King Towers Reviews

One of the most poorly made and outdated tower defence games. As a big fan of tower defence titles, I was very disappointed with King Towers. Pros: Visually looks average for a flash game. Has multiple difficulty options for more replay value (the caveat being that you're willing to spend a lot of time grinding, which I've explained in the con below). No storyline outside of tutorials before the beginning of each level that are skippable; if you're into games with no story and all gameplay, this aspect might please you. Cons: Highly unbalanced gameplay mechanics. The traps cost as much as the cheapest towers and aren't as useful as the towers, so they are completely unfeasible to use in comparison. As was explained by another reviewer, upgrading towers provides minor upgrades and cost about as much as the cheapest towers, so it is far more efficient to spend gold on putting down more towers than upgrading current ones. On the hardest difficulty, it is impossible to make it past the second level onwards unless you grind experience on the first level, which is really boring. Once you level up, you get skill points which can be allocated to incremental permanent upgrades to tower damage/range/fire rate, gold income, etc. These upgrades are almost insignificant, to the point that you have to level up multiple times to even be able to make it past the second level onwards. The difficulty curve is extremely unbalanced since it's hard to make it past the second level onwards without multiple permanent skill upgrades. The only way to have a chance of making it through higher levels is to manage magic usage well, since the magic spells that damage the enemy waves are useful and are usually more effective than the towers. There are very few musical tracks, and the ones present in the game are very basic and dull to listen to. The game is a buggy mess; multiple bug prompts will pop up that won't crash the game but are annoying to deal with and click past. While there is a speedup button to help the level-up process move along a bit faster, there should be a much quicker speedup function since the grinding feels so incredibly tedious and unrewarding. You can skip the build phase and go straight to the wave phase to help move along the grinding, but doing so will give you less time to buildup valuable mana. Granted this is a flash game, but it is extremely outdated compared to the many, many tower defence games out there that are actually good. King Towers feels cheaply made and incredibly unpolished on the whole. Overall, possibly the worst tower defence game I ever played. Not worth the $4 price, I wouldn't recommend spending a dime on this garbage.