Cursed Treasure 2

Cursed Treasure 2 flips the usual arrangement. The heroes marching up the path are the invaders, the gems they are coming for are yours, and the towers you plant are dens, crypts and temples rather than anything noble. The King wants the stones for himself, which is as good a reason as any to make the walk expensive.

Three tower types and two spells is a small toolkit, and that is rather the point: choices matter because there are few of them. Terror scatters a crowd, Meteor deals with one that is already through, and every gem a hero drags off the map is a gem you have to win back. Upgrades come between waves, so what you build early shapes the whole map.

How to play

Place towers along the road the heroes walk and upgrade them with what you earn: dens, crypts and temples each answer a different kind of attacker. Watch which way a wave enters before spending, because a tower in the wrong corner is money gone. Hold your spells for the moment a group breaks through rather than firing them on the first thing you see, and call the next wave in yourself once your line is ready.

Controls

The mouse builds and upgrades, and the keyboard handles the rest. 1 puts down a Den, 2 a Crypt and 3 a Temple. W casts the Terror spell and E casts Meteor. Holding Space runs the game at triple speed, and Enter, Z, X or T all call in the next wave.