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Swampy has struck again. He's now posted over almost 400 comments, all spam while I was working on the review and while i was screen capturing the comments he'd made, he's posted another seven pages (approx 140 comments). I'll let him waste his time a sit takes me seconds to delete each page. :)

Thankfully one of the other admins has come online and has delete a lot of the comments already. I do hope the owners add the software to block comments that have been posted via vpn servers as this is becoming too distracting. Of course that is the whole point of his game. Whether we can do something legally as yet I don't know, but I'm sure there are lawyers that visit this site. Maybe they can offer some advice?

This guy must have seen the difficulties I'm having moderating a the moment due to the DVT, yet he has spent a considerable amount of time posting spam comments. At the present count there has been well over 400 comments posted all of which have been trashed.

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Hi Folks, firstly, thanks to all who sent well wishes last week, please forgive the lack of replies, I'm sure you'll understand why. :)

I will try to post something this morning (already played the game and taken loads of screen captures), however, a follow on to last weeks problems. Things haven't as yet improved and I'm waking up literally in agony every morning. Following my visit to the hospital last Saturday, where I was cleared of any problems, things had become worse by Monday so I secured a telephone triage via my local GP (phoned within seconds of the lines opening but was still number 17 in the que), who asked for me to come into the surgery later that morning. The doctor took one look at my leg and immediately phoned the hospital and booked a Doppler scan, which I was given a few hours later and which showed a massive blood clot behind my knee (I was told it was most likely the flight I'd taken several weeks previously), so was put on blood thinners (not Warfarin) and told the clot would clear over the coming weeks. I'm on the thinners for 3 to 6 months. As yet the pain hasn't subsided much, so am finding it difficult to spent too long sitting at the computer. I will moderate as and when I'm able. It's my daughters 16th birthday today as well, so we may be taking her out for a meal later today (depends on whether I'm up to it). Whatever I will endevour to post something. :)

This is one of my favorite arcade genres next to Shmups and Breakouts so I'm disappointed not to write up a full review. It doesn't have the best graphics I've seen in a Tower Defense, but the depth of game play, i.e. with a multitude of towers and upgrades, this game should keep any TD fan happy for many hours. To those new to the genre, there's even a tips and tricks section and access to 16 You Tube tutorials all of which you can see HERE. I thoroughly enjoyed what little time I've already spent playing the game (I'd already previously purchased this when it was released on Steam 18 months ago). If you've never played tower defense games before I highly recommend you try this and if you decide you like the genre I also recommend one of my favorite tower defense games called Defense Grid: The Awakening (one of the first games I ever purchased for Steam (and it's sequel), though you can find almost 200 Tower Defense games on Steam HERE. There's even a version with a first person perspective called Sanctum 2, which can also be played cooperatively with friends and family.

With 5000 keys, there's a very good chance you could win a key; there are only two actions to perform to stand a chance of winning a key, the first is to share the Steam page with your Steam friends and for a second entry share the giveaway page via Facebook. The latter isn't necessary to stand a chance of winning (for those who refuse to have a Facebook account {like me}). Good luck to all who enter.

In Brief

An excellent tower defense game with cartoon like graphics and lots of towers and upgrades. Definitely one of the better TD games available on Steam.

If you win a key for Defend Your Life, please give some feedback about your opinion of the game, for example, what you liked or disliked about it, or how it could be improved from your point of view . If you don't like this genre at all, please explain why. What, improvements, if any, would change your opinion? There are thousands of subscribers to the game giveaway of the day every weekend which makes this an ideal forum for giving developers ideas as to what their consumers (i.e you) would like to see in a game. For example, you could suggest extra content such as better or more original mini games, or a level editor that you would like to see that would make it more appealing to you. Maybe you think the graphics are a little dated and are in need of re skinning, or maybe you've just had enough of the genre and want to see something different or something with more originality?

If you don't win a key, don't mind playing games via Steam or miss the offer totally you can get the game 24/7 via Steam HERE. It usually costs £3.99; however until the 31st October it is on sale with 80% off (i.e. £0.79/$0.99).

Defend Your Life! Is a tower defense game set in the human body where players fight against villainous hordes of viruses and bacteria. Levels and units correspond to reality of human anatomy.

Show your tactical and strategic thinking in epic battlefields situated in various parts of the human body, for example the appendix, pancreas, heart, brain and many other vital organs. Customize the build order of towers and use upgrades wisely. Use electric shock, bombard the enemies or support your towers via adrenalin injections. Summon a mighty Golem to stop enemies like the Flu and Cold viruses, as well as kidney stones, cancer and a multitude of other enemies (23 different enemies in total).

