Gnomes
Last updated: 2025-04-06
- Addictive, deep, and highly replayable gameplay.
- Innovative roguelike tower defense with pathing.
- Appealing visual and audio design.
- Dynamic, player-manipulated enemy pathing.
- Lacks unit and progression variety.
- Campaign length is short.
- Reviews
(sample size) - 75
- Helpful reviews
- 71%
- Unhelpful reviews
- 29%
- Protest reviews
- 0%
- 100%Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
- 0%Helpful reviews with negative sentiment
- Positive points
- 122
- Negative points
- 17
- Gameplay points
- 29
- Perf. points
- 1
- Rec. points
- 33
- Misc points
- 5
| Point | Description | Importance |
|---|---|---|
| Addictive, deep, and replayable | The game is praised for being easy to pick up but difficult to master, offering both short, casual sessions and deep, complex strategic gameplay. Players find the game addictive and engaging, with a compelling gameplay loop that encourages replayability and strategic refinement. The game creates a 'one more run' mentality. | 91% |
| Innovative roguelike tower defense | The game innovatively blends roguelike, deckbuilder, and tower defense elements, offering a unique and strategic experience. Players enjoy shaping the environment and experimenting with diverse strategies, with some reviewers calling it their favorite in the genre. The roguelike elements are well-implemented, adding variety and replayability. | 86% |
| Appealing visual and audio design | The game's visual style is appealing, with lovely and clear graphics, and an easy-to-navigate UI. The music complements the visuals, creating a cohesive and enjoyable aesthetic experience. The UI, music, and graphics flow together nicely. | 32% |
| Guilds add complexity/strategy | Guilds function differently on different maps, and the shop allows purchasing across guilds, adding complexity and strategy. There is a lot of variability between the initial guilds of gnomes. | 18% |
| Full release well-received | Players are happy that the full game is finally released and progress carried over from the demo. The items added since the demo are a nice addition. | 14% |
| Quick and convenient runs | The game features quick runs, making it easy to play a round during short breaks. Round length is just long enough with option to extend to further test out your strategy | 12% |
| Satisfying route optimization | Players find it satisfying to find the perfect route using plants, houses, and gnomes. Leveling up gnomes and optimizing the economy through power-ups and tribe selection provides a lot of variety. | 9% |
| Charming gnome sprites | The game features cute gnome sprites and gnomes with humorous names. This adds to the charm of the game. | 7% |
| Shop reroll mitigates RNG | Players liked having a way to reroll the shop to mitigate bad RNG. This feature helps to ensure that players always have options available to them. | 5% |
| Flail characters are overpowered | Flail-type characters are considered overpowered ('busted good'). This may indicate a need for balancing adjustments. | 5% |
| Good for casual play | The game is good for casual play, allowing players to 'zen out' in endless mode. This mode provides a relaxing and enjoyable experience for players who want to unwind. | 5% |