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Bloons TD – Strategy Game Review
Bloons TD is a Strategy/Casual game from Ninja Kiwi Limited, first launched in 3rd October 2009.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 125+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Bloons TD Stand Out
Play the classic Bloons TD mobile version that started one of the most popular strategy game franchises ever!
Achieve total Bloon popping satisfaction in this signature monkey-infused tower defense game. With an army of dart monkeys and a multitude of towers and weapons at your disposal can you pop all the bloons before they escape?
Bloons® TD for iPhone / iPod touch features all of your favorite towers and upgrades, including the almighty Super Monkey.
Can you battle your way through 50 challenging levels over 15 exciting tracks and unlock all the gold medals to become the TD master?
Features:
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All of the Bloons® TD favorites including dart monkeys, tack towers, blade shooters, bomb cannons and super monkeys.
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5 differently themed map packs with 6 classic online levels and 9 brand new exclusive iPhone tracks!
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3 difficulty levels on each track with bronze, silver and gold medals to unlock.
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Continue with the madness in freeplay mode once you have mastered a track.
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Intuitive touch interface with two different control systems.
*Updated control system making selection of towers easier. Spikes, Pineapples and Glue can now be placed quickly by dragging a set on and tapping anywhere on the path to continue placing.
If you want the latest and greatest version of Bloons TD, including co-op multiplayer, check out Bloons TD 5!
This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Bloons TD is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 29th November 2012
Recent improvements include:
Various minor fixes.
Download & Availability
Bloons TD 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:
Why cant we download this anymore, its not playable on computer because flash is gone.
We had to download it on an old iPod 4th Generation since it isnt compatible with our new iPad but its super fun and challenging.
Please update so it works with new iOS versions.
Can a brother get an update? Its been too long. The game only crashes when we get to an insane lvl anyway so restarting is better or it would just go forever. We dont lose. UPDATE! UPDATE! UPDATE.
Please make this game compatible with iOS 11.
Hello world, and welcome to our review. We love the Bloons franchise, and this might be our favorite game from it (Behind BTD5) we highly recommend this game to anyone because of it's unlimited fun. There are maps to unlock, metals to recover, and lots of fun in store. There are eight unique towers in the game, and each of them is unique in a way. We don't want to spoil too much, so we hope, if you've read this far, to play the game.
This game is great, here are some reasons why you should buy this over btd 4 or btd 5. .1 this is not the first game, it is the third game with more stuff. .2 this game has a challenge. 4 and 5 were to easy. 3. Btd 5 and 4 had way to many bloons making it hard to develop strategy. 4. All the towers here are already unlocked and you do not have to earn it unlike btd 5 and 4. 5. We have played them all and we like this better. You have no ideas on what's going on in 4 and 5. Buy this game.
Please fix it kicks us out when the game starts.
IF YOU ARE ONE OF THE PEOPLE LIKE ME WHO READS REVIEWS BEFORE THEY BUY A GAME, READ THIS REVIEW! Bloons Tower Defense is a great, great game, but needs a few tweaks. If You have played BTD4, and BTD5 you are sure to know that there is a fast forward button. BTD doesn't have that. That in our opinion is the biggest tweak nesscesary. They should also add ranks like in BTD4, and BTD5. Ranks are where you level up by popping certain amounts of bloons, and unlocking new towers. Also, there is NOT a large selection of towers to choose from. In our opinion this is a 5 star game, but people are entitled to their own opinion. We HIGHLY RECCOMEND THIS.
This is one of the best btd games ever im on it for like 2 hours.
We love balloons TD it is great for all ages of girl and boy! We think u will love this great and entertains game.
This is 1of the best games try free play mode it's the best in our opinion.
Really amazing game. Addictive.
Addictive game and so fun! But when we place down too many needle traps game closes but still a 5 star game.
We still play this even though most of our time is now spent on BTD5. We just noticed though that there is a bug where on the Drop & Lock option even the road spikes have to be confirmed. We know this was a problem in BTD5 and it was fixed pretty quick so we're hoping you guys will fix this one as well. Even if you don't fix, it's still a great game, totally worth the price.
Bloons TD (which is really BTD3) is great. Now first off, you obviously can't install this on most modern devices, you will need an old iOS device below iOS 11. So find an old iOS device for sale somewhere if you don't have one, since you cannot emulate this whatsoever. Bloons TD 3 is overall the best of the three classic Bloons TD games before BTD4, building upon the fundamentals of the previous two. This iOS port is overall a faithful recreation of BTD3 on Web/flash, but with some new additions. Most namely, you get new map packs not found in the original flash game, although as a trade off two of the maps in the original are not included. These map packs are an intetesting idea we wish were used more in later BTDs, where themed maps would have similar themes, but could be used differently in different maps. Gameplay is what you would expect, build towers, pop the bloons, and you can even do freeplay and see how long your device lasts. Why do we not consider this a 5 star experience? Simply put, unlike later BTDs, you have no sandbox mode, or any gamemode outside of the classic gamemode. So it can get old, but not before you finish all the maps. That being said if you have an old iOS device, this is worth the purchase.