Edited and amended reference accessed HERE. 22nd Oct 2016

Assuming you win a Steam key for Defend your Life! once you've found it (should be sent to the email you used to enter the giveaway) you have to activate the game via your Steam client. Once activated it will be permanently tied to your Steam profile and you'll be able to install the game at any time, anywhere on any computer, so long as you can validate who you are (usually via emails etc). If you don't have a Steam account you will first have to download and install the Steam client HERE

Then create a Steam profile/account. Once that has been completed you can input the Steam code that you've received (after completing the form filling) via the game button along the top of the Steam client, (located between friends and Help - see image below). From the drop down menu select 'Activate a product on Steam'. This opens a product activation window. Just follow the prompts to complete activation. Once the Steam code has been accepted, the game will be permanently associated with your Steam account and can be installed any time you wish.

If you have a problem installing or activating or getting Defend your Life! to work, please visit the problems section over in the Game Discussion forums, which I've now incorporated into the FAQ's thread, and which you can find HERE

Enjoy 17 epic battles in real human organs.

Fight against 20+ different enemies.

2 monumental boss fights where you will face the Stonekid and Cancer.

Command Platelet soldiers and support them in fights.

Hero Room with specialists ready to fight under your command.

Build and upgrade 3 attacking towers with rich tech tree and don´t forget to support them with tower increasing range, attack rate or damage.

Use and upgrade in-game bonuses with strong effect during fight – explosive bombs, electric shocks or adrenaline increasing attack rate of your towers.

Enjoy the game on easy mode or accept the challenges of medium or hard difficulties.

Read the in-game encyclopedia in order to take advantage of the knowledge about enemies and buildings.

Use headphones for engaging audio experience included original music and sound design.

Enjoy the awesome hand painted levels and catchy cartoon animations.

Addictive gameplay that will hook you in the human body for hours and hours!

The tower defense genre (TD) has become both increasingly crowded (almost 200 PC games via Steam and many more via the free flash sites for example HERE and HERE) and very popular in recent years due to their broad appeal and simple yet addictive game play. With so many competing titles and a limited scope for variation there’s bound to be similarities between certain titles, and Defend Your Life does have quite a bit in common with for example Kingdom Rush – one of the most popular Tower Defense games available. However Defend Your Life does have a fairly unique premise in that it’s set within a human body and sees you struggle to fight off an onslaught of viruses and ailments.

The cute cartoony graphics are pretty nice to look at and are certainly reminiscent of numerous other titles but the human body setting immediately brought to mind the old Saturday morning cartoon Once Upon a Time… Life (of which I still have the 40 odd volume book set and the old VHS videos stashed in the attic room. However any hopes for an element of education were short-lived as it was clear there is a fairly loose adherence to the core concept. The enemy types may consist of real-life named viruses and poisons such as alcohol and nicotine and the various towers include platelet barracks (for slowing down enemy units) and a vitamin station (for buffing your other towers) but otherwise the towers could have come from any other game with fast-firing cannons, powerful tesla coils, and splash damage-inflicting bombardment towers. The fact that one of the enemy units is a robot and the bombardment tower can be upgraded to a nuclear missile silo further undermines the setting.

The most important factor of a game though is how fun it is, and Defend Your life certainly succeeds in that area. It’s easy to get sucked in and lose plenty of type fending off the enemy waves in what starts off as as quite a simple game but shows hidden levels of complexity. The attack paths for the enemies are pre-set and the limited areas for placing your towers means there’s no scope for ‘mazing’ the enemies by altering their paths like you can in my all tme favorite TD game Defense Grid: The Awakening as well as it's sequel DG2: Defense Grid 2 or my other favorite TD games with third and first person perspective respectively Sanctum and Sanctum 2. Surprisingly there are no flying units to deal with in Defend your Life! which makes the first few levels a very straightforward process. Oxygen, your in-game resource, is readily available and you’re guided along a fairly rigid path of which towers to place and where. Both Defense Grid: The Awakening, DG2: Defense Grid 2, and Sanctum 1 & 2 have the additional advantage over todays game in that you can force your enemies to take alternative paths depending on where you place your defense so IMO add a lot more playability to those games compared to today's game. Still, it's a great game.

As you begin to progress through the levels, your options open and a variety of tactics become available. Towers can be upgraded in a variety of different ways, and crucially you can choose to start each enemy wave earlier for a reward of extra oxygen if you feel you have your defences set up in time. Three different power-up bars (a localised bomb, screen-spanning electric shock and an adrenaline shot for your towers) constantly fill up and choosing when and how to use them can be crucial to your survival, while the introduction of hero units which you can direct around the screen adds an extra level of interactivity missing from most other tower defence games, though not exclusive to today's game.

