In a world of video games that is overflowing with First person shooters it's good to play something different. Puzzle games are starting to become a favorite of mine. Unlike First person shooters where you hold down one button to kill people puzzle games make you think a little bit.

Enough ramblining though lets get to the game. Pixeljunk Monsters is a 2D tower defense game. You play as some sort of turtle like creature and you must prevent your Pixeljunk monsters from being killed by waves of on coming enemies. You do this by building towers (using surrounding trees) that shoot various things such as arrows, cannonballs or even fire. Certain towers will be stronget against certain types of creatures. For example the arrow tower will work best against spiders and the cannon will work best against golems, this is where the strategy comes in, you have to find a way to get enough coins to build enough towers to fight off the waves of enemies while upgrading your towers to kill these enemies as they grow stronger. Somehow this makes the game strangly addicting because playing this game trying to find out how to beat that one level will take a lit of experimenting and a good battle strategy.

Overall this game feels like a return to those addicting games of the past that you can play over and over again. Its a simple formula that you can learn in about 5 minutes but that levels on harder difficulties will add a lot of replay value. Even after you beat them you can play them over gain to get a higher score or even try to win withough losing a pizeljunk monster if you think you got the smarts to do so. This game is definitely worth the 8 dollars it costs if your into strategy games or your just looking for something diferent.