Quoting: einherjarAccording to their website, it is only for a maximum of 8 hours playtime for PC. That is not really "free to play until 1 June" IMHO.

That's just their standard offer, I remember it was the same yonks ago. The "free to play until 1 June" is on top of that, it seems they just haven't changed the usual graphic on the website.

https://www.vendetta-online.com/newsletter/04.2020/newsletter.04.2020.html [External Link]

All accounts of all types (new or existing), will be treated as full Premium Subscriber accounts, until the first of June.

...When the Free period ends, the account reverts to the underlying state and limitations (Lite, Trial, Freemium, etc).

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Quoting: DuncI can never get particularly worked-up about Paradox's “DLC overload”, to be honest. The vast majority of it is cosmetic and can be easily ignored without affecting the quality of gameplay at all
... They usually end up with maybe half-a-dozen “real”, game-altering, DLC packages over the course of several years

As Eike noted, it's not necessarily the quantity in itself that's the problem - it's the Steam Store UI that really sucks for games with lots of DLC. Even just letting the developer group things into categories like "Cosmetic", "Extra mechanics", and "Country flavour" would help enormously IMO.

I thought the recent-ish DLC section of the store would help, but nobody seems to know what to do with the tags, so you end up with eg. all the EU4 DLC lumped into "Simulation" and "Strategy" rather than anything actually useful to potential customers.

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Quoting: 14I haven't played it for like two years. I think I should try it again.

I picked it up again fairly recently. I'd heard that the game/weapon mechanics had changed significantly, but it had been so long that I didn't remember what they used to be like.
I found it fun then, and I find it fun now.

Quoting: urlauberThe first review (+2000h playtime) suggests it is pay2win. Like all free2play games I'm very sceptical about stuff you can buy that is more than just visual upgrades.

The only two things that you can buy with money are: additional crates of random drops, which you get one or two of after every match anyway; and VIP status, which gets you twice as many drops from crates, and additional colours to paint your bots (plus some other even more minor stuff which matters even less).

Anyone who is saying it's pay2win today is probably just salty and/or nostalgic for the Robocraft of yore.

Quoting: TheSHEEEPIn addition to that "full manual" mode they should offer a lot more pre-built ones and mix-and-match stuff like "prebuilt tank lower part", "prebuilt wings", etc.

As mentioned, this updated adds the mix-and-match "body builder", but to address the other half of your request, there exists a "Community Robot Factory" in-game where you can download pre-built robots that other players have designed.

Which is also a source of salt for some players, as they bemoan the lack of creativity when people can just "download the new meta"!

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I would say Creeper World 3 is certainly a TD game, and does deserve a mention on the list.

I can definitely recommend Tumbleweed Express. I found it quite short (5 hours to 100% for me), and the narrator's accent is kinda cringeworthy, but it was a very enjoyable take on an action-tower-defence on literal rails.

Zombie Defence is okay. It's fairly competent as a TD, but once I worked out a strategy it became more of an idle game. Grinding out more upgrades being the only motivation to continue. I thought that having to grind out the ability to speed up the game further was particularly a bit of a kick in the teeth.

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