is one of my favorite games and I love how different it is and how well it wears its image if that makes any sense. To be honest I didn’t even think of PVZ as a tower defense game until this video, I think it’s so fun and unique that it kind of falls a little bit out of the genre of tower defense. It’s an amazing game and I agree it was slightly under represented. Great video overall I just think PVZ deserves more respect for just how legendary it was in its day!
PvZ was amazing. Unlike any other game, highly polished (as was Peggle, made by the same people) and stuffed to the brim with style and personality
I don't think it'd been good if he talked solely about what is without the doubt the most popular tower defence game. Glad he covered more niche ones as well.
What, no Sanctum nor Sanctum 2?
For shame. Some of the best Tower Defense/FPS blends ever.
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Tbh Sanctum 2 wasn't as great. Its graphics were quite bad and what it did other, even 2D platforms, did better.
colby dyess 5:32
I really enjoyed Sanctum as well! And the coop aspect was great.
I love plants vs zombies! I had played that game since I was 5!
Me exept since I was 3 grew up with it. Don't regret it.
Vihari the army I wouldn’t regret it either
I too also love PvZ, it can get pretty hectic when the latter level's get crazy with the hordes of zombies the game throws at you especially when it's the Gargantuar's cause those guy's are very hard to kill....however i have mixed feeling's on PvZ2 because of EA who has effectively RUINED the franchise with microtransactions
EA....STOP TURNING GAMES INTO YOUR LATEST CASH COW!!!
I grew up with it and when I tried to get it on my tablet last week it wouldn't work
Bulborb87 I agree. I tried playing pvz2 and I had since first release. It spiraled downhill to the point where I felt like I had to buy something to even progress in the game. I never liked pvz2 and now I have gotten rid of the game.
Sanctum 2 is an FPS where you lay down the maze and turrets, seems worth a look.
I had lot of fun with sanctum, but none of my friends would join :( Edit: typo
@@TillsterRulz It was for free on humble bundle
It's damn good, but no one's playing it :(
@@cookies23z Is there a steam group we can all join? Seems like we could do matches sometime, a few of us here.
@@robertcoleman349 Im not sure, there is probably some old steam group made for the game we could join, ill go check once im at my desktop
Warcraft 3's wintermaul wars is still my favorite TD game of all time, designed as a 3v3 pvp game that scales well in 2v2 and 1v1. Mazing is left up to you, you send all of the monsters for the enemy to defeat, it's incredibly fast-paced and games can last a long time.
I've always loved pokemon tower defense. It combined two of my favorite things, and I already knew the type matchup system, and the game felt much more different than any tower defense I had played before.
Definitely agree.
7:00 the game is called Kingdom Rush not Tower Defense.
(My favourite game from this genre btw)
Thank you
i thought i was the only one
Some other great tower defense games where you control a character is orcs must die and sanctum 2
Yesssss I love sanctum! I wish I had the second, but the first is really, really fun.
15:26 the supermonkey on the victory screen matched up with the music lol
Me at the start: Oh man, caynon defense, I bet he'll never mention that obscure game
And then the madlad did it!
Alexandria Roper I read this as mayonnaise defence
Bro i use to go the library to play this game for hours.
The second I heard the rattle at the beginning of the BTD5 theme, I knew what was coming. Also, cameo bloons...
The bloons franchise made the other tower defense games really look like a joke.
No u
Bloons is definitely the most polished and fun and interesting, but there are other defense games just as good
I mean sure, but you're talking about flash game developers or small mobile developers vs a massively rich company creating an amazingly designed games. The only setback BTD really has is the expectation of the players for the games to be great.
Kingdom Rush. Need I say more?
@@kadeonines5178 yeah sure
Antbuster is one of my favorite TD games. It's got a unique quirk and some fun upgrade paths for towers. Anyone looking to check out old TDs, that they may have missed should give this one a play.
Theres a game called Infinitode AKA infinite tower defense, although unpopular, it is very simple and really great, theres even a sequal about it too!
i have seen so many nights turn into mornings addicted to this game. i've unistalled and reinstalled so many times i can't count. great taste.
Tower Defense games have such a middle-school nostalgia for me. BTD3 and WC3's Legion TD were my all-time favorites.
@carver3147 remember Burbenog TD ? ;)
Warcraft 3 custom maps are still the best tower defenses ive played
aaakitsune Agreed
i loved the one whre you have to place gems and pick one to combine with other gems you own
my fav was TDSurvivor 3.6 by LazarusXL, pretty sure it's unbeatable but I've been trying for years to beat it on Hard.
And you can create your own TD maps in World Editor.
That made me miss Green Circle TD :)
i just know this channel is gonna be huge ,waiting for the time i can brag to others about being before the million mark,gg my man great video !
Just want to mention Arknights, it's a gacha tower defence that's surprisingly balanced even with so many characters
Literally one of the most hardest and best TD.
