Last updated on December 1st, 2025 at 08:44 pm
Tower Duel – PvP TD Games – Action Game Review
Tower Duel – PvP TD Games is a Action/Entertainment/Strategy game from Crit Crew GmbH, first launched in 31st January 2018.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 687+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Tower Duel – PvP TD Games Stand Out
You hear the crowd cheering louder as you are walking down the champion hallway…
It is 2050. Something crazy happened. It appears that most people traded their Football Jerseys, Basketballs and Baseball Bats for a deck of Tower Duel cards. The game is literally everywhere – In stadiums, on schoolyards, in office spaces.
The Tower Duel inventor “Maxx King” is now world-famous, putting his face wherever he can – this morning you even saw it on your cereal box!
You realize the crowd is cheering your name…
You have spent weeks selecting your 4 Runner and 4 Tower Cards for this match. Runners destroy your opponent’s Power Core and Towers defend your own Power Core.
Your opponent is a top player. His duels are frequently broadcasted worldwide and you have studied them all: He beats his opponents with the “Surfer” Card, which accelerates on straight paths. Most players build their towers in straight lines, making it easy for Surfers to reach and destroy their power cores.
But not tonight! You look at the tower card in your hand – The Quad Striker. Its Energy Damage is highly effective against the Surfers Impulse Barrier. You also equipped it with the legendary Octa Striker Rune, making it shoot 8 projectiles instead of 4. A famous scientist recently calculated that due to the vast variety of runes, there are more card variations in Tower Duel than atoms in the Universe. How crazy is that?!
You look at two Runner cards in your hand. The Marine and the Mech! They have served you well since the beginning of your journey.
Some refer to Marines as cannon fodder, but they are invaluable when it comes to generating energy income: Building Towers or sending Runners costs energy. But! Every time you send Runners, your energy income increases. Simple! Send lots of Runners to get more energy in the long run!
Your plan is to spam Marines early on, only to later afford The Mech! Mechs are expensive but extremely durable. You shiver from excitement imagining the look on your opponent’s face when that level 3 Mech wave hits his stadium half!
The cheers reach their climax as you step on your podium inside the massive stadium. Your gaze wanders across thousands of cheering fans and flashing lights. You notice your opponent on the other side of the stadium and the hidden playfield between the two of you.
Maxx King’s Hologram Face appears and shouts “3, 2, 1 GO!” and the Map unveils!
Perfect! A small map, a few trees as obstacles, only one power core. You quickly place a few Quad Striker towers having them form a path with curves to slow down those Surfers.
Next, you send a big wave of Marines fully depleting your energy balance. You joyfully notice that your energy counter now fills up twice as fast, while your opponent’s rocket tower crushes your Marines.
WAIT! He only built one rocket tower? A few shielded Runners could end the game right here. BUT, sending Shield Spiders now does not fit in your grand master plan. You must decide now!
Suddenly, the opponent's dropship hits your playfield … JETPACK MARAUDERS! WHEN DID HE START USING THAT CARD?!
Terrified you watch how 5 Jetpack Marauders bypass your tower maze elegantly jumping over the first single tower and effortlessly reach your Power Core.
… 14, 13, 12, 11, 10 LIFE POINTS LEFT!
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◆ GAME FEATURES ◆
► Competitive Multiplayer Tower Defense against real players worldwide
► Collect and customize Tower and Runner cards
► 100+ procedurally generated maps
► Watch replays of Pro Players and join them in the leaderboard
► Sandbox and Practice Mode to improve your game
► Season Pass: Collect valuable rewards doing side quests while you play
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◆◆◆ The Tower Duel Team ◆◆◆
This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Tower Duel – PvP TD Games is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 20th September 2023
Recent improvements include:
- Minor bugfixes
Download & Availability
Tower Duel – PvP TD Games 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:
Server goes down and you cant even log in. We lost contact to the stadium. Trying to contact Maxx King for help. Admin needs to monitor uptime to ensure continuity of service. Otherwise a truly epic/fun game.
Wow, we mean this game completely blew us away. We are so impressed with this game, we usually dont like mobile games especially TD games. But this Tower Defense game is amazing! You need to try it! Ill guarantee you will enjoy it, and if you dont enjoy it your a hater of how fantastic this game is. Its like a good mixture of Bloons TD Battle with the eco and strategy. Of course you know Bloons TD battles doesnt require much strategy which is why this game is so fun! We enjoy that you can choose the path of the enemies your enemy sends! Please try out this game.
