Rise of the Ancients

Rise of the Ancients
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Metacritic
44
Steam
42.126
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Price
$0.49
Release date
31 May 2016
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44 (273 votes)

It's a hardcore classic Tower Defence. Even tutorial in this game is hard to beat. Only few can complete this game.

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Rise of the Ancients system requirements

Minimum:

  • OS: Windows XP
  • Processor: Pentium 4 @ 3 GGhz/AMD 64 3200+
  • Memory: 512 MB RAM
  • Graphics: nVidia GeForce 6600/ATI Radeon X1600
  • DirectX: Version 9.0c
  • Storage: 300 MB available space
  • Sound Card: compatible with DirectX 9.0c
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Steam APP ID
485950
Platforms
Windows PC
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KeyboardMurderer
KeyboardMurderer

-real cheap price
-sick beats
-insanely detailed textures
-0 bugs
-ingenious level design
-huge enemy variety (bird, fast bird, blue bird, what more could you want??)
-very challenging, hardest game ive played in a while
-if you play for 2 hours you can get a funny skeleton man in the points shop
-supports TWO languages!

DomoDynamite
DomoDynamite

ever since i bought this game for $0.49 it won't escape my mind. while i'm eating i think of this game, when i watch tv i think of this game, as i'm sleeping i DREAM of this game, i have frequent nightmares where i'm running from hundreds of those birds through the forest, while that calming but ominous music plays in the background, i see destroyed towers all around nothing to hide in or rest in so i keep running, but they always catch me. when i try telling a friend or family member how much this game has hurt me, all i can spit out is "you should really try Rise of the Ancients, its actually pretty good" something is wrong with me and i just wanna feel normal again.

also the games emoticons are pretty good, i love the :SkeletonRotA:

Schamender
Schamender

o be honest, I don't see how it's different from a browser game. I recommend the game, don't get me wrong, but the game is completely lacking in many aspects. Even in the settings, there are many features that should be there. I was able to spend a long time and actually enjoy the game, but it can be annoying when basic things are missing. Don't expect too much, but there are much better tower defense games at this price. Of course, you get the price of the game thanks to the cards you drop. The game can be considered free.

helix2
helix2

Crude, ugly and bare bones.
It doesn't help that winning requires you to memorize the order of creatures coming, as only one exact order of tower placement seems to work, making it more of a weak puzzle game than a tower defense game, when it comes to playing it.
The look is mildly interest, though you can't really see the critters.
The towers appear to be identical except that the tower that hits fliers has a yellow outline around it. They also don't appear to change as they level. Worst of all, the targetting is so bad it will cost you levels you should have beaten.
It has no fluff, no interesting decisions or choices, no tactical options, and no way to exit, either. A sure sign of a poor effort.
Two thumbs down.

Mars Trivolta
Mars Trivolta

It's a tower defense with the presence of a doppler effect. You can make an educated guess as to how professional this is based off of that.

That said, it works pretty well for what it's going for. The game is extremely simple, one of the simplest tower defense games I've ever played. If you wanna waste an hour or two on a boring day, pick this up if it's on sale. I got it for 30 cents, and 30 cents for a mindless 2 hour game is pretty good mileage imo. Or just play Bloons, whatever suits you best

SteveHybrid
SteveHybrid

The game is complete garbage and yes a waste of money. (even listed at .99cent) However, snag it on sale -> get those cheap steam cards!

Virgil
Virgil

...So this game seems to fall under the category of "Well, what did you expect for a buck?".

I don't expect much out of a game with such a low pricetag, but even going in with the understanding that this is a budget game, one is likely to find it a bit unpolished. The graphics are ok if hastily done, but the animations are fairly glitchy, and the primary challenge I experienced in my admittedly brief go at this game came from not being able to figure out how my tower AI was choosing its targets. It could also use better translation, but it's good enough to understand so I really don't count that as a problem per se.

Oilbucket
Oilbucket

now... i don't want to bash new content creators but in it's current state it's shit.
I will put down everything that is wrong with the game, once again not to bash the creators, but to help them make better games in the future:

first of all: im guessing it's either polish or russian, either way the firerate/??? is in polish/russian (but i'm guessing it means seconds)
there is no options menu.
the gamesounds were just off, too much music, and no way to turn it down
you promised a very hard game, well for the first 4 levels it was quite the breeze to get through the game
I'm hoping this is a student's project or something in terms of the art, because it was to say at best ''okay''
furthermore the UI is terrible, I struggled to figure out what towers do what (which is even worse by the bad english the description gave) I haven't found where my resources are which leads me to just clicking and hoping i'v got enough funds to upgrade/build my towers
also, a thing that is bugging me a bit is the fact i have to chose english or polish/russian (again make a options menu for that)
I think that concludes it....
then again it is only a €2,- game (€1,40 in sale at time of writing this review)
good luck on making a new game! i hope you'll do better next time.