Please update because we have to use our old IPhone to play this game and it says if u guys update it will let us download this game on our IPad.
This is a cool game but what is the point Of the racing pack? When we tried to play It the balloons were going to fast and was too hard. Also how do you unlock the other packs? We can't figure it out.
We have literally 60 super monkeys, we're on wave 90 and we can't even place anything else cuz it's filled up with fully upgraded super monkeys so all we're doing is setting here pushing the start button over and over, but other than that it's great, yes u should buy it.
It keeps kicking us out in the middle of the game. So you guys should fix that.
We can't get to free play but other than that awesome game! :).
Looks like a good start for the series, even if the graphics are bad.
We would like a refund we will we accidentally bought this one instead of the new one.
Can you make more compatible for the iPhone 6 and iPhone 7.
Very entertaining game but pls update it.
How come we can only get to wave 50 then it makes us quit.
Pretty fun game but there's so many bloons td games out there not this one is just so old now.
It's a fun game but it would be even funner if there were some updates please get some soon thank you.
The game crashes sometimes and twice the game reset its self in the process so we lost all our progress on two occasions. We are hesitant to make progress a third time. Bloons TD is a good game, however the risk of losing all progress while playing may not be worth it.
Now that flash is gone how else do we play it except flashpoint.
We bought this game a couple years ago and we wanna play on our iPhone 8 Plus when will there be an update to atleast play the game again because it was very fun on our iPod touch 3rd gen.
Love the game but it hasn't been updated since 2012 come on! It gets to some silver balloons and they won't pop on iOS 8.3 so you loose every time :(.
It's a fun game we really like playing, but right now we're on wave 124 and it refuses to finish the round without closing. It's really frustrating since we spent a penny on this game, it should be free unless this problem gets fixed.
Needs an iOS 7 update or update the resolution please.
It's a fun game but is annoying how there is two black bars of the side of our phone. Upgrade for iPhone 5.
Keeps crashing and erasing our stats.
This was such a big game for our childhood, and its really disappointing that we cant anymore. We hope yall decide to update it so we can play it again. We believe we had to purchase it in order to play, so theres that, too.
Since they havent updated this to run on the newest iOS, it cant even be downloaded. Wish we could get a refund on it since we paid for the full version.
We paid for this app and now it doesnt work. We want our money back.
We paid money for this game and now we find out it has no updates and doesnt work with iOS 11. We want our money back.
We bought this game for 99cents and then you guts failed to update it…now we cannot play! We would like our 99cents refunded to our account or sent to us in the form of a check. This is theft, we paid for a service and it is not being delivered.
We paid for the full version of this. It was our favorite game and now we cant even play what we paid for.
Well the first round was way cool and easy to play. After we made it to level 50, went on to free play and such (all on our first round of downloading the game), we finally lost. No worries, let's play a different map. Now the balloons are moving at 1000mph, and it's impossible to get past round 10, let alone win any level now. Don't buy it. Cust support didn't offer any help either. Just blamed it on our phone instead.
We absolutely love the Bloons TD games, which is why we bought this one in spite of reviews complaining that it's broken. Unfortunately the other reviews are correct in that the current version of the game is severely flawed. Regularly while playing the game crashes and upon relaunch it only displays a black screen. Even after closing all open processes and even restarting our phone completely, the game remains a black screen unless uninstalled and reinstalled, which causes us to lose all progress we've made in the game. Please keep in mind that our phone is brand new and entirely up to date so it can't be an error on our end. We would avoid buying this game. They clearly have no interest in updating beyond this bugged version (it was last updated in 2012) so save your money and just play the free flash version on their website from a computer.
For the little while that we get to play BTD it's really fun! But then the screen goes black. And it stays that way. No matter what we do, unless we uninstall and reinstall the app, there is no way to interact with the game. Pretty much worthless unless that is fixed.
Game controls for iphone are horrible. Buttons are right next to the navigation screen pulldown, causing it to constantly interfere. After playing for a long time, the game crashed and all our progress was erased. Do not waste your time. You've been warned. We're getting a refund for this garbage.
Wasted our money on this stupid game. We got to level 89 with all supermonkeys covering the whole map, and then it crashes.
We've been playing for several hours, trying to beat some of the snow maps. Then everything starts lagging and next thing we know the app closes and restarts EVERYTHING. No medals, nothing unlocked, all rounds at 0. This happened twice and really made us mad because the second time we had just gotten to level 100 on hard on one of the river maps. 1/5 don't waste your time.
Please update app. We are on level 118 bit the level won't finish as the app crashes and closes.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.2.1
- Size: 8.04 MB
- iOS: 3.1.3 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Ninja Kiwi Limited
Last updated: 29th November 2012 | Genre: Strategy, Casual | Developer: Ninja Kiwi Limited