Defender's Quest opens on a rather bleak note. After falling victim to a ravenous plague, you're tossed into the Great Pit even before you've drawn your last breath, but you somehow recover and discover within yourself the ability to travel to the world between life and death. Unfortunately, that brings you into contact with the zombie-like Revenants, who prey on the living and cannot be stopped from within the mortal realm. In spite of the dark subject matter, it's actually a rather funny game, particularly in moments involving the first barbarian you meet, who's handy in a fight but more than a little bit crazy.
The "towers" in this tower defense game are actually the characters in your party, which can grow into a small army in relatively short order. Like other such games, different types of units - which is to say, different classes of characters - have different abilities: berserkers can deal out tremendous amounts of short-range melee damage, rangers fire arrows from long distances, healers do their best to keep everyone in the fight, and so forth. You place your compatriots along the paths of the incoming enemies and then hope they've got what it takes to cut down the attackers before they get to you.
