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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