Best tower defense games you can play right now
Tower defense is a subgenre of strategy games that’s often packed with colorful and hectic gameplay. It favors fast-paced defensive combat and decision-making over a methodical turn-based or hack-and-slash approach. Tower defense is about protecting your home base, which could be a tower, but it can also be a backyard, an item, or a person.
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162112TD: Tower Defense Survival
Battle inter-dimensional space aliens
In-app purchases
Subscription
ChromeOS support
Publish Date
Jun 1, 2020
2112TD takes place 100 years in the future. An inter-dimensional alien species has overrun Earth’s colonies, and it’s up to you to defend what’s left of Earth’s colonies to prevent the extinction of humankind. If you’re old enough to remember it, think of this tower defense game as your opportunity to relive the events of the classic movie Starship Troopers.
Research and unlock new experimental technology to gain the upper hand over the invading alien forces. 2112TD features visuals akin to games like StarCraft, which immerse you in the game’s semi-futuristic, dystopian feel. It boasts a campaign mode with multiple difficulty levels to cater to players of different skill levels. In other words, no matter if you’re a newbie or a veteran, you’re likely to find a challenge in 2112TD, and at $1.99, it’s a no-brainer.
15Bad North: Jotunn Edition
Defend your island from Vikings
Oct 16, 2019
Ruthless invaders are at your doorstep. The Vikings killed the king, and now they’re after you. Your little island needs protection from the invading ships, which are quickly approaching to make it their own. The graphic style is truly a work of art and never gets old. As you fight to replace your father as ruler, this real-time tactics roguelite puts you in command of your people, leading the escape from island to island.
Each island is unique and procedurally generated, forcing you to build strategies around the land to save your people. You give high-level commands to your soldiers and are rewarded with unlockable upgrades for stronger and smarter defense strategies.
Bring down as many foes as you could, and send as many Vikings as you can to the halls of Valhalla.
14Bloons 6 TD
Iconic tower defense game
✅ $0.99 - $49.99 per item
Jun 13, 2018
Bloons 6 goes for more light-hearted and vibrant visuals. In this colorful tower defense game, you play as one of the title’s cutesy monkeys. Each monkey protagonist offers a unique look, a set of skills, and an upgrade tree, and it’s up to you to use their abilities to the fullest to pop imposing enemies: balloons.
Partake in an exciting campaign mode for up to four players, check out community-created levels, or whip up your own. By collecting trophies, you unlock cosmetic items that enhance the visual experience, from character skins and animations to background music.
Bloons 6 offers a lot of content for its $6.99 price tag, especially considering all the game’s regular updates and over a decade of exciting gameplay from this successful series.
13Dungeon of the Endless: Apogee
Tower Defense and Dungeon Crawler
Mar 16, 2021
Picture this: You’re a convicted felon being transported to a remote planet to serve out your sentence as a slave. For better or for worse, the space vessel you’re on suffers an unexpected crash-landing.
To escape, you must restore power to its now malfunctioning compartments. However, creatures roaming the hallways of the stranded space vessel are here to ruin your day. They’ll relentlessly attack any power source in sight, preventing your potential escape. These power sources represent the game’s version of a “tower.”
Dungeon of the Endless combines elements of a rogue-lite, dungeon crawler, and tower defense. The Apogee edition comes with all the released DLC for a one-off cost of $1.99. If you subscribe to Play Pass, you get it at no additional cost.
12Dungeon Warfare 2
Defend your dungeon from enemies
Apr 2, 2019
Dungeon Warfare 2 tasks you with defending your dungeon from invading enemies. You’re provided with a plethora of tools and abilities to do so, from various contraptions to skills. Best of all, it’s possible to gradually make them more potent by allocating earned skill points. Your opposition becomes stronger as well. Dungeon Warfare 2 features more than 30 enemies, each requiring a different approach.
The game comes with more than 60 handcrafted levels and a near-endless supply of randomly generated ones. If you’re ready to fork out $4.99, you’ll access an extensive tower defense experience. If you’re a Play Pass subscriber, you get it all at no additional cost.
11Frost & Flame: King of Avalon
A Game of Thrones inspired tower defense
✅ $0.99 - $149.99 per item
May 18, 2016
Can you guess the inspiration behind Frost & Flame from the name alone? Dragons, frost-laden lands, stalwart castles, and a seemingly impregnable adversary in the ravenous The Unmelted. Frost & Flame takes obvious cues from the hit TV show Game of Thrones and the preceding books, and that’s a good thing.
The world’s setting lends itself well to a tower defense format, where you must protect your castle from constant attacks and hatch dragons who will hopefully aid you in combat later on. Frost & Flame also features interactive PvP combat where you fight against, cooperate, and trade with players around the globe.
10Infinitode 2
Endless waves of enemies
May 29, 2019
Every tower defense revolves around one important aspect: win by not letting the enemies through your defenses. But with Infinitode 2, there’s no winning. This abstract tower defense game sends endless waves of enemies at you, and your goal is to survive as long as possible.
But fret not, as it provides you with plenty of tools to do so. Infinitode 2 uses geometrical shapes to represent your units, and each one comes with its own set of properties and upgrade trees. You can also mine resources to create unique items and defeat enemies on your terms.
While the game comes with in-app purchases, they’re optional. There are no ads, and you can unlock everything through progression.
9Iron Marines Invasion RTS Game
Defend against hordes of aliens
✅ $0.99 - $99.99 per item
Sep 8, 2022
Tower defense lends itself well to an alien invasion. Iron Marines Invasion combines the dire invasion scenario of 2112TD with the vibrant visuals of Bloons 6. But here, you assemble a team of various species to fend off the invading forces.
You can select from a wide range of species, including Humanoids, and Frognauts, which could easily fit into a cult-classic Battletoads game. Iron Marines Invasion features a galaxy to explore, collect resources, and defend from invading alien hordes. Best of all, Iron Marines Invasion costs only $2.99.
8Kingdom Rush Origins TD Game
Beginning of the Kingdom Rush story
Nov 20, 2014
We’re moving away from sci-fi and into fantasy. Developed by the same studio as Iron Marines Invasion, Kingdom Rush Origins is part of a lengthy tower defense series and serves as its origin story. Kingdom Rush Origins takes place in a mythical fantasy land where you play as elves and attempt to protect your kingdom.
Employ a variety of elves, including nimble archers and those that wield powerful magic. Kingdom Rush Origins features a galore of content, with multiple game modes (such as Classic, Iron, and Heroic), numerous legendary heroes, and in-game achievements to keep you occupied.
Much like the Iron Marines Invasion, Kingdom Rush Origins will set you back $2.99, but it is also included with a Play Pass subscription.
7Last Hope TD - Tower Defense
Defend against the undead
✅ $0.99 - $31.99 per item
Jun 29, 2015
Tower defense and zombies go together like bread and butter. Last Hope presents you with more than 145 levels of varying difficulty where you must protect your home base from invading zombie hordes. Choose from many heroes, each with a unique skill set, to retaliate against the seemingly endless swarm of the undead.
In addition to that, Last Hope includes dozens of turrets, each with a separate upgrade path, and more than 50 enemies to decimate. Last Hope has an incredible amount of gameplay and could be a contender for the best zombie game on Android.
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