---see where this game landed on my tower defense tier list beneath this review!---

Tiny Tactics is a refreshing mazer TD for those that miss using units as towers in some of the Warcraft 3 custom maps.

Each.. "tower" belongs to one or more class groups, and getting multiple towers of the same class onto the battlefield gives you increasingly powerful class bonuses. This encourages you to try and synergize wherever possible and there are a lot of options in this regard.

This is one of those tower defenses where you aren't forced to do any activity during a wave, but quite a bit of thinking between.

The game allows you to play in 2x speed (I didn't need it any faster, waves are short).

Between levels you have an overworld hub which you are exploring. It's very minor interactivity, but I do appreciate this approach over games that use a stage select list. You have different routes you can explore and this causes you to wonder what lies beyond in different directions (even though it will just be one of 3 things: a pile of crystals, more levels or the entrance to a new biome).

Each level has multiple difficulties and you want to 3 star each level to retrieve the 3 crystals from it. You spend the crystals on permnanet upgrades, roguelite style. The upgrades are only marginally interesting and there aren't too many of them so this is an area that I felt could have used further effort & imagination.

Music is pretty minimalist but inoffensive, though I load up my own music when playing this one.

For some reason the game has a setting that blurs the edges of the screen (often interfering with your vision of the path you're building on). You can thankfully disable this in options (click on FoV). Weird that this is on by default, it might make a screenshot look pretty, but it's otherwise annoying interferance.

All in all, this is a pretty fun and addictive TD for those that like to think a bit about the tower synergy/unit compositions. I'm far from finished it, there's a lot of content here.

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My Tower Defense Tier List
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-Not an objective list, purely how much I enjoyed the games-

S Tier: X-Morph Defense | Warcraft 3 (Custom TD Maps) | Orcs Must Die! | Orcs Must Die! 2 | Orcs Must Die! 3 |

A Tier: Dungeon Warfare | Plants Vs. Zombies | Warstone TD | Fieldrunners 2 |

B Tier: Tower Tactics: Liberation | Spirit of the Hellements | Revenge of the Titans | Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal | Digs | Gross | Tiny Tactics |

C Tier (Fun): Kingdom Rush | Defenders Quest: Valley of the Forgotten | Prime World Defenders | Dungeon of the Endless | Refactor | Dungeon Warfare 2 | Digfender | HexGuardian |

D Tier (Meh): Carnage Offering TD | Starship Defense | Isle of Arrows | Unstoppable Gorg | 2112TD | Ancient Planet | Fieldrunners | Infinitode | Element TD 2 | Space Run | Bloons TD 5 | Gemcraft: Chasing Shadows | Gemcraft: Frostborn Wrath | Deathtrap | Terrorhedron | Dungeon Defenders | Dwarfs!? (Tower Defense Mode) | Shapebreaker | Alien Shooter TD |

E Tier (Didn’t like): Sang-Froid: Tales of Werewolves | Otherwar | Sentinel 3: Homeworld | Unholy Heights | Rock of Ages 3 | Infested Planet | Monster Tiles TD | Cubetractor | Defense Grid: The Awakening | Bish Bash Bots | Sanctum 2 | Super Sanctum TD | Steamworld Tower Defense | Rogue Tower | No Creeps Were Harmed TD |
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Played many more than this, but many forgettable TD’s I have.. “forgotten” when making this list.