• Blob Attack: Tower Defense is out now on the iOS App Store
• It’s a simple tower defense game that pits you against oncoming slimes
• Gather energy, unlock new weapons and so on

Sometimes, it’s good to have something simple to play. No frills, no new spin, but just a straightforward addition to the genre. And for better or worse, today’s subject Blob Attack: Tower Defense is exactly that. Coming to us from solo developer Stanislav Buchkov, let’s find out what they have to offer.

There’s little special to say about it, as this one person-developed game is out now on the iOS App Store, and sees you performing all the expected actions in the genre. Build up your towers, gather energy and unlock new, more powerful weapons to fight off your foes.

In this case, it’s the seemingly quite trendy globs of slime we’ve seen plaguing adventurers in Dragon Quest and becoming an increasing hallmark of the fantasy genre. But with every silver lining there has to be a cloud, of course.

A bit of an art issue

I think the only thing that really stood out to me about Blob Attack was, unfortunately, the presence of AI art on the store page and (I would assume) in-game. It’s a shame as well because although Blob Attack looks to be simple, that shouldn’t necessarily mean bad, but that kind of art does tend to put me off giving it a chance it would sorely deserve.

Looking at Stanislav’s other work on the app store it’s cletar this is a bit of a throughline, which is a shame because their other work like Dungeon Craft (a pixellated RPG) could be good were it not for that undercurrent of it all being baked out of a computer algorithm.

But if you’re willing to hear things out we reckon we might have some other options for you. Why not look at the latest entry of Off the AppStore to find out what’s available to play on other third-party storefronts?