Sanctum

64

Funny tower defense.

Do you like tower defence? If yes get this game, awesome places, a lot of fun in single player, even more better on multiplayer, even if is a bit dead there will be always someone willing to play it.

74

Fun but repetitive

Sanctum is truly graphicaly and gameplay wise really nice, sadly the game can get rather repetitive while surviving trough the hordes of enemies. The ambient music is done very well tough and the locations will it leave you with your breath open, tough some exploration wouldn't have hurt. Players can even buy extra levels in DLC form or weapons wich may annoy others as there is no other way of obtaining or unlocking them.

The survival CO-OP mode is really fun with a friend, the multiplayer community is not very alive and rarely players play.

For the low price it sure is worth to buy if you want to kill some time.

65

Pretty decent but lacking variety

I was kind of surprised when I first played the game. I thought it was one of the usual Tower-Defense games you get tired of after a few minutes. But Sanctum surprised me in a good way at first. The graphical style is fresh and lively, the graphics pretty decent for an indie game, in many aspects as good as a "professional" game.

The gameplay is interesting at first, involving the different phases of building and shooting. The shooting phase was fairly innovative as it combined the traditional strategy part with the ability to actively influence the ending of the match. The bad part about the gameplay is that it becomes somewhat dull after the first hours. The amount of maps to play on is rather low and what makes it even worse is the lack of variety among the maps. All of them have the same meshes which are used for every architecture and there's only one type of vegetation.

The enemies you fight in Sanctum might look strange and really extraterrestrial, but they're lacking diversity as much as architecture and vegetation do. There's only like a handful of different kinds and most of them can be defeated the same way, making the differences the game claims they had rather unimportant.

Sanctum is for you if you are interested in the Co-op part, but not if you're looking for a game worth spending many hours on.

71

Fun, but gets repetitive after a while

Coming from a fan of both Tower Defences and First Person Shooters, I would say they have both been mixed together quite well in Sanctum. I liked different types of buildings, weapons and monsters,, they were done extremely well, but I didn't really like the waiting time between waves. Having to wait for all the players to ready up got extremely annoying and started to bore me. If we could build while the monsters were spawning it would add a lot more excitement to it. Even if there was a time limit for building (say 20secs) then I would have enjoyed it more. Also, in Australia it was quite hard to find servers that weren't laggy which also stopped me from playing it often.

85

Tower Defense and FPS had a baby?! Count me in!

The idea is great! Having a marriage between FPS and Tower Defense genres is an awesome idea. The delivery is a bit mediocre but still this game is loads of fun with friends or solo. On any given map, you have a grid that you can build your defense on, with various turrets and towers of different abilities and uses. You can upgrade these towers as well to help stop oncoming waves of enemies. Also, you carry with you three different weapons which can also be upgraded. Whether going solo or with a team, you must stop the oncoming advance of enemies who come in waves using your weapons and turrets. Good players will learn to direct and lead the enemy in a maze of turrets while utilizing their weapons to stop enemies in their tracks. This game is a great concept and I hope to see more games like this in the future.

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