Towers & Defense

Towers & Defense holds the base-building side of strategy: you place units, spend a budget, then watch whether the layout survives to the last wave. The interesting part is not the shooting, it is the decision made before the wave arrives: what gets upgraded first, which corner deserves the expensive unit, and when to stop spending and save for the heavy wave. Most titles in this section can be finished without paying anything, provided the upgrade order is right. We flag the ones with an endless mode, because that is where a bad layout only reveals itself ten minutes in, and that delayed feedback is exactly the kind of learning we look for. If you count in your head before pressing buy, this section was arranged for you; if you would rather shoot first, Timed Assault is the better door.