Free tower defense games
Gilded Age and Moat & Mortar play in the browser on a phone or a computer, with no download and no sign-up.
Gilded Age
Enemies come through a crack in the world and walk the road to the Anchor. You build towers beside the road and on the terraces above it, and a hero, the Paladin, fights with them. Nothing comes until you press Next wave, unless you turn on Auto waves.
Moat & Mortar
Wind-up toys march down a winding road to your keep, and you build towers on the tiles beside it. You have 14 seconds between waves, and calling the next wave early pays bonus bolts. A won map earns up to three stars by the lives you kept.
The two games compared
| Gilded Age | Moat & Mortar | |
|---|---|---|
| Maps | The Ford, The Switchback | Green Meadow, Desert Canyon, Frozen Lake, Lava Fortress |
| Waves on a map | 20 | 20 or 25 |
| Lives at the start | 20 | 10 to 20, by map |
| Towers | 8 on The Ford, 5 more with later maps | 6 |
| Tower levels | 3; Prince Poison has 1 | 3 |
| Selling a tower returns | 70% | 70% |
| Towers are paid for in | Gold | Bolts |
| The next wave starts | When you press Next wave, or with Auto waves 3 seconds after the last is cleared | After 14 seconds, or sooner when you call it |
Enemies with a trick
| Game | Enemy | Its trick |
|---|---|---|
| Gilded Age | The Prince | Only Prince Poison, a trap laid on the road, fells him |
| Gilded Age | The Bat | It flies over the walls and shells cannot hit it |
| Gilded Age | The Knight | It wears armour; fire and shells still hit it fully |
| Moat & Mortar | Armoured | The Sniper and Poison ignore armour |
| Moat & Mortar | Flyers | The Cannon cannot hit them; the Archer can |
| Moat & Mortar | The Warlord | It leads the boss waves, armoured and hard to slow, and costs 5 lives if it reaches the keep |
Coins
Both games pay Tacs, the coins every game on the site shares, and keep your results on your device. Gilded Age pays 1 for each wave held and 60 or 80 the first time you seal a map. Moat & Mortar pays 1 for each 4 waves held, won or lost, and more for each star on a won map.