Last updated on January 4th, 2026 at 11:10 pm
Bloons TD 5 – Action Game Review
Bloons TD 5 is a Action/Entertainment/Strategy game from Ninja Kiwi Limited, first launched in 15th November 2012.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 96,853+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Bloons TD 5 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 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:
- 90+ Tracks
- 21 powerful towers with Activated Abilities and 2 upgrade paths
- 10 Special Agents
- Online Co-op play
- Multi-track Odyssey Challenges
- Boss Bloon Special Events
- 10 Special Missions
- 250+ Random Missions
- Daily Challenges
- New Bloon enemies – tougher Camos, Regrow 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 planned updates will keep Bloons TD 5 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.
iPad version also available – check out Bloons TD 5 HD for full screen UI awesomeness!
This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Bloons TD 5 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 is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
One of the best games Ive ever played in our entire career and it was the most satisfying game we ever played.
This game got us through so many boring study halls in high school lol, but its also just a timeless, fun & simple strategy game. This mobile version is so well-done too, from the special missions/levels to the specialty upgrade buildings and limited events.
This is Ignari 2fye, this is our favorite game on mobile ever. Our dad loves it too.
We started playing castle defense back in 2007, a few weeks later our classmates found out that bloons TD 2 just came out and had a huge selection of towers; we were hooked ever since. We played bloons TD 5 the day it came out in 2011, we'd rewatch the trailer on youtube the entire week, and we got on ninja kiwi's website every day to see if they finally released it. We stopped playing when smartphones became the norm. Once we got our Galaxy SIII, we didn't have a need for a computer since we could browse the web on our phone and our parents didn't get the desktop computer repaired or replaced. In early 2024 we saw streamers play bloons TD 6 and we were immediately into our bloons nostalgia era, we suppose we still am, because we haven't stopped playing yet LOL! In our opinion bloons TD 5 is the best game in the entire bloons franchise.
We just wish they would do some UI things to make it easier, we hate when Im trying to click a tower and we press start when its all the way in the corner. Or we try to collect bananas and we open up the recorxingthing. And having the top of the map be cut off but bananas go there is frusterwting cuz then we cant collect them. Please fix these little things.
The game is honestly really fun. You can really just sit down when you have some downtime and play the game. It performs well, the levels are designed well, and the gameplay is simple and addictive. Our only complaint is that is you beat the levels on the harder difficulty the game still expects you to go back and replay the levels on the easier difficulty to get full completion. This often makes progression feel like a chore/grind. Otherwise, love the game.
Good game to play. Too bad it always crashes in co-op mode.
Ok ok we know its not btd6 but back in the day it was a banger (((((AND IT STILL IS))))).
We love this game so much. We play it everyday. Our favorite event is the totem event because its a great opportunity to easily get our daily quests done, but we hate that the prizes are the same every time. We just wish there was more versatility in those rewards. Im still gonna play regardless, but idk we feel like thatd make the game less repetitive.
This is one of the best games that has ever been made. This is the main reason life is good.
Love the game do you think the Bloons are the one that are evil. Do you think they are jealous of the monkeys.
Its just like we have to play for like a while so we get to rank 42.
We love watching monkeys popping balloons.
If you want to nearly destroy your computer or iPad or phone this game is 100% for you if you want to rage so hard you delete this game this game is 100% for you etc but it is a very good game and is recommended by us so much we love this game we do not HATE it.
One of our favorite games and top 2 Bloons games.
One of the best games ever made.
What can we said that others havent. Tremendous variety and challenge. Certainly addictive.
As the title suggests, quite literally the absolute perfect game.
You need to pay 3$ to play but No anoying ads And the game is the BEST game on earth love it and you dont need any Wi-Fi to play P.S we love this game much and we mean much.
As you know, this is the top tower defense game we have played. We once got rid of the game but then we redownloaded it and now its so fun. And we FINALLY learned how regrow farm so that was helpful and saved us hours of gameplay and grinding so W game no questions asked BYE.
Thank you Bloons td5<3! We played this game in our childhood, now Im sitting here playing it. And we see us family playing it ggs man thanks for the game.
The whole reason we downloaded this game is to se the bloonchipper.
This is the only mobile game Ive stuck too for over 3 years.
It's really fun the thing you shoot the balloons and stuff sounds really fun so we do recommend it but its at the same time hard because each round it's will get harder.
Good game but we payed for stuff and it didnt give us it.
When we were 8 we had a iPad and we got TD Bloons 5 on it.the best game ever.
This game is awesome but the co op is not working at all got in to one game with our friend and tried like 100 times and didnt work please fix this.
We love Bloons td 5 because its is so fun and amazing especially the co ops.
Monke pops Bloon. No need to elaborate.
We really like this game because its one of the only games that you can strategize like PvZ.
Add 3 more monkeys 1. Cool monkey 2. Nice monkey 3. Super boomerang monkey 1.
This GAME is literally the best. BTD6 is out there, but just seeing the preview of the game, Im not sure we can move on from this gem. This all we need.
This game is very interesting and fun we like playing this og masterpiece.
This game is very similar to Monkey City.
10/10 game would recommend to anybody! No ads no constant shoveling pay to win stuff down your throat. Amazing.
Its gotta be a good game with that amount of pops, right.
We love this game especially all the newer games and this entire Franchise but btd5 is the best because twas the first btd we played and has stuck with us for many years but then we lost the game on our old device but we found it again and its SO addictive and fun 10/10.
We recently redownloaded btd5 and it is more awesome than we ever saw it. Its even better than btd6 because of how long Ive been playing.
This game needs the Druid, but that is our only complaint.
This is the best game ever from Ninja kiwi we love this so much we spent money on it we think if u got some money you should definitely get this game 5 stars.
Do meeblings 3 next for the computer and iOS.
Good game but there is a bug on apopalypse mode where for some reason it has weird rounds. Some has less bloons, some have more, its very weird.
Our favorite game because it is so fun and easy to learn.
ME WUV 2 PLAY DAS GAME DONT ASK ME WHY.
The only bad part is how long the rounds take towards the end.
Ive played this game for years. Still enjoying it.
Okay guys this game is the best of the BTD games and its better than btd4 but a thing that annoys us is that we keep losing and we just lost on round 59. So we want you to try making medium mode a little bit easier for us anyways great game.
Its awesome and worth the money.
Great game but has been the same for a long time now- definitely should create additional towers to add to the collection for diversification. Recommended: Water bender Rock thrower.
We really enjoy the ability to play co op but please fix the issue where when you have to restore purchases it doesnt allow you. We believe thats the biggest mistake to keep when having bugs as it can lead to consumer issues.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 4.7
- Size: 150.35 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: Action, Entertainment | Developer: Ninja Kiwi Limited