Draw the root from the Coregrove to your towers. Towers it reaches deal more damage while the root is active.
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Where will you cross the enemy route?
Enemies on the root are slowed and take damage. The slow effect lingers briefly after they leave.
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One draw per wave.
The root cannot reach across the whole field. Choose which towers and which part of the enemy route to reach.
Captured gameplay
Your formation in action.
Enemies with different resistances advance along several paths.
Place and upgrade your towers carefully, then draw the root at the
right moment.
Nine enemy types
Healers, flyers and dense swarms.
Swarms fill the route, runners slip past slow towers and healers keep their group in the fight. Four elite variants alter familiar enemy types. Placement, target priority and the root path must fit the wave.
Available from the startFour base towersUnlocked during playThree hybrid towersOn hybrid towersActive abilities
The upgrade path determines which ability is available during the run.
Tower combinations
Towers work together.
Bolt Spire deals more damage next to Storm Coil. A nearby Ember Kiln makes Frost Reed’s slow effect last longer.
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Attack slowed enemies
Thermal Rift deals extra damage to slowed enemies – including those slowed by the root.
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The Builder fights too
Between construction jobs, he attacks enemies.
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Overcharge in Endless
In Endless mode, you can overcharge fully upgraded towers.
42 tower talents
Choose your tower talents before battle.
Each of the seven towers has two talent paths with three ranks. Unlock talents with seeds earned by playing, then choose a path for your next formation.
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Six regions, 36 maps.
Each region contains six fixed maps with its own routes and build spots.
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Emerald Grove
Learn the root, four base towers and their upgrade paths.
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Crystal Crossroads
Split routes demand coverage on more than one side.
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Twilight Rift
New resistances change tower choice and targeting.
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Root Basin
Scattered build spots limit which towers one root can reach.
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Siege Ring
Several entrances must be covered at the same time.
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Ash Crown
Ways to play
Campaign or a new challenge?
Start with 36 campaign maps across six regions. Continue with endless runs, fixed challenges and maps of your own.
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Campaign
Six regions with six levels each, their own routes and three difficulty settings.
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Endless
Waves and boss battles get tougher as you go. How long will your defences hold?
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Missions
Daily and weekly setups give every player the same challenge.
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Expedition
Choose your route and carry one shared pool of lives all the way to the finale.
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Workshop
Build your own maps, test them and share validated designs with a short code.
Daily and weekly missions are optional extra challenges.
Missions and trials
Take on a fixed challenge.
Preset tower decks and special rules change how familiar maps play.
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Daily mission
Every player gets the same map, tower deck and rules each day.
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Weekly mission
A larger fixed challenge with its own map, tower deck and several special rules.
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Hero Trial
Replay a completed campaign map with a preset three-tower deck on the highest difficulty.
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Iron Trial
One core life, no root and a fixed base-tower deck. Every campaign map has both trials.
The first victory in each trial grants an additional reward.
Four stations and a finale
Four stages. One shared pool of lives.
Choose your route to the finale. Extra rules, such as less energy or no root, earn more seeds – but put your remaining lives at risk.
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Blessings and relics
Pick upgrades for your run along the way.
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Your route or the weekly challenge
Play a free-form expedition or the set weekly route. One trial expedition is free.
Your own maps, campaigns and expeditions
Build and share your own campaigns.
Draw enemy routes, set up waves and connect your maps into campaigns or branching expeditions.
1–4 enemy routes6 environments100 waves per map24 maps in the library
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Build the map
Draw up to four enemy routes, place the core and blockers, then choose one of six environments.
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Set the waves
Choose the allowed towers, starting conditions and rules. For each wave, set enemy type, mix, count and timing.
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Test and share
Win a test run on your map to unlock sharing. Share and import maps using a short code or QR code.
Custom rules
Set your own difficulty.
Adjust enemies, towers, energy and the root with sixteen controls. Save and share your settings.
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Easier runs still unlock content
Easier victories unlock levels, regions and endless mode, but do not count towards records or achievements.
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Higher difficulty increases rewards
Harder settings increase your rewards. The lowest difficulty used during the run determines the result.
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Share your rules
Save a setup as a short code or import another player's validated combination.
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Between runs
Make your root reach further.
Spend seeds earned by playing on 24 permanent masteries. Among other upgrades, you can extend your root and make it last longer.
65 achievements reward you with seeds, shards and additional tower sets.
Arrange your controls
Play offline. Pick up where you left off.
Your run is saved. iCloud and Game Center are optional.
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Continue your run
Return to an unfinished run even after closing the app.
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iPhone and iPad
Optionally sync your progress with iCloud.
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Arrange your controls
Keep separate interface layouts for iPhone and iPad.
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Controls and languages
Eleven languages, alternative tap controls, VoiceOver labels and reduced motion.
Further options include game speed, pause, combat numbers, haptics and volume controls.
Free to try · One-time purchase
Try it first. Unlock more when you’re ready.
The first campaign, one endless run and the daily mission are free. The full game unlocks the remaining campaigns and game content.
Full game · planned priceOne-time purchase · €6.99
A selection of the 28 tower sets.
RangerAsh CrownChrono WorksDragon CultMasked Order
36
handcrafted campaign stages
28
tower sets in total
65
achievements
28 tower sets: one starter set, two with the full game and 24 through achievements. Runenwacht is a separate, optional cosmetic purchase with its own towers, builder and effects. It unlocks neither the full game nor additional power.
No ads
No required account
No tracking
No purchased power
Playable offline
Text descriptions of the gameplay clips
The clips play without sound. These descriptions explain their visible content in text.
Root and towers
A wave moves along fixed paths across the battlefield. A drawn root reaches towers, strengthens them and slows enemies along its path.
Enemy wave
Several towers attack an enemy wave along the fixed paths. The clip shows how the placed defences work together.
Build and upgrade
The iPhone view shows a tower being placed on an available site, upgraded and assigned an upgrade path.
World Tree
The World Tree shows several unlockable areas. The view moves between nodes and opens the Double Blessing node.
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