Since then, the series has mostly improved with every iteration. Zombies was an instant hit when it launched back in 2009 by PopCap Games, so much so that EA actually ended up buying the whole company (PopCap Games). There’s a wide array of towers for you to play with but there’s also resource management and base-building thrown into the mix, and all of this coupled with the fact that you can build an army of player-controlled units and waves of literally thousands of enemies at a time makes this game one of the greatest TD games created (in my opinion). This one is not strictly a tower defense game, some might see it more like a survival game as you have to manage resources etc, but I see it as a tower defense game as it scratches all of my TD itches and more. It’s a lot of fun and I sunk many, many hours into it. In this game you not only have to build towers to defend against waves of enemies/balloons but you also have to send the waves to your enemies. Bloons TD 5 is probably the best in the franchise in terms of single-player fun, but they also developed a multiplayer game called ‘Bloons TD Battles’.
I first played the Bloons series on mobile and I was instantly hooked.
In the end, Glen cheated by watching YouTube videos to find easy ways to get far, but before that point I was winning, so who’s the real winner? Anyway, about the game – it’s great, because not only can you use a wide array of towers to take down the waves of enemies but you also take control of a hero who has different abilities and weapons depending on which hero you choose. We regularly teamed up to see how long we could last and we got way too competitive when it came to who could get furthest playing solo. My BuffNerfRepeat colleague Glen and I spent tonnes of hours playing Orcs Must Die back in the day. Check out my personal favourite tower defense games below: Orcs Must Die Things have come a long way since then though we now have third-person shooter tower defense games, we have mobile games, and we have tower defense games that spawn literally millions of enemies at any one time. In fact, many of the games listed below are based on these custom games. I’ve always been a fan of tower defense games ever since my first experience with them all the way back in the Starcraft & Warcraft 3 days, where their custom games were littered with various tower defense scenarios developed by the community, and still to this day I stand by them being among the best tower defense games ever created.