

Its information will appear in the tower selection pane to the right. That’s where an enemy has just fallen, and the game has given me +2 gold.) Then, you use this money to build/upgrade your towers so that they can take down progressively stronger creeps. (In the screenshot above, you can see a red “+2” in front of the towers. With every group of enemies (collectively called a “creep”), you will receive gold for defeating each enemy within the group.

When you’re all set up, hit the “Start” button, and the first group of enemies will appear! It all depends on what you want to defend yourself with. You receive a fixed amount of money to start the game off–80 gold–which allows you to buy as few as 2 towers (a Frost and a Dart tower) or as many as 16 Pellet Towers. Desktop Tower Defense 1.5 is one of those–the whole series is awesome, but the first version I played was 1.5, so it has a special place in my heart. As an avid player of tower defense games, I’m pretty selective when it comes to the TD games I return to over and over again.
