Tower Defense Games
Welcome to Tower Defense Games .com! Originally inspired by Warcraft and Starcraft, Tower Defense has become a very popular genre for online games and new ones are coming out all the time. Here you'll find a collection of the very best tower defense games out there. We only feature free games so no need to get your wallet out. If you are new to tower defense be sure to check out our detailed Tower Defense Game Guide so you hit the ground running. Please remember to rate the games after you play them as it helps us organise them in the "top rated" section of the site. Now what are you waiting for, start building your defense!
| Bloons Tower Defense 4 The fourth installment in the popular bloons tower defense series is one of the best tower defense games ever released. Improved graphics & unlimited replay value will keep you coming back for more. | |
| 514824 plays | 4.54/5 |
| Cursed Treasure Level Pack Another dose of the highly popular Cursed Treasure tower defense game for you to play! The level pack features fifteen more levels for you to build towers, destroy your enemies and protect your gems. | |
| 244808 plays | 4.54/5 |
| Frontline Defense - First Assault Defend against soldiers, robots, bikers & vehicles by strategically using twelve different tower types in this fun mission based game. Features excellent graphics and polished gameplay. | |
| 601305 plays | 4.51/5 |
| Cursed Treasure Prevent your gems from being stolen by thieves and peasants. To help you have magic spells and three different tower types at your disposal. Kill your enemies to earn money for more towers. | |
| 575199 plays | 4.48/5 |
| GemCraft Havoc and corruption have gripped the land and you are one of the few wizards who can end it. Create magic gems and place them in your towers to send your monster enemies back to hell. | |
| 105159 plays | 4.46/5 |
| Pokemon Tower Defense Tower Defense Game Featuring the original 151 Pokemon. You must stop a pack of wild Rattata by catching and training your Pokemon and using them to stop the attacks. | |
| 107439 plays | 4.42/5 |
| Bloons Tower Defense 4 Expansion Pack Bloons Tower Defense 4 expansion pack contains four new tracks, a new mode called deflation, tower specialties allowing you to change the cost of defensive towers and a hidden surprise. | |
| 84464 plays | 4.41/5 |
| Penguins Attack 2 Penguins are raging war on the human race in this tower defense game. Featuring lots of unlockable levels, towers and upgrades. Can you stop the penguins? | |
| 37762 plays | 4.40/5 |
| Onslaught 2.2 A classic tower defense game with a flexible upgrading system. Your enemies will just keep coming so you need to think very carefully as to where you place your towers. | |
| 142260 plays | 4.36/5 |
| Hands of War Tower Defense The land of Tempor lies broken from years of civil war and you are tasked with reuniting it. You have been given a powerful relic, the Heartstone to help, however it seems useless in your hands. | |
| 7426 plays | 4.35/5 |
| VR Defender Y3K It is the year 3000 and it is your job as a software engineer to protect the computer mainframe from attacking viruses & trojans. To help you have an arsenal of virtual weapons at your disposal. | |
| 350173 plays | 4.33/5 |
| Canyon Defense Can you build an impenetrable defense system? Strategically place your towers along the canyon rim to take out the incoming vehicles and save the inhabitants from relentless enemy invasion. | |
| 689136 plays | 4.32/5 |
| Warzone Tower Defense Extended This is the game you would get if you crossed a maze based tower defense game with a map based one. Features plenty of tower upgrades and unlockable enhancements. | |
| 333231 plays | 4.32/5 |
| GemCraft Chapter Zero This prequel to GemCraft tells the story of a wizard obsessively searching for the gem of eternity. Level up and gain new skills by winning battles. Can you find what you have been searching for? | |
| 78622 plays | 4.30/5 |
| Hordes of Hordes The Hordes are coming! Set traps, unleash elite combat units and use magical spells to annihilate your enemies. Earn upgrades and unlock new resources as you progress through the game. | |
| 1854 plays | 4.28/5 |
| Bloons Tower Defense 3 The third installment of the popular bloons tower defense series features hard to pop bloons inside bloons, eight new tracks, two new towers and some hardcore weapon upgrades. | |
| 35950 plays | 4.25/5 |
| Ghost Hacker Your mission is to take back control of the internet by battling rogue AIs, placing towers and adding upgrades to programs. Use scripts to attack enemies and earn new programs as you progress. | |
| 37205 plays | 4.25/5 |
| Ant Buster Protect your cake from the invading ants. Unlike most other Tower Defense games the enemies in Ant Buster don't follow a fixed path but instead have their own Artificial Intelligence. | |
| 198769 plays | 4.24/5 |
| Desktop Tower Defense Protect your desktop from a variety of invading creeps by building towers. Try and channel your enemies into deadly winding paths so they feel the maximum force of your weapons. | |
| 477939 plays | 4.20/5 |
| Revenge of the Stickmen Stickmen are revolting and jumping out of your computer screen! Use various items of stationary to stop them before they jump out your window never to be seen again (!?) | |
| 196604 plays | 4.19/5 |
| Ultimate Defence You won't find any towers or turrets in this game! Position archers, mages and ninjas to take out the monsters as they advance but be careful as its important which way they face. | |
| 792344 plays | 4.17/5 |
| Tower Defence Based on warcraft 3 and starcraft you must prevent waves of monsters getting to your castles and killing innocent civilians by carefully placing towers along their path. | |
| 744251 plays | 4.13/5 |
| Bubble Tanks Tower Defense Use your bubble tanks to create deadly paths to trap your enemies. There are 52 game modes, 7 enemy types, 11 tower paths and tower merging enabling you to build mega towers. | |
| 13157 plays | 4.12/5 |
| Turret Defence Build turrets to destroy the incoming convoys as they pass through on a straight road. In this game you need to juggle building turrets and the power stations to power them. | |
