When comparing DefEndless vs Bloons TD 5, the Slant community recommends Bloons TD 5 for most people. In the question“What are the best tower defense games playable in a browser?” Bloons TD 5 is ranked 2nd while DefEndless is ranked 4th. The most important reason people chose Bloons TD 5 is:
There's a great variation in towers, their stats and upgrade trees, as well as enemy types (bloons) and levels you have your battles in.
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Pros
Pro Customizable enemy path
Enemies in DefEndless ignore the standard path and instead choose the shortest path to certain checkpoints. Where you place your towers influences this path, allowing you to choose how the enemy moves through your towers.
Combine this with the fact that you can move your towers at will means that you can constantly adjust the enemy path to constantly suit your needs.
All in all, this feature has given the tower defense genre a new dimension to consider, and easily makes this simple game one of my favorites of its kind.
Pro Great depth and variety
There's a great variation in towers, their stats and upgrade trees, as well as enemy types (bloons) and levels you have your battles in.
Pro Clean graphics
The gameplay in previous games (TD4 and lower) was a bit laggy at times, luckily TD5 has cleaned up the graphics to make them a bit more simple while also allowing for new designs that differentiate things in the game in order to make it easier to tell what is going on. The cleaned up graphics also allow for smother gameplay due to them using less resources, meaning no more laggy gameplay.
Pro Co-op mode
Unlocked at rank 10, two players can work together to beat a game, with a set map and difficulty, of Bloons. In co-op mode players can transfer money between them opening up new possibilities of gameplay.
Cons
Con No story or background
The game has little when it comes to atmosphere, and most of the enjoyment you'll get out of it comes strictly out of its gameplay alone.
Con In-app purchases
This app does contain in app purchases, and plenty of them. Though they're not necessary for normal play, they are still present, and needed to unlock special perks (double cash mode). Everything else can be purchased with coins and bucks, which can be earned (or bought) through normal game play. They range from $0.99 - $49.99 per item.
Con Old graphics
Bloons TD's 2D Graphics are old and they don't fit in nowadays standards.
Con Coop mode networking is spotty
Frequent disconnects which can ruin a long game, no LAN mode or direct connect (it uses facebook).