Game styles
Game style

Tower Defense

You are not in the game. You spend, you place, and your towers do the fighting.

Every other style here hands you a character to be. This one does not. Enemies walk a fixed route and ignore you completely, and your whole game is deciding what to buy and where to put it. Then you watch it happen.

The rules

  • There is no player character on the field at all.
  • Enemies follow a set path and never chase you.
  • You spend a resource to place defenders, and they fight on their own.
  • You lose by letting too many through, not by dying.

Games like this: Bloons TD, Plants vs. Zombies, Kingdom Rush.

Play a 60-second sample: Tower Defense

Lessons that build this style