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 Defense of the Wilds 2

Thursday, March 23, 2026

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Game Review!!!

Defense of the Wilds 2 is a tower defense game. This means that you play by spending gold and placing towers on a map that attack enemies that enter their attack range. Each tower has a damage, recharge, and range stat that can be used to determine which type of tower you place where. This allows for a genius display of strategy as enemies get progressively more difficult meaning that you have to play towards your towers strength if you want to win.

The starting towers are the Den, the Shrine, and the Temple. 

The "flavor text", which is words that do not change gameplay but are used to otherwise describe or provide flavor to an interactable item, provides a very nice flair and allow for creative expression. 

You can place towers by clicking on a tile on the map and then building the tower with the same color.

The Den for example is a green-colored tower so it can only be played on the green-colored tiles. This provides an additional restriction which makes utilizing every type of tower necessary to win. 

Sometimes the game moves a bit slowly due to the steady increase in waves of enemies and so the game allows you to hold a button to 3x speed up that wave, a very handy button. 

As the game progresses, the enemies get more difficult to defeat. You start of with fighting simple mower enemies and then move onto to fighting guards for example.

As you can see, guards have almost double the health of the mower enemy but have the same movement speed. This means that the same towers that would barely be able to defeat a mower would struggle to defeat a guard.

To overcome this increase of difficulty, the game allows you to upgrade your towers or destroy them for new, better ones. This comes in handy during late-game difficulty when even upgraded basic towers struggle against the enemies. 

Each game level is made up of 3 waves. During the third wave, you must fight a very difficult champion enemy. When enemies get too difficult for even upgraded towers to deal with, the game gives you spells to give you a fighting chance. Spells cost mana which recharges automatically making it synergy well with towers since they don't need the same resource.

After each level, you get 6 skill points which allow you to pick skills to benefit your playstyle. This can be increase your mana for spells, or making tower upgrade cheaper, or getting an initial increase of gold. Each skill fits into one of three trees: the fire tree, the ice tree, and the physical tree. Each point into each of trees provides an incremental passive effect. The fire tree will increase the damage of towers by 0.5% per skill point, the ice tree will increase the range by 0.5% per skill point, and the physical tree will decrease the recharge time by 0.5% per skill point. 

Defense if the Wilds 2 is a very cozy game that's easy to pick up but allow for a lot of creative expression, a trait that is well valued in games. If you're looking for something light and easy and small to pick up to pass time then this is the game for you.