Tower Defense: Epic War 9+

Amateurish but fun

It’s a shallow imitation of Kingdom Rush but it successfully fills the void while I wait for another great game from Iron Hide.

The graphics and animations resemble fan art. Little things are missing like a visual indicator of tower range on a difference in the banner icon when you’ve finished a level of Hard difficulty. And the humor and Easter eggs of a good Iron Hide game that tell you they enjoyed making the game are missing as well.

But the real indication of a good game is that I am still playing it after a few days and many levels. It’s fun. It’s as simple as that.

I’m in World 3 and I haven’t yet felt compelled to pay for upgrades. This is not pay to win so far as I’ve experienced. I did pay $0.99 for more elixir after playing for over an hour. This got me enough to keep playing for the day and elixir regenerates plenty over night. Worth it.

I tried to get elixir by watching ads but that feature seems broken at the moment. I get a loading indicator that just seems to time out without showing me an ad or giving me elixir. Not a killer problem.

I hope the levels get a little more varied, the towers get more varied powers, and the heroes are different from each other in action (I have only tried the default hero). I hope the elixir price per level doesn’t rise so high that I have to keep buying elixir from the store. Hope keeps me playing. Hope and fun.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for your kind review, we will keep improving the game :)

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okay so i just wanted to remind you about ur other games you haven’t updated in a while! Also i know this a knock off version of kingdom rush, but that’s very much okay! they are a big company and ur just by yourself! good luck and don’t stop making games!! (:

Hmm this looks familiar...

Massive disclaimer: Hint Hint, I’m a Kingdom Rush loyalist. Nevertheless, please, for the love of god just play Kingdom Rush. Sure it ain’t free, but it’s certainly better. There are literally 2 comments that state this and that is too few. So only two people recognize this as a knockoff? I see a lot of people griping about micro transactions but let’s be honest, those are in literally every game on the AppStore. But knockoffs, that’s a different problem, take the first part of this review as both a suggestion and a warning.

I don’t know what else there is to say. I’ve played the Kingdom Rush games since I was 10 years old. For ***** sake people, please don’t support knockoffs of actually good games.

Ok, in all fairness, if you’re broke AF and can’t afford a cheap AF and good game called Kingdom Rush, then maybe this is a decent alternative.

Also, I read one review where the dev responded that he’s only one dude and he’s a student that obviously can’t compete with Ironhide Studios, I get that. This could probably be a pretty cool game if I didn’t recognize some of the maps, towers, mechanics, etc. being blatantly copied from Kingdom Rush.

I only give this two stars because it’s not a completely lost cause. Has potential, do something cool with it.

At least it isn’t another Clash of Clans knockoff...

Cheers!