

Orcs Must Die! is a strategy video game developed by Robot Entertainment. It is a Tower defense game that eschews the traditional top-down view of similar games, instead using a third-person action-oriented viewpoint.
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Plot-driven, resolved, unpretentious and contemporary.
- character-ledplot-driven
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
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About the game
- Platforms
- PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360
- Developer
- Robot Entertainment
- Publisher
- Microsoft Studios
- Released
- October 5, 2011
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- First person, Third person
- Time to beat
- 11 h rushed · 12 h main story · 30 h completionist
IGDB rating 7.9/10 from 120 ratings.
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