Cursed Treasure

[GamersHood]

Protect your gems from being stolen by "good" heroes in this tower defense game. Overlord, you have all the power of orcs, undead and demons.

Use mouse (hold SHIFT to build multiple towers or cast multiple spells).
The game has a built-in tutorial.
Try to annihilate the enemies before they grab a gem, but even if they do, you'll have a chance to annihilate them on their way back and you'll save the gem.

Play here

[dalveen]

This game is great fun.

So far I'm at level 4.

According to the score board - level one = brilliant, level two = excellent, level three = good. I think this shows a worrying trend

[RBS]

I agree dalveen. Lots of fun figuring out the best plan. Got excellent on first 3 but only by working back and forth as I get skill pts. Almost there on level 4.

[dalveen]

I can't stop playing this one.

I'm now at level 14. I have brilliant for levels 1-6 and 10, excellent for levels 7 plus 8 and good for the rest. I'm now having to go back and replay levels in order to increase my skill points. If I don't do this I'll not be able to complete level 14.

[RBS]

There isn't anything funnier than the upgraded cold attack that makes them run backwards crying like babies. LOL. Still on 5.

[dalveen]

I now have 7 brilliants plus 6 excellents but still stuck at level 14 and to make matters worse those horrible creatures laugh at me each time they escape with a gem.

I'm liking this game a lot. I'll be back tomorrow to try again.

[RBS]

Phew Finally got past 9. That was a monster. Catching up slowly.

Got 14! Going for 15 and wondering if that is the last one.

I abandoned the green and red skills and concentrated on the blue. The synergies in the blue with frenzy/mana/crypt towers are devastating. I use 4 crypts minimun and can use frenzy at will in the late levels and regain mana quickly

15 levels in all. Now maybe go for better badges. Loved this one.



Still working on how to get a perfect on level 7, LOL. Last boss makes that mad dash I can't slow him down to kill him before he gets to the gem nest.

[dalveen]

I love this game also.

This is where I am at the moment but I'm not finished yet
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[RBS]

After 2 days of enjoying this one I believe it is time to retire it. Had trouble getting balance among weapons with that experience requirement before upgrading. Had the money but the towers in the middle and back of the course never got the experience (thanks to me building way too strong towers at the entrance).

Oh well, finesse isn't my strongpoint in TD games .

[dalveen]

Well done RBS, I think I might also give up gracefully. Some of those guys are just too fast even with the freeze towers shooting at them from all directions.


Here is my final progress:






This was a good fun game.

[RBS]

Hey nice going at 7 and 13. I actually killed the boss on 7 ONCE before he got to gems but let an earlier minion grab a gem.

I don't think you get brilliant on the hard levels if a gem leaves and comes back by portal so I am amazed you got 13.

Well done.

[dalveen]

I think luck has a lot to do with killing the boss in some of the levels. If you manage to freeze him he can easily be killed with the meteors but if not he is just to fast to catch.

What I don't understand is the level number shown at the bottom of the skills page. You have level 41 and I have level 33?? Has it something to do with the amount of skills acquired?

[RBS]

You gain a level each time you fill up your exp bar and get the +3 skills reward. You have room to place 24 more skill points. You are 33 now and when you hit level 41 you will max out all the skills.

[dalveen]

Just goes to show RBS, all those hours playing this game and I didn't know what I was doing.

Thanks.

[Metruis]

I guess this means I won? I had no idea I was so good with strategy games, ordinarily I avoid them but the graphics in this one lured me in.

As you see, I won without maxing out my skills, and in fact, the last three skill points (put on the final three skills because it no longer mattered) were earned on winning the final level.

Nine and fourteen were killer. I had good on those ones, and the final one, for much longer than the others... I had most of the others at brilliant after a few playthroughs, but both of those I had to play some six... seven... maybe more on fourteen, fourteen was hard.

Strategy:

The very first skills I focused on getting were the extra charge for the ice towers and the extra gem, and one on the return gem. But by then, it was getting harder so I needed a way to kill the monsters getting through my towers, so I very quickly maxed out the meteor MP decrease and damage increase, and since I needed MP with that, I added on the increase max MP and increase MP charge time. I never used Frenzy at all, so I completely ignored the Frenzy skills.

By the time I'd gotten these skills, I was finding myself short on money, so I started adding the 'more money when you kill a monster' and 'money when you use cut out' skills, the latter of which combined with the fast MP restore made money easy to get. Then I worked between freeze, the decrease cost of upgrading/exp gain, and the poison and fire ones, at which point I won the game.

-By focusing on getting meteor early, you can kill the ninja bosses by holding down shift and clicking a couple times.
-With the increased MP pool and fast MP regain, you can actually use it a few times. This was the only way I could kill ninja bosses, because of how fast they are.
-Freeze is wonderfully helpful. Burn and poison are less helpful, but nice to put one on each of them anyway.
-By having maxed out the MP increase, and then the tree cut out gives money, you can very easily make money to build more towers and upgrade.
-The decreased cost for upgrading is also wonderfully nice.

When it came to the actual towers, I always made the ice ones fear (having enough MP from the MP skills), the fire ones evil eye (it always hits and the damage is nice, and when you pair it with a critical hit grass tower...), and the grass ones almost always crit (as mentioned, wonderful when paired with a fire tower with the increase damage).


Always have a tower right near the entrance to trigger the ninja invisible skill, so that it'll wear off before they reach the gems and they can be killed by towers at the end.

For the apparently tricky levels... I had no trouble with them, here's some strategy.

Seven:

Fire towers on the first turn, make them evil eye towers, really cover that area with fire towers... ice towers on the two sticking out near the top, grass crit tower below that, fire towers on the other turn and a couple ice towers below that. If most enemies aren't dead before the first turn to the left, you're doing it wrong. The ice tower on the high ground near the gems and the grass tower on the mana pool should get the ninjas--if not, meteor them. To get the ninja boss, make sure your mana is maxed out before the end, hold down shift, and repeatedly hit him with the meteor skill. If the game is on slow you should be able to do it.

Thirteen:

Ice tower on the first high ground, fire on the second, fire towers on the two sticking out bits, grass tower on that mana pool and an ice tower on the two ice spots near the gems. That should cover the ninjas.

Fire tower on the very first entrance spot--make it an evil eye temple, grass towers on those three spots, make them crit temples. With the increase damage effect on, the crits hit for a lot more. Use cut out to gain money by cutting out on the sides so you can build ice towers there. About three on the right should do it and some on the left where the ice patch is too. If you make them fear towers, enemies will run right back into the crit towers, so most will die before they reach the ice block... except for the ninjas.

I will happily make more detailed tutorials, if anyone's stuck on a level for this one. By this point I know the strategy for every level inside and out. I guess I'll need a new game now! Great game, well worth playing.