Color Defense – Epic TD Game

Although I haven’t played it for too long, I think that this game has promise. Although it is just “another tower defense game,” it has some things going for it. It’s towers are generally more unique from those I’ve seen in other game, especially those of the likes of the laser tower, which can fry enemies from the other side of the map, but requires a lock on a closer enemy in order to do so. Things like this make you think more before you just place a tower. The art design, although minimalistic, is quite appealing and works well. The stages have a good difficulty curve to them, however, some of them become extremely difficult if you stay on the default difficulty, this being hard mode. I have a few recommendations to the developers if they see this review. I personally would like to see some more customization. With how minimal the art style is, it doesn’t seem like too much trouble to add a level creator or something of the sort. Maybe even a community feature with this. This would probably give the game a lot more replay ability. On top of this, a custom tower creator could be a nice addition too, if you could find a good way to make that happen. If not, just some more tower variety would probably be good. Some better AoE and crowd control towers would be a decent idea. As it is now however, the game is still very good and quite enjoyable. I’m excited to see what comes of this as well as what your team is capable of.

Color defense is an awesome new take to the classic tower defense genre of games. It’s simplistic and retrograde design focuses the player on pure strategy in order to defend your space. I was gripped onto this game for hours on end (no joke) as I was determined to complete mission after mission—that is, until I reached the 3rd level on the non-tutorial mission. In my experience playing other tower defense type games, this one seems to require the usage of all tower variants including the “nanites” which are a form of in-game currency in order to advance your towers quickly. My only concern is that upon exhausting every last strategy and tower combination, I simply could not beat even the third level without having to slave away at advertisements to obtain “nanites” to bomb my frustrations away. It is well worth noting that the game’s preset difficult is “HARD”. I remember seeing in a previous review that the game is meant to be played on “HARD”, but in my opinion that difficulty is way too unbalanced to be able to play purely by strategy. I may not be the best tower defense player out there, but 4 cumulative hours on the same level trying combination after combination of towers speaks a number on something. All-In-All, an excellent game with an excellent take on a classic—but balancing is a major thing in order to have the game at the right challenge level.

This is a great game, one I highly recommend. On hard mode, it is extremely difficult; I recommend players start on easy or medium. The game does require creative thinking which must often change with each level, but the basic mechanics are easily learned. I have now replayed every level numerous times and still enjoy them — although I am still looking forward to new levels. I do have a few minor frustrations with mechanics. It is easy to misclick, and drop a unit in the wrong place. It is easy to intend to upgrade and instead pick up an unwanted unit. This is especially true when rushing against the time constraints of completing tasks when needed. A simple “undo” button (with a 3 or 5 second time limit) could prevent many restarts. I also want to commend the developers for their graceful use of ads which help provide rebound without destroying the enjoyment of the game. My biggest complaint about the game, however, is something likely beyond the control of the developers. Perhaps I am old fashioned, but there is one ad that frequently runs that I find very objectionable — especially for younger children for whom the game is otherwise well suited. (It is for some sort of video chat, but to me promotes voyeurism and sexually explicit behaviors.)

When I first got this game and started playing through some of the tutorial levels, I was impressed with the easy mechanics and the design aesthetic. About halfway through the tutorial levels, I started to think the difficulty was ramping up a little too steeply. I continued playing until 3 levels through the first non-tutorial world before I realized that the default difficulty is the hardest mode. Once changed to medium, this game is much more enjoyable. This setting should be made more readily apparent from the get go. I do have some minor issues with the controls on my iPhone X. Quite often, when I go to grab a defender to place, I inadvertently end up closing the app as I drag the defender from the supply bar upwards. When I open the app back up, my unit is uselessly placed right above the supply bar rather than where I intended to put it. I'm sure this will be fixed in future updates, and it wouldn't effect the game on any other devices. Overall, this is a fresh, minimalist take on tower defense that I'm really enjoying so far!

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A nice game that slowly requires you to pay to get it to work the way any decent tower defense should. In this game you simply can’t get the tower to automatically aim at all the guys about to get to the end. Unless you pay. Then you can target one guy for a cost and the towers will probably - probably - aim at it as it approaches the end. Otherwise, they are all aiming at other bad guys way far away from the end. They could easily be aiming at the guys almost at the end but they just are like “Nope. I’m gonna concentrate on this guy that has no chance of reaching the end before those do and end the game.” But oh, wait! You can PAY to have more big bomb type stuff to drop. It’s such a blatant and obvious rip off. You can feel the programmers discussing how to get people to pay. I don’t mind paying normally, but I expect the game to be designed to work intelligently if I don’t want to pony up extra cash. This one just does the opposite of what any decent tower defense game will do. It lets bad guys get to the end while concentrating on guys who aren’t even a threat yet. So silly and such a ploy to make cash. I’ve spent $20 for nanites so far and enjoyed the game, but am done. It’s just too greedy a method to make cash. Yes, let’s design a tower defense game to act dumb unless the customers keeps paying. Deleting for good.