There are horde aliens that come in huge packs that can overwhelm defenses designed to target single aliens. There are flying aliens that can bypass all your ground defenses. There are speedy aliens that can race through your defenses, making it difficult to inflict a lot of damage on them. There's an alien boss that shields any other aliens that make contact with him.
Then there are decoys, which are basically whipping boys that are designed to absorb an insane amount of damage so that the aliens following it remain relatively unscathed. There are juggernauts and shielded juggernauts these are basically huge, lumbering behemoths that are extremely difficult to kill. To make things more difficult, the aliens come in many different varieties. Since the only way to "earn" resources is to kill aliens, each level is a desperate race to design and implement an optimum defensive grid. However, the more powerful towers cost a lot in terms of resources, and upgrading them is even more expensive. There are gun, laser, and cannon towers concussion towers that rain cluster munitions missile towers for aerial units meteor towers that serve like artillery inferno towers that are basically flamethrowers Tesla towers that electrocute the aliens, and a temporal tower that slows them down.
#DEFENSE GRID: THE AWAKENING UPGRADE#
To prevent this, you must build and upgrade defensive towers that pound the aliens with different weapons. There's+nothing+more+satisfying+than+a+stout+defense. If the aliens escape with all the cores, you lose and must try again. If they escape with a core, that core is lost. On each level, the aliens enter the map and travel the shortest path to the power cores, and then they make the way to the exit. To make a long story short, it all comes down to keeping power cores out of the aliens' hands.
#DEFENSE GRID: THE AWAKENING FREE#
With all of these free games out there, is there room for a premium tower defense game? Hidden Path Entertainment makes a compelling case with Defense Grid: The Awakening, a $20 game that offers plenty of tense moments and much more depth than a typical tower defense game.ĭefense Grid is set in a distant future where you must protect the last remnants of a mighty civilization from an alien menace. Still, it's not surprising that tower defense games are so popular done correctly they can be an addictive time suck, draining away the hours as you attempt to establish a defensive system that can withstand everything the computer throws at it. Tower defense games are a dime a dozen on the Internet, which is a bit of an exaggeration only in the sense that the vast majority of them are free-to-play, so paying 10 cents would be overkill.