October 31 Holloweeen today no sale wow ?

Mostly a fun game.

Some problems like tool-tips not actually getting the info from the stats of a tower it'self. This is the way to go so that tool-tips always work right with all mods/updates. Would not be such a problem but... IF you check the patch notes the Hermits Golem's tower heal aura was changed from every 3 sec to every 5 sec- the tool-tip was never changed and still says 3 sec! Who knows what else has wrong information on it.

This information kinda continues in the form of no real info on maps. Every map and challenge gives certain rewards under certain conditions. This includes items directly to your storage as well as for sale in the tavern. This is after EVERY map completion. So 'Activate Crystal to Proceed to Next Level' you do only to quickly sale all items on the ground, THEN you have to leave the map and go see if anything useful popped up for sale. Set rewards are not listed, a decent map may take close to an hour to do, more time on survival, just to see IF the map gives anything useful to you or the store. Even then you need to redo the map, on all difficulties, and modes with all class types multiple times (some maps have multiple set rewards possible) equaling a ton of hours spent to just find out there is nothing useful from that map/challenge.

These set rewards sometimes have special stats. Like lifesteal, tower boost etc. These special stats are not listed on the item, there is no in-game info on these stats. You will most likely not use the best item for your char unless you want to spend more time on the wiki than actually playing(wiki is not supported by the devs and is sparse with often misleading or no info at all).

Another hidden stat: weapon attack speed. This can very pretty greatly. Combined with random weapon size(attack reach) this can be such a let down.

Set rewards and random generated items can spawn with useless stats. I don't mean stats you don't want- or even the negative stats. I simply mean stats that are at say 125 range increase on a monk guardian, after 40 there is no bonus. The game does not tell you these caps. You may well spend hours to buff something that does nothing simply because the game does not tell you. Summoner's flash heal tops out at just above 2k, no more % heal gained after that. No info in the game on this, the stat does not change color to indicate maxed usefulness or anything. You may well keep increasing your flash heal or something else you use and like to not actually achieve anything for those hours spent.

Some game functions do not work right. You can split screen even as 1 player and play multiple chars. Hitting F8 is supposed to full screen the current char you are on. It does not. Only the first char that you may not even be controlling atm. Eventually you will have 3 extra summoners with Guardian pets to make your towers all super, or simply all with 2 dps pets and holding a critical point. This means to effectively play solo you will need at least 1 dlc.

DLC... If you want to be decent in the game you will need these. Paywall chars, items, maps. You will not know if the map is even useful to you, drops are not listed. All maps are listed in the game EVEN if you do not own them. Most not worth owning.

Maps: few. Challenges are just the same maps redone with different spawns etc. My guess is there are about 40 maps if we count the repeats. Half that if we do not. "Each level has a different visual setting" is a plain lie. Over 100 hours of play and not max level yet and only like 20 real maps to do it in. You can download maps from the workshop, most are just cheats many with hidden set rewards that may break the fun you could have by no longer having any need to replace an overpowered item. Avoid these.

Is this game worth it? Compared to the price of others for the fun I did have, yes.
Can I have max fun solo? Not really.
Long term solo game? Prob not.
If I brag about my progress to others that have played this game will I be cool?!? That's a negative. Older game, not very difficult- more like time wasted playing it.
Does weed mix well with playing this game? Yes, until only Nightmare Hardcore difficulty is the only thing worth doing. Then the timer sucks, can't even look at all the gear that drops.
Kid friendly? Yes, no bad words. Local (offline) play. If you have a controller you can even play with them and get schooled.

Good game. It's fun but leveling up characters is a bit tedious. There's official support for controller emulation, but there should be a way to switch the current POV to them without forcing split-screen. None of the DLCs are necessary, but I decided to buy them all to support development. Hopefully, someday, the devs will be able to create a competent successor to this game.