The Quiet Joy Of Tower Defence

Tower defence is one of the few genres where you spend most of your time not doing anything. You build, then you watch. And that watching is the whole point.

There's a specific satisfaction in setting a plan in motion and seeing it hold. When a wave you were dreading gets shredded by a layout you spent minutes agonising over, it feels earned.

It also scales beautifully to mobile. Build during a quiet moment, watch during the next one. No twitch reflexes required.

After years of playing it, I still get the same little thrill from a clean run. Some genres just age well, and this is one of them.