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Idle Defense: tanks vs. tower – Strategy Game Review
Idle Defense: tanks vs. tower is a Strategy/Board/Entertainment game from 建福 王, first launched in 29th June 2018.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 236+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Idle Defense: tanks vs. tower Stand Out
Dive into Tower Defense battle, apply the best with your turret combination attack all enemies and defeat them. Win all the battles!
Idle Defense is built specifically for optimal arcade mobile gameplay.
You will serve as a tank commander, directing the creation and upgrading of towers, demonstrating outstanding tactical thinking and operational skills, and experiencing intense tank battles.
Upgrade your turret and become stronger and deadlier.
Defeat your enemies and defend your base's honor.
This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Idle Defense: tanks vs. tower is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 29th June 2018
Recent improvements include:
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Download & Availability
Idle Defense: tanks vs. tower is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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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:
Loved it we beat the game the second day we had it it really challenging.
Love this game need more challenging boards or less cash for kills.
Best game. Very catchy loved it.
Hey guys great game, would be nice to have a platform or larger area to place turrets also would be nice to have a slow turret.
A great design, fun and challenge! We do our best but ….no perfect.
We only needed to play one level to see the amazing ness of it. Its so challenging to beat even the first level! We love it and we cant wait to see what will come in the future updates of the game.
Im not having trouble like some of the reviewers. Its tough, no doubt, but Ive been able to get through a couple levels on the first try. We cant seem to find a way to just pay a couple dollars to get rid of the ads. They are tiny ad banners but still that takes you out of being immersed in the game.
The game was fun and challenging. Yes people complain about the name because it says idle if you play a strategy defense game you shouldnt just have to put your phone down and walk away. Thats stupid. This game makes you think and makes you use the specials. The downfall to this game. There is only 3 levels, we dont know how you release a game with only 3 levels when you can make more. We would have given it 5 stars if there where more levels.
Wish you had more than three levels. It wouldve been a lot cooler. As it stands theres only three rounds each one has like 30 rounds then game is over.
Umm on the third level the top road dosest have tanks.
We LOVE this game! We had an old version of it on a phone a long time ago and we kept that phone forever just for the game. We just wish there were more levels we know you guys can make that happen! If there were more levels it would be 5 stars for sure from us.
Good game can not get by level 3.
Not bad but wish there were more than 3 levels.
Too many ads and lack of options. Nothing an update cant fix.
Nice graphics and easy game play. Not addicting but good to pass the time.
Hi .. Its good game .. Very challenging.. But when we want to use the bomb on top right .. It is hard to get it because the notification bar appears with the touch and it ruined the game .. Also it is very short game .. We finish it in about 2 hours .. Also it need to start with more currency .. It need some general updates and it will be great one.
Not a bad game but very short. Only 3 levels. It was reasonably fun to play but not a great game really… Heres a few of our issues with it: it needs more levels needs higher progression for towers. You can only upgrade them twice. the first two levels are reasonably balanced, but the third gives you way too much money so you end up with all the tower slots filled and nothing to spend it on. Plus on the third level there are two paths but the top one never spawns creeps.
Its a good game but its hard to beat minsin 1.
Fun game but we feel like money is very hard to come by. If you guys made the stronger enemies give more money then we think the game would really be fun to play.
Am we missing something? Only 3 missions and the game is over. We were ready to buy more, but none available. Fun, clean, simple little tower defense game, but too short.
We like the gameplay on our iPhone 6, but the screen is a bit small. Tried it on our older iPad Air, but the maps dont load so only some objects are visible…and the path is not. Cant play it like that. Took us a while to figure out how to use the mines in the top tight corner of the screen.
This game is fun but its just three levels and the last level… Is the easiest?! Fun but could be better.
We like this game. BUT we are having trouble finding instructions. There is no link within the game for help or instructions, at least not that we have seen. Probably within the next minute we will find instructions but right now we are just going with what we know from playing other tower defense games.
The game needs more $ points for the bigger tanks, & a starting amount of cash so u can start.
Its a visual stunner, with engaging and challenging gameplay but there is no depth and balance. The first 50 waves (2 full missions) can be defeated using just one tower type. Tower Madness 1 and 2 are a much better example of this genre. This game still needs development work. It has potential to be great, but it falls way short in this first release.
Update the game, add more maps, and harder maps! This gane is too easy as it took us a total of 4 tries to complete it with 100% on all maps! It would also be nice to have more towers.
We liked the game but finished it quick. Feels like their focus was on getting you to watch ads rather than offering you a good decent length game. Very basic tower defense.
Game is addicting but starts right out of the gate. No tutorial or the different types of tanks or anything. We get the gist of tower defense but each is different. It is like the only way you can beat some of these levels is by watching a bunch of videos to use your auras or whatever to kill off stragglers. Some of these are rediculous. Glad we did not pay for this.
We really do like the simpler tower defense games but this one is anything but simple and its mainly because of the lay out of the game. When you try to use the abilities at the top of the screen you track down your notifications. At the bottom of the screen we guess is abilities but we dont know because there is a banner there. By the third map its almost impossible. If the developer fixes these issues we will give it another try.
