Zotrix: Solar Division (2016)

Zotrix: Solar Division is a tower defense game that is not going to win any awards for its looks, but if you, well, look past that, you will find a fun and challenging entry in a genre that has become a favorite of mine. There are 45 missions to complete, and rankings for your performance in Classic mode, so that you can see how good you really are, so there's more than enough content for its $14.99 asking price.

Zotrix: Solar Division does a nice job of keeping things fresh and interesting, by offering up several different gameplay options as well as different conditions for winning.

Overall Zotrix: Solar Division is a decent, though somewhat uninspiring tower defense game that is probably better suited to newcomers of the genre. While it doesn’t do anything particularly wrong, it’s very vanilla overall and its controls aren’t as friendly as they could be. If you’re really starved for tower defense on the Switch it’s just about all there is for the moment though so until something better comes along it may be able to help hold you over since what it does offer is a load of missions (and play variations) to work through, which is worth being happy about.

Zotrix: Solar Division looks basic, even archaic, compared to recent offerings, but there's something oddly compelling about watching the events unfold - especially if you get the balance of difficulty, speed and resource management tuned to your liking.