Bloons TD 5 Reviews

yes really good game im am not a bot i think but u know good game and stuff uhh good music ig uhh yea recomend it

Better than BTD6 worse soundtrack than BTD4

i love dart training specialty building level 4

as an individual with a foot fetish, i really enjoyed this game :)

I got swatted for saying that x-4 sniper was good. Great game otherwise!

Great game still holds up today if this was stars id say 5 stars

shoutout to that one guy who keeps adding maps for this clearly obsolete game

Great tower defense. It is easy to learn but hard to master. Sadly it has the problem of getting repetitive on the long run. Despite being a great and entertaining game, you should get BTD6. It completely replaces BTD5 in my opinion

Bloons TD 5 is the Steam version of the fifth installment in the Bloons Tower Defense series (which is a spin-off of the Bloons puzzle game series). In these games, you select a map and have to use a set amount of cash you earn per wave to place or upgrade various types of attacking monkeys and other units around a path. The monkeys then have to pop floating balloons (the "Bloons" from the series title) before the balloons can make it to the other end of the path. If too many balloons make it to the end of the path, you run out of lives and lose. If you manage to complete all of the waves in a certain level without letting too many balloons get by, you win. Bloons TD 5 introduces new maps, monkeys, and features to the series. I have a long history with Bloons Tower Defense. The original game in the series was my go-to game to play on school computers because it used to be hosted on websites that schools didn't know to block (like Cool Math Games). I spent hours playing that game while hiding my computer screen from teachers. So, when I saw Bloons TD 5 on Steam, it brought back so many memories. I hadn't played much of the second, third, or fourth games in the series, but I heard good things about Bloons TD 5 and wanted to try it out. This game is certainly different from the original Bloons Tower Defense experience. Yes, the core concept of the gameplay is still the same, but it's like the genre itself changed from a turn-based strategy game to a pseudo-RPG/idle game. Allow me to explain. Besides the in-game cash that's used to purchase and upgrade monkeys in a map, there's also "monkey money" and "tokens". These other currencies are earned from completing maps, and they can be used to buy several different enhancements for making the game easier. I'll just refer to these enhancements as "perks" for the rest of this review to simplify things. Due to the fact that these perks can drastically affect the difficulty of the game, you'll eventually find yourself [i]grinding[/i] maps to farm monkey money and tokens for buying all of the perks. The perks eventually end up making the game so easy that it feels like an idle game. In fact, there's a setting you can turn on which lets the waves start themselves, so you can literally turn it into a real idle game. Now, I have no problem with grinding in video games - I'm a huge turn-based RPG fan. However, grinding just doesn't feel like it belongs in a Bloons Tower Defense game. I recently went back and played the original game in the series again (thanks to the free Ninja Kiwi Archive also available on Steam), and the difference is night and day. Yes, I know I could just turn off the perks or not even buy them, but the problem there is that the game doesn't reward you for playing that way. It's not like there's a secret medal or achievement you can get for beating a map without using perks, and I'm not the kind of gamer who gets satisfaction out of challenging myself if there's no in-game benefit. They could have gone with a more strategy-oriented approach with this game, but they unfortunately didn't. That being said, I've still sunk a lot of hours into this game. As I mentioned, the core gameplay is still good old Bloons Tower Defense. The idle aspect even became fun for a bit as I played the game while multitasking. I'm on the fence about this game, but I recommend it only if you're a hardcore fan of the series. You should probably play all of the Bloons Tower Defense games in the Ninja Kiwi Archive (or your website of choice) before deciding to buy this one. [h3]Yogi's Rating: [b]3 out of 5 pic-a-nic baskets[/b][/h3]

Possibly the greatest time waster in the history of mankind. Anyone who's played for hours on their phone or the school library's computers knows what I'm talking about. Even though it's less balanced, has less content, and is mostly overshadowed by Bloons TD6, coming back for a few rounds every once in a while is always a great time. RIP Bloonchipper.