Robots coming in from the left but the tesla ray is on the other side? Relocate the anti-air cannons and shift the tesla over to fry some walkers. This means that as a player who likes to take action, this Tower Defense game gives me options in the moment.Ī battle might start with the tower having shotguns on the left side, but if footmen come from the right, just retract a turret, reposition the shotguns, and mow them down. This is not a bad start, but what put it over the top for me is that the turrets can be repositioned around the tower as needed in real time, and retracting them inside the tower helps them reload faster. Gameplay happens on a 2D plane, so we get a horizontal view of things and both the left and right sides of the tower can equip up to five turrets, for a grand total of ten.Įach kind of turret is strong against a specific type of enemy and they fire automatically, so choosing a loadout carefully is important – shotguns clean up against troops on foot, but mortars firing dumbly at the ground will do nothing against incoming helicopters, for example. Players can choose from dozens of battles across a map of faux-Europe, and before the selection is made, the game will let them know what kind of enemies will be present – infantry, tanks, robots, flying units and more.Īt this point, ST2 will ask the player to load their tower up with various kinds of turrets. Honestly though, the plot never amounts to much, but the action is good. There’s a talky story about an evil empire using poison (or maybe it was brainwashing?) to take over the world, and the only people who can stop it are some steampunk scientists who have a high-tech tower they dispatch when conflict is erupting. Steampunk Tower 2 takes place on an alternate Earth, and mostly in Europe.
What makes it stand out? Where most TD titles ask players to install rows of towers along enemy routes, this one offers just one tower and every enemy makes a beeline for it! It’s a pretty big flip of the genre’s conventions, and it absolutely works. With this in mind, I tend to stay away from vanilla TDs, but I’m always curious about the offshoots and I randomly stumbled across a pretty significant outlier with Steampunk Tower 2 on the Switch eShop. TDs are largely about ‘good’ planning and then watching results of said plan play out, but getting hit with unpredictable curveballs and being unable to respond is a recipe for frustration. I like the idea of setting up a base and protecting it from attack, but the classic formula - place towers, watch enemies stream in, hope for survival – leaves me unsatisfied since players don’t usually have many options once the action kicks off. LOW One of the later challenge missions had no margin for error.įull disclosure, I’m not a huge fan of Tower Defense games. HIGH A great twist on the Tower Defense formula!
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