Tower defense
20
MENTIONS
7
EPISODES
7
PODCASTS
Search complete. 20 mentions across 7 episodes found for "Tower defense".
Oct 26, 2026
Jakub RemiarHOST
We have our typical roguelite-style run of choosing out of three abilities.
Jakub RemiarHOST
This is actually quite similar to something like Bang Bang Survivor because we have, let's say, Tower Defense without the road.
Jakub RemiarHOST
Monsters are just appearing.
Jakub RemiarHOST
But actually it's a little bit more... like modeled after kingshot because what's happening here is you see like i'm like i can build a tower here i can build a tower there i can like upgrade my base that's
Jakub RemiarHOST
And you see the skills on the right, and literally this is very, very similar to something like...
Jakub RemiarHOST
Wizard vs. Slime and Bang Bang Survival.
Jakub RemiarHOST
So again, it's their tower defense kind of baseline for the core.
Jakub RemiarHOST
So the new thing that's been added here is that you are actually moving your character.
LukeHOST
Was there anything else, Tony, for us in this episode of PAX 2026?
TonyHOST
Nothing PAX related, but I did purchase that Tower Defense game.
TonyHOST
It was on special.
TonyHOST
Oh, which one? The one you were saying we should try out.
Ralph PanebiancoHOST
Two indie developers this week cancelled scheduled public playtests for their upcoming games because of fears that their demos would be quickly deconstructed and replicated for a quick buck through clone games and copycats, long before they would be able to actually release the full versions of their games.
Ralph PanebiancoHOST
The developers in question include Digital Sun, best known for making the excellent Moonlight and Cataclysmo, who have made the public playtest for their next game a vampire-themed riff on Tower Defense, private to their Discord.
Ralph PanebiancoHOST
Clone and copycat games are nothing new of course, have you been on literally any digital storefront lately? But they can now be spun up far more rapidly and with very little effort thanks to AI vibe coding tools.
Ralph PanebiancoHOST
Digital Son have called on all platforms like Steam to, quote, keep strengthening protections for original work so studios of every size can keep sharing their games early.
Guy FieriSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Hell yeah, brother.
Guy FieriSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Let me talk about Tower Defense.
Guy FieriSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You think I'm on
JoeHOST
this desert island? You think I want to get my ass beat by Grey Cow? No, dude.
15 MINS LATER
JesseHOST
new love for this snare, but go ahead.
JesseHOST
Go ahead.
JoeHOST
I love tower defense.
JoeHOST
It's my last.
Kohji NagataPANELIST
Exactly.
Kohji NagataPANELIST
I mean, we used to do the opposite, right? Like we started, we started with making WoW mods and then got, uh, Tower Defense and, and, uh, Team Fight and, and all this other stuff, and now, now we're putting it backwards.
Kohji NagataPANELIST
We're just like, "Let's play the games that I liked in a shittier version in a game that I already play."
Sam SteffaninaHOST
[laughs]
Andy BHOST
Um, you are Dracula, and you've kinda gotten tired of all of these roving adventurers coming in to take down your shifting castle, and you've really had enough.
Andy BHOST
And it is a tower defense-style game, and it's a rogue-like where you're gonna kind of set the castle back up in your own image, in your own choosing.
Andy BHOST
Set the traps, lay out the routes, so all the, like, seemingly endless run of adventuring heroes that are after your glory and lore and, you know, the prize of taking down Dracula can kind of, you know, get put back in their place.
Andy BHOST
[laughs] So, it's a, it's a fun...
Andy BHOST
Check that out.
Andy BHOST
Um, there was another one here that came out that I thought looked neat.
Andy BHOST
Uh, also th- there's like a tower defense theme to the What Is This games this week, by the way.
Andy BHOST
Uh, so this one is called Expand TD, or Expand Tower Defense, and it is a procedural roguelike tower defense game.
Dan FinityHOST
Like, it's essentially Vampire Survivors, but you're giant castles.
TiddlyPANELIST
Like Tower Defense, but it's, like, Castle Defense?
Dan FinityHOST
Yes.
Dan FinityHOST
Mobile
40 MINS LATER
Dan FinityHOST
I know Devolver had a pretty big sale recently, and I don't know if that's still going on.
Dan FinityHOST
uh it doesn't look like it but i know that the first two were on sale recently and like check in around like black friday they probably possibly do something like that again um but uh i know that that has like a fan base that really likes playing those games so that's That's one that I wanted to highlight here.
Dan FinityHOST
And then another one is, so this game, the same studio that did Moonlighter, Moonlighter 2, and they also did a game called Cataclysm, which Cataclysm, when it came out a couple years ago, it's like a city builder where it's also tower defense.
Dan FinityHOST
That one's very, very good.