When comparing The Cave vs Anomaly Defenders, the Slant community recommends The Cave for most people. In the question“What are the best Android tablet games?” The Cave is ranked 26th while Anomaly Defenders is ranked 84th. The most important reason people chose The Cave is:
The Cave supports up to 3 player local co-op play. Sadly there is no online co-op.
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Pros
Pro 3 player local co-op
The Cave supports up to 3 player local co-op play. Sadly there is no online co-op.
Pro Cheesy jokes of the best kind
The Cave has a good sense of humor within, something expected when considering the game was created by the same people as The Secret of Monkey Island.
Pro Characters based on 7 deadly sins
Each character represents one of the seven deadly sins making the game a bit of a moral tale.
Pro Can be played offline
Anomaly Defenders allows for offline play, making for a good game to play when there is no available internet connection.
Pro Fantastic graphics
Hands down the best looking tower defense game on Android as of 2014.
Pro Deep progression and upgrade systems
Anomaly Defenders has a lot of upgrade options that give the game a lot of replayability and also just a huge amount of player choice that allows the game to cater to any kind of playstyle.
Pro Complex, varied level design
The level design in Anomaly Defenders is more varied and complex than most tower defense games on the Android platform.
Cons
Con Tedious level design
There is a lot of backtracking and lever pulling that gives a feeling of lazy level design to elongate the game.
Con Co-op may leave one or two players out on certain stages
Some stages do not offer gameplay for all co-op players. Although the co-op is drop in drop out, certain points of the game do not offer anything for the other players to do.
Con Extremely slowly paced
The gameplay takes a very long time to get moving and even then it still feels slow.