Indie · May 23, 2018
Warstone TD (2018)
A fearsome Chieftain is gathering an army, intent on the subjugation of the realm. The Villagers cry out for a hero! Someone to rise up and rescue them from their plight. This burden falls to you. Build a city, train an army, and equip your subjects. Seek out the assistance of helpful allies, such as dwarves, amazons, and sorceresses. With allies to help, and an army of your own, you can defeat the invading army and make the realm safe again![] Features 7 basic units, with a further 15 available as upgrades! Intriguing story with beautifully drawn artwork. 3 Vastly different Classes for you to choose from: Warlord, Sorcerer, and Treasurer. Over 70 different skills in all! Diverse array of spells: Firewall, Lightning, Meteor Shower, Titan's Fist, Summon Elemental, Poisonous Cloud, Transmutation, and more! Only 4 spells can be brought into battle though, so choose wisely! Multiple different game modes: Classic, Challenge, Survival, Maze, Hero Defense, Attack/Defend (Also used in PvP,) and Co-op missions. Upgrade Defenders in the workshop! Multiple upgrades with several tiers for each defender. More upgrades become available as you build and improve your town. [] Gameplay Unlike regular Tower Defense games, Warstone TD has a unique method of summoning defenders (towers). You start with a fairly empty map and a few stones where you can place defenders. As the level progresses, more stones appear and some even drop from enemies, allowing you to place them in any valid position on the map. Powerful Warstones also appear occasionally which give significant bonuses to defenders standing on them. You can summon any of the 5 basic defenders on the stones: Peasant, Archer, Rifleman, Sorceress, and Elemental. Each basic defender has its own upgrade path, damage type, gold cost, and special abilities! Warstone TD also has 2 extra base units only available for use in attack/defense missions, the Eagle and the Wolf. Each have branching upgrade paths, like the basic defenders. With such a variety of defenders and game classes there is a huge amount of tactics in PvP battles, increasing replayability even further! There are 30 story missions and each mission has 3 modes: Campaign, Challenge, and Survival. The player can choose the difficulty of each mission from 4 settings: Easy, Normal, Hard, and Nightmare. Each mode has a unique achievement which gives a star when completed, the color of the star corresponds to the difficulty of the mission: gold for Nightmare, silver for Hard, and bronze for Normal. Levels have a lot of possible solutions but, with so many combinations, you're going to need to perfect your strategy to master them. And just in case you forget how awesome you are, there's an online leaderboard, which tracks your score, both in Campaign mode and PvP. Compete with your friends, or enemies! [] Class system After you progress through the first 4 missions in the campaign, you are able to choose a class to augment your abilites in battle. The classes are non-linear, you can pick and choose skills from any class, but you have to focus on a class if you want to get the most powerful skills. The Mighty Warlord greatly increases the effectiveness of your army! He improves the power and abilities of your defenders, can unleash the power of stone to help in battle; allowing placement of stones to slow nearby enemies, or give you a surge of mana and gold. He also has skills which allow your defenders to level up in battle, becoming more powerful with each successive rank. The Cunning Treasurer's weapon is gold! He is a master of item storage, able to fit an improbably large number of items into his backpack, and find many more scrolls and even potions during battles. Everything he does is for gold! He is able to increase bounty for enemies killed, make his own defenders cheaper, and eventually can even get a powerful spell that allows you to transmute an enemy into pure gold! With all of these abilities, the Treasurer can field a much bigger army than any other class. The Powerful Sorcerer is able to complete levels using only spells! He can bring up to eight spells into battle, increasing flexibilty greatly. His skills revolve around buffing spell effectiveness, regenerating mana, unlocking more powerful spells, and he can even transform units into mana. Among the spells the sorcerer can unlock are: Summon Elemental, Reduction; which shrinks and debuffs monsters, Meteor Shower, and Teleportation; which allows you to teleport defenders to any available stone on the map. Join the fight today, in Warstone TD![][][]
Indie releases from 2018
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Position in Indie
| Metric | This title | Genre position |
|---|---|---|
| Review volume | 3.8k Steam reviews | Top 62% in Indie |
| Positive rating | 83% positive | Genre average: 87% — this title sits in top 73% |
| Metacritic | 70/100 | Genre average 77 — top 89% of Indie titles |
| Engagement hours | 13 h average | Top 47% for session depth among Indie |
Community Tag Signals
Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.
- Tower Defense · 52
- Strategy · 48
- Indie · 40
- Co-op · 24
- Fantasy · 23
- Multiplayer · 18
- Story Rich · 16
- Great Soundtrack · 16
- RTS · 14
- PvP · 8
- Casual · 7
- Singleplayer · 6
Localization Coverage
Interface / Subtitles (10)
- English
- Russian
- French
- Spanish - Spain
- Korean
- Portuguese - Brazil
- German
- Japanese
- Simplified Chinese
- Polish
Reception Metrics
Steam community
83%Mostly Positive · 3.8k reviews
3.2k positive · 647 negative
Metacritic
70/100 critic aggregate
Curator recommendations
2.7k
Press Quotes
“Warstone TD is an amazing Tower Defense. Battlecruiser Games have created not just a great herald of its kind but, besides, a product that combines RPG and RTS elements, and a multiplayer, to offer a mix that works really well.” 85/100 – Areajugones “This may be the best tower defense game in the first half of this year. Excellent graphics, innovative ideas, rich content, solid operation, reasonable rhythm, conscience price, humorous story, excellent sound. Players interested in tower defense games…
Engagement Profile
All-time avg
13h
short (5–15 hours)
Median
4h
Typical completion time
Achievements
123
Steam unlocks available
Release & Availability
| Release date | May 23, 2018 |
|---|---|
| Developer | Battlecruiser Games |
| Base price | $2.24 -85% |
| DLC / Add-ons | 2 released |
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
| Estimated owners | 100k–1M |
| External links | Official site · Metacritic page · [email protected] |
Features & Capabilities
Community
- Steam Achievements
- Steam Trading Cards
Other
- Single-player
- Family Sharing
Editions & Packages
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