Polished graphics, but boring gameplau – 7 Cities Review

Am a big fan of TD games, including ones with fixed placement like 7cities. The graphics are polished (though I agree with others that towers need to stand out more), the skill tree is a nice idea, and overall the game seems well made. Unfortunately, I find it very boring. An odd feeling given my normal obsessive tendencies with similar games. I think the reason for the difference is that in other games you are able to quickly determine the strength and effectiveness of your towers through visual cues and can spend your time watching each wave to see what parts of your setup are effective and where you need to add something. I am unable to do that in this game. Instead, with all of the options for towers, relative lack of visual cues of tower strength, and most importantly the inability to build or modify towers with the game paused, I spend my time playing frantically clicking on towers to read what damage they are doing, rate of fire etc. That takes all of the pleasure out of the game. Feel like I'm doing chores when i kill these pirates rather than relaxing while watching the monsters, fieldrunners, etc. get destroyed like in other games.
Review by TerrorTwilight on 7 Cities.