Review: Hell Warders (Nintendo Switch)

Review by Matt S.

Remember when just about every second mobile phone game was from the tower defence genre? There was a period where it was a little like the roguelike genre is today, with developers falling over themselves in excitement to announce that they’ve created a new tower defence title. Those were good days too because when it’s done well, the casual strategic challenge of a good tower defence is hard to top. Sadly the heyday of that genre has just about passed, and now developers are instead looking to build on the residual appeal of the faded phenomenon by making the tower building stuff just part of the experience. Hell Warders is the latest attempt at a genre blend, mixing gothic themed action with tower building. The good news is that it does mostly succeed.

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