Mobilewalla: Tower defense games offer role-playing fun
Tower defense games are largely strategic: Build defenses around an asset, and then protect it. However, recently they’ve evolved to incorporate other elements, including role-playing.
Apple apps
Bug Heroes (Free) As a bug, you’ve worked hard to collect and store food, but now some other bugs want to take it away. Defend your food and squash the invaders! (Score: 99/100)
Royal Revolt 2 - Defend Your Castle (Free)* In this game, you defend your castle and also attack the strongholds of other players worldwide. (Score: 98/100)
Tiny Defense ($2.99) Peaceful mini-robots are attacked by machines in this game and must defend their home and rescue kidnapped allies. (Score: 97/100)
StickWars Lite (Free)
This tower defense game features stick figures fighting it out at very high speeds; strategy and nimble fingers are needed. (Score: 93/100)
Fantasy Defense (Free)* This defense game is set in a fantasy world, where you’ll assemble a party, including fighters and mages, to do battle against invading forces. (Score: 89/100)
Android apps
Kingdom Rush (Free)* This game takes place in a fantasy world, where you’ll need to be crafty to fight orcs, trolls and evil wizards. (Score: 99/100)
Castle Defense (Free)* Evolve your towers as well as your defenses in this fantasy-world tower defense game with options to fight as a wizard, paladin or barbarian. (Score: 98/100)
Robo Defense FREE (Free) Robo Defense features mechanized battles ranging across various landscapes; 11 levels of difficulty increase the challenges. (Score: 98/100)
Tower Defense (Free)* This is one of the original and most popular tower defense games. Hold your own against aliens to maintain a colony for earthlings. (Score: 98/100)
Star Wars: Galactic Defense (Free)* In this game set in the “Star Wars” universe, you’ll need to choose the light or dark side and defend your location against the enemy. (Score: 90/100)
* Available on Apple and Android
Mobilewalla is a search and discovery engine using breakthrough technology to score every app to help consumers navigate the mobile application marketplace. Apps are scored using an algorithm that weighs several characteristics, including user ratings, position within category and staff recommendations. For more app intel, go to www.mobilewalla.com. Anindya Datta is a technologist and founder of Mobilewalla.
This story was originally published August 14, 2015 at 11:34 AM with the headline "Mobilewalla: Tower defense games offer role-playing fun."