Defense Grid 2 2014

Is it still worth playing?

Hidden Path Entertainment's 2014 tower defense game, crowdfunded on Kickstarter in 2012, released in September 2014, the sequel to Defense Grid: The Awakening. You are the commander defending bases, colonies, space stations and outposts from waves of aliens who try to grab and escape with the power cores housed in each location. From a top down view you build towers that attack and also route the paths of the waves. Once an alien reaches the core housing it heads back to the exit, and if you kill it on the way back the core drops and slowly floats home. Different towers have abilities that are good against different types of aliens, so you build a strategy to defend against every wave. Killing aliens gains resources. Every placement is still a double job, since towers also decide the aliens' route.