Reviews for Stronghold

[Neenar]

Has more coding bugs than in-game ones.

It's playable. It's kinda fun. It's simple. Nice music (at least in the "shop" - though that's just one track). Nice graphics, as far as I've seen. Varied weapons. And I think this is THE first game I've seen to portray a shotgun correctly, i.e. tight-bound cloud of pellets.
Overall, for a first submission - very good job.
It's damn easy, though. The aliens can barely put a dent in the walls, what with the insane regen rate. Actually, I'm over 20 levels in and they never managed to bring a wall to less than 95%. And why the hell a move option if there's no goddamn reason to move outside of the first few levels to hit multiple targets with a shotgun... even though it's not even necessary to survive?
No weapon hotkeys, though that's barely a problem since you never switch mid-level. No reload button, which is a bit irritating.
And when the hell does the second half of the guns unlock?
The coding... that's where things fail, though.
For starters, the game doesn't detect mouse clicks correctly. There's no way to shoot accurately with single-shot weapons; the game even reacts to mouse button RELEASE instead of press, so you can't even hope to overcome the problem by pushing it longer. The only sensible way to fire is semi-auto: click goddamn fast. And since when is it possible with a shotgun?!
Autofire weapons - ok, less of a problem. Just NEVER, EVER RELEASE THE MOUSE BUTTON. Except with some that spit a lot of bullets, the hit detection just fails. Yes, bullets fly over the monsters without doing anything. Irritating.
Plus, a fun bug: hold the fire button with an autofire weapon once the wave ends. If you're lucky, the reload will kick in the moment the game switches to the shop and the weapon will keep firing while you're there. Once you get back to the game and switch to that weapon, it'll get back to firing without a mouse click. It'll go into negative ammo - I'm guessing it comes from some mirror universe or something ;p - and never need to reload for the whole level. But that's not the best part: you can click and hold the mouse button and the gun fires at TWICE the fire rate. Magical double-gun. Works up to around -500 ammo, I think.
And this, kids, is why you put in redundant failsafes to your code.
Anyway - seen so much worse stuff pass from even big companies that it's not much of a problem. The game gets kinda boring, though, when you have half the weapons unlocked and cash just stacking up without being able to spend it.
Has potential.

[Wyrst]

Potential

Well, it did look nice. And I was rather fond of the insect-like creatures. It's great to exact pity revenge on them. Enough blood and gore to keep me statisfied and I think I saw several diffrent death sequences. So that's definately cool.

However, I soon discovered that my walls were automatically regenerating which kind of kills the whole point of the game. When I came back from my bathroom break later on, they were still munching happily away at my wooden walls which would go from 100 to 99 to 101 per cent. I reckon this should be the first thing to look into.

Then there was the small little square in the middle of nowhere on Mars. It's not very imaginative. Think outside the box. You were part of an expedition. Wouldn't they have had some kind of camp? Something bigger than just that little square. Perhaps you'd change position after a certain ammount of days. Some alternative defence upgrades would be nice as well. Perhaps one-turn auto turrets, mines or whatever you can think of.

I also wonder if there's an end to it. You'd expect one from the description but when you get to day twentyfive and you're still haven't gotten any new unlocks nor word from a transport, you start to wonder just how long the game's going to drag on. Now don't tell me thirty was to be the next 'checkpoint'.

All in all, was the ammount of entertainment bigger than the annoyances? Certainly. 4/5 and 8/10. I do hope for a new version which'll be more inovative. Since I can see some great potential here.

[CaptainFaggot]

It's a nice defence game.

It's nicely paced, which is alot more then I can say for other games.

[weganic]

omg man

yes, this game is very nice, there are many other games like this.
You should update the weapon system- its very irritating to have to reload over and over again- also the shots sometimes come too late

[81CCCP90]

fun

everything is a little overpriced and takes too long too buy, other than that its fun.