Nordhold is out now, and one of the year's most interesting tower defense games

Any strategy fan likes to see a nice tower defense game, and hey, here's one now: Nordhold has you managing a little Nordic village and using replayable combinations of towers to defend it from hordes of fantasy monsters.

It's chock full of all the modern roguelike stuff—metaprogression, a slew of customizable upgrades, and the like—but the foundational mechanics are what really matter, and these foundations are solid ones.

Earlier this year when I was playing and writing one sentence reviews of over 70 Steam Next Fest demos...