So you like Tower Defence Games

[wkett]

List tower defence games you have played in order of most liked first.
Only rule is you have to place towers in the game.

1. Dungeon Defenders
I have almost 600 hours in this game
2. (tie) Sanctum 2
S2 forum duh
2.(and) Prime World Defenders
TD with amazing graphics and card tower system
3. Orcs Must Die 1&2
4. Defence Grid
can't wait for DG 2
5. Sanctum 1
forum favorite :)
6. Plants vs Zombies

[Bathysphere]

Okay, I'll bite.

1. Defense Grid: The Awakening (far and away the best)
2. Prime World: Defenders (came out of nowhere and is totally amazing)
3. Anomaly 2 (whole series, but you do place towers in the second one)
4. Orcs Must Die 2 (which basically includes the first one)
5. Sanctum 1 (lots of replayability without having to worry about leveling)
6. Kingdom Rush (maybe the only iOS TD I could really get behind)
7. Final Fantasy Crystal Defenders (seems really hardcore for some reason)
8. Dungeon Defenders (played 100+ hours but "endgame" prohibitively grindy)

Here are some I do not like:
-1. Unstoppable Gorg
-2. System Protocol One
-3. Fieldrunners

I'm still working through Sanctum 2 so I haven't decided where to rank it yet.

[NeoprenePenguin]

Plants vs. Zombies
Defense Grid
Sanctum 2
Desktop Tower Defense

[Kozzy]

1. Orcs Must Die 2
2. Tie - Sang Froid and Sanctum 2
3. Dungeon Defenders

[Kamiyama]

1. Comet Crash (Best TD ever, IMO)
2. Sanctum 1
3. Sol Survivor
4. Dungeon Defenders
5. Sanctum 2
6. Plants vs. Zombies

I'm also looking forward to Prime World Defenders. I will probably get it from Steam sometime later this month. I haven't played it yet, but I hear it's good.

[Solid Kalium]

引用自 Rokanon：

1. Defense Grid: The Awakening (far and away the best)
2. Prime World: Defenders (came out of nowhere and is totally amazing)
3. Anomaly 2 (whole series, but you do place towers in the second one)
4. Orcs Must Die 2 (which basically includes the first one)
5. Sanctum 1 (lots of replayability without having to worry about leveling)
6. Kingdom Rush (maybe the only iOS TD I could really get behind)
8. Dungeon Defenders (played 100+ hours but "endgame" prohibitively grindy)

I'm still working through Sanctum 2 so I haven't decided where to rank it yet.

This, but I'd bump Kingdom Rush and OMD! up a few slots. Add Cursed Treasure and Defender's Quest in the middle; Curator Defense and Bloons a bit lower. Flash craft is a classic, but it hasn't aged perfectly. I'll also push Trenched, Gratuitious Tank Battles, and Toy Soldiers into the "not as good" pile.

[Beertruck]

I bought Prime World Defenders after reading this thread. Had never heard of it, but it's really fun. For sure worth looking into if you like TD games. It is quite a bit different from the other TD's I have played, so hard to compare it. The Sanctum games are awesome of course, I better add (since this is the Sanctum forum!).

[Bathysphere]

Glad to hear it, the Prime World guys have really done a great job of integrating early player feedback, just like the Sanctum 2 team. Efforts like this should definitely be supported if the products end up this good.

[Teran]

I'd say:

1. Orcs Must Die 2
2. Kingdom Rush
3. Sanctum 2
4. Defense Grid
5. Sanctum 1

Will be trying Prime World defenders though, haven't heard of that one.

[skin2yard]

1.comet crash
2.dungeon defenders
3.sanctum 2
4.sol survivor
5.defenders quest
6.orcs must die 2
7.prime world defenders

comet crash is still my favorite just because it has 3 player local coop, which is just awsome.

[Marty Cheese]

Sanctum 2 is barely a Tower Defense. That's the equivalent to calling Call of Duty a tower defense because you can place turrets.

[Bathysphere]

Well Roark, as you can see, there's a strong variety of high quality tower defense options to choose from out there in the world. Maybe you'll find the one that's right for you.

[Marty Cheese]

I already did. It's called Sanctum.

[Spray & Pray]

Single player experience:

1. Defence Grid
2. Dungeon Defenders
3. Sanctum 1
4. Iron Grip Warlord
Must try Prime World Defenders, still considering Sanctum 2

Multi Player coop:

1. Dungeon Defenders. Awesome. Incredibly awesome
2. Iron Grip Warlord. So good I hosted my own dedicated server for months.
3. Sanctum 1

Have about 4 or 5 others, but I rate these the highest.

[ARK27]

Hard to order these in how much I like them, so will tier them in quality.

Tier 1:
Defence Grid: The awakening
Desktop TD
Gemcraft Chapter 0
Wintermaul (And variations)

Tier 2:
Sanctum 1
Pixel Junk: Monsters (Coming to Steam some day hopefully.)
The white Laboratory (Only because it's half finished)
Burbenog TD
Gem TD
Orcs Must Die 1/2 (Not really a TOWER-D, but it's kind of created it's own sister-genre)

Tier 3:
Sanctum 2
Green TD
Revenge of the Titans
Line Tower Wars
Wintermaul Wars


There's mountains more I've played, but these all were the only ones that popped into my mind.

Put me up for a vote that Dungeon Defenders is not actually a TD simply because you CAN place turrets in it.

[Bathysphere]

Oh yeah that's a good point AJ92, some of the games we've listed might not technically be classified as tower defense. Orcs Must Die, Dungeon Defenders and Sanctum are hybrids anyway, with traps and turrets that augment your own actions as the player is ultimately responisble for annihilating the creep waves. There could be an argument against Revenge of the Titans and Gratuitous Tank Battles because the towers you place are so easily destroyed and require resource/integrity management more like an RTS than TD. But I guess I still think all of these games fit the spirit of tower defense and that their variations are welcome to the genre. I wouldn't want every entry to feel the same, or new ideas would never take root.

I see Wintermaul was converted over to Starcraft II arcade. I'll be sure to check that one out.