Ancient Planet is a tower defense game that took many years to evolve from a grindy little beast into a great representative of its genre. As an Android port, the game deliberately got you stuck to make you buy points to upgrade your weapons.

When I wrote my first review back in 2015, I did not recommend the game. It was frustrating as hell because the developers hadn't cared to change the difficulty before releasing the game on Steam.

Now four years later, after reading my review, somebody suggested I probably wasn't fit to play tower defense games. So I checked the updates and found out that since 2015 the developers added 24! updates to the game. This includes an easy difficulty with update 1.0.14 on 7. July 2017 and significantly increased rewards for completed levels with update 1.0.13 on 30. June 2017. The later was supposed to remove the need for grinding.

After continuing to play where I got stuck many years ago, the game is still not easy on 'easy' difficulty, but it turned out to be a great game. I was finally able to finish the campaign and the game is a lot of fun.

Pros:
- nice graphics
- great difficulty on easy (still not easy)
- good music
- good level design
- interesting mechanics to collect scrap and make money
- it's fun!

Cons:
- took the developers years to fix it (but thank you anyway)

Ancient Planet is a tower defense game that took many years to evolve from a grindy little beast into a great representative of its genre. As an Android port, the game deliberately got you stuck to make you buy points to upgrade your weapons. When I wrote my first review back in 2015, I did not recommend the game. It was frustrating as hell because the developers hadn't cared to change the difficulty before releasing the game on Steam. Now four years later, after reading my review, somebody suggested I probably wasn't fit to play tower defense games. So I checked the updates and found out that since 2015 the developers added 24! updates to the game. This includes an easy difficulty with update 1.0.14 on 7. July 2017 and significantly increased rewards for completed levels with update 1.0.13 on 30. June 2017. The later was supposed to remove the need for grinding. After continuing to play where I got stuck many years ago, the game is still not easy on 'easy' difficulty, but it turned out to be a great game. I was finally able to finish the campaign and the game is a lot of fun. Pros: - nice graphics - great difficulty on easy (still not easy) - good music - good level design - interesting mechanics to collect scrap and make money - it's fun! Cons: - took the developers years to fix it (but thank you anyway)