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Collect resources and establish a defense line before dark And then Facing countless enemies
Minimalist Tower Defense is a tower defense, strategy and real time tactics game
developed and published by Happy213.
Released on January 25th 2024 is available only on Windows
in 3 languages: English, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
It has received 1,311 reviews of which 1,253 were positive and 58 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.0 out of 10. π
The game is currently priced at 3.99β¬ on Steam with a 20% discount, but you can find it for 0.93β¬ on Gamivo.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 x64
- Processor: 1.6GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Storage: 512 MB available space
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This is what it says on the tin, a tower defense game that has simple graphics, simple sound and no story. Just a nice, easy tower defense game to absolutely get lost in. The basic gameplay is placing gold and sometimes crystal miners for your economy, and placing a variety of towers that can shoot and block the waves of enemies, and deciding at the start of a level what towers you want to take with you. This game has multiple "chapters" that are a collection of 10ish levels (plus challenges) that each have their gimmick. The first chapter is just getting used to the game, but then there is a chapter dealing with frozen status effect that slows your towers unless you create heat, or wind that will speed up enemies but can be harness by you, and more. As you go along you also unlock more and more towers, mines, and enemies, creating a complex web of strategies. Crystal towers can be chained together through range extending towers, some towers are immune to weather effects while others inflict their own status effects, some enemies split into smaller ones, some enemies have a flat damage reduction you need to overcome... honestly, while the first hour or two is pretty simple, you will eventually get to a level that has you a bit stumped and you need to real dig into the various strategies. There is just and impressive amount of content. And even though the graphics are mostly symbols and shapes, the animations are smooth and the UI pretty good. Honestly, after having played a variety of games that describe themselves as minimalist as an excuse to look like lazy garbage, this game looks and feels a hundred times better. The bottomline is that for the tower defense enthusiast, this feels almost mandatory. A large amount of variety to sink your teeth into for hours at a time.
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39 hrs to 100% but I wasn't the most efficient I could be. DLC is required for achievement completion. Truly a hidden gem. Eng translation and support is a bit lacking but you can mostly figure it out and through a bit of trial and error everything will make sense. I think the difficulty level of this tower defense is perfection- the expert levels just barely hinge on the edge of possible in some cases (while still being progressable) and that's really exciting to a fan of the genre. Sometimes simple and readable is refreshing, especially since I feel most newer TDs are becoming overproduced and losing some of the precision and strategy they once had. Highly recommend! Great game! Support the devs and buy the DLC too! They deserve it :)
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Fun game, definitely recommend. * Looks clean and minimalist (as the name states), nothing over the top * Gameplay was simple enough, I did miss a few important details on my first play - like how you can up the difficulty, it is very easy (too easy) on the base mode * Price is on par, I'd recommend buying it at full price ($4.99) * I did play through the chapter on each difficulty but then lost interest before completing legendary mode - I wish I had completely skipped the base difficulty (I'd recommend doing that if you haven't played already) * I might come back to this game to complete on Legendary mode, game was simple enough while also being engaging once you get to the harder difficulties Hope they add more, it's pretty short!!!
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Simplistic but not easy, very well-made as a strategy game and definitely worth its cost.
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Surprisingly well done. If you can ignore a bit weird English and minimalistic graphics (they are fine really, the only issue I have is that the icons do not show how damaged a tower/wall is), it's a deep, well balanced, very well designed tower defense game that requires some strategic thinking. I see some interesting design ideas in there that I have not really seen anywhere before. For example, there are some crystal towers of various kinds. Already in themselves they are fine, they are different than other towers. But they also have an interesting ability, instead of targetting enemies directly, they can send their attack to another, special tower, which can then forward this attack to somewhere further, and this can be chained, using multiple of those special towers to forward the attack from one place to far on the map. Another rather unique idea is that most towers can't shoot over mountains, but mortars can. This is so simple, but I cannot recall any other tower defense game that did this, and it very nicely transforms the design of the map. Another example - one enemy type shots bullets when you kill it. Meaning you have to protect your towers getting hurt even if they manage to kill the enemy before it reaches them. Again, not something I've seen ever before. There are some cons though too. The biggest one is that there's no way to see the HP and path of the specific enemy during playthrough. That annoys me a bit, as especially in later, more difficult levels, it makes it a bit harder to plan. And most of the levels are quite open, so it would be nice to see where the enemies will go through. The minimalistic interface, while I like it overall, could be improved. Changing the order of tower types that you take to a mission is especially bad. Another issue is in later missions when there are so many enemies attacxking, it's impossible to tell what are their types, as they all bunch up together. But those are minor issues. Overall if you are a fan of the genre, you really have to try it.
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Minimalist Tower Defense is currently priced at 3.99β¬ on Steam.
Minimalist Tower Defense is currently available at a 20% discount. You can purchase it for 3.99β¬ on Steam.
Minimalist Tower Defense received 1,253 positive votes out of a total of 1,311 achieving an impressive rating of 9.03.
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Minimalist Tower Defense was developed and published by Happy213.
Minimalist Tower Defense is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Minimalist Tower Defense is not playable on MacOS.
Minimalist Tower Defense is not playable on Linux.
Minimalist Tower Defense is a single-player game.
There are 2 DLCs available for Minimalist Tower Defense. Explore additional content available for Minimalist Tower Defense on Steam.
Minimalist Tower Defense does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Minimalist Tower Defense does not support Steam Remote Play.
Minimalist Tower Defense is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Happy213
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25 Jan 2024
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