We like this game , one of the few you can build a defense. What we HATE are the hackers and cheaters , there has been an increasing amount of players that start the game with over 30 towers how is that possible? We only have an income of 1000 to start. Need balancing . Ive played over 10 players that have been able to do this.
Great game! Easy to pick up, and very engaging.
We love the style of this game, it brings Clash Royale and Bloons TD Battles combined and makes the ultimate tower defense PvP. So far we have really enjoyed it, but it has become extremely inconvenient and we have not been able to progress that much. First of all, it is really difficult to get new cards. Ive opened a bunch of safes and have only gotten a few of the cards we already have. Second of all, every time we go into a battle, the opponent always has cards that are unlocked in later arenas. When this happens, our only two basic towers, a machine gun and rocket tower, are too weak to defend against all of the random enemies they have (even at max level.) Plus when their towers are able to beat a maximum of 20 of our most powerful troops, we know its already over. For these reasons we have not been able to experience much of the game, since this happens all the time now. Im not sure how this could be fixed but we cant do anything about it ourselves unless we want to pay to win (which Im not doing.) However, we do love the mechanics of this game, the graphics, how smooth it is, and that rewards are fairly easy to get (with the dynamites.) we really want to continue and pursue this game but players that already have everything are going to stop us from getting there.
We had stopped playing the game a year ago. We started playing the game recently and quickly remembered why we stopped playing it. The game is fun and before you know it your playing for hours. We just cant get past the fact that its designed in away where they keep you stagnant on a certain level until you finally buy one of their packs to upgrade your cards. Only then can your runners be strong enough to advance to the next level. Then again youll get to a point where you keep loosing because your cards arent strong enough. The worst past is the trophies system. Ive played for hours at a time and noticed that you only get awarded a couple of trophies when you win but as soon as you loose just once they take away 10+ trophies. We just won 3 games in a row and ever time we won we were awarded 3 trophies. So for those 3 wins we accumulated 9 trophies. The next game which was our 4th we lost then they take away 13 trophies. Thats so discouraging and annoying!! All these little things arent a coincidence, its designed this way for a reason!! Just when you think your getting ahead they send you further back.
We thought this was a PVP game for the longest time really priding ourselves in our progression/win ratio. But Im realizing all the names of people we play start with a Capitol letter and are usually just one basic word. Good to know Ive wasted tons of time playing against AI in a dying game.
Played 5 games and won 1 game and 4 were draws, when the game is to become good/exciting. Then its over. Why is it so short, just when we are ready to attack with maxed out characters, its over and nobody won, thats only worth 1 star maybe.
This game use to be great. It was phenomenal for so long! Lets get one thing straight this is ABSOLUTELY a pay to win game. If youre not spending you wont be winning. But thats not even the worst part. Their leaderboard is full of hackers. Its not even like its hard to find them. Either people are spending thousands on this game within weeks of joining or they are hackers. Look at the freaking profile history devs we mean come on this is ridiculous at this point. Ill be deleting this game now we just thought we would save some others the headache and wasted money. Cheers.
Are used to love this game. Then the recent update, were all the graphics changed. It is so difficult to tell what anything is now. It really ruins the game.
Im at 2000 trophies and every time we win a game we get +1 or +2 and when we lose a game we get -15 to -19 trophies. Please fix this its very frustrating. It doesnt need to be exactly the same but at least a little closer.
We cant get the challenges to work we want to challenge our friends but they never received the request. Please fix? We have the latest update all of our notifications are enabled and we can receive battle requests. If you do read this thank you and please fix.
We love this game. Its a ton of fun to play and keeps you on your toes with the different maps. The main issue we have is connectivity issues. Whether its friend matches where we cannot hold a connection and barely start a match sometimes to ranked matches occasionally disconnecting. What happens most often after winning a ranked match is we get disconnected and have to relogin after every battle! Is this a common occurrence for others.
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Every update more and more things are locked behind a pay wall. Let people spend money dont FORCE THEM too.
We like the game but miss the old challenges like a safe for first daily win. Hate using towers we dislike to get a challenge. Annoying. Overall we still enjoy the game. Keep up the good work.
This game is a lot of fun and we really enjoy it. Since the most recent big update though, our phone and iPad dont sync anymore. So we have to play the quests on only one device. Kinda ruins it for us to do it all over and over. Please fix.
