New Orcs Must Die! Sequel Isn't Better Than The Last One, But Still Pretty Fun

New Orcs Must Die! Sequel Isn't Better Than The Last One, But Still Pretty Fun

Sometimes in our lives, we value consistency and affordability over anything else. This is why I continue to buy and eat Burger King’s cheap double cheeseburgers. I know what I’m getting, it’s not expensive, and it fills me up. The Orcs Must Die! series, launched in 2011, fills a similar role. The games are about…Read more...

Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap Review

It occurs to me that the Orcs Must Die! series – and the tower-defense genre as a whole – are something like a cousin to factory games like Satisfactory and Factorio. Those games focus on feeding raw resources like iron and coal into complex machines to efficiently produce spaceship parts, while Orcs Must Die! is about feeding hordes of cartoon monsters into machines that produce… mulched cartoon monsters. Maybe one day we'll learn to build spac…

‘Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap’ Combines Tower Defense With Roguelikes, so We Combined a Review With an Interview

'Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap' is a radical departure from previous entries in the franchise, but it's strong enough to be the best of the bunch.

Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap review

Finding a balance of difficulty for playing with friends or solo in Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap was something I was hoping would work well because there’s a great challenge trying to find the balance. Of course playing in a group is fun, but there’s still so much enjoyment playing games like this alone. Going into this, I was instantly put at ease as I stepped into my first run and had an absolute blast fighting off the orcs with various traps and …

Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap review - a tempered return for this tower defence titan

It never goes well for the greenskins at the vanguard of an orc invasion force, but spare a thought for the guys in the second row - no less doomed, and with the added dread of seeing precisely what's coming to them. "Is it just me," bellows one orc to another in a goofy baritone, over the boom of drums and cannon fire, "or are these traps getting stronger?" Seconds later, he rounds the corner into a shipyard and steps onto a briar patch which, …

One of the main series of tower defense video games, based on rounds and destruction of hordes of recent times is Orcs Must Die!, by Robot Entertainment. This series has offered a more familiar way to experience the excitement of series such as Killing Floor and Zombies by Call of Duty, but in a way that puts a greater emphasis on strategy and the use of traps. For a long time, this series has been driven and recognized by this element of its co…