We dont like the game it is impossible to beat and we did a test where we gave the max enemy 10 percent health and everything was maxed out we lost!!!!!! It looks like it had 9 percent health.
You have to use the items to win, but everytime you use them the slide menu comes down. Quite annoying but other wise ok game.
The first round is a typical tower defense game. Second round is impossible. We watched all the videos to get extra bombs and you just cant get past level5 or 6. No possible.
Chapter 3 you can not win! Its impossible! We tried every way possible after the 3rd your dead.
Graphics were good. It was just ok. Another TD GAME.
Honestly, we were hyped for this game, due to it looking similar to Onslaught, a flash game we played years ago on PC. The fact that it was idle, sigh us up!….. Yeah, no. First off, the map doesnt even load on any of the two levels we played, it was blue/gray mesh, which is a real problem for planning. Secondly, as many have mentioned, it is brutal to beat level one, and impossible (pretty much) on 2 and beyond. We found ourselves frustrated than entertained, the fact 1, there is no progression existent, and the game isnt even idle in the slightest. Makes us really upset, as we had hoped for a better game, hopefully over updates it will be good. But as it stands, its barely playable and a chore to do anything… And PLEASE FIX THE SKILLS LOCATION!!!! We were driven nearly insane when dragging to use them, resulting in our notifications menu being opened 80% of the time. If all of these issues and problems are addressed, we will put this rating higher.
Some of the buttons need moved like the one to shoot tanks directly and the one to lay mines on the track. They are so close to the top of the screen that our front screen keeps acting like Im trying to drag it into view, causing us to shoot where Tanks arent and to lay mines where there isnt any track. We like the game play, but some things need tweaking before we can give this a better review.
This game is called Idle Defense, theres nothing idle about it, even if you sit there and let the waves start by themselves it still isnt idle, you have to be constantly using abilities and upgrading and speeding up. Also, in the first level, we had plenty of buildings upgraded max and the last enemy was so hard. The second mission was insane, the first wave was hard, we HAD to use our abilities, also you gain nothing from winning or even getting far. This game is not well planned out and is very plain and difficult. Also, theres something at the bottom of the screen, but we cant see it cause theres a banner ad on it. You will get enough money from people watching ads for the abilities, so get rid of the banner ads, we want to play the game and enjoy it not see an ad at the bottom. Another thing, the abilities are at the very top of the screen, when we try to drag them it drags down the of the screen, which brings down the notification, just move the abilities down, to the side, or on the bottom, but not all the way on the bottom, cause then for iPhones the other menu will pop up. Thanks for reading.
Game is fun, and we were enjoying until we needed skills. Everytime we went to drag and drop the skill the notification window on ios dropped down and the skill was wasted.
The name: idle defense tank vs tower. The name would make you think you dont have to think about playing it and or not look at your phone but this is a pure hand on game.on top of that there is no progression system or anyways to get ahead if you lose you restart no boost or anything so its just loss after loss. You dont start with enough currency to equip yourself for mission 2 and you dont make enough to survive the onslaught into way 3-4 of mission 2…if you could fix this it would be a great game.
It turns updated down on ipad and its annoying fix this bug also dont get this game its terrible make better games! Supperrrrrrrrr bad cause when ur charging ur iPad you have to turn it upside down and then the charger comes off dont get it its a waste of storage not fun annoying bad game fix all the bugs especially the upside down bug.
This delivers ads and distracts slightly in between the ads with something resembling a game. Not sure why they bothered with the game, since the towers shoot with pillows and you have to watch ads to…(win?), something. Oh, to get granted access to more ads.
We tried to get past the first wave and regardless of how we structured the towers, we didnt have enough resources to upgrade the towers to stop the slow crawling attackers demolition to our base. Too hard, too slow and lack of information.
First level was easy enough as long as you played strategically. But the second level is IMPOSSIBLE due to not getting enough for destroying the tanks, Ive attempted it hundreds of times different approachs and its just not bearable because you dont get enough points per kill, If you could use the air strikes as often as you wanted pending watching a video it could be done but you cant.
Worst thing ever. You cant get past the first level, but it could just be us being a noob. But the point is dont get the game.
Got all the way to the 20th level on the first board and we lost matched everything out and still lost need to make it a little easier Ill give it a week then Ill delete it.
The game glitches and is to easy we completed the game within two hours.
You cant zoom out enough to see the full battle field, instadeleted, didnt even kill 1 mob.
This game is nothing more than an ad treadmill. You cant pay to remove ads, and you simply cant win unless you click to watch videos. We have played a lot of tower defense games, but this one, you spend more time watching ads than playing the game.
Theres no way to get past the fourth wave without using specials, and a 5 to 30 second pop up add will come up. No way to disable. Dont waste your time.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0
- Size: 127.71 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [建福 王]()
Last updated: 29th June 2018 | Genre: Strategy, Board | Developer: 建福 王