SteamWorld Tower Defense
SteamWorld Tower Defense is a tower defense video game by Swedish video game developer Image & Form. It was released digitally on Nintendo DSi in North America, Europe and Australia on July 5, 2010. It is the first game released in the SteamWorld series.
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• Title — SteamWorld Tower Defense • Developer — Image & Form • Publisher — Image & Form • Series — SteamWorld • Platforms — DSiWare • Released — July 5, 2010 • Genre — Real-time strategy, tower defense • Modes — Single-player
Gameplay
Gameplay
In SteamWorld Tower Defense the player controls an army of steam-powered robots in a tower defense-style gameplay. The aim of the game is to take down wandering troops of human invaders in their attempt to steal gold from the robots' mining facilities. To clear a mission, the player must take down waves of human soldiers by building and strategically placing out attack robots with a range of abilities and weapons. It's possible to play the game on several difficulty levels.
Development
Development
On their YouTube channel, Image & Form revealed that SteamWorld Tower Defense is the hardest game the studio has created. Apparently, the game's lead developer is the only of Image & Form employees to finish the game. The game is set before the events depicted in SteamWorld Dig and SteamWorld Heist.
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SteamWorld Tower Defense published.
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SteamWorld Tower Defense is recorded as published in 2010.
Reception
SteamWorld Tower Defense on Nintendo DSi has received "mixed or average" reviews from critics, with a current score of 71/100 on Metacritic. Lucas M Thomas of IGN gave the game an eight out of ten, praising how polished the game's presentation was for a DSi title. Andrew Wight of Nintendo Life noted that the game's fun was accompanied by "frustratingly difficult" segments that hindered its overall quality, praising it for being a fun title nevertheless.
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- 1.SteamWorld Tower Defense. www.nintendo.com.
- 2.Image & Form. The SteamWorld Timeline – The Engine Room #1. 2015-09-10.
- 3.SteamWorld Tower Defense Image & Form Games. Image & Form Games.
- 4.SteamWorld Tower Defense for DS Reviews. Metacritic.
- 5.Wight, Andrew. SteamWorld: Tower Defense Review (DSiWare). Nintendo Life. 10 July 2010.
- 6.M Thomas, Lucas. SteamWorld: Tower Defense Review. IGN. 9 July 2010.
- 7.Blundon, Matthew. SteamWorld: Tower Defense. Nintendo World Report. 18 July 2010.
- 8.Image & Form. Why Each SteamWorld Game is Different – The Engine Room #2. 2015-09-18.
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