Artisan TD
Artisan TD is a puzzle-oriented Tower Defense game where you must survive by building mazes.
Artisan TD is a tower defense, strategy and difficult game
developed by 4rtisans
and published by Unexpected.
Released on July 22nd 2024 is available only on Windows
in 13 languages: English, French, German, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Spanish - Spain, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Italian, Polish and Turkish.
It has received 1,923 reviews of which 1,717 were positive and 206 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.5 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 16.49€ on Steam.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows® 10 64 Bit
- Processor: Intel Core i5-6600, 3.3 GHz / AMD Ryzen 5 1500X, 3.5 GHz
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce GTX 750 Ti / Radeon R7 360
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 3 GB available space
- Additional Notes: 16:9 recommended
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Barely. Its more of a puzzle tower defence that requires a lot of restarting to see what works. Boring after an hour or so
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It's a good game. Great graphics, good layouts and a variety of enemies and towers. It is complete and polished. Here is more for those deciding whether to get it or not. In the game you build your towers to create a path for your enemies to follow - a maze builder type of TD. The longer the path, the better your chances of winning. New towers are made available as you progress, to deal with new enemies. There are three modes translated to "easy", "medium" and "hard". The medium mode works quite well, but you can back down to easy and try again, if you have trouble. You get 1 to 3 stars depending on how many lives you have left at the end. It is a somewhat simple game, which limits the enjoyment. There are no "heros", "research" or "emergency field weapons". The lack of "research" is particularly damaging (this is your ability to get more powerful weapons, or universally increase firepower, range etc.). The stars you get have no reward value. This reduces the motivation to do better. The in-game tower upgrades are also limited. It is generally "very difficult" even on the lowest level. As to game play, because of the characteristics mentioned above, you have to use a different strategy. Each wave often requires a different set of turrets. You have to sell and re-configure almost after each wave. Worse, sometimes, you have to re-configure within a wave to keep your turrets moving with the enemies, otherwise you will lose. This can add some excitement at times. AN UPDATE: It seems that people liked my review, so I want to add more after having played it a lot longer. I affirm that it is a great game - "a masterpiece", as I said in my curator review. What I want to add is that it is a unique TD game with novel elements that are not the well traveled road. The rarer aspect is that it is very heavy on strategy. You get all the tower upgrades and all the "strength" possible very quickly. After that the difference between the "easy (adventurer)" and the hard categories is just how well you have learned the game and how good you are at strategy. I was able to figure out most of the maps at the hard difficulty with no enemies getting through, but it took quite a while and many tries. There were a few maps that I gave up on, but there were solutions on the web. I admired these solutions because mine were close but no cigar. I thought they were impossible, but they were not, and, using only the elements I always had they could be won. So the bottom line is that it is like a chess game - you can play it a long time and still have something left to learn. Well, that would have been the bottom line, except the designers decided to add more content. Great! It was quick to solve on the "adventurer" part, but it is now a new challenge on the harder difficulties. I like "adventurer" for the easy setting. A lot of TD designers don't understand that what they label as "easy" or "casual" is very annoying - because it is neither. I like it in Kingdom Rush, where they have the "impossible" level. It is a real joy to make the impossible possible.
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I am a TD junkie -- 700+ hours on Bloons TD 6, Orcs Must Die (all 3), probably 1k... it's the most relaxing genre to me... well defined rules, restricted boundaries, predictable progression... however it's really tricky to successfully capture a threshold of difficulty where success turns on a small set of variables, wherein the player can win or lose based on minor changes. This is tricky because as the player you want it to feel possible to win, but not easy. If it is easy, all the fun completely evaporates. If it is too hard, it can become frustrating, particularly if the difficulty feels irrational and the result of bad game mechanics. Good TD games make you feel like you can win via lateral thinking, and have enough variables that success can be attained through almost countless paths (like chess). I've only been playing this for three hours or so, but I can already see this one is a great TD game, with excellent mechanics. I don't think I'm even a third of the maps complete, and I can see more game mechanics will be unlocked the more I move forward. 100% recommend if you're a TD fan! Thank you to the makers -- great job! UPDATE after nearly 50 hours: This has become one of my favorite TD games... I'm close to reaching the final map, but still not there yet. A few observations: - When I started playing it the camera, and the inability to move it freely and zoom in and out at will bothered me. You can zoom in and out in a static way, but it's not incremental. Now this doesn't bother me, as if my mind adjusted to it. After putting some hours in your "vision" of the maps changes. An odd phenomenon. - This is certainly not a set it and forget it TD game... you must tweak and plan every single wave until you reach a point of stability. Some maps are MUCH harder than others, but in general the difficulty stays relatively stable. I was stuck on one map in particular for a long time, but since then perhaps my learning curve flattened and I just got better at it. In short, I'm totally hooked. A few recommendations to the developers, some of which I'm sure they've already considered: - it's quite limiting that specific towers will only attack the weakest, strongest, or first enemy in its sight. If this was a adjustable variable I think there could be more variability (although perhaps this was specifically disallowed because it might disrupt the balance). - When you start a new level there is a paragraph or a few sentences on the lore of the game, with some description of a new innovation or tower; there is a disconnect between the description and what is obvious in the tower selections. For example, the tower that sprays ice until it is fully upgrades, in which time it sprays fire: this is not clear without actually doing it. I believe they attempt to explain this kind of thing in those opening texts, but it really isn't always clear. - To create some more variability in the game play, you could have tiles which appear or disappear as the waves progress. For example, the island could be crumbling and tiles could fall away, or lava/water could erase a tile and destroy any developments on it. Inversely, perhaps a boulder could fall between a crack on a wave, opening a new path. - It took a long time to be able to distinguish between some of the enemies... I know there's limited pixels to design on such a limited space, but better character design would allow distinguish-ability more easily. It's not terrible, but just a minor note. Just some thoughts. Overall, A+. Thank you!
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This game is a really cool Maze TD a bit more puzzle game than other TD and it's great. It took me around 43 hours to complete the game with all the achievements but I've played a lot on the demo and was able to perfect the first few levels without any real difficulty. The game is hard, especially at the start with small map and not a lot of different tower, if you want to perfect it on the hardest difficulty it need a lot of retry. However on the latest levels, map get bigger and you have a lot of tower available, it make a lot of different solution working. But this game has a very cool feature where you can retry from any previous wave and you need to abuse this. Retry a wave and test multiple tower configurations until you get the perfect one. Few tips for player that read that and want to try the master difficulty in perfect. - Always try to pass a wave with the minimal amount of gold spent, this is to have more gold available for the next wave so when you retry the current wave you will have more gold available to test different tower setup. - Don't hesitate to sell, sometime selling a tower can help pass a level especially on dolmen where they have more damage. On the last wave selling the farm or selling the towers that are no more shooting can help build new tower at the end. - Your maze is very important, some monster like the Octoid are easier to deal with when removing straight line inside your maze. Something I like to do is wave 2 or 3, I sell everything and build the wall where I want them at the end then I take a screenshot of the maze. - Be patient, sometime it's good to slow down a bit the game to be able to upgrade your tower at the right moment or when selling tower to replace them but better one for the current situation.
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Awesome game, similar to the old Warcraft 3 TD mod. Great accessibility with the 3 difficulty levels, and you don't need to perfect each level to progress. Lots of fun and reflection!!
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