CommanderNL
CommanderNL

A couple of things to consider when buying this game:
- there is no options/settings menu. Can't adjust audio ingame.
- Outlines of the towers doesnt match with the lines of the enemy wave.
- There was a weird thing going on with the targetting of the towers.
- Camera is only from one point
- To make things worse, the mouse sensitivity was through the roof and because the lack of an options/settings menu, you couldn't adjust that ingame!
- Overlap of the text of the Cost of an upgrade and the upgrade button itself. Both were hardly readable.

LT
LT

poor interface, 0 hotkeys or information on each wave regarding what monsters and how many, and the english is clearly written by someone that actually speaks english. id give this 3/10

so many things to improve on and there is no excuses for the lack of quality, bottom line is its cheap as dirt and you get what you pay for.

Mickmane
Mickmane

The card drop thing was corrected!

Nice to see a developer care about stuff. :)

Mind, I only got this for the cards, now I have to add a review? Will do after another look at the game. :)

ヅ

There is not even an option to recommend this game, considdering how shit the developer is and for not to mention there do not exsist any trading cards for this game even when store page says it include Trading Cards. Money grab is what it is nothing more nothing less... 0 quality game

Leon
Leon

Game of the year, hours of fun the whole family, Love the soundtrack

Yeet
Yeet

I bought this game just so that I could express the current issue with trading cards. There are two cards by the name of "Tower", so when purchasing them, it is by pure luck that you could ever achieve 5 of each with only 10 card purchases. There needs to be a name change of one of these cards so that this is no longer an issue. As of now I have a level 3 badge, 2 of each kind of card with the exception of the tower cards. I have 3 of one of the tower cards and 0 of the other. I refuse to continue purchasing them hoping to get the remaining two, but if the badge is not completed the other cards purchased will be a waste. Please fix this issue developers, all you have to do is change the name of one of the cards.

EDIT: Developers got back quickly and fixed the issue. 10/10 Thanks

Midnight Moon™
Midnight Moon™

i WOULD however get it for 25 cents and get it just for the cards

but dont spend your 1$ for it its bad enof that pple by this cheap crappy game

~Midnight Moon

Raptorz
Raptorz

I wouldn't call this a "game"...

Itohiro
Itohiro

Simple and easy tower defense. The UI needs to be improved significantly.

Saint Aaron
Saint Aaron

The worst tower defense game on Steam. Graphics are just bad, no options menu(devs lazy) bugs are everywhere on this, and Ai seem to get stuck on invisble paths/

Matrix
Matrix

Ouch. This game is bad in every aspect.

Controls are bad, unintuitive.
UI is awful.
Graphics are worse than in ZX Spectrum games.
Music (?) - you just want to turn it off somehow.
You can pick either English or Russian language, but when you play it in English - you get things like: "Cooldown: 1.0 cek" 10/10 translation.

Seriously, why this game is on Steam? I dunno.

scoota33
scoota33

This is the result of taking an online course at udemy which teaches you how to build a BASIC tower defence game, and that is exactly what this game is; BASIC. What makes it so hardcore then? the towers just pick a target and shoot at it, there is no targeting options so you can watch the closest enemy to the end just run straight past your towers because they chose to shoot someone else. Its a good thing i only paid 30c for this, thanks to a 90% off voucher, i'll try and recover what i can from the trading cards and count my losses

ya babi
ya babi

Can't really expect much with a game that is worth only one buck.

The reasons why i don't recommend Rise of the Ancients:

-poor interface
-there is no settings for ingame audio
-it looks like a unfinished game

The only reason why i bought this game because there is trading cards but too bad there isn't.

fast_munic4
fast_munic4

Very bad, nothing to say more.

Crazy?
Crazy?

Que jogo de merda,não recomendo a ninguem.Mal se consegue jogar,sem freezar

Miraculin
Miraculin

I would not recommend this game, although it has fancy graphics and chilled music which I really enjoyed the six minutes I played it. Unfortunately I had to stop this gem of a game, since you can't lower the volume and i didn't want to end up deaf.

c3_h7
c3_h7

Vyviglaznaya garbage dump, free tdshki and then it will be better

Fluffy Me!
Fluffy Me!

Feels very cheaply made and most browser tower defences are better.

Harix
Harix

I bougth this game with a coupon and it's worth the money

+ Trading cards

DoomRanger
DoomRanger

Trading Cards.
That's the SOLE PURPOSE of this game.

Anonymous
Anonymous

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Read Khrushchev Lied Grover Furr
Read Khrushche…

My Grandfather smoked his whole life. I was about 10 years old when my mother said to him, 'If you ever want to see your grandchildren graduate, you have to stop immediately.'. Tears welled up in his eyes when he realized what exactly was at stake. He gave it up immediately. Three years later he died of lung cancer. It was really sad and destroyed me. My mother said to me- 'Don't ever smoke. Please don't put your family through what your Grandfather put us through." I agreed. At 28, I have never touched a cigarette. I must say, I feel a very slight sense of regret for never having done it, because this game gave me cancer anyway.

