I reached Mission 13 out of 15 in this game before giving up. This was a fairly innovative game when it came out. For the most part, I think this game delivers on the promise of its concept, a compelling reverse tower defense. They could have easily tried making the player control many forces and essentially turned it into a specialized RTS or MOBA, but I like that they kept the game focused on a single squad moving through a level together. It keeps the game conceptually simple.

That doesn't mean the game is easy. It quickly becomes clear early in the campaign that buying some optimal units and letting them run freely isn't sufficient for survival. In order to complete most of the missions, you need to do things like swap unit positions mid-combat, deploy power-ups in just the right places and times, and exchange unit types to deal with changing threats. In this way, it actually has a sort of real-time action feel like a twitch shooter, but with the benefit of being able to pause the game at any time to issue commands, which means you can still make these seemingly split-second decisions at your own pace, if that makes any sense. I actually had to look up gameplay videos online to learn how to clear some missions because the exact mechanics of how to overcome certain threats weren't always clear to me, even after repeated attempts. However, it never felt like the game was impossible, only that I needed to practice very granular control of my units to win.

The reason I ended up quitting was that Mission 13 in particular introduces elements of randomness which just don't sit well with me. The game is challenging enough as it is without getting completely screwed by RNG. The checkpoint system is about as nice as one could reasonably expect, but it's still not perfect. The problem is that you only ever have the choice between restarting the mission from the beginning or the last checkpoint, but even with checkpoints fairly close together as the crow flies, some of the multi-enemy encounters in between them involve many careful steps, so clearing a bunch of enemies only to die to the last one before a checkpoint results in the massive chore that is starting over and trying to finish all the enemies again in a slightly more efficient way. Other times, you make a mistake before a check, and the only way to undo it is to start the mission over again from the beginning, since you can't choose checkpoints. The missions get longer and consist more checkpoints as you progress through the game, which sounds like intuitive game design, but I found myself wishing the missions were shorter so that I wouldn't have to restart as often or deal with the frustration of trying to redeem a bad checkpoint. Mission 13 essentially adds random enemy air strikes, so on top of dealing with all the normal chaos of the game and its checkpoint system, you can get unlucky and be forced into an air strike that wipes your entire team out in one fell swoop. I had numerous times where everything was going great, and then an air strike appeared which I either couldn't avoid, or would have to choose an extremely sub-optimal route through difficult enemies to avoid. I figured enough was enough. I had gotten what I wanted out of the game.

It's fun

Completed Mission 1. Opposite of Anomaly Defenders. Play as the attackers. Looks and feels great.
Tutorial 5/5
Gameplay 4/5
Style 4/5
Complexity 3/5
Difficulty 3/5
Fun 5/5

Tested

Decent. An interesting concept well executed.

My friend I play with said that if I post a review about the game and it gets 200 likes and 100 rewards, he'll buy me a bag of chips and a RTX 4090. So I'll leave this here.

Anomaly Warzone Earth is a good game for various reason. It uniquely alter the usual 'Tower Defense game' into a 'tower-attack' game, this alteration bring many style and new perspective on how we attack through the maze pathways.

The game offer 2 mode : campaign and assault mode (which is the arcade one) and the campaign offers quite a good storyline -ish. The Control are quite simple and not to hard as we only need to be aware of time and surrounding for each activation of 'power'. The graphics are good and so is the sounds.

The achievement in this game is quite challenging, but still very do-able to do. Also this game has a scoring system for each mission/gameplay that mainly points to 3 aspect : Ruthlessness (many tower to destroy), Efficiency (less to no of our unit destroyed, and directness (how quick we do each maps).

Conclusion? This game is great (even if it's port of a mobile games) and very enjoyable.


"one moment you're running field drills on the moors, the next you're throwing in a hole like this" - 14th Platoon

Interesting tower defense game.

Pretty cool tower defense mixup. AKA tower offense. Enjoyed enough for thumbs up.

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