Top 5 Best Tower Defence Games Android

Tower defence has been one of the oldest game genres on Android due to its simple gameplay, addictive nature, and super fun to play. All you have to do is place your towers and watching them slaughter enemies using cool attacks. While there are now more and more kinds of games that are coming to Android every day, tower defence still remains as one of the most popular genres.

Here is the list of the 5 best tower defence games Android for you.

1. Best tower defence games Android - Kingdom Rush

Kingdom Rush features deep gameplay that will keep players busy during each wave instead of just watching. The game is set in a medieval fantasy setting. Each stage has pre-determined paths that enemies will walk through and slots for you to place your tower. Different towers have different abilities, some will kill enemies, some will summon troops to slow them down,... You will gradually figure out the use of all towers in the game as it progresses.

You can also have a hero with skills that you can control. Heroes play a really important part in your victory because they are very strong units. But they do have health so you need to be careful so they don't die.

There are also various kinds of spells that you can use to stop enemies.

By killing enemies, you will receive golds to build towers, upgrade existing towers. When an enemy reaches your base, you will lose health and receive some money.

Kingdom Rush is the best tower defence game for Android you can ever find. It is currently free-to-play for anyone to download on Google Play. There are three other versions of the game on Google Play called Kingdom Rush Vengeance, Kingdom Rush Origins, and Kingdom Rush Frontiers with additional new content but you need to buy them. But worry not because their prices are all super cheap.

2. Best tower defence games Android - Clash Royale

Clash Royale is an online tower defense game made by Supercell. The game combines elements from many genres such as card games, tower defense, and MOBA. The game is currently having about 100 million active players worldwide.

The goal of a match in Clash Royale is to destroy the opponent's castles with your troops while protecting your own castles. Clash Royale adds a deck builder system in the game to limit what players can bring into a battle and force players to have a strategy before going into a match. Troops, buildings, spells are all in the form of collectible cards. Each deck has 8 cards and each player will draw 4 cards at the start of each match. In order to play a card, players need to consume elixir points, which is replenished over time.

Due to the popularity and the competitive nature of the game, there have been tournaments all around the world with real-money as prizes for the winner. The Clash Royale League 2019 World Finals last year features a $400,000 prize pool with $150,000 for the winner.

If you like grinding and compete with other players, Clash Royale is one of the best tower defense games on Android online.

Clash Royale is currently free-to-play on Google Play Store.

3. Best tower defence games Android - Element TD

Element TD was originally one very famous custom map of Warcraft 3. After that, it continued to be one of the most played maps in Arcade Starcraft 2. It was later expanded to be a separate title and is now one of the best tower defence games for Android.

The game introduces elemental attack and defense. Each element will deal additional damage to the element preceding it and take almost no damage from the element following it. Here is the circle of elements in Element TD.

Light > Darkness > Water > Fire > Nature > Earth > Light...

But the most exciting feature in Element TD is that you can also fuse towers to create unique towers that have 2 to 3 elements at the same time. There is a total of 15 unique dual towers and 20 unique triple towers. The economic aspect in the game is also very interesting as you will get 2% of your current money every 15 seconds, forcing you to consider carefully about spending it.

Element TD is now currently free on Google Play Store.

4. Best tower defence games Android - Plant Vs Zombie

Probably everyone has already gotten too familiar with this title already. Plant Vs Zombie is a classic tower defense game released in 2009. The game is set in a post-apocalyptic world where zombies are all over the place and you need to defend your house with your mighty plants. Zombies will approach through different lanes on your mawn and you need to place plants on those lanes to stop thems. If one zombie is able to make it into your house, the game is over.

In order to grow a plant, you need to collect Sun that drops at random. Sun can also be created from Sunflowers. The graphics of the game are super cute and funny. There are all kinds of plants with different traits along with all kinds of zombies as well. Sometimes, you will be playing in a different environment such as in the night, on the roof, etc.

You can also collect coins while playing to buy new plants and utilities. There are several different modes in the game other than the main Adventure mode such as Puzzles, Survival, Mini games, Zen Garden.

Plant vs Zombie will always be one of the best tower defence games Android in many years to come. There are currently 2 versions of Plant vs Zombie on Google Play Store now and both of them are free to play.

5. Best tower defence games Android - Grow Castle

Grow Castle is a tower defense game made by RAON GAMES. In this game, you grow your castle in order to put your heroes there to protect it. There are also archers behind the tower to help defend it. You tower has both HP and mana. Heroes you put inside the tower will use that mana to cast skills, summon units to defend. There are over 30 heroes for you to choose from, each with their own abilities and strengths. Upgrading your tower will increase the number of slots, HP, and mana of the tower.

Apart from using the right heroes to pull off your strategy, you can also manually control them to use skills in battles. Normally, the battle will be over before you run out of mana, but as the game progresses, you need to handle the battle on your own to save mana and use skills at the right time to win. The unique take of Grow Castle made it one of the best tower defence games Android.

Grow Castle is currently free on Google Play Store.

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