CJ HUNTER
CJ HUNTER

That kind of game that you launch when you need to feel disgusted and throw up.

♿ Svinhugg
♿ Svinhugg

worst tower defense game ever made. For handicapped players only.

Gurkan
Gurkan

A complete waste of time. Do not even think of calling this garbage a game.

Teemo McNuggets
Teemo McNuggets

I accidentally left it open when I slept. Can't refund it anymore.
0/12.7 Dont buy that game, open it up to get trading cards and sleep.

NeverEnding
NeverEnding

I don't even know where should I start with

Pro
(On purpose)

Cons

Anyway start off with gameplay.
This is not a game, it's more of a prototype that is created with unity pre-packed stuff that the developer just throw into the game.

Buggy unit, Buggy tower placement, Lack of next-wave information, Lack of description, Buggy life-(No idea what happened on level 3 when I just lose for no reason even cleared whole waves) or the game is suppose to end at wave 3.

Regardless still.
Don't buy this prototype, be warned if you did.

Lebebe1998
Lebebe1998

Really not the best game.. do yourself a favour and get bloons if you want to play a tower defence.

ygarian
ygarian

Don't get me wrong - this is a bad game, but I'm giving it a positive feedback anyway.
It's a tower defense game, occasionally unfair, generally challenging(which is good) with multiple flaws in the user interface.
Anyway, I bought it with a coupon for a couple of cents and I played it for quite a while. So I think I got my money's worth.
If you fail a mission, you can restart the level and try a better approach. So even if it is unfair (well, so is life) you can cheat fate and win anyway ... after a few attempts.
As tower defenses go, it's c**p, but almost for free, it' still worthwhile. If you can get it for a $ or less and if you like tower defense, go for it.

Super Moon
Super Moon

TL;DR I got this game for 12c and it was worth it.
Despite being a fairly glitchy incarnation of a well-overdone gameplay, it at least has the decency to offer interesting graphics. I experienced some difficulty figuring out how to actually play, as well as frustration with the structure placement's glitching. Achievements would be nice; though it is still fairly satisfying to mow down scores of successive birds, bears, skeletons and such. The soundtrack is decent too for such a low quality game.

Sotumney
Sotumney

Absolutely horrible.

This game can not be played by anyone having a screen bigger then 720p. Buttons are insanely small and the gameplay is ugly.

3/10

Rhynos
Rhynos

This is like any other towerdefence game. But this might be one of the worst ones. The creator put 0% into the buggs and awkward things in the game..

treato
treato

wow, i didn't know you can code with paint.

LoSs*
LoSs*

Hatırlamıyorum ne zaman oynadım

tag_ping_pong
tag_ping_pong

This is a game that almost manages to be fun, but is actually completely awful. I got it in a pack of 7 games from this developer, fortunately heavily discounted. One kept crashing without even starting, another was incomprehensible, the third I kept running into invisible walls and got eaten by an invincible dog, and then there is Rise of the Ancients/ I'm afraid to say this is the best of the 4 games so far (it works, and no killer dogs).

The idea is that you put down turrets and they are meant to kill... people? Ogres? Turkeys? Whatever those things are, as they walk along a set, neon pathway. It was almost fun, but became pretty boring after, well, 7 minutes apparently.

Don't.

DbountyedBeauty
DbountyedBeauty

This is a Tower Defence game.
(Note: This is not a preguel to Dota 1 or Dota 2 - Defence of the Ancients)
The game does not cost alot and it has a russian setting, I think.
Music controls would have been good cause it is loud and bad. The visuals are cheap and the game is lackluster.
It has badges and cards, but not achievements.
If you like Tower Defence games, you have a low amount of money you want to use on a TD then play a free to play Tower Defence game, in Dota 2's arcade mode to play a TD or wait for Warcraft 3: Reforged and play it there instead of this.
Have fun, enjoy and play a better TD than this :)

B a l l a g e
B a l l a g e

Very bad tower defense game.
The grapic and the gameplay is bad.
There is no option menu.

Malice
Malice

Although it was fun to play, and low price, I can't but help think this game is incomplete. There are 16 levels in total to beat, the 15th being impossible to do without cheating (ahem). So sad, as it was a promising title that could have delivered so much more.

benmc2770
benmc2770

Now I need to see an ophthalmologist...

But seriously, KishMish was probably the name of the drug they were smoking when they made this

Hahnrich - Matching Trades
Hahnrich - Mat…

i think its about ancients rising or something?
seemed interesting

nex
nex

I don't like it, only bought for achievements or trading cards.

✪ KR4Z3R!
✪ KR4Z3R!

The earth is 4.6 billion years old and we managed to exist at the same time as this masterpiece.

Amir
Amir

it's cheap but still expensive

Martin M. 102
Martin M. 102

Screenshots look a lil trashy, but never really played the game, so I can't say much.

Tur2
Tur2

If you end a 3 - day free Unity course - the game you'll make by the end of this 3 days will be better than this.

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First, blood came from the ears, and then from the eyes. Heavy trash.