| 731152 plays | 4.02/5 |
| Shock Defence Place your towers to stop your enemies from getting to the end of the path. Upgrade your towers to increase their range and damage to help annihilate your enemies. | |
| 1081075 plays | 3.98/5 |
| Bloons Tower Defense The first installment in a brilliant series of tower defense games. Pop the bloons before they escape the maze by strategically placing bloons popping towers which fire darts, tacks, bombs, and ice. | |
| 8970 plays | 3.86/5 |
| Bloons Tower Defense 2 The sequel to Bloons Tower Defense! This version of Bloons Tower Defense features new towers, new bloon types, new maps to explore and three difficulty levels to beat. Don't let any bloons escape! | |
| 22988 plays | 3.81/5 |
| Picnic Basket Defense Carefully place ketchup, mustard and other foodstuffs to prevent insects eating your picnic. Use your towers to build mazes in this Desktop Tower Defense inspired game. | |
| 301473 plays | 3.79/5 |
| Creepy Ranger Tower Defense Halloween themed game in which you must place towers to defend your shelter from invading ghosts, pumpkins and monsters. The more ghouls you kill the more money you'll get for tower upgrades. | |
| 12069 plays | 3.79/5 |
| Elite Forces Defense Delta station is under attack by waves of evil monsters! Protect it by building and upgrading towers from a choice of over 60 tower types and by utilizing the help of two playable heroes. | |
| 503101 plays | 3.76/5 |
| Omega Tower Defense A very tricky tower defense game in which you need impeccable timing. Be sure upgrade your towers place bombs at just the right time or you may not survive your mission. | |
| 524049 plays | 3.71/5 |
| Protector Simple to play yet success requires deep thought and a carefully thought out strategy. Battle rats, skeletons and monsters in this tactical tower defense / RPG mash up. | |
| 172719 plays | 3.58/5 |
| Turret Tyranny In this tower defense game you must kill all the red creeps but be careful, your gun turrets can only fire along their line of sight, so you must be careful where you place them. | |
| 172309 plays | 3.48/5 |
| Glissaria Defend Glissaria from an outbreak of monsters by building and upgrading towers and collecting resources, weapons and armor. Magic stones will help you along the way! | |
| 17442 plays | 3.43/5 |
| Picnic Panic A picnic is being invaded by some horrible, filthy insects. Help a pixie and her woodland friends rescue the picnic from the bugs in this funny tower defense game. | |
| 175500 plays | 3.42/5 |
Tower Defense Game Guide
The goal in any tower defense game is simple - stop the creeps from reaching your base or stealing your goodies. There are dozens of variations but the basics are the same in each game. This guide details all you need to know to hit the ground running and build a strong and versatile defense.
“If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.” - Sun Tzu
Creeps
The bad guys. These invading enemies attack in waves and it's up to you to build towers and destroy them. They come in all shapes and sizes with different strengths and weaknesses. Some are slow but strong others fast and weak and there can be any combination in between. Some fly, some burrow and some even turn invisible. It is best to build a variety of towers so you can take out all of the different kinds. You are usually rewarded with money for each creep you kill; the harder the kill the bigger the reward. You can use this cash to buy new towers or upgrade your existing towers.
Bosses
Every now and then expect to face a giant creep. These guys usually travel alone but are far stronger than any other creep!
Placing Towers
In some tower defense games, such as Desktop Tower Defence, you can place towers anywhere on the screen and approaching creeps must walk around them. This can be used to your advantage by building a maze that will impede the creeps progress and give your towers more time to attack. Other games have a static map and the enemies walk along a fixed path. In these games you must place your towers in the designated area – usually anywhere off the path. Some tower defense games take it even further and have different designated areas for different types of tower. A superb example of this is Cursed Treasure in which fire towers may only be placed stone, arrow towers on grass and freeze towers on ice. In addition some areas of the map will boost the properties of any tower built there.
Upgrading Towers
As time goes by the incoming enemies increase in number, become stronger and faster. The towers you built earlier in the game just won't be able to keep up. The solution is to upgrade your towers as soon as you can. Sometimes this just means hitting the upgrade button to increase the power and fire rate of the tower. In other games you can upgrade towers in many different ways. Gemcraft for instance offers an incredible amount of flexibility when upgrading towers. Any number of tower combinations can be made by combining different types of gem. Give it a go and you'll see what I mean!
Tower Types
Here are some typical tower types you will find in a tower defense game:
Normal Tower: Shoots projectiles at passing creeps.
Rapidfire Tower: Quickly shoots projectiles at passing creeps.
Freeze Tower: Temporarily slows down creeps.
Shock Tower: Temporarily stuns creeps.
Area Blast Tower: Cause injury to all nearby creeps.
Ricochet Tower: Projectiles fired by this tower bounce from one creep to another.
Avatars
There are a growing number of tower defense games where you are able to control an avatar. This is a character which you have full control of. You are able to move them anywhere (typically with the arrow keys) and attack the incoming creeps.
Game Target
The goal of a traditional tower defense game is to prevent too many creeps from reaching your base. Some games have shaken this up a bit though by placing items in your base that the creeps are trying to steal. This means you can also shoot the creeps as they return from your base with the treasure.
Congratulations, you are now a tower defense expert. It's time to scroll to the top of the page, choose a game and start building your defense!