Avalancher is a fun game where you must place an eskimo somewhere on the mountain and then trigger and avalanche and hope he survives. You cannot put him on top of trees and other structures so your options are limited. He has a certain amount of life so he can take a little damage before he dies. The game has a series of slopes of varying difficulty and the physics involved in the game make for planning before you trigger an avalanche.

The best places are protected places where there is a ledge overhanging the area to protect you from things falling from above. Trees in front or in back of this area are good too, but be careful because trees can fall over and kill you. If there is a gentle slope, position yourself as far away from the sloping part as possible so when trees fall, they don’t hit you. Use the objects/obstacles to your advantage and you will survive far.

Chess Tower Defense is a unique tower defense game in that the towers actually move to kill or “take” out invaders. You have a few chess pieces and lots of invading enemies. You must position your pieces so they can “take” out as many enemies as possible. Pawns and kings kill in different ways so you need to be aware of the way pieces move. There is adequate time to think and calculate before each wave so structure your defenses well.

One of the more interesting things is that you can buy extra pieces with the money you earn but the most useful pieces cost alot. I usually just buy more pawns than knights or bishops and save moneys for the rooks and the queens. If you have enough pawns, you can generally take out anything on the board if you position them right. Remember that everything moves in turn and the rules of chess. Structure pawns out one to each row so they can kill diagonally and make sure pieces don’t get in each others way or you will be in trouble. The game will reverse to sideways at times so you have to twist your brain around to get used to it. Overall this is a fun and challenging game.