Elemental War Clash Steam Charts & Stats

I really like the concept, and the different game modes are genuinely fun. But the reason I can't recommend it is that anyone who's even slightly familiar with tower defense games will quickly run into performance issues that make the game nearly unplayable. The sound starts bugging out getting louder, overlapping, and becoming a total mess. But the real problem starts when you reach higher waves with lots of towers and enemies. The game just can’t handle it. You're stuck with extremely loud, distorted audio and a framerate that drops to around 5 FPS. Because of all that, I ended up refunding the game. Hopefully, future updates will fix these issues, because it honestly has a lot of potential.

So here we are... Elemental War Clash. This is a great Tower Defense game and the 3rd Elemental War Title. Like the other Elemental War titles, you enhance towers with up to 3 elements. There are 7 different elements to choose from (air, fire, earth, electricity, shadow, water, and nature.) This allows for over 60 different towers and the can be updated to 3 different levels. The gameplay is easy to learn. You start with a basic ballistic tower; as the game progresses, you can call out an element (or have the elements called randomly.) After you kill the element or it leaves the map, you can start adding that element to your towers to upgrade them. You can call each element out on to the map three times. To upgrade towers frank rank 1, 2, or 3, you need 1, 2, or 3 of the respective elements destroyed. In addition, every time you kill an element, it drops an item as well. there are over 80 different items and they operate in different ways. Some items add a global bonus for you such as increased damage, slower monsters, or less expensive tower building. Others can be placed in towers to add splash and AoE damage, increase attack speed, or even double the amount of shots a tower fires. Some items have a cooldown and can damage every critter on the board, or slow/stop them or even temporarily affect every tower to increase damage or speed. The game has nearly 40 different maps, 12 scenarios to teach you how to play, 3 different game modes (hero, classic, and survivor), and 5 different difficulty levels. It has multiple features including a leaderboard for each map, online pvp and co-op, random map generator, map editor, and the ability to share your custom maps with others. The game supports native linux and I have not had any issues using Linux Mint 22. I know the game can use a controller and works on a steamdeck, but I admit I barely touched it on my deck as I much prefer keyboard/trackball for controls. Overall, I highly recommend Elemental War Clash, it is a worthy successor to the prior games. While easy to play, all the towers and items make it difficult to master. If you are a TD fanatic you will love it, and the map editor and random element selection adds a lot of replayability to the game.