Desktop Tower Defense Review
Play here: Desktop Tower Defense
Developer: Hand Drawn Games
Desktop TD is based on one of my all time favorite WC3 tower defenses, Autumn Crossing. There are only a handful of Warcraft 3 tower defenses I have played more. (Wintermaul Wars, Boson’s TD Titan…)
In traditional tower defense games you are required to defend an established path. This can be accomplished by commanding your builder to construct defensive spires along the path. Creeps then run through while your towers pelt them with arrows, cannon balls, magic flames, poison arrows and much more. When playing a defend your path game you need to figure out where the optimal locations for your towers are, the right towers combinations to build, which order to build them and how to upgrade.
In Desktop TD and Autumn Crossing creeps aren’t required to follow a path. They will find the shortest route from the starting to the ending location. You are free to build a maze with your towers in order to prolong their journey. This added dimension really increases the strategy involved.
The images to the right of this post are other maze examples. Not only do you have access to a complete list of high scores. You also are able to see what other people are building to give you ideas for your maze. It is amazing how many different combinations there are available.
At one point I was 5th on the highscore list with a score of 6291. It looks like I have dropped off a bit since then.
(50 votes, average: 7.66 out of 9)
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March 4th, 2007 at 11:09 pm
This is a brilliant game! You could spend days coming up with new mazes trying to nail down the most optimal combination.
March 5th, 2007 at 2:50 am
The Challenge mode with only squirt and freeze towers is damn tough. I’ve managed to get to about lv35 but my strategy wont cut it. I need to go back to the drawing board…
March 5th, 2007 at 3:33 am
I just managed lv49 with the squirt towers. A few tweaks and I should have it.
March 5th, 2007 at 10:43 am
Is it better to build a huge maze of mostly low level towers with a few upgraded or is it better to build a smaller maze with highly upgraded towers?
March 6th, 2007 at 12:20 am
I found that building a larger size maze with upgraded lower level towers to be more effective. I’ve been stuck on this one for quite some time now. I love these flash games!
March 6th, 2007 at 2:13 am
I just hit #2 on the Challenge scoreboard for the no dart tower game. (6054) I actually prefer to minimize the number of dart and swarm towers anyway. 1 fully upgraded swarm + 1 fully upgraded frost tower should take down all the air levels if you have a decent amount of high powered squirt towers in the middle.
March 11th, 2007 at 4:52 am
I’ve lost an hour. I can’t find it anywhere. (No, this has nothing to do with the brilliantly seductiveDesktop Tower Defense.I was only addicted to that on Thursday, and I’m now in complete control of my cravings. I didn’t even bookmark it.)
March 12th, 2007 at 6:04 pm
Amazing game. I just love this tower defense type of game. And this one is the best i’ve played so far.
So thank you.
April 7th, 2007 at 3:38 pm
This style of tower defence game is much better than the ones where creeps follow a set path. I’ve played a few of the other games linked on this site, but Desktop Tower Defence is easily my favourite. The group scoreboard is a great feature too.
April 9th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
Best ever…. Ive found out that if you put enough sniper towers mixed with squirt towers, it makes fer some easy ownage
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April 16th, 2007 at 9:20 pm
i finished the 3 diffuculties, i have a killer stragedy but they all die near middle…i include most but no littel guys (5gp ea ones)
April 20th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
this game looks amazing but you never block enemies when you level up they get tougher
June 6th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
When should you upgrade towers, where should the upgraded ones be, and how much?
I often end up with a bunch of one upgrade squirt towers, 1 ICBM tower, and a level 5 bash tower or two and a fully upgraded swarm in the middle. My maze usually ends after a couple sweeps around, covering about half of the map. I got to level 50 with that strategy, but died because I couldn’t kill them quickly enough, and only on medium as well.
June 27th, 2007 at 7:19 pm
I am sure that will change when he decides he wants a car though. Gametap is a good place to go to play games at. You can get a membership there for small monthly fee or you can play some free games they have set up. I signed up for free and playedDesktop Tower Defense (DTD). The way the game works is you have these little guys called “creeps” that go across your screen and you have to place towers in places where they will be shot at. when the creeps get close enough to the towers the towers start firing on there own and
August 3rd, 2007 at 6:08 am
Easy strategy for spawn creeps = ink towers. works for darks as well.
(Yes, i’m talking about DTD 1.5)
June 5th, 2008 at 8:35 am
If you like that style with no paths. A lot of em have been released lately, like this one:
http://www.flashtowerdefence.com/flash/19/Master_of_Security.html