Fit check
Is The Thing: Tower Defense worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Tower defense players who want RPG progression and hero abilities
- Strategy fans who prefer campaigns with many enemy types
- Players seeking a fantasy defense game with bosses and achievement goals
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a tower defense game without RPG systems, hero development or army upgrades
- Players who prefer short, minimalist sessions rather than 25+ stages, survival play and achievement objectives
- Players looking for cooperative multiplayer or character customization as described for some alternatives
Our take on The Thing: Tower Defense
Rather than limiting tower defense to fixed defensive structures, the game adds RPG progression through eight heroes, runes and army upgrades. Its survival challenge, boss encounters and achievement goals also extend the usual stage-based defense structure.
What is The Thing: Tower Defense?
The Thing: Tower Defense combines tower defense with RPG elements in a campaign about Targa Wrathbringer and Kel Hawkbow defending Danalor from monsters, undead and demons.
Players gather runes, build armies, improve hero abilities and fight bosses. The game includes a survival challenge, more than 50 enemy types with distinct abilities and weaknesses, eight heroes with special attacks, over 25 stages, 16 army upgrades and more than 60 achievements. Its structure centers on defending against enemy hordes while developing heroes and army options across the stages.
How The Thing: Tower Defense plays
- 01Hero Roster
- Eight heroes provide different special attacks for combat.
- 02Enemy Variety
- More than 50 enemies have individual abilities and weaknesses.
- 03Army Upgrades
- Sixteen upgrades expand the available army options.
- 04Stage Campaign
- The game contains over 25 stages and a survival challenge.
- 05Achievement Set
- More than 60 achievements track additional objectives.
The Thing: Tower Defense compared to similar games
Dungeon Defenders: Awakened combines cooperative action RPG and tower defense with loot, leveling, pets and character customization, while The Thing: Tower Defense focuses on hero abilities, runes, army upgrades and stage-based defense. Anomaly: Warzone Earth reverses the usual tower defense formula by having players save Earth from alien attacks, whereas The Thing centers on defending Danalor against monster, undead and demon hordes.
The Thing: Tower Defense: platforms & release
Is The Thing: Tower Defense worth it?
It is worth it if: tower defense players who want RPG progression and hero abilities. Skip it if: players seeking a tower defense game without RPG systems, hero development or army upgrades.
Where can I download The Thing: Tower Defense?
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What platforms is The Thing: Tower Defense on?
Windows only.
