Desktop Tower Defense

Desktop Tower Defense is a captivating tower defense game that offers a unique blend of puzzle and strategy gameplay. The game was created by Paul Preece and was originally released in 2007 as a Flash game. It has since been played hundreds of millions of times, demonstrating its enduring popularity among gamers.

The game cleverly simulates an actual office desktop, complete with a wood surface and the edge of a keyboard, setting the stage for an immersive gaming experience. As the commander of your own tower defense, your mission is to strategically place different types of towers along the path to stop waves of incoming enemies, known in the genre as “creeps”, from reaching their goal.

Unlike many other tower defense games, the path of the creeps themselves is not set; instead, the towers built by the player determine the path of the creeps, who take the shortest path they can find to the exit. The game does not allow the player to make an exit completely inaccessible, but key strategies revolve around guiding creeps into lengthy, meandering corridors.

The creeps come in waves at set intervals, each wave having different characteristics such as immunity to certain towers, extra resistance to certain towers, and the abilities to spawn new creeps, move faster than normal, or fly over the towers instead of following the maze. For each wave, the game rotates among the types of creeps. Several times during gameplay, boss waves will appear, consisting of just one or two large creeps each, that take many hits to defeat.

The game can be played in three difficulty levels: easy, medium, and hard. In addition, there are several challenge modes available for those seeking more from the game. Challenges range from “The 100”, where the player must defeat 100 levels of successively difficult creeps, to “3K Fixed”, where the player has to build a fixed set of towers (including the upgrades) with just 3000 gold.

Desktop Tower Defense is a game that challenges players’ strategic thinking and decision-making skills, making it a must-play for fans of the tower defense genre.