Last updated on January 24th, 2026 at 10:40 am
Bloons TD 5 HD – Entertainment Game Review
Bloons TD 5 HD is a Entertainment/Action/Strategy game from Ninja Kiwi Limited, first launched in 1st December 2012.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 18,594+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Bloons TD 5 HD Stand Out
Five-star tower defense with unrivaled depth and replayability. Now with rewarded leaderboards for even more fun and challenge!
The Bloons are back in full HD glory and this time they mean business! Build awesome towers, choose your favorite upgrades, hire cool new Special Agents, and pop every last invading Bloon!
Featuring 2 brand new Towers, cool Special Agents, glorious retina graphics, original Tracks and Special Missions, a whole new tier of Specialty Building upgrades, and the powerful Monkey Lab to further upgrade your towers, Bloons TD 5 delivers hours and hours of fun, challenging play to fans and new players alike.
Hours and Hours of Awesome Gameplay:
- 21 powerful towers with Activated Abilities and 2 upgrade paths
- 10 Special Agents
- 50+ Tracks (plus their Reverse versions!)
- 10 Special Missions
- 250+ Random Missions
- New Bloon enemies – tougher Camos, Regrower Bloons, and the fearsome ZOMG
- 50+ Game Center Achievements and Challenges
- iCloud Support
- 3 different game modes
- Freeplay mode after mastering a track
- 4 difficulty settings and family-friendly theme so anyone can play
And that's just the beginning – regular updates will keep Bloons TD 5 HD fresh, fun, and challenging for many months to come. Now it's time to pop some Bloons!
Remember to save to iCloud after each victory or purchase to save your progress.
Please note the Bloons TD 5 HD is for iPad and iPad mini devices only – it is incompatible with iPhone and iPod touch devices.
This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Bloons TD 5 HD is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 20th November 2025
Recent improvements include:
Prepare yourself for the storm in this scorching new intermediate map: Sandstorm. Each round brings a shifting path designed to confuse your monkeys. With a large oasis for Subs and Buccaneers near the entrance and a curving path that flows through the terrain, you'll find plenty of areas for your monkeys to shine.
Download & Availability
Bloons TD 5 HD is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Bloons TD 5 HD on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 / iPad Mini 3 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 4 / iPad Mini 4 (Cellular) or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Has everything from upgrades, Towers, Fun, and quests.
Fire game great graphics endless fun.
We love the Moab and the BFB and ZOMG can you add the DDT and the purple Bloon.
When we downloaded this game for the first time in years, the nostalgia hit us HARD! This game has so many features, we cant even name them all in this review! This is one of the greatest games Ive ever played! We would definitely recommend it.
This game is really really good high paced and great.
The music on the great divide is amazing.
The game is incredible and a little addictive, and we love the style. Amazing Tower Defense game if youre into those games. We have played this before on other consoles, and we were sad to see that the three upgrades available by monkey money, Heathy Bananas, Bigger Beacons, and Double Cash Mode are all locked behind a real world price sign. The mobile version seems to be monitized more than the other versions. Other than that, lovely.
We have no problems with this game except that they couldve tried harder to combine the flash login instead of having them as 2 completely separate games but it doesnt really matter 10 years after the game came out best BTD game bloonchipper is the best 10/10 goodbye.
This is absolutely the best game ever.Thank you.
Its fun and entertaining, the sound is bugged it worked at first but doesnt work 2 months in.
Coop was just working a couple days ago now it wont let us play with our gf at all and both of our games are updated we both tried restarting the game and our ipads nothings helping. We only bought this game to play with our gf and it doesnt even work half the time.
Theres a stupid glitch where the music cuts out when the title appears and all other sound effects except popping Bloons stay silent we hate this and it happens constantly please fix it.
We love btd5 its full of fun things.
Yo! This game is the bomb! We can play it all day.
Even if you own Bloons td6 we reccomend getting 5 its amazing and diffrent and we think its better (but thats our opinion).
Please add your old flash games on mobile! Maybe as a free version, u could add the flash version of this game? And please add battle panic, back? Please respond.
Can we please restore our purchase.
If the round ends while placing a tower, the tower disappears or gets placed in the wrong spot. Please let the placement of towers continue if the round ends mid-placement. Also, level selection is a tedious scroll fest, please update it to a grid or other form so you dont have to scroll through every single level every time. We still play this game after years and years, but those two things have always been an issue.
Can you please add a feature where are you can toggle the original flash graphics.
We love the watermelon spitter and angry snowman, they are by far our favorite agents, but when btd5 Deluxe Was Taken Down, both agents were left in the dust, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE add them back.
We honestly prefer this game to the sequel we may be blinded by nostalgia, but having two upgrade paths is a bit lacking.