@@JudicialBrat shit's hard but gacha based so that's that lmao
Yeah, it's surprisingly good in the early game.
Unfortunately, after a few weeks, you start hitting that grind wall and that just sucks all fun out of the game. But, I had a great time while it lasted.
Sort of surprised you didn't do a segment on Warcraft 3 Tower Defences (besides the small mention at the start).
It was a largely a community driven affair and not the official game (except for that one bounce level in Frozen Throne) but it did wounders for making and supporting the multiplayer (both in co-op and PvP) side of tower defence which isn't very common at all even today. (Though you did mention the multi player aspect of Monkey balloons)
My Personal favourite was Line Towers Wars. Which for those who don't know was up to an 11 player PvP based tower defence, where you would both have to defend your own lane, but were also in charge of sending waves of minions to attack your opposition. You could send a large variety of units, with different armour types resistant to different tower damage, units that had auras that could buff the stats of other unit, fast runners, flyers, and units that would even attack towers. (though most games people usually house ruled these away)
You were general encouraged to send units because each unit you sent would increase your income by a small amount and would be payed out every 15 seconds. (And the strongest enemy units in the game would have a negative income attached to them.)
Every life you lost would be given to the player would took it from you, and once you defeated a player you were given an additional technology to research for making the different end game towers.
Other great and memorable titles were of course Duke's Wintermaul and its Pvp counterpart Wintermaul Wars.As well as Legion TD (where your towers would turn into units at the start of a wave)
I really wanted to since it's what got me into Tower Defence, but I didn't have a way to play it, and honestly the Warcraft lore is really intimidating and I was fearful of getting something wrong or making it sound like I was talking about things that I knew nothing about. I haven't played it since that summer camp back in 2006, and I never had another to play with.
No worries, the lore of Warcraft doesn't really tie into the Tower Defence scene of things since they were all built by the community with the World Editor developer tools. People would build hundred of different tower defence maps themed after just about anything and everything just using the re coloured characters in game as a general template (some people would even go as far to upload there own models and songs)
The only one Tower Defence level in Warcraft Three expansion is a secrete bounce level. And I don't think it was ever even used as a template for all of the hundreds of driftnet maps that I've played.
I was introduced to the Warcraft three custom maps scene some time around 2005 also at a summer camp. If you want to try any some time hit me up, I'd be glad to help you out.
@@RealityEscape Warcraft's Tower Wars variations all work similarly to Balloons TD Battles, with an income system based on how much you send to the enemies (very strong risk/reward element, as the winners are normally the ones who manage to send the most without dying in the process).
If you wanna play it, the WC3 custom map community is very active right now due to the updates, so getting into a game shouldn't be too hard. I'm also of the opinion that some of the best TDs are in Warcraft 3.
Loved your video, btw, being someone else who discovered Tower Defense when I first played Warcraft as a kid, and never really left the genre
The lore on wc3's dota, league of legends, and dota is full all on its own.
Canyon Defense was a big part of my flash game mid childhood...
Yeah
Canyon defense 2.i loved it
Yes yeeeet
+1
Dude that was my after-and-during-school JAM
“When penguins attack”. God I hope this is backed up somewhere, the game was a classic for me when I was young.
Yep, that was a personal favorite of mine
It’s probably in BlueMaxima Flashpoint check it out
when i started watching i thought of buble tanks td and was shocked when you showed it
YES THANK YOU YES. THIS GAME WAS LEGIT AMAZING!
I'll never forgive EA for destroying one of the most fun game (PVZ) into a microtransaction, pay to win mobile game. (PVZ2).
K Z what happened to it?
@@sandrovtg3521 Some classic Plants become premium that you have to pay with *real money*. Some newer plants became premium. Even worse, some of them you have to purchase with in-game currency. Pick a lane, EA. A level-up system as to guarantee you buy the booster pack.
I mean its not like pay to win its more like "pay to get more content" you can beat the game without premium plants.But I agree they shouldn't have done that
The effort you put in your videos is usally higher than most of the channels at the top
Legion TD 2 is an amazing tower defense game, the game is a bit more complicated than most tower defense games. In it theres multiple factions to choose from, each having their own towers, or you can go mastermind which is a mix of all. The whole point in it is to stay alive longer than your opponet. And to do you you need to train workers to get more income then them, place your layout of towers better, upgrade your giant which makes you lost when it dies. And send extra enemy's at your foe, all unique enemies for your foe to face, while also boosting your income even more.
Came here to see if Legion TD would be mentioned. Bro it was the best ever IMO and it set the bar high for expectations. I’ve tried other but they don’t compare. They’re usually too simple with basic graphics. It’s 2024 and you would think there would be over 100 TD games with legit graphics and awesome unique gameplay but nope. The closest I ever seen are the TD games in the ads but they end up being false advertisements.