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Sanctum

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Sanctum

Rating: 4.2 (125 votes cast)

 

Sanctum has just been updated with the "Elysion One Overrun!" patch which includes:

  • 1 new map (Complex)
  • 1 new weapon (Shotgun)
  • 2 new towers (Holo Tower, AMP Field)
  • Customization System (Equip towers & weapons of choice)
  • Loads of fixes and changes!

Sanctum is a First Person Shooter Tower Defense where you take the role as Skye, an elite soldier sent out to protect her home town, Elysion One, from hordes of mysterious alien creatures.

To succeed you have to construct and upgrade defensive structures. What makes Sanctum unique from other Tower Defense games is that when the havoc starts, you jump right into the action with your own weapons and play a key role in the defense. Sanctum has taken the best features from First Person Shooters and Tower Defense games to create something totally unique.

Key Features:

  • Experience a brand new mix of genres!
  • Team up with a friend in co-op mode!
  • Develop your own strategy and build your custom mazes
  • Play through beautiful environments with unique strategic possibilities
  • Powered by Unreal Technology, Sanctum is one of the world's best looking independent developed games!
  • Coming DLC and content updates

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Sanctum review

By Soundwave656 posted 10th April

Very enjoyable game for when you and your mates are bored, The cross between FPS and tower defense is done well but could use improvements when you are setting you your towers but over all it works well.

For an indie game I give this a 7/10 and would recommend this to anyone wanting a bit of a change of style now and again.

Sanctum review

By WheresMyPocket posted 9th April

Built on the Unreal engine, this game is amazingly stunning and pretty to look at, and the gameplay isn't too shabby either!

Its a perfect blend of Tower Defence and FPS gameplay.

It has a CO-OP mode although I haven't played that yet.

10/10

Sanctum review

By inquisiteur posted 1st April

Great game concept for a very modest price. Tower defense coupled with a slight FPS gaming style brings a truly innovative approach to the tower defense genre. With the "collection" bundle proposed on gamergate the few cons the game had have been erased, now you have several maps to play with and several weapons. Games pace is slow at time, but you will always be very busy upgrading the defense of your fort.

I highly recommed giving this game try.

Sanctum review

By jatin9t posted 31st March

Tower Defence genre will never get old. Sanctum allows you and your friends to enter in a tower defense game and shoot the enemies in first person view. You build a maze for the horde of enemies, place towers, upgrade them and shoot them with your own handheld weapons. It's pure fun!

Sanctum review

By Centy posted 9th February

Incredibly replayable and engrossing indie tower defence shooter. There's lots of content and it's constantly being updated with more free stuff and DLC to get. It's really designed with multiplayer in mind so I would say best to ignore it if you're after a more solo experience. If you enjoy coop games you really should love this it's tower defence at it's best.

Sanctum review

By PenguinJim posted 10th January

I'll be honest - I wasn't expecting much from this. I'm not a tower-defense lover, only really enjoying Defense Grid and Orcs Must Die!, and while Sanctum doesn't quite surpass either of these classics, it does do something completely unexpected - first-person tower defense CO-OP!

In co-op mode, working out strategies with your buddies is great fun, and the stats after each map make for interesting reading!

If you won't be playing co-op, though, this isn't nearly as good. For a few bucks you could do a lot worse, as it's perfectly acceptable in single-player, but co-op really is this game's stand-out feature.

Sanctum review

By Miscellania posted 11th October 2011

I personally love this game. It is a very entertaining game both in the single player as well as the multiplayer; however I do enjoy the multiplayer with a friend that you can talk to more. For $10 it is definitely worth it but I do have to question the replayability of the game as it can get repetitive placing the same towers and fighting the same monsters and for that I had to take off one star. If you don't mind playing the game through the single player and then leaving it on the side for a rainy day or to play with a friend, then I would absolutely recommend you try out this game or at least another game with the same style of TD and FPS combination.

Sanctum review

By Archonsod posted 20th September 2011

It's a fun little first person/tower defence hybrid with some interesting mechanics and co-op play. The tower defence part is as you would expect, with a nice variety of turrets to employ (which are of course upgradeable). Where it gets interesting is in how it interacts with the first person mode - you carry several weapons yourself you can use to kill the creeps during the game, which can also be upgraded. So there's a nice tradeoff between focusing on towers with you perhaps zapping the odd one now and again, or focusing on yourself with the towers basically playing mop-up.

Sanctum review

By Xumm1 posted 10th June 2011

This game is very good if you like tower defence, or games with some strategy involved.

I still prefer other FPS-TDs, like Iron Grip Warlord, because Sanctum seems to need more balance between the towers and the enemies: some of the bad guys are too strong and some are immune ot towers attacks, forcing you to use your rifle.

Then because imho this game is so colorful that the graphics seem weird, and it has less maps (4 at the moment).

I would also like to stress that if you buy this game you will have to download the Steam platform, if you don't already have it.

On the bright side, what I like is that

-it uses a good engine, Unreal 3;

-it is continuously updated and improved;

- the developers talk to the users in the Steam forum;

- it has the potential to be the best FPS-TD game ever.