We consider Bloons TD 5 to be the best Bloons TD game for multiple reasons: 1. Balanced upgrades – The upgrades for the towers are balanced and the two paths are better than the three in 6, because in that game you cant get the vital upgrades (for example, the Dart monkey cannot have Enhanced Eyesight and Razor Sharp Darts in 6, but this game it can, which is a big help). 2. Difficulty for the stages feels fair. We havent earned all of the medals, but we have earned the gold and even platinum medals for multiple tracks, one platinum was from an Expert track. In 6, the high difficulty is extremely hard, and some stages feel completely unfair. Take the Primary Only challenge on the Expert flood stage in 6. How are you supposed to do that without spending money on a hero that actually wont do much? 3. Towers in this game are not in 6. Bloons TD 6 has been out for 4 and a half years and they still did not add in Bloonchipper at the time of writing this. Yes they added the Engineer, Dartling Gunner and Mortar, but they were added in updates. The Bloonchipper is one of the best towers and helps out big time against zomgs, and that is not present in the sequel. 4. Not many micro transactions. Bloons TD 6 has so many micro transactions, especially the infamous Monkey Money Monkey Knowledge update. In this game, the lab is better than Monkey Knowledge, because you get tokens by playing the game, without having to spend Monkey Money for the upgrades themselves. The only micro transactions (and they do not need to be bought) are skins for the towers, double cash, and better range for the Beacons. This is coming from someone who has played Bloons TD 5 for many years, and this game is better and more fun than Bloons TD 6. It doesnt matter if others agree with us or not, and we respect that people think Bloons TD 6 is the best, but we just wanted to share our opinion on this awesome game. Thank you for reading.
We accidentally deleted all of our save,almost,how can we get it back.
We like the game, but for some reason the screen is in a position where its being cut off just slightly. By slightly we mean you can hardly see the monkey picture when you click on one of your monkey towers :/ from what we see there is no way to fix this yet.
At first we enjoyed the tower strategy and the animations were fun. As we progressed it became more of an exercise in budgeting. One big problem is your computer opponent does not appear to have any limits to its resources. It will suddenly start pumping balloons and not stop until you quit or are totally bankrupt.
The game is really fun and we would recommend that you purchase it.
The Bloons franchise has peaked with btd5 and it is the best te game Ive ever played.
Still a great time filler for those waiting minutes. Can stop anytime and pickup where you left off a minute or a week later. A little strategy and a lot of fun. Get popping.
The game is amazing but we noticed that the Xbox didnt get updated for 10 year so could you try to update it soon.
We love this game, and found no problems.
Btd5 is a very creative and innovative game. We rate this a 5 out of 5 and would recommend this to anyone who wants fun creative tower defense.
BTD5 is a very cool and special game. It is very fun to play and it has cured our boredom many many times. This game has many challenges and you will never run out of things to do. It has a balance between easy and hard and many different modes. This is the best game on the App Store so if you don't have it get it now! Really get it.
Best game ever. Works fine on our iPad. THANKS NINJA KIWI!!!! One thing, add a dragon or T-Rex for an agent. Overall, we would rate 10 stars if we could. Great game and totally worth every penny.
More new towers please! We're we are very into this game it is very fun will you ever make more towers and if you do could you let it be with board towers because we think the towers are really good ideas in this game or even add more to five.
So easy to rank up, unlock a lot of towers, really fun when u get the powerful upgrades. A lot of creativity, depth, and strategy are in place. Best game ever.
We love this game so much. We have played this game for almost 300 straight days.
EVERYONE SHOULD PLAY THIS GAME One problem. After like 20 levels in free play all the levels are the same . We quick after like 3-5 hours plz make more levels.
We have only been playing less than a day and we're already at rank 34 it's soooo crazy :P P.S. We'll be at rank 100 when we have only play for like a week MuHahahahahhaha LOL yalls are all going down xD.
Tons of fun and just frustratingly challenging enough to keep us playing.
We love this app but our mom says it is too loud but that doesn't stop us from playing it.
(One of the best things is bigger beacons) by the way jaromeasf grate chanel check it out @youtube.
We love it we got it from purple sheps video we love monkeys and we act like one 5 stars.
85000's way to much we think they should lower it to 50000's.
Offers all levels of difficulty it is fun and challenging for everyone! Try it. You will enjoy the challenges at all levels.
We hated it when we found out that to get the game on both iPad and iPod (or iPhone), you had to buy them on both devices separately! So instead of using that Apple ID thingie, we had to buy it on both! But other than that, it's an awesome game! It's lit everday. ;).
We wish there was an easy was to play with friends.
It's our favorite game but we're a rank 78 so when we play the game last up to 3-4 hours please add a faster version of the boost.
This game is good but the co op mode needs improvement. Every other game the other person disconnects. Also we get matched with idiots who fast forward the whole game and we end up losing cuz balloons just go right past us.
It's a great game but when you play with another person you can't leave the game and then resume the game with your friend. Also when you play multiplayer it lags out especially around higher levels and exits the app and then you can't resume the game with your friend. Its a great game love playing it but hopefully it gets fixed.
We spent over an hour with iTunes support trying to figure out why we're not able to download "Bloons TD 5" on our phone. It ended being that we bought "Bloons TD 5 HD" which is for the iPads and that we would have to buy the game again just to download it for iPhones… We bought the game for 5$ and we should be able to download it into any of our devices.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 4.7
- Size: 286.76 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: AR, DA, EN, FI, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, NB, PT, RU, ES, SV, TR
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Ninja Kiwi Limited
Last updated: 20th November 2025 | Genre: Entertainment, Action | Developer: Ninja Kiwi Limited