I'm a bit of a traditional gamer. Although I thoroughly enjoy shooting people and setting them on fire in Team Fortress 2 and am eagerly waiting for some good old dragon hunting in upcoming Guild Wars 2, I still have a very soft spot for board games and the kind of gaming enjoyment they bring you.

However, there are games online (and offline) which can give you this "board game" mental buzz even though they are mostly played solitaire. These are flash puzzle games which are dime a million and sometimes it is hard to wade through the sea of dross most of these games are. My favorite genre are the Tower Defense games where, in a reversal of classic video game formula, it is you who is building the game level obstacles in order to stop an invasion of various nasty creatures.

I must say I fell in love with the concept the first time I encountered it, but I was quickly disillusioned by terribly low quality most of those games are. It is not only the graphics, which are understandably severely limited by flash platform, but the way those games are simply not developed enough from a game design perspective. In short, they all lack depth. Luckily, after some months of futile searching I found...



