Primeiro, tá dublado, e a dublagem é muito boa, por mais que só tenha a voz do protagonista por 95% do game, e a dublagem ser mais um flavouring, ela é genuinamente boa e engraçada, um ponto ruim é que deveria ter mais partes onde o personagem fala...

A História é só uma desculpa pra matar Orcs, pensa nisso não.

Gameplay é simples e divertida, várias opções de armadilhas e de armas que mudam em muito a forma de jogar, apesar de claramente ter um set/combo muito óbviamente bem roubado, o jogo escala bem a dificuldade e vale muito a pena correr atrás dos "perfects"

Now THIS is a tower defense game. I have a soft spot for games that deftly combine genres. In this case it’s an efficient and enjoyable cross of tower defense and third-person shooter, and it manages to nail both.

At the outset you’re thrown into the robes of an apprentice war mage. Your master has died fighting the orcs and left the fate of the realm in your hands. You venture from fortress to fortress, defending magic rifts from orcish intrusions. The green guys pour in through the gates in waves; if too many reach the rift it’s game over.

What I love about this game is the width of strategic options. Want to focus on laying a maze full of traps? You can! Want to power up your spells and fry orcs to a crisp? You can! Each new level invites you to revise your tactics and consider new approaches.

My go-to strategy was to slow down my foes and let my traps grind them to a pulp. I’d throw up barriers to force them in a certain direction and litter the path with wall blades and swinging maces. Whatever got through my traps I’d eliminate with lightning and fire.

In terms of game design it’s all meat with very little gristle. Nearly all traps have valid use cases, and savvy players will find ways to maximize the potential of each. Enemy design is also smartly sparse. There are only a handful of enemy types but each one requires special consideration. Speedy kobolds evade many traps, forcing you to clean up them with your crossbow, whereas gnoll hunters ignore the rift completely, chasing you around the fortress until you put them down. And then there are ogres. Whenever one of these big boys stomps in, I hope your defenses are ready. Because although a lone ogre is easy enough to deal with, they’re usually flanked by hordes of orcs, who will slip through your traps unscathed behind their tanky pal.

Another feature I appreciated is that the game is as easy or difficult as you want it to be. Several orcs can escape through the rift before it’s game over, so passing a stage usually isn’t too arduous. Getting a five-skull rating on a stage, however, requires that no orcs breach the rift. Perfecting each stage is no small task, and to have a chance at success you’ll need to memorize the waves so that you can properly prepare you defenses.

When I reached the end, I was almost sad it was over. But then I remembered there’s still DLC and a couple sequels full of orcs to defend against. I hope the green guys enjoy their short respite, because this war mage will be back for another round of rift-defending soon.

I am not a real big fan of tower defense games because they become so repetitive too quickly, and are flooding the mobile phone market. OMD is a different take on the genre where you actually control the person laying the traps to stop the orcs, so the game actually involves the player into the action instead of you just sitting back and watching. There really isn’t much of a story, but that’s OK because the game is full of awesome gameplay, but after a while, you will wish you could bring a buddy along, but alas, there is no multiplayer.


You start out by laying traps around the map, but you get to survey it first before the orcs come in. This is key to know the choke points and weak spots of each map. You start out with just a few traps like spikes, wall crushers, and lightning zappers, but as you beat each level you earn new traps and you can upgrade them to do more damage, more AoE damage, and even size. These traps are awesome because they are all part of the whimsical art style and tongue-in-cheek humor the game provides. Once you lay out your traps you watch the orcs come flooding in from different areas, but you have a crossbow and magic powers to help keep them at bay. I stood back behind choke points and just let loose with my crossbow button held down making sure orcs didn’t get through. Once I got the trap that let me put archers and knights in different areas this helped a lot. However, as the game goes on it gets really difficult and this is where you will wish you could bring a buddy along.


The maps after a while start looking the same and this is where the game will test your nerves. Will you want to complete all the maps? The best thing to do is to have a friend take over and maybe play every other map after a while. Some maps were so hard, even using multiple strategies I still failed from protecting my portal and letting too many orcs through. This is where co-op would have made some maps a synch. The maps won’t just get on your nerves, but the hero’s one-liners will which seem funny at first, but after a while, you will wish you could turn that crossbow on him. There is some DLC available like costumes and a few more maps, but I really wanted more interesting enemies to kill. I started seeing green in my sleep because I saw so many orcs. Some are big and slow, some are fast, some have weapons of their own, but in the end, the game kills you on repetition. I would have liked to see some mini-games or maybe some sort of reward/achievement system.


When all is said and done, Orcs Must Die! is a fun game in short bursts, and it really needs co-op to make the game a little easier and more enjoyable. The snappy one-liners grate on you after a while, and the maps start looking the same just shifted around. Even the orc units get boring to kill after so many maps. I played about 20 myself and couldn’t take it anymore. If it wasn’t for the difficulty spikes, it was the sheer monotony of everything. Once you unlock all the traps there’s nothing to really look forward to anymore, and it takes forever to earn upgrade points. This is a fun game, but only for so long.

Orcs Must Die! 1 is the peak of the series for me. There is a wonderful "crunch" that comes from the traps slaying the orcs in larger and larger quantities. You feel the "crunch" with the power you hold as an individual agent and can burn/zap/pierce the skulls of orcs. You also feel that "crunch" with every gold coin/dollar earned for each Orc killed. This game can be tough as nails to get 5 skulls on but it feels rewarding while you make those attempts. It is also the most fun trap-wise in my opinion since there are so many more ways to effectively kill enemies than just damaging them that the following games didn't build on.

This game re-ignited my love for tower defense games that I hadn't taken advantage of since I was a kid. I even enjoy what "story" there is with the main character being a smart-alec goofball that makes a choice in line with his interests.

Hundo #166 Orcs Must die!

Enjoyment: 7/10
Difficulty: 4/10

For a first entry, it is an excellent TD game! Most of the traps are useful although some could use some balancing. There are some OP combinations that will help with the Nightmare play-through. Overall not that difficult and plenty of fun. It only needed a little bit of grinding to finish the 30k Orcs achievement.