In other words, they’re just as fun to play on mobile phones as they are on other platforms. The genre has stagnated a bit in recent years, but tower defense titles are still among the best and ...

Things are as diverse and varied as the gameplay is, which makes it fun, mind you. There’s never an actual tower to defend during a battle. It’s turned more into a ‘guard the gate’ game.

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.