As a TD fan, I've purchased pretty much every TD to hit the App Store: Mote-M (poor graphics), Fieldrunners (vastly overrated, ZERO depth, no replay value), Besiegement (good depth, poor visuals), iTD (good depth, but poor graphics), and TapDefense (again - good depth and replay value, but poor visuals) ... Then came 7 Cities TD.

Fans of TD games have been looking for a game that had the graphics of Fieldrunners, the basic gameplay of games like iTD, the story of Besiegement, and the fun of Zombie Attack... and this just might be that game!

Good: Decent graphics, several different maps. Price is about what you'd expect. Unique tower upgrade system.

A great implementation of the tower defense genre. The developers clearly took their time polishing this app before release--and it shows. This has become one of my favorite games for the iPhone. The art in the game is worth highlighting, adding significantly to my enjoyment. I look forward to seeing what they do in the future with this app.

...and I own them all.

If you can only have one tower defense game on your iPhone, this should be the one. While Fieldrunner is good, this is better and has much more replay value, well worth the price.

If you like Field Runners this is a must buy. You will find out it also has more depth.

Am a big fan of TD games, including ones with fixed placement like 7cities. The graphics are polished (though I agree with others that towers need to stand out more), the skill tree is a nice idea, and overall the game seems well made. Unfortunately, I find it very boring. An odd feeling given my normal obsessive tendencies with similar games. I think the reason for the difference is that in other games you are able to quickly determine the strength and effectiveness of your towers through visual cues and can spend your time watching each wave to see what parts of your setup are effective and where you need to add something. I am unable to do that in this game. Instead, with all of the options for towers, relative lack of visual cues of tower strength, and most importantly the inability to build or modify towers with the game paused, I spend my time playing frantically clicking on towers to read what damage they are doing, rate of fire etc. That takes all of the pleasure out of the game. Feel like I'm doing chores when i kill these pirates rather than relaxing while watching the monsters, fieldrunners, etc. get destroyed like in other games.

I just got the new update and it crashes instantly now! Fix the problem and I will restore my original 5 star review!

While not as polished as the current heavyweight Fieldrunners, 7 Cities TD provides a lot of entertainment. I particularly like the ability to magnify tower effects using the obelisk. The skill tree is a fantastic idea, I hope to see additional branches as well as more towers added in the near future. The maps are very well done and a joy to look at. 

This was my introduction to TD games and I'm hooked. The maps are fun and strategic spots really well thought out. The graphics are great and I look forward to future updates and releases from this developer. I'm reserving a star because there's a few places that could be tightened up. The high scores section needs help (can't enter #'s, spaces), the coloring of buildings and "orbs" too often blend in with the map, and there are several places on the map that are obscured by text, or worse unbuildable because they sit too close to the pause button. I would also like to see the high score section record scores with the name of the map and wave # that you made it up to (I find that more valuable than score.)

I can't believe I am about to be saying this... but 7 Cities TD has more depth, more action, more towers, more power ups, more maps, and more replay value than Fieldrunners!! Yes I said BETTER THAN FIELDRUNNERS! Anyone who thinks differently attends the school for the blind! *OBAMA*

I own 3 tower defense games, TapDefense, Fieldrunners, and now 7 Cities. If I rated them out of 10, 10 being the best, this is how I would rate them TapDefense-8/10- great FREE game but only one map and the strategy is the same every time. Ok graphics, didn't crash. Fieldrunners-9.5/10- Fieldrunners was the nest td game on my iPod before I discovered this. The free form strategy is always fun to play around with and with the new update coming up, it will be even better. 7 Cities-10/10- easily the best. Difficult great gameplay and a lot different than most td games. The way that the towers level up is awesome and it is overall the best because of the graphics gameplay and no crashes. All of these games are great, most people will probably tell you that Fieldrunners is the best, but the uniqueness of 7 Cities gives it the next step up and that 10/10 rating for me.

Definitelly the best td game in the app store

Don't waste time reading reviews. Go buy this game now.

Good game!

Like a Many others here I too have bought most of the TD games on the app store. This one ranks among the best. Great Graphics. Fun game play. Lots of strategy and towers. Highly recommended!! If you like Beseigement, Tap Defense, and Field Runners, pick this up. You will not be disappointed.

This is a very polished game; the graphics, music, and campaign mode all fit well together to give this game a great unique style. With seven differrent maps and a detailed tower-upgrade system (with unlocking of abilities and multiple upgrade paths) there is a lot of depth and replay value. The "leveling" of towers and interaction of towers with other neighboring towers adds a challenging new element to the strategy as well. A definite buy for fans of tower defense games, but also fun for less experienced players.

Better than fieldrunners

just buy it it's worth it.

Fix the update app doesnt work any more. Crashes on start up

That's good

I'm a TD fanatic and this game is pretty good. Much more depth than fieldrunners. Some problems: - way too easy. I beat most of the levels on hard the first time through - way too east to get the red gems to unlock all the abilities - the game encourages clumping all of your towers towards the beginning because it alows you to collect the blue gems to level up faster. This makes the strategy needed for each levell predictable and boring

They screwed up the balancing with the game now. Cannons to weak and too slow. Obelisks barely provide benefit until level 30. Most annoying is they screwed up the ability to focus attacks on a specific target.

Great game, want more: levels, strategies, towers, more!

This game has the graphics of Fieldrunners, a great musical score, a superb tower defense foundation and a healthy dose of RPG thrown in to boot. Upgradable towers are awesome! Each map is different too. I'd like to see some night time maps or perhaps some challenge modes but this is a fantastic game. My favorite tower defense game so far!