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This is not quite the last tower defense game on the list:

#65 Defense Grid: The Awakening

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There really isn't an obvious big innovation here--Defense Grid is just a really well-executed tower defense game.

It's a surprisingly dry, math-feeling game, partially thanks to a mechanic where every few seconds, you earn Interest from unspent money. So there's an advantage to NOT building towers, just because you CAN.

Levels are huge, complicated 3d structures, and the tower-building spots feel random and very inconveniently placed, so that it's hard to really decide which spots to build upon. Eyeballing the line-of-sight becomes a creative part of the fun.

It also *sometimes* does the Desktop Tower Defense (#98) thing I love, where you build the maze yourself...but not completely freely! Instead, usually there are many built-in paths, and you'll want to strategically block off some of the paths, as best you can, to make a pseudo-maze.

BEST LEVEL: Uhhhh it's been a long time...the only level I *vividly* remember is one that is a HUGE 3d multi-layer spiral, like a helix. It mighta been in one of the DLCs. This is one of the very few video games I actually played the DLCs for.