X-Morph: Defense

insanely fun defense game that also has a twin-stick shooter element. this is a solid, addicting game that is a must play if you're into tower defense games.

This is a wonderful game, what a surprise it was... it's a action tower defense game, much like Sanctum 2, where you place your towers to influence the path of the enemy, and instead of just letting them do the work, you are also a unit that goes around doing damage, in this case, as a spaceship doing some top-down shooter combat.
The action is non-stop, as the ship you are always active, one of the game's greatest strenghts is never having down-time. Not to say you'll be constantly overwhelmed, it's very well paced, but you'll always be doing something. Shooting and observing how effective your towers are and collecting destroyed enemy scrap, flying back-and-forward to juggle multiple lanes. You can also build mid-round in a pinch. It's the only tower defense game I've played that does NOT need a fast-forward button at all.
The tower placement is pretty unique, you can greatly shape the path of the enemy, much like Sanctum, but in a more dynamic way. The grid is a lot smaller and blockades can be made in any wacky ways you can think of... very satisfying to force an enemy path to do a Loop-the-loop around street blocks.
My favorite part of the game is how dynamic everything is, almost everything is destructible and all the bits have physics to them, and it's not all just for eye-candy, lots of it has purpose. Enemy debris can be collected for points and extra build materials, smaller buildings when destroyed can open up new paths for enemies to use, or open up line-of-sight for your turrets, and larger buildings can tumble onto roads, the debris blocking whole paths for the enemy, and also doing damage if anything under. Plus it IS just extremely satisfying to use a bomb and see all the things explode majestically around.
And the graphics are pretty charming I'd say... it has a late PS3/360 vibe to it, but while still having plenty of vivid color and appealing visual effects. I don't know if this 7th gen vibe was intentional or not, but I appreciate it none the less, the first level looks straight out of Metal gear rising or Resident evil 5, but with high res textures and modern niceties. Not stunning, but I'd call it very competent.
So yea, that's about it, it's just a bit of a hidden gem, found it at random, it was dirty cheap, didn't expect much and was blown away by the quality. Extremely fun, recommend it to everyone, even if top-down shooters arent your thing, they aren't mine, it STILL hooked completely.

I'm a few levels in, so I scrapedx the surface.

So far, the game is pretty fun.

+ Wave based Tower defense.
+ place towers and interconnect them to block/redirect walking paths
+ optional: manual shooting mode using your ship
+ optional: focus turrets only
+ destructible environment, such as bridges and the buildings

9.4/10
Great mix of tower defense and star fighter mechanics. DLC is also fun, but probably easier to justify buying only when on sale.
Had a couple bugs, but that might just be my out of date PC.

It's both great and unique TD game, not only it is very interesting strategically, making you constantly think from the perspective of your tower positioning throughout the fight and actively do fighing, resource gathering and supporting with skills where needed by yourself, it is very beutiful with wonderful effects graphics and physics.
A lot of levels are standing out by level design on their own too, making campaign walkthrough constantly interesting to play.
I recommend to play on at least Hard difficulty.

Fun defense game with a fully controllable ship which is a good addition

This game is totally fun.... but it sadly lacks an multiplayer lan/online mode... it's nice that it offers splitscreen what's not very common today but... yeah would love to play that Game online with friends!
Would recommend it to a lot of friends in case of possibility