If you’re a fan of the tower defense genre you’ll no doubt enjoy your time with this game, testing out the upgrades, working on optional objectives and fighting bosses that break up the monotony. Even though fatigue may eventually come quickly for casual fans of the genre, and the difficulty can spike quickly, kudos to EXOR Studios for creating a different tower defense X-Perience.

Overall, X-Morph: Defense is a unique game which is aware of what it’s good at, and it no doubt excels in this regard. But it does little, with the exception of the awesome and huge-scale boss battles, to stray into new territories. And it’s a shame that, with such a unique concept, X-Morph: Defense fails to capitalise with anything new or unique. However, the quality of the gameplay and the difficulty of this game cannot be ignored. Players new to this genre will struggle with liking this game, but experienced players of tower defence and, to a lesser extent, strategy games will love this title.

Overall and I enjoyed X-Morph: Defense much more than I thought I would. The gameplay is easy to control and all the mechanics work very well indeed. There’s a lot to do in the campaign and the co-op mode adds extra relish to an already meaty package. I have to admit to feeling a bit of boredom quite quickly though, but as I said Tower Defense fanatics should ignore my ignorance and add another half star to this review. It feels very retro in both its looks and sounds, but that’s not a bad thing.