Radiant Defense

Colton Benn

2 years ago

One of the most fun, most challenging, player-decision-dependent, and gorgeously designed, game on smartphones, period. TD games, this is a must beat. Totally worth the few dollars to get everything and get back a hundred hours of tower defense awesomeness. Sound like a bot. I'm not. This games legit. I'm reviewing because OG Status, that's why Cb

Darkspyre []

4 years ago

Cool aesthetic and presentation, but made exceedingly difficult by locking extremely useful towers behind a paywall, which according to other reviews used to be free. If you're f2p it's absurdly easy to set up a good defense of basic towers that fails utterly because you didn't know it was coming and plan for it in advance. Wave retry would be nice qol if it weren't basically a requirement to frequently use if you want to avoid paying, and I don't want to pay away forced tedium and difficulty.

Nikolas Hill

4 years ago

The game is very entertaining and difficult. It has nice little vague tie ins with Radiant, one of my favorite mobile games, and has the same type of campy humor. Anyone telling you that the game is unbeatable without the packs is honestly either really bad or weak to in app purchases. I've beaten all but the last two without packs, and then I decided to buy them to support the devs. It's a difficult game, and it's very particular about turret and module placement. Learn to play.

Marty Corona

4 years ago

I'll leave a real review; there is a lot of potential for replay ability in the levels with modules and unique weapons, but some of the levels are extremely hard to beat f2p, if not impossible. That being said, I did buy 2 of the packs in the game, but I still had to use guides sometimes as I wouldnt have the right idea otherwise of how to beat the levels. A challenging but fun tower defense.

A Google user

5 years ago

Amazing game, one of the best on the Play store. Graphics are flawless, gameplay is smooth, and I even found myself chuckling every now and then at a character's witty line which is a nice bonus. Many different ways to win, using various strategies, although after a while it becomes nearly impossible without buying the weapon packs (which are definitely worth the money) but still a great game nonetheless.

Justin Rawlins

1 year ago

Literally the best tower defense game of all time I have had this game on multiple devices for at least three maybe four years straight. It's a very hard game once you get to some of the last levels but eventually after you beat it you can beat it trying different strategies. There's more than one way to beat a level it's just a fantastic game but you'll most likely have to buy the packs. Wish they would make radiant defense 2 or add bonus levels.

Bill C

4 years ago

Hexage produces really great looking and sounding games. This is also very challenging, it is not an easy game to beat. I was a little turned off by the in game purchasing of features, but it comes out to about $6 for the whole game. If remember correctly. Well worth the price. I just wish they would add more levels. [Edit] Ok Hexage, it's been 8 years. When are you going to add more levels?

DonutGuy640

4 years ago

Been a while since I've played, but it's a fairly good tower defence game, more colorful than any I remember, and sometimes kinda funny with the dialogue! The main irritating bit I remember is if a mission you're retrying has dialogue, you have to run through it all, every retry. Also, probably intentional, but things are somewhat randomized, so that you can play the same mission, in the same exact way, and have very different results! BONUS - my progress was kept after I switched phones!

A Google user

5 years ago

Great tower defense game. Decent variety of towers and great variety of enemies. The module system allows you to edit the map as you play for most levels for a neat new dynamic. There is one fatal flaw, however. The tower AI is absolute garbage. The player has no access to targeting options, yet the towers seemingly can't stick to one. This leads to an unfortunate reliance on RNG if you want to play conservatively.

CJ Donohue

4 years ago

I love this game! The atmosphere it makes is amazing, the effects and sounds are used to great effect! As for the actual gameplay, its a bit rough. Trying to get past Mission four is near impossible for me, and i had to eventually resort to looking up a gameplay guide. If it wasnt for the difficulty spike, I would say this is the best tower defense game there is! There are no intrusive ads, which would break the amazing atmosphere, so thats a plus too.

A Google user

5 years ago

WOW this game had so much potential. The art is charming, the dialogue is hilarious, and I had so much fun at first. But even in the second and third levels, they'll throw ridiculously impossible waves to defeat that are only weak to weapons in the purchase packs. There isn't a difficulty curve, there's a difficulty CLIFF. And I haven't been playing long enough to justify throwing money at it. I'd hate to think that the only reason I'm passing levels is because MONEY.

Richard Gibson

2 years ago

I really wanted to like this more. The towers and enemies are well-designed and the game is extremely colorful. However, if they have no target, the towers will space out and turn in random directions. For the fast towers, this isn't an issue, but for the slow ones, this could mean missing several shots and not defeating all the enemies. There was too much random chance involved in the most frustrating way possible. I couldn't go on.

Victor Emilio Castillo Cordones

4 years ago

2019: Though it leaves you wanting more, I have not stopped playing so that says it all! 2021: The visuals aesthetics are beautiful and the gameplay is enjoyable but compared to other TD games it now falls short - Cost of upgrades that are almost required to beat the game - Not enough playable stages for long-term & insufficient credit received - No detailed specs on items to know *when/where/on what enemy* to use so just left with trial & error Please update and expand this game!

The Brown House

2 years ago

I liked it, but BOY does it get hard fast. I can't get past stage 3 without watching a guide, and i feel really dirty doing that. The dancing aliens are so cool too! I love that type of feature. Starting from zero and getting more decorations. Overall, better than the average tower defense game. I would recommend (don't know if i spelled that right). But don't go into it not expecting a challenge. On a side note the dialogue from doc and the commander are really funny.

Sufang Kong

4 years ago

There is a serious problem with the game right away. Enemy targeting for towers is almost always misdirected towards less important enemies along your defense. For example, my turret targets enemies in the back of the invasion whereas the front of the alien invasion can easily slip through my defenses and eventually into my base. Fix this. Otherwise, game itself is beautiful. Love the design choice, its setting, and how bubbly the art is and its colors.

A Google user

6 years ago

I think its great fun and addicting. That's not including the times it makes me extremely mad but the green enemy's should not be able to regenerate while being shot which is an issue keeping me from beating level 4. Level 4!!! Also make the ai better and make it so that you can win without being packs there's nothing wrong with hard but almost impossible is an issue. Its like playing undertale or cuphead but having to pay for items and upgrades.

ken ken

4 years ago

This game is interesting, with the wide variety of towers and the modules, but it's ridiculously annoying to get your desired outcome, because most of the towers' AI doesn't fire at the enemies closest to their objective, which ends out in death, unfair life loss, and having to restart the wave just to ATTEMPT to get a desired outcome. Also, some towers are insanely weak, such as the tesla, or the poison gas spray (forgot what it was called). Aside from those things, this game is great.