Dead Siege

Although they don’t look very complicated, tower defense games need to follow a pretty strict set of rules. It’s easy to make mistakes and end up with a poor gameplay experience, especially since the genre is based on repetition and replayability. Hence, if the mechanics are not exciting or challenging enough, players get bored pretty quickly and turn their attention to something else.

Build towers and defend your base from enemies

Dead Siege is not very original, nor is it a revolution in the genre, but it can certainly keep you entertained for a while. Unfortunately, it can be repetitive in a bad way as well, mainly because there are just too few towers to play with and not enough enemy waves to provide you with a challenge. However, it’s still better than many other games in the same category.
To begin with, it’s worth mentioning that you play from a third-person perspective, which makes the action a little more personal. Your character even has the ability to attack enemies himself, although he doesn’t do too much damage. On the other hand, walking around the map is a bit of a drag when it comes to building and upgrading towers, because the character moves rather slowly, and there are invisible walls blocking your way from one lane to the other.

Three types of towers to choose from

As far as the actual towers are concerned, the selection is rather poor and unimpressive. You can either go for a lightning tower, one that attacks enemies with some sort of mortar shells, as well as a tower that spawns zombies. Thankfully, they can at least each be upgraded twice, which also makes them a tad bigger. Other than that, you’ll see most of what the game has to offer in this regard in under five minutes.
You need gems to build and upgrade towers, and gems are dropped by the fallen enemies. Again, you have to walk around the lanes in order to collect them, which adds even more walking to the equation. Not only that, but you can only hold so many of them at once, which means that you have to go back out there after every two or three upgrades.

Decent graphics and slightly awkward controls

In the end, Dead Siege could do use a lot of refining, but it’s definitely on the right track. As long as more towers and enemies are added, this could certainly turn into something worth playing. In addition, the controls need to be fixed as well, especially when it comes to the camera.