The shallow difficulty level soon ramps up dramatically as well, to the extent I found myself stuck after only about a third of the 17 available levels, each of which has from 12 to thirty odd waves of enemies to contend with, so don't think the game is short lived with with respect to game length.. At this point the game helpfully reminded me that the earlier levels I had beaten could be replayed on a higher difficulty setting of which there are three i.e. easy, medium and hard so that you can earn extra tablets – which can then be used to purchase permanent upgrades to your towers and abilities. With this in mind I was able to start making progress again – although the increased difficulty (which takes the form of reduced resources, more limited towers and a faster speed) means these easy early levels can become very challenging again. Even after earning extra tablets I still struggled through many of the later levels though and the demanding nature seems slightly at odds with the charming visuals.

Despite being a surprisingly fun experience in most respects, the game lets itself down with some poor production issues. It’s clearly been designed with mobile devices in mind – instructions refer to tapping the screen and images show a finger swiping to activate actions – which also explains the uneven difficulty (as a mobile device would want to encourage players to make in-game purchases to help them). Certain parts of the in-game encylopaedia take you out of the game to Alda Games own website, and the translation appears to be have been completed by individuals of widely differing abilities – some parts are translated so well you wouldn’t know it was created by a Czech developer while other parts are also amusingly poor. The frame rate can also suffer at times which is hard to forgive for such a simple game.

It is refreshing however to see the developers supporting the game post-release though with patches to fix glitches and address some of the difficulty issues, and even add an extra stage to up the number available from 16 to 17.

Overall Defend Your Life is certainly fun to play, if a little generic, but with superior games like Plants vs Zombies, Kingdom Rush and Defense Grid available it’s hard to recommend it too highly. Gamers looking for a challenge will definitely be well catered for, and the extra difficulty settings effectively triple the number of stages to play through which provides a worthy amount of content.

Edited reference accessed HERE. Original review written by Dan Miller May 21st 2015, edited and added to by Whiterabbit-uk 22nd Oct 2016

You can see Steam community reviews of Defend your Life! HERE, and if you want to see some game-play you can see some videos of game play HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE. You can see all 16 of thegame tutorial videos HERE.

Even for it's full price (assuming you failed to win a key, this is an excellent Tower Defense game. For it's sale price (until the end of October it has 80% off). I highly recommend it to anyone who likes arcade games.

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the developer Alda Games for giving away 5000 keys for this excellent Tower Defense game and also to the game giveaway team, as always, for securing other ways to get free games, in this case a Steam key.

The problems section that used to be posted here in the Game review is now included in the Game Discussion FAQ's thread; which you can find HERE.

I've updated the games section that used to be posted with the review. The thread is now called 'Weekly round up of game deals', formerly the games section of the weekly reviews. You can find the new thread (which I've posted in the sticky section of the game discussion forums to make it easier to find if you are perusing the game discussion forums) HERE.

If today's game was not to your liking, you may find other games either free or for less than the price of a cup of coffee (from your favorite coffee house) via the 'Weekly Roundup of Game Deals' thread which I've posted a link to above, or HERE.

The latest free game over on Origin has now changed to the excellent (though now dated) RPG Dungeon Keeper. You can get it HERE. Please note that you do require the Origin game platform to be able to download and install the game.

Also available via Failmid's site is a Steam key for Masked Shooter 2 which you'll find HERE. the deal ends Monday afternoon (UK time) and Ubisoft has been celebrating 30 years in the buisness by giving away games every month since June. Octobers game is the excellent Beyond Good and Evil. You do need a Ubisoft account which is free and the ubisoft uPlay client, both opf which are free. You just have to sign into your uPlay account and look for the Ubisoft turning 30 link HERE, or if you don't have a uPlay account create an account HERE. Click on the green Join the Club button, get your free account, then get your free copy of Beyond Good and Evil. There will be other games coming next month and beyond

The Indie Gala store has some fantastic deals on at the moment, for example you can buy all three of the Sniper: Ghost Warrior games for only $1.99, plus you get a surprise gift. Other games for example buying CT Special forces (for less than a dollar gives you a surprise gift plus a second game called Horizon shift for free. There are loads of games with 90% off and it seems there are hidden deals for example theDaedalic Armageddon Bundle worth almost $150 for under $16, depending on which games you purchase. You can find them all HERE

DIG are still offering free Steam keys for Hacker Evolution Time Dimensions and Crystals of time, though you cannot access the deals directly from the main site anymore, but they are still live via the following links:
To get keys for these two games you will have to do similar activities as you do for those Steam games that have been offered for the past several months over on the game giveaway site. You can find those free Steam key deals HERE (Hacker Evolution: Time Dimensions and HERE (Crystals of Time).