Sentinels Reviews

If you like Tower Defence Games youll love this! The graphics are amazing as well! Its fast paced, a bit difficult but nothing you cant learn to deal with! The first person perspective is super fun! Its pretty entertaining to essentially headbutt incoming enemies off the path. Great game by some great people!

I'm a huge Tower Defense fan, with many TDs being my most played games by a large margin. So I'm always on the lookout for a new one to scratch that itch. (I can only play DG2 so many times!) Unfortunately, many of them come up far short. Particularly the ones in Early Access. So I was hesitant to jump on Sentinels, even with a 50% off sale. I'm so glad that I took a chance! Not only is it a very good (perhaps eventually even great) Tower Defense game by itself, but when you add in the FPS element it really shines. Even with Early Access the FPS implementation is smooth and responsive and fun to use. And even better, if you aren't into that sort of thing and just want a pure Tower Defense experience, there's a Skyguard mode where you can't enter FPS mode and get an "orbital railgun" to make up for the loss of firepower. Now, there are still some rough spots and feature updates that need to be fleshed out, but the main reason for my positive review today is because the developers are very quick to respond to bugs posted in the Steam discussion group, and actively try to fix them as soon as possible. Many, many, many EA games seem like nothing but a cash grab and you never hear from the devs beyond random update notes and vague teases of nebulous feature upgrades. This is not one of those games. They want to make the game better, they want to fix bugs, and they seem open to discussion on a level not seen in most games. That right there is worth my money, even if I didn't get a good game out of it. So that I don't look like nothing but a fanboi, I did mention that there are some things that still need to be worked on, and it isn't a perfect game. Right now the "augment" system is pretty rough and non-intuitive, but definitely has a lot of potential and adds some great features. The selection of different towers could have more variety, as right now I have a tendency to favor only a couple of towers and ignore the others, which is unfortunate. There are also two different "currencies" that you use to upgrade your towers during a level, and I think some balancing needs to be tweaked there, but even if it never changed again it is a very good system. And a bunch of story-related stuff still needs to be added, but what is there is top-quality. In summary, the game isn't perfect yet, but it is well on its way, and I have great faith in the developers to actually finish the game and deliver a polished final product that is loads of fun to play. Unlike so many other EA titles that so many of us have been burned on previously. EDIT (Sept. 2022): Well, don't I have egg on my face. Almost every single thing that I said that wasn't about the actual gameplay itself seems to have been wrong. That sucks. I had really high hopes for this game. Leaving my positive vote since that was how I felt at the time, and if I remember correctly the gameplay was a LOT of fun, it just needed more polish and more stuff. But yeah, don't I look like a big dummy now for being so upbead and positive about the future of the game?

I love Tower Defense games. There are a lot of them. Some are cheesy. Sentinals is not finished yet but already it is one of the best. And the ability to jump into a tower and do some FPS havoc adds a whole level of depth to this genre. To boild it all down. This game is damn fun!

So far.. the game is decently basic ..but still some fun to be had here and it looks like they are coming up with more new fun ideas..i do recommend..

Saw this game advertised on Imgur of all places and figured hey that looks cool so I grabbed it and you know what, it is rather cool. Still kinda haphazard but I get that it being alpha still. A solid start and I hope to see where it goes from here.

I really enjoyed this game! Top review was clearly expecting way to much out of a game in alpha but I can understand because mechanics feel pretty solid. I am kinda miffed about endless mode ending on wave 101 but I don't think they have implemented actual scaling yet, just preprogrammed waves that get harder and harder until they cap out so It wasn't like I was going to die anytime soon. Overall Keep up the good work devs.

I saw the post on Imgur about this game and it really sparked my interest. I've casually played tower defense games since I was pretty young and love the concept. I've never played one that also integrated the first-person aspect. I think that it is a great way to make the experience more exciting and feel like you are really in control of the strategy. I haven't gotten very far yet, but I like the learning/tower progression in the beginning. It allowed me to learn the tower types and abilities a bit at a time so that I understood how to use each of them. As for the difficulty, I think it is dialed in really well. I'm playing on the easier one, but I wasn't getting perfect scores and sometimes would still fail a level. I think that is perfect. I've played some tower defense games where I surpass the last level and can keep playing in free mode, but i'm basically unbeatable and it got a little stale. I've recommended this to a friend and hope that other people enjoy it as well. Nice work, guys.

You don't know how frantic this TD can get until you're managing the map, zooming down to commander level to snipe small power armor troops, then back out to trigger AOE, and back down trying to pick off the one ship that cleared your turrets. The mechanics are there already. The graphics are great. The updates are frequent. I'm excited to see this one grow.

This is [b]Rob Elam[/b]'s game, and he did [b]One Must Fall 2097[/b], so I thought I should try this one. It turned out to be satisfying all around! Turret won't reach enemies? Turn yourself into that one then FLY AND SHOOT!! And [i]this[/i] is why it's the best turret defense I've ever played, it's so satisfying all around. [b]I highly recommend to play Story Mode first, because you [i]will[/i] need the tutorial, otherwise no way you'll get it.[/b] It feels a bit discontinued and it feels super pre-alpha, but I hope this game to succeed. :)

This game had potential. But potential is nothing without updates. This hasn't been updated in years. When I asked the devs if this was still being worked on, I was told this was a passion project and not a first priority. The devs seem like nice people, but they haven't produced the game they said they would. Overall, my experience with their product has been negative, as it hasn't delivered what was promised. Their store page indicated they expected the game to be released in 2019, however, it hasn't even been updated since then. Frankly, games like this are the reason I don't buy Early Access anymore.