First downloaded this but thought it was something else. Absolutely not our kind of game but thought try it anyway. Was grabbed immediately by the look and the excellent way the PVP matches are set up. At first it our see overwhelming with the tons of modifications and the large amount of choices but it is quite simple to learn. Really fun and very different to normal TD games.
Love the game except that our friend has an android and when we try to battle it says that we need to update the game but we have the latest version.
Enjoy the game lots, picky about doing reviews. Feel strongly that having two sets of icons for the same exact card makes the game more confusing. Also, our win rate is extremely high except we dont have that 1 card that slows all units and deals damage. We often cant get any unit past it and is frustrating that we still dont have it.
We love this game but every time we're in a good match the extremely conservative time limit absolutely ruins it for us. We no longer have any interest in playing.
We really want to like this game but theres just so many loot box type of BS you can buy for an advantage. This is especially annoying with PVP. Im afraid the game is going to move very slowly if we dont pay.
This app hits the spot. This is the most creative and competitive tower defense game we ever played! This kind of thrill reminds us of our old Command and Conquer games. Ive only played for a short time but we love it Ive been looking for a CLEAN competitive on line game and we found it! Congratulations…this may well become our number 1 app! A FEW SUGGESTIONS: 1. Update to allow landscape orientation on the iPad 2. DO NOT add Zombies, demon players, magicians….leave that stuff out and stick to creative combative mechanics! 3. Otherwise keep doing what youre doing! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.
Ive had a lot of fun playing this game, we find ourselves consistently playing every day. We find that this game has very little pressure to play to win which doesnt leave us with a sour taste like most games these days. There is a lot of dev presence in this game, very well done, and we cant wait to see where it goes. So far we give fives stars and hope it keeps in the direction its going.
This game has been the best thing we've ever played since we've got an electronic!we hope everyone would say the same about this game.
New update has ruined the game. Take it off our phone.
Bro change the graphics. It a great concept but the colors and the Maxx King guy is scary.
Battle time may be minimum 5 minutes or timeless or optional !!! But absoulately sure 3 minutes not enough. We prefer timeless battle.
Love playing the game but we cannot get game invites from friends. Playing with our friends was the reason why we downloaded this game and not being able to play with them is disappointing. We still love playing the game. Just wish we could play with our friends.
Tower Duel – TD Royale combines the best concepts from games like Clash Royale, BTD Battles and Xeno Tactic. Yeah, the chest thing has been done to death, but its almost necessary for this game type. This game combines the PvP aspects of Bloons Battles with the TD path blocking element of Xeno Tactic, and it works so well. Another reason that we felt the need to write this review is the upgrade system, which we love. Usually its the same old hit upgrade and watch all the stats go up, but this is different. In this game you roll a slot that gives you two potential upgrades (like unit cost vs Fire rate), you then pick the stat that you want for that tower/runner. The are numerous stats so it allows for a lot of diversity in upgrading your deck. Leveling up via XP unlocks all of your chests instantly, which is also really cool. Highly recommended for fans of PvP and TD, as long as you dont mind F2P wait timers.
Tower Duel is a fantastic form for a game and a new look for esports. Td does a great job at testing your individual skill and your ability to adapt mid game. Once they double or triple the number of cards it will be a real esport with real meta. Definitely check it out if you want to work your brain.
The game itself is a blast, a breath of fresh air. The problem? It uses the loot crate on victory model for advancement. There are onLy 4 slots, only one can be unlocking at once, and there is virtually NO gameplay incentive to keep playing if theyre full. The most basic, quick to unlock chests in the game take THREE HOURS. You can occasionally watch an add to knock off 30 minutes, but theres a several minute delay between each time you do that. The other options are to wait, or spend the IAP currency. You will easily blow through several bucks an HOUR of you rely on this method. And thats just early on – the costs seem to scale up with better chests. If your 4 chests slots are full, there is NO incentive to keep playing. All a win nets you is ~20-30 gold. Gold is NOT at all scarce, you will soon have tens of thousands stockpiled. You need the cards from the chests to advance, and opening chests is one of the most egregious examples of the pay or wait model Ive ever seen. Oh, and another more minor gripe – virtually no info about units can be seen in game, only in out of game menus. Countering armor types is a HUGE part of the strategy. Many units and abilities have special functions that almost completely define their purpose. Forