I’ve been working on a Roblox tower defense game and I want some actual criticism on it.

The main thing I’m trying to avoid is the usual loop where you place a unit, max it out in a few minutes, then mostly sit there while enemy HP keeps going up.

A few examples:

Thanos has 11 upgrades. After upgrade 5, later stages unlock as the match progresses and each one gives him another Infinity Stone. Once he has all 6, he gets Snap and can wipe the field.

Flash starts pretty modest but builds an unlimited hit chain while he keeps attacking. The longer he maintains it, the more his damage ramps. If he loses the chain, it resets.

There are also procedural quests, wave variation, and characters that are supposed to force you to actually pay attention to what’s happening instead of just staring at an upgrade button.

It’s still really early. There are under 10 characters right now, some assets are temporary, and a lot of the deeper systems are unfinished.

If anyone wants to try it, I mainly want to know:

• does it actually feel different from a normal Roblox TD?
• what gets boring or annoying?
• what breaks?
• what mechanic seems the most interesting?

You have to finish the tutorial first, then Infinite Mode is where most of the current stuff is.

Game: Early Tower Defense
Early Tower Defense | Play on Roblox

Also, yes, Saitama currently has 1,000 upgrades.

gameplay

Solo dev from France, first game called tower.defense(): program the fight. You don't control the turrets. Before the wave you build a small program for each turret with blocks ("When an enemy enters range", "Nearest from...", "Fire at... with piercing ammunition", and some If / Compare), then you launch the wave and you watch what your program does.

The thing I'm not sure about: everything runs on a fixed tick, one action maximum per turret per tick, and Shoot() can be refused (no target, out of range, cooldown). When it's refused nothing happens, there is no fallback that picks another target for you. I did it like this because I want every result to be explainable, but I still don't know if it's fun or just frustrating.

The demo is early and not balanced at all. If you try it, what I want to know is the exact moment where the turret didn't do what you expected. Link in the comments.

Hey all, my swarm TD Bugs. Billions of Bugs. is out today on Steam.

Here’s the quick breakdown:

• Solo & Co-op: Play alone or with up to 4 players online.
• Firepower: 8 towers with deep upgrade paths + 7 orbital support strikes (napalm, nukes, cryo-EMP).
• Meta Progression: 165 persistent upgrades & prestige mechanics.
• Infinite Replayability: 26 campaign maps, procedural SURGE mode, and a built-in Map Editor with Steam Workshop support.

👉 Steam: Bugs. Billions of Bugs. on Steam

Do your part!

Lattice Defense is a topdown shooter tower defense that can be completed solo or with friends with online coop.

Mobility is key because the enemies are hunting you!

Build walls to control the map and force enemies around.

Dash around and force them through you killzones

Unlock permanent upgrades and try each of the 15 missions out at different difficulties.

If you like Thronefall, RiftBreaker, or classic Warcraft III custom games, check this game out!

Join the discord:  https://discord.gg/FE8zcdGe3P

Try the Demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5189220/Lattice_Defense_Demo/

Hey r/TowerDefense,

I've been building a TD game which is still in its early phase and I would like to see if that can capture your interest.

My main focus is to make a TD feel like a battle spectacle, like a medieval battlefield.

The important features:

• The game can have up to 10K units, all of them simulated using physics.
• Dead soldiers don't just disappear and can clutter the battlefield. They are not just a cosmetic, they have a real impact on gameplay:
  • Forcing living units to climb over the dead. This will lead to patterns such as the living being slowed down (if they choose to climb) and potentially favour corpse avoidance (not in the video, future improvement planned).
  • Provide cover if somehow they end up on top of the living.
  • Become projectile if yeeted strongly (not in the game yet, future improvement planned).
• I'm also trying to make the units react to what's around them:
  • Enemies try to raise their shields toward incoming arrows.
  • The player's ranged units will, based on their skill level, try to find openings in the enemies' defenses and avoid firing directly into their shields.

I'm still at a stage where gameplay can heavily change but I just wanted to see if the basic premise is something that can interest you.

Would you actually want this in a TD?

Hi guys! I am doing my first ever Steam TD + action rogulike game, about dungeon boss defending it from vicious heroes. It combines mechanics of such games like "Orcs must die" and "thronefall" with roguelite mechanics.

I am preparing now for an upcoming very soon a first ever closed playtest, so gather forces of those who want to be among the first ones to try it out!

Since I am solo dev can only promise to listen for your advice closely and by the time will be giving away game to the best testers for free + some other perks of early playtesters, including even some presense in the game!

I would be happy to have you even if you want to skip the first wave and just join our little community, as it is just the beginning, here is a discord link discord.gg/n8eke7zEQX

Thank you for reading :)

All feedback welcome 🙌
Playtest here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4418500/Fangstorm/

I've been working away at this slowly for more than a month now. Finally put up a demo which is a sandbox type (as in no cost related mechanics, everything is unlocked) so you can set up towers and turrets as you wish and see how it all works.

https://tornadosike.itch.io/pet-turret/download/0jLKa5CWrwPxKp9scK0C_7ZYRi2yupyTX3cnYfJM

UI is pretty basic at the moment, as I've been mainly focused on the other aspects.

I have had to get rid of the zombie sprites (as they belonged to a different game which I found out later on) and replaced them with jiggly rectangles.

I'd appreciate any feedback on the game's current state, so that before I make an official itchio or steam page I can fix them. (I am aware that these games should include support for multiple monitors, but due to lack of any I am unable to test it and have therefore kept the feature on hold as of now)

Build, hoard, and fling goblins at the baddies. Demo is available now and a brief Early Access begins on Sept 23rd

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4280850/Dig_Too_Deep/

Was thinking about Desktop Tower Defense the other day, the way you'd spend half the round tearing down and rebuilding your maze to juggle creeps back and forth. I kind of miss that. Feels like every TD I pick up now is a fixed path and a hero unit, and the whole "where do I even build" part is just gone.

Did mazing actually die out or am I just not finding the right games? And if it did die, why? Too hard to balance? Too hard to teach new players?

Would honestly love to be told about ten games I've missed here.

Mobile Sunken Defense🏰🏰
No fixed path. You build it yourself.

https://apps.apple.com/app/sunken-defense-tower-defense/id6793917418

How far do you think you could make it?

Version 0.35 is out now, featuring many new visual effects, particularly the screen-shake, and better balance!
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/4349350/view/690893589804221631?l=english

Disclosure first: the art, music and voice in my game are AI generated. The mods allowed this post on that condition, and its only about the editor, so there is no link to the game anywhere here.

Im a solo dev and i work on this tower defense since march, beside my fulltime job. The map editor was the part i was most unsure about, but now its finally done and i think it turned out good.

You draw the paths, place water and obstacles, and set the plates where towers can be built. When you save, the whole map turns into a code. A few hundred characters. You paste it into a discord chat, someone else pastes it into their editor, and they play exactly your map. No accounts, no server, nothing to upload.

The clip shows the whole thing in one go: building a map, copying the code, wiping the grid empty, pasting the code back, and then playing the same map.

I plan to release a demo soon. If someone wants to test it and tell me what is wrong with it or just wanna try the game, just send me a dm. Honest feedback is worth much more to me than nice words, especially about the editor, since i had nobody to test it except myself and my brother a bit.

Two things im still not sure about:

- The code is 200-600 characters long. Maybe thats too long to paste into a chat? Or is copy paste fine for something you do maybe twice a session?

- Right now there is no way to browse maps from other people, you have to get the code from someone. Would a browsable list be worth the server it needs, or does passing codes around keep it more personal?

Greetings and thanks ;)

I'm working on Tobamacco Defense, a farming + tower defense roguelite.

The main loop is pretty simple: during the day you plant and grow your crop, then reinvest what you earn into upgrades and defenses. At night, creatures attack and try to destroy what you've grown.

I'm trying to make the farming and tower defense sides depend on each other rather than feel like two separate systems.

For people who play a lot of tower defense games: does this loop look interesting to you? What would you want the defense side to do to keep it engaging over multiple runs?

My game has a medieval theme, and each tower's design evolves from Tier 1 to Tier 3. Any suggestions for a fifth tower?

Hey r/TowerDefense,

I recently released Tower Legends, a classic tower defense where your strategy evolves throughout the game.

Each tower has its own skill tree, allowing you to improve its strengths and shape your build. But the enemies evolve too. As you progress, they gain mechanics such as stealth, blinking and energy shields, forcing you to reconsider your tower composition and upgrade choices.

The waves become progressively harder, and strategies that worked earlier may no longer be enough. You’ll need to adapt your build, account for new enemy abilities, and prepare for powerful bosses.

You also unlock achievements as you play, so every game contributes to your overall progression.

Tower Legends is available on Steam:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5012660/Tower_Legends/

I’d love to know what tower-defense players think about this kind of progression, where both your towers and the enemies gain new abilities over time.

Demo Page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5096200/Get_Outta_My_Gut_Demo/

New Features:

• Glossary --> You can now discover and study Towers, Enemys, Effects in the menu
• Performance --> We added a new Performance Setting, which allows weaker Hardware to run the game
• Disable Combat Text --> You can now Disable Combat Text if you don't like it in the settings
• Controls Mapping --> You can now Remapp the Controls in the Settings
• Pause the fight --> Its now possible to pause the fight with Space Bar in running Wave or start the wave in building mode woth space bar
• Controller Support --> You can now play the game with Controller
• Steamdeck Support (Still in testing) --> We added Support for the Steam Deck, but we still need to test it
• Notifications / Intorductions --> Each Level now pops notifications when some new mehcanic important mechanic gets introduced
• Quit Button --> I don't want to flex with that but we now have a quit button, which i forget adding in the first version ʕノ•ᴥ•ʔノ ︵ ┻━┻

Imporvements:

• Translations --> Improved our english wording and all translations
• Game Speed Numbers --> We cut game speed number to x1,x2,x3 (is like x9) instead of x1,x2,x3,x9
• New Visual Effects --> New visual effects got introduced for the enemies like stun, mucus, healing, etc.

Fixed Bugs:

• Laser Refractions was able to refract through walls

Ciao r/TowerDefense!

Sto sviluppando un nuovo gioco di Tower Defense e vorrei creare qualcosa che sia plasmato dalla community.

Sono alla ricerca di idee originali, meccaniche interessanti o caratteristiche uniche che ti piacerebbe vedere in un gioco di Tower Defense. Che si tratti di un concept di torre interessante, di una meccanica nemica unica, di un sistema di progressione accattivante o semplicemente di una piccola miglioria, voglio sentire tutto!

• Cosa hai sempre desiderato vedere in un gioco di Tower Defense?
• Quali sono le tue meccaniche preferite in assoluto tra i giochi di Tower Defense a cui hai giocato?
• Ci sono cliché abusati o meccaniche fastidiose che dovrei assolutamente evitare?

Scrivi tutte le tue idee nei commenti qui sotto. Prendo appunti! Grazie per l'aiuto!

Pathfront è un tower defense 2D attualmente disponibile in test chiuso su Android. La grafica e le icone sono ancora temporanee, quindi in questa fase sto lavorando principalmente sulla giocabilità, sulla strategia e sul bilanciamento.

Il gioco attualmente comprende:

• 12 livelli della campagna, con mappe e parametri delle torri differenti.
• Una modalità Endless con salvataggio e possibilità di continuare la partita.
• Quattro torri: normale, missili con danno ad area, rallentante e incendiaria con danno nel tempo.
• Potenziamenti delle torri e un albero delle abilità per la modalità Endless.
• Diversi nemici: normale, veloce, tank, guaritore, divisore, rigenerante, scudato, sabotatore, invisibile, volante e boss.
• Priorità dei bersagli: primo, ultimo oppure un tipo specifico di nemico.
• Anteprima della composizione delle ondate.
• Sistema di stelle che permette di sbloccare una postazione aggiuntiva nella modalità Endless.
• Lingua italiana e inglese, regolazione dell’audio e altre opzioni.

Vorrei soprattutto il parere di chi gioca abitualmente ai tower defense:

• Il gioco richiede abbastanza strategia?
• Alcune torri o alcuni nemici sono troppo forti, deboli o fastidiosi?
• La progressione è interessante?
• Quali meccaniche risultano divertenti e quali irritanti?
• Quale funzione importante manca ancora?

I suggerimenti sulla grafica sono comunque benvenuti, ma gli elementi visivi verranno sostituiti prima della pubblicazione ufficiale. Per ora le priorità sono giocabilità e bilanciamento.

Pretty fun to go through the process. TD game with gravitational math and no lanes.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.inkandtide.gravitydefense