There is no reason that you shouldn't play Infinitode 2. Chances are, if you clicked on this storepage, you already like the TD genre and the game is completely free, so all you have to do is download the game and start playing. But if you want to know more details first, you can read further. Infinitode 2 is a Tower Defense game with the biggest form of progression I have ever seen in this genre. Yes, even more than Gemcraft. The gameplay itself is your typical TD system, enemies travel along a defined path towards your base and you have to destroy them by building towers along the path. You can only build on specific tiles (foundations) but some of those tiles have a passive boos for the tower like more attack speed, damage or range. There are many different enemy types that behave differently, like auras that reduce incoming damage, high movement or passive regeneration. Your towers are specialized in various things and designed to counter specific enemy types. Each tower has a damage multipliwer for each enemy type with 100% being full damage and anything above giving extra damage while anything below reduces damage to that enemy. there are even multipliers of 0% which means that tower want attack a specifc enemy type. The tower variety is huge, there are 16 different towers and each one feels unique. The cannon tower for example shoots bombs that explode on impact and hit nearby enemies additionally to the target. The Splash tower doesn't aim and instead fires wildy in a spiral pattern around him but his bullets can pierce through enemies. The sniper tower has a long range and high damage but takes time to aim before he can even start to fire. One thing that makes this game so much fun is that there is no traditional wave limit. You can play on any map as long as you manage to do, you just need to hit specific wave targets to unlock new maps. Each map also has a leaderboard, you get scores by killing enemies and beating waves, the faster you are, the more points you get. But to progress through the main game and the endless waves you need more firepower. This is were Infinitodes main progression system comes in, the research tree. And this thing is gigantic, you will be surprised how many different unlocks are here. The main thing to unlock here are the new towers and active abilities but you also unlock improvements for your towers. Each tower can be improved in any stat, damage, firerate and so on. But all towers get also special abilities that you can unlock and improve here. Towers can be leveled up in two ways during gameplay, through Xp which they gain from kills (or passively) and upgrades, which you do with money that you get from kills. The experience level unlocks the abilities that you get from the research tree, for example the cannon tower can have a bigger blast radius or his bombs explode into fragments that deal extra damage. The upgrade level simply improves stats across the board but doesn't affect the special powers. You can even improve your towers further with modifiers, that you get from the research tree. These are passive modules that you can build on tiles instead of towers. Modifiers boost nearby towers but often come with a trade-off. To unlock all those nodes in your research tree, you need all kinds of resources, mainly money (called green papers). Money is easy to get by just playing the game but all other resources need to be farmed. You have to unlock minsers in the research tree which will mine on resource tiles during levels. this takes time but is necessary. They also can find special items while mining, mainly components for the level editor. Which brings me to the last aspect of the game. Once you play through the main game you unlock the level editor which allows you to create your own maps from all the components that you farm during your playtime. These maps are not just for fun, they can be used to farm more efficiently. But they are also required for the true endgame of Infinitode, prestige. You can sell maps that you have played very well and get prestige tickets, these are used to unlock another section of the research tree and invest in even more power. But if all of this still doesn't satisfy you, after you beat the main game you unlock endless mode. But you may ask "the waves are already endless, what do I get here?". The answer is, everything is harder BUt you also unlock new nodes in your research tree that have no upper limit (technically they do but it's more likely that you will stop playing before you hit the cap). So there you have it, you probably will never play through the entire game an dunlock everything but Infinitode is more for the ride and less for the destination. You are here because you just enjoy pure TD gameplay and there is no end to this type of gameplay here. The game can get rather grindy towards the mid and endgame because of all the money and resources you get but there are also so many ways to farm those kind of things, you will always feel like you progress. The soundtrack is some cool chiptune music. Just download the game play until you are bored and maybe yo will come back to it from time to time because you remeber what a good time you had. That's how I approach this game. Hey, it's free, there is no loss here.
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