Whats the best of the 3 Kingdom Rush Games to start ?

[GuntherKraag]

I am starting to play Kingdom Rush. Wish is the best one ?
The 2014 Kingdom Rush, the 2016 Kingdom Rush Frontiers or the latest 2018 Kingdom Rush Origins ?
Thank you for any help from you Kingdom Rush veterans out there :)

[BigSilverHotdog]

Start with the first one and play it on Veteran. Play them all on Veteran. It's not hard but it at least provides SOME challenge occasionally. The others are just easy mode.

The main difference between the games is the use of heroes and level unique specials. The first game each hero starts a level at level 1 and has to level up as you play the stage. In Frontiers and Origins you level up heroes on an overall package in the game regardless of individual stages, and their levels are permanent. There are a lot more stage unique items and specials in Origins than there is in Frontiers, and there are almost none in the original game. All are good tower defense games. All are very similar.

[GuntherKraag]

Thank you. That was very helpfull.
I decided to go for the original KR on android and Frontiers here on Steam.

[February]

In-game mechanics progression-wise, the first game (Kingdom Rush) is the one to start with, yeah. The other two changed how your Heros level up, so going from KR: Frontiers or Origins back to the first one will leave you feeling awkward not having your hero be lvl 10 from the very first wave of each stage.

So even though Origins is like the prequel to all of them, story-wise, I'd still recommend just playing them in release order as well, so KR > Frontiers > Origins.