Idle Monster TD: Monster Games

If you’re looking for an idle game with tower defense elements then look no further, Idle Monster TD is exactly the game you should try. It offers a steady progression curve combined with very f2p friendly monetization practices. New players will easily find themselves progressing through the early game and figure out the mechanics fairly quickly as well.

Different Maps, Different Bonuses

While the game does offer a vast range of maps for you to play on, which one you go with ultimately depends on what your goals are. For example, the default Enchanted Forest has a very generous 20% bonus to prestige points, so the Enchanted Forest is a decent map if you are planning on pushing your prestige bonuses in rapid succession.

On the other hand, if you are trying to push in tournaments, Snowfall might be a more attractive option since it has a significant bonus to your DPS while also slowing down enemies, effectively providing you with two multipliers to your damage dealing capabilities during a wave.

Pulling Monsters is Free

Monsters are your towers but despite the Gacha-like system of pulling monsters with varying rarities and being able to upgrade them if you collect enough cards, the game is incredibly generous with the currency you use to pull monsters. Not only do you get the currency for free when progressing through the game, but you can also farm it up by prestiging and replaying through the waves.

All it takes is time, but that’s why we play idle games in the first place, right? In other games that we have tried, the summoning currencies are kept very scarce by design. This is done to either force players into microtransactions, or to ensure that they cannot progress beyond certain points without a considerable investment of time, but we found no evidence of such artificial barriers when playing Idle Monster TD.

Content Depth

As far as content depth is concerned, we found absolutely nothing to complain about. The game has multiple layers of progression which is always welcome in an idle game, here’s the few we noticed during the first couple of hours our gameplay:

• Monsters – Monsters require energy to pull, you gain energy by progressing through the waves and through daily rewards.
• Artifacts – Every ten waves you can unlock a new artifact, advanced tiers unlock as you progress through the game.
• Research – You can also spend energy on upgrades on the research menu, higher tiers of upgrades require gems to unlock but you get a healthy sum from daily challenges anyway.
• Prestige Points – You earn prestige points by starting over, then you invest these points into various upgrades.
• Tech – Progressing through the tech tree need tech points (scrolls) to unlock, you can earn these by beating necromancers that you unlock at wave 400.
• Tournament – Tournaments have their own separate upgrades that you can invest in, you only earn these points by participating in tournaments.

There are a bunch of other upgrades as well, including some active skills as well as a wide range of premium upgrades as well, but the game’s content itself is completely accessible to free and premium players alike