Dungeon Defenders is a Tower defence game, mixed with some 3rd person elements which makes it feel unique. The game is a PSN, XBLA, and PC release and released just last week in Europe on PSN, but has been out in America for quite sometime now. The big question is, is it worth the purchase? Read on to find out.

Dungeon Defenders is a unique take on the tower defence genre as you play as one of four classes in a 3rd person perspective. The four classes are: The Apprentice, who is a Mage: the Squire, who is similar to a Knight; the Monk, and the Huntress. Each class have different weapons to make them unique; the mage has a staff, whilst the knight has a sword. Each class is quite good so there’s no single one that really out shines the others but if you’d rather be a ranged attacker you would be better off with the mage, or the huntress, while a close combat person would be suited to the Knight. There are many different things available to do with your character once you have chosen them.

Customisation rears its head in the form of letting you pick the colour of your characters outfit, whilst you can also change their name. In game you can find treasure chests, containing various items such as new weapons and armour  to power up you character. Somewhat surprisingly it also features a leveling system. After most rounds you may level up, and  are given a whole  host of different abilities to choose from to improve your character.

The games objective is simple, you are put in a area and must fight off waves of enemies, whilst also protecting the ‘Eternia Crystal’, which if destroyed results in defeat. There is a set amount of waves, and in each one enemies spawn and must be defeated before they reach the crystal or defeat you. After each round is when the tower defense type features enter the foray. Once a round has been completed, you get the chance to build barricades, or other types of items to either defend the path to the crystal or to hurt the enemy. You can also repair any item you have already placed if you don’t want to build a new one. Whilst doing all this you also have the ability to heal yourself and do more things to aid you in battle. In each level there are a set of chests, as mentioned earlier, these chests reset every once in awhile allowing you to go back and acquire more new things during combat.

After the completion of a level you have the opportunity to go to your Tavern. Your tavern is, well a tavern. In here you are able to talk to the bartender who acts like a glorified shop, but if there is one you like but do not have the money, you can ask him to keep it for you as his inventory changes from time to time. In the tavern you can also customize your character by changing his armor and weapon. It’s a neat little feature in the game, and is very handy as coming back often could lead to finding a good weapon in the shop.

Dungeon Defenders best feature is it’s multiplayer, and without it it would hardly be worth playing. You can play up to 4 players online, which not only makes the game easier but also so much more fun. Playing Dungeon Defenders in single player is, quite frankly, it’s not as fun and also it’s very hard. Later levels in the game give you more crystals to protect and it’s very hard to do this on your own; however if you aren’t able to play online for some reason, fear not as the game also features four player offline co-op also! Plenty of reason to get some friends around if you plan on playing this game as it will be much better.

Dungeon Defenders is quite a good game. If you play in multiplayer it can be quite addictive and you may even get hooked! The game is not to difficult In multiplayer but it presents a challenge which we all want in games. The tower defense part of the game is no doubt the best part, and we loved creating different objects to help protect the Eternia Crystal. It goes without saying that this game is made for multiplayer, but it may be hard to play this way unless you play couch co-op. In our time with the game we were unfortunately unable to fine anybody online to play with, so if you want to play it multiplayer make sure you have some friends ready just in case. It’s slightly harder to recommend as a solely single-player game because it’s nowhere near as fun, and the challenge may be to much at times, something that’ll only lead to aggravating you. Overall the game is quite good especially for a PSN game which is available for €9.99.

Final Score 3.5/5