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Defenders of Ardania is a tower defense (TD) game. They did add conventions from other games genres- in particular, you send soldiers from your castle to destroy the enemy castle or other objectives - which is seen in many flash games and some PC games already. In another convention that is common since Command & Conquer in RTS games is that you can't just built towers anywhere - you extend where you can put a tower by 4 spaces every time you place a tower. Other than that game seems like conventional TD in most ways. The graphics are excellent. However, I really didn't like the gameplay - it felt more like a chore than fun. Also, it has an annoying problem with multi-monitor configurations - it starts on the lowest monitor number instead of the primary. The only fix I found is turning off the secondary monitors. That is very annoying and I've seen many complaints already. Overall, not recommended.

Defenders of Ardania has an incredibly annoying problem on my computer. In the first time in probably thousands of games I've played, the game starts on a secondary monitor (which has happened just once before) AND it doesn't a control to change the monitor. That is unacceptable here. I looked for a solution, and the only one I found was using DisplayFusion (which I have been using for some time, it is pretty good) and monitor profiles to turn off both secondary monitors. Just right-click on the Display Fusion icon and choose Monitor Profiles->Create/Edit Monitor Profiles. In the Monitor Configuration screen that appears, choose the monitors you want to turn off and change Extend Desktop to this Monitor to Disconnect this monitor. This worked properly, but it is interesting to say that Windows Explorer crashed a couple of times when I switched to my regular profile, and some apps moved from their usual location. Note that you can turn the monitors off in the regu...