This game feels pretty mindless and a lot of your turns may be best spent doing nothing so you can defend a spot, or returning to the middle of the map so you can heal and go find a spot to defend on your next turn. I grabbed the expansion too, which does improve the game a decent amount, but even with the expansion, I’d give it a 6/10 at best. Tiny Epic Dungeons and Zombies are both far superior choices.
There’s a similar game called Mint Cooperative which is cheaper, smaller, shorter, and honestly much more engaging than Defenders.
These are great little additions to a fantastic game.
This is one of the best games out there. It is a reskin of Mombasa and they enhanced it and added much more content. Cannot say enough good things about it!
Quality figure. Adds exciting replay ability to the game
It's not often that I fall in love with a game mid-game while trying to learn it for the 1st time - but I sure did during Apiary! The artwork is fantastic, components of the play area modular, the game is easy to learn, and I appreciated this twist on the 'worker placement' mechanic where you can bump people off of their spots (this twist probably isn't new) which may or may not be good/bad for them. Love it. I bought this game for myself after playing a friend's only once.