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Defend The Dam – Active Lane Defense – Action Game Review
Defend The Dam – Active Lane Defense is a Action/Strategy game from Dragon Army Apps LLC, first launched in 19th March 2015.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 11+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Defend The Dam – Active Lane Defense Stand Out
ACTION PACKED LANE DEFENSE
Defend The Dam is an action packed lane defense game with a new spin! Build awesome turrets. Rotate your weapons strategically to defend against the woodland horde! Upgrade and unlock new weapons, explore unique levels across multiple zones, and battle epic bosses.
ROTATE YOUR WEAPONS
Stationary turrets are no fun, so we put them on a tank tread! Rotate your weapons into battle so you can have the right weapon to deal with the right enemies!
CHALLENGE MODES
Once you've beat all the levels, test your skill on the Heroic and Master modes for each level, or create your own with challenge mode!
WEAPON UPGRADES
Upgrade each weapon with their own unique upgrades. Never pay to respec! Choose the upgrades you want to face each new challenge.
DAILY CHALLENGES
Compete for glory in our daily challenge mode!
NOTE: Due to intense strategy action, Defend the Dam requires an iPhone 5 or newer, iPad 3 or newer, or iPad mini 2 or newer. The game is not supported on older devices.
This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Defend The Dam – Active Lane Defense is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 25th August 2015
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Players have been asking for more content, and we've been hard at work on a new zone!
- The level cap has been raised to 50, which means more Weapon Upgrades!
- 10 New Levels, 10 New Heroic Challenges, and 10 New Master Challenges!
- 30 New Daily Challenges have been added to the rotation!
- 3 New Enemy Types!
- 1 New Epic Boss!
Download & Availability
Defend The Dam – Active Lane Defense is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Defend The Dam – Active Lane Defense on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Overall great game to play on the go and dragon army is one of the best game companies so like we said great game.
Super fun, simple, easy to play and learn, yet challenging. Tons of strategy.
We're a big tower defense fan and this game is by far our favorite on the iPhone. Bring more levels.
We really annoy this game and so do the kids! It's like Plants vs Zombies meets tower defense meets beavers.
We finally started playing this one-handed on the phone and it was pretty smooth.
Its great its our favorite tower defence game ever.
Love this game! We have been playing a lot and it's a great time waister. We recommended it to a lot of our friends and we see them on it a lot! Thanks for the game.
The added feature of rotating the turrets is awesome and makes this game a lot better than the old style. Highly recommended.
Very cool twist on tower defense. The rotating turret adds a lot of action over other tower games.
Found ourselves playing longer than expected. Usually we'll try a game like this erase and repeat. We have been playing this one since its release and it's not going anywhere.
Creative, unique, and fun. Love the rotating turret idea. Makes for some great strategy.
Free to play? We'd call this FAIR to play. The premium pack is very reasonably priced at 2.99, removes ads AND gives you unlimited hearts AND 25 gems. Plus you get 50 gems free when you send in your email. AND Bonus! The game is FUN. Good job devs, and please keep the content coming.
This game is awesome, can't put it down. Design is really crisp. Love it.
Feels good! The repair and build-out of your equipment lend a more Starcraft feel than most Tower Defense games of this type. Some of the equipment options are fun to ponder, but the layering on of the F2P energy/gambling mechanics break the flow a little bit. The music is an interesting blend of modern medeival and guitar shred, while the visuals are an interesting mashup of WoW and WindWaker sensibilities. We would love to play this game in some sort of horde mode for endless score attack. It would be fun to manipulate the equipment belt as fast as possible, almost like some performative fighting game. Perhaps the later levels will get there.
Not since Kingdom Rush have we loved a tower defense game as much as Defend the Dam. Great graphics, game play, and fun.
This game is so much fun and so addicting.
Like the concept of a vertical plants vs zombies type game, but the IAP/dual currency is a huge turn off. We'd rather buy a full premium version of this game.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.2.0
- Size: 108.13 MB
- iOS: 5.1.1 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Dragon Army Apps LLC]()
Last updated: 25th August 2015 | Genre: Action, Strategy | Developer: Dragon Army Apps LLC