Dungeon Defense : The Gate

This game, despite other reviews, is a great game. IT IS NOT ENTIRELY AUTOMATED. When defending your castle, the character you choose is also a defender. Tapping the screen lets you shoot arrows, or fireballs, or whatever. Most of the time, your character is also the strongest one. However, once you play it for a few minutes and gain some mercenaries, it becomes entirely possible to not tap the screen once and still have a fully health dungeon. Anyways, this game is not for you people who like to buy a game that you spend only five minutes on before deleting. It is meant for further progression. Everything from the dungeon upgrades to the diverse weapon system to the unique skills and special attacks make it a great game. IAPs are also basically non-existent. Overall, this game is a great addition to anyone’s game library.

This is a rare thing: an actual game that you play that doesn’t try to get you to spend money every five minutes or artificially stall your progress to force you to spend money on upgrades. You don’t even need to be online to play. You get five dudes, and they fling things at adventurers trying to invade your dungeon, and you try to grind out ways to make things run more efficiently. Good for numbers geeks and people who are a little more on the OCD end of things. It’s like running little battle simulations where you can tweak stuff to try and get better results each time. Much more interactive than other ‘idle’ games, and the math behind it all seems well thought out. I like the style of the graphics. They fit well with the theme, and the actual action when a battle gets going is fun to watch. Coding seems solid too. I haven’t had a single crash or glitch, and even the tool tips update on the fly. I’ve played a lot of games where the devs get sloppy and don’t put the time in on those little finishing touches, so good job.

The game is based off the concept that you control a creature of your choosing and you have to defend your dungeon against knights, mages, archers, etc. You can also hire mercenaries to help defend against the onslaught. You can upgrade your dungeon and earn more money, have more health and more. This has great gameplay mechanics and doesn't require an internet connection. This is great because I usually only play while going somewhere. This game is one of the few mobile games that I would be willing to pay money for. Money can easily breeze through the game for you if you can pay. Most of the features, though, are accessible by just playing the game (might take some time though!). Very fun and I remember playing this a couple months back and trying to find it on the App Store. All in all, I would highly recommend you try this game.