Defense Grid: The Awakening is an exceptional Strategy/Indie that raises the bar for the genre.
92
Verdict
96%
Steam
86
IGDB
Verdict score based on confidence-adjusted Steam reviews?
Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam (96% positive from 5.3K reviews)
Critically acclaimed (86/100 critic average)
Below-average player reception
Defense Grid: The Awakening is a tower defense video game developed by Hidden Path Entertainment for Windows and Xbox Live Arcade on the Xbox 360. The game was one of the titles promoted by Microsoft during their Game Developers Conference keynote speech on February 20, 2008. The game was released for Microsoft Windows on December 8, 2008, and for Xbox 360 on September 2, 2009. The OS X version shipped from Virtual Programming on July 7, 2010.
Runs well on modern hardware.
Last updated 8h ago
fun has a really fun storyline
Shockingly difficult right from the first mission. There's no onramp for the game. It just drops you into a massive difficulty curve right away and never relents. My assumption after losing badly over and over no matter what I tried was that the first mission was meant to be lost for story purposes, but no, it's just that hard.
rigged!
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