Unfortunately I can't recommend this in a current state. I'm in love with tower defence and rogue likes, but it feels that Nordhold just doesn't get it right. Meta progress doesn't stack your power, it's basically just core features walled behind the "too long tutorial" (8h spend didnt unlock all the core features still).
Tower defence part is fine until you realise there is actually not that much variations that actually work (especially on higher ascendance), and base/eco building is basically spamming the same order in every game because starting bonuses doesn't affect that at all (maybe a little, but still same order).

Upd. I just saw that they giving out the code for 3500 meta resource for early players which. This would save me like 3-4 hours of my life but unfortunately now I'm stuck looking at this banner in main menu giving me FOMO with no way to get that. Nice feature.

For the devs: please take a closer look at eco roguelikes like Against the Storm and how they implement meta progresstion. You actually getting more powerful little by little after each upgrade, giving you a great sense of grows

Never been a fan of tower defence games, but maybe I should try more of them because this game is BRILLIANT. There's good progression of difficulty. Lots of different enemy abilities each of which requires different defences. The devs are very helpful and are active on socials.

I like it a lot and recommend that you give it a try.

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