What Makes Tower Defence Games Good?

I've spent many hours clicking away at various tower defence games, and there's something so addicting about them. Taking time to set everything up and watching them demolish everything in it's path. I know I'm certainly not the only one who has played hundreds of hours of TD games, but maybe I can try to pick apart certain mechanics of the game to show and explain to you why me and so many others love it so much.

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Sorry if I didn't mention your favourite game! I know I missed a few I meant to get but I wanted to get this out at a reasonable time and didn't want it to be a 45 minute overview of just different TD games.

Non Game Links:
IGN Article "Why We Love Tower Defense"
https://ca.ign.com/articles/2012/09/2...

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List of games featured in the video (Alphabetically)

Age Of Empires II: HD Edition
https://store.steampowered.com/app/22...

Age of War:
http://www.maxgames.com/play/age-of-w...

Bloons Tower Defence 5:
https://ninjakiwi.com/Games/Tower-Def...

Bubble Tanks TD:
http://onemorelevel.com/game/bubble_t...

Canyon Defence:
http://onemorelevel.com/game/canyon_d...

Dungeon Defenders:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/65...

Gemcraft:
http://onemorelevel.com/game/gemcraft

Kingdom Rush:
http://kingdomrush.com/play/


Mini TD:
http://onemorelevel.com/game/mini_td

Onslaught 2:
http://onslaught.playr.co.uk/


Plants VS Zombies:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/35...

Tower Defence by Roman Sanine:
http://onemorelevel.com/game/tower_de...


Ultimate Defence:
http://onemorelevel.com/game/ultimate...


Vector TD:
http://www.coolstreaming.us/forum/arc...

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