Terror Time:

In Brief:
Terror Time is a basic 2D top down tower defense (TD) game.

You can see a few videos of game play HERE, HERE and one via the Steam store page HERE.

The Game:
We've had quite a few of these over the past several weeks. This one is slightly different from the ones we've been getting with recently, most of the usual elements associated with this type of TD game actually included, i.e., increasing number of waves as you progress through the levels up to 10 waves. There are also ten different tower defences ranging from cheap single shot weapons with a radius of 120 to triple shot weapons with a damage of 10, costing anywhere from 200 to 10 000 in game currency. You'll also find energy guns, a laser, a sniper tower, an anti-aircraft gun, a rocket gun, Napalm, a plasma gun and a mini gun (with three barrels). Each weapon has a radius of effective fire, amount of damage and reload speed (the sniper rifle has the longest range but takes slightly longer to reload). Each weapon can also be upgraded up to four times increasing each of the three attributes.

You can also speed up the oncoming enemy and pause the game (if you need to take a break). In the top left of the games HUD, you can see the health of your base and the amount of money you have to spend on your defences. Next to the speed up button is a skull symbol; this allows each wave to start automatically when the preceding wave has finished if activated. Yellow is deactivated, green is activated.

There are ten different enemies, each with different amounts of damage it can do to the home base. Any damage incurred on a level is repaired on the next level of which there are ten.


What is absent that you usually see in this type of TD game are extra non-permanent placement buffs such as explosions and weather effects that can be placed anywhere on the route of the enemy but can only be used once until they are recharged. Also missing are towers that slow the progress of the oncoming enemy.

Once you've completed a level if you restart the game, you can continue where you left off or play any of the unlocked levels; however, if you click on the new game button, it will wipe all your progress and you will have to start from the beginning. There's no high score table or profile page, so only one person can play the game from the beginning at a time; though anyone can replay the unlocked levels.

Conclusion:
The game is playable, but until you get to the later levels it's relatively easy to beat the first five levels. On level six a new enemy is introduced that is harder to kill and, if it reaches your home base does 20% damage. Until this point I'd not had any losses apart from on one level where I'd been taking a screen shot so wasn't keeping an eye on the progress of the enemy.

If you like TD games then this one will keep you entertained for about an hour to 90 minutes. I completed the first five levels easily in about 30 minutes. There's nothing original about the game and there's only ten levels included.

I would have liked to see some variation in the backgrounds. Every level I played (i.e. levels 1 to 6) all had the same background detail with a scrub/desert setting

Back in the days of the floppy disks that were included on most compute magazines, you'd get demos of games with more levels included than you get with this game. Still, it's free today. :)