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Lost Adventures is the latest DLC for Orcs Must Die! What you get is: - Five New levels: these seem to be more or less on the same level of cleverness/difficulty/fun as the original levels. The Reverse Tower is a bit of cheating - it is The Tower level from the original game in reverse, with the doors on the upper two levels and the Rift down below. - Two New Enemies: the Frost Bat, which is basically the regular HellBats from the regular game releasing ice, and the Cyclops mage, which is OK. - New Trap: the Mana Well can supply you with mana. Not very exciting. It doesn't add a lot of stuff, but for US$3.99 it is good value if you already like the game. If you still want to upgrade any of the traps, the extra skulls (up to 50) should come in handy. It wasn't obvious (at least to me) how to play the new levels. I'm posting on a separate article how to play the new levels in Lost Adventures .

When you buy Orcs Must Die: Lost Adventures it is not all the obvious how to play the new levels. However, it is very easy - just click on Play and look for the button Change Campaign. Click on it to change to Lost Adventures and you can start playing.

I've just tried to run Orcs Must Die! , but I had a problem. It wouldn't run at all, just launch the icon and then disappear quietly. I found the solution in this FAQ  by the game authors. It is fairly easy: - Find the game on Steam (if you have a large list like me, might be easier to switch to Recently Played games first) - Right-click on the game title - Choose the Local Files tab - Verify Integrity of Game Cache There were 8 files with problems on mine. After that the game ran fine. And I have to say that so far I like it a lot - see Orcs Must Die! Review  for my opinion. Amazon.com Widgets

Orcs Must Die! is an awesome tower defense/FPS game. Tower Defense/FPS is not a particularly common genre, but there are a few of them out there - such as Sanctum or Iron Grip: Warlord  . Orcs Must Die! is quite simple - you have to defend the Time Rifts in a bunch of different castles from an horde of Orcs. You will do it with weapons - such as a sword or a crossbow - and traps - on the demo all you get are floor spikes, wall arrows, tar traps and exploding barrels. This allow for quite a bit of strategy in the placement. There are also crossbow and sword defenders, but at least on the demo they are at fixed positions. The traps are also upgradable, and it looks like you collect new traps during the campaign. Another strategic element is that you only have a few slots, so you will have to pick which traps are best for your strategy and specific castles. Graphics are great and so is the sound. I love the gameplay in the demo. It is just at the appropriate side of frantic...