Defenders of Ardania is a hybrid tower defense and real-time strategy video game for the PC, iOS, Xbox Live Arcade, and PlayStation Network. It was developed by Most Wanted Entertainment and published by Deep Silver and Paradox Interactive. The game was released December 6, 2011 for the iOS[2] and on March 14, 2012 on all other platforms. Defenders of Ardania has an ESRB rating of Teen, a PEGI rating of 12, and a Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle (USK) rating of 12. The game was first released for the iOS, where it was well received by critics. A subsequent release on the PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 was significantly less well received.
Defenders of Ardania is a tower defense game that also has offensive real-time strategy elements. As with all tower defense games, the player must defend their home base by building several types of static tower units that fire at weak offensive units spawned by the opponent. In Defenders of Ardania, however, players must also spawn soldiers themselves. Like the opponent's solders, the player's soldiers move along a fixed path towards the opponent's base and cannot be directly maneuvered by the player. The game is won if units spawned by the player get past the opponent's towers and destroy the opponent's base before the opponent's units get past the player's tower and destroy the player's base.
The game features a campaign mode with eighteen levels, pitting the player, controlling human, elven, and dwarven land and air units, against a computer opponent controlling undead units. There is also a multiplayer mode that supports up to four players, either in free for all or two versus two format. In the multiplayer, players can choose from one of three factions, the single player campaign's human faction, an animal filled faction, or the undead faction, to play as.
