December 21, 2023 - Day 354 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 375
Game: Warstone TD
Platform: Steam
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Installation Date: Dec 21, 2023
Unplayed: 0d
Playtime: 19m
Warstone TD is an isometric tower defense game with some basic RPG, strategy, and city building elements (so says the blurb).
I've started hammering my unredeemed keys list a little bit harder, with the challenge to get it down under 200 before the 1st of January. Just to make the next 10 days a little more gruelling!
Warstone TD was one of them, from Feb 2020; the "TD" is for Tower Defense.
It's a little bit different to most tower defense games I've played, as the game starts with several (I guess they're called) warstones along the path that the mobs follow, and you can choose to build from several optional unit types at each location.
During each round you might unlock an extra warstone to place somewhere else, but I think this is where the element of strategy comes in.
Also, after some rounds, you get a double-strength warstone which increases the range of the units (not sure what else it does).
So far it doesn't seem like you can change or upgrade a unit once activated, so it's an interesting twist on the genre, and I don't have a lot of traditional TD games anyway, so it's kind of fun.
After the initial gameplay introduction, the game sets a story about a wizard who's seen the future, and that he's going to be handed over to a group of invaders by the town, and so he enlists the help of the player (fourth-wall break, nice), to do the city-building thing, and build and arm the city so he doesn't meet that grisly end.
It's a cute framing device and gives some nice RPG elements to push the game outside of the standard tower defense genre.
Warstone TD is kind of fun, and definitely something I'll return to when I'm the mood for that kind of game; it's