About Undead Defense Tycoon:
Genuinely surprised with this game. At first I thought it was going to just be an undead version of Overlord. Instead it has a full inventory and stat element that factors heavily into the gameplay with unit strategy and just plain mob fun. The overall gameplay feels like playing a Diablo 2 Necromancer where you constantly raise new and better units as you go. Then the game takes a subtle Hack n’ Slash twist while commanding your horde to destroy buildings or mob a new spawned set of units. The music and sound effects give me a Champions of Norrath/Baldur’s Gate Dark Alliance feeling. The overall atmosphere is a tongue-in-cheek humor quip with references to pop culture as well as tons of puns using undead/skeleton names.I can easily give this game a 10/10. In my opinion this just barely makes the recommendation, Undead Horde tends to get pretty repetitive rather quickly (my solution was playing through about halfway then coming back to it later), and switching between items and spells is usually a choice of which gives you the better stat bonus. Some weapons attack slightly more quickly, but otherwise they tend to feel the same, and after a while the pattern of kill in the same manner as usual, resurrect, and repeat becomes painstakingly obvious, interrupted only by the occasional need to go back due to a corpse shortage in the current map (I know at least a couple bosses chewed through my undead rather easily). Had there been some expansion on the content (or more variation) the game could have been a stellar one… All in all, it felt short and lacking in depth (both mechanically and lore/setting wise), but something worth giving a whirl if you can grab it on sale. There’s a New Game+ setting, which I started but other than a difficulty bump it doesn’t really bring much to the table.
