''Orcs Must Die! 3'' is a 2020

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developed and published by

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. It is the fourth installment in the ''

Orcs Must Die! ''Orcs Must Die!'' is an action-tower defense video game developed and published by Robot Entertainment and Mastertronic. It is a tower defense game that eschews the traditional top-down view of similar games, instead using a third-person action- ...

'' series, and the direct sequel to ''

Orcs Must Die! 2 ''Orcs Must Die! 2'' is a trap based action-tower defense video game that Robot Entertainment developed as the follow-up to the original ''Orcs Must Die!'', with Microsoft Game Studios publishing the sequel for Microsoft Windows on July 30, 2012 ...

''. It was released as a

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on July 14, 2020, and for Windows,

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on July 23, 2021.

Gameplay

Similar to its predecessor and the original game, ''Orcs Must Die! 3'' is a variation on a

game. The player takes the role of one of two apprentice war mages and is tasked to defend rifts from an onslaught of orc armies by using the characters' weapons and special abilities, as well as setting traps. The game launched with 18 different levels. Besides the standard Story game mode, the game includes an Endless mode and Weekly Challenges game mode. Unlike its predecessors, it includes a War Scenarios game mode, which tasks a player to defend against armies of orcs at a much larger scale (up to 1,000). This mode utilizes oversized traps, referred to as War Machines, to defend a castle and its rift from larger armies. The game allows for two-player cooperative multiplayer mode.

Plot

The story picks up 20 years after the events in ''Orcs Must Die! 2''.

Expansions

An expansion entitled "Drastic Steps" was released November 6, 2020. An expansion entitled "Cold as Eyes" was announced on October 7, 2021 and is planned for release on November 11, 2021.

Reception

''Orcs Must Die! 3'' received "mixed or average" reviews for Stadia and "generally favorable" reviews for Windows according to the

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. Jeremy Peel of

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said "Robot Entertainment has shown it still knows exactly how to make Orcs Must Die!" and defined the game as a "conservative but confident return to form from the masters of a much-loved genre".

References

External links

Official website
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