Kings Guard TD Review

Disclaimer: I got Kings Guard TD for free from a friend on steam but I don’t do biased reviews.

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Kings Guard TD is a tower defence game with a generic medieval/fantasy theme. This game according to the steam description offers a plot about a kingdom in danger. The game doesn’t offer any particularly gripping plot. Even though, you do get the occasional conversation between characters. But this game isn’t really about the story,it is instead more about the gameplay.

Since the game is based around the gameplay you would expect the gameplay to be very good. However it isn’t the case as the tower defence aspects to the game are as simplistic. The game design is uninspiring with no inventive/new mechanics or twists to make this game unique.

Basically the game is placing 6 different towers all of which are your standard tower defence towers. Such as a basic tower that only targets 1 at a time through to towers which are slow but powerful. There is also 2 different type of enemy classes (ground and air based units). As well as a few different styles of enemies in game too. Such as being able to move fast or having a high amount of health. Enemies also have a variety of different skins such as leprechauns, bats and dragons.

The main point of this game is to essentially protect a castle against wave after wave of different enemies. But there is one thing that will stop you from progressing. That being that you aren’t told ahead of time what enemies will be thrown at you. As a result of this my main strategy in the game was seeing how many towers (and where) I am able to place on the current level. What I did was then either place multi target towers (on the earlier levels).

Although the tactic I used on later levels is to split the towers between each map. I covered half of the map with cannons to use against ground based units. Then I covered the rest with a ballista for any air based units. Additionally, I position the towers equally so that I am able to deal with every unit at any time. I did overtime invest my resources; I upgraded each tower to its highest level. I did also find that the game’s shop which sells in game items for gems obtained. Although, buying items from the shop did help me in some way in completing the game faster. However in order to get the top abilities you have to grind for hours to get them. Even though you get abilities for completing levels but more often than not they are of poor quality.

Technically this game is quite poor in quality in a variety of areas both in game play and design. Firstly I was quite appalled by how poor the user interface. The interface is basic and it isn’t completely finished as there is no mention of how many units in the wave that is coming. This a huge flaw as if you have no idea as which enemies are in that wave. To find out you have to play the level and then replay it in order to prepare accordingly.

Alternatively you could spend it 50/50 on each enemy type and hope for the best. However some levels do start with only land/air units so spending it on towers you don’t need at the start is detrimental. There is also one major flaw in the interface when preparing to start the level. As there is a start button located at the upper centre of the screen. If you click even the slightest bit of the image, the game will start intentional or not.

I found this issue to be annoying. During gameplay I did find myself on various instances whilst preparing to start the level accidentally starting the level. In one instance I wanted to place a tower in a position. However when I try to place it because the slightest bit of the mouse touched start it started the game. Sadly there is no way around accidental misclicks as there is no way to rotate the camera. Even though you can move the camera around physically but there is no way to rotate the camera. Also sometimes things don’t actually work in game. In a few instances I found out that some my towers decided to stop working. However the only thing you can do in that instance is sell the tower and build a new one.

Kings Guard TD Bats

In the end I feel that Kings Guard TD is of poor quality. Frankly this game isn’t worth spending any amount of money on. If you get this game for free or part of a bundle, then it might be worth looking at. Outside of this instance I wouldn’t touch this game with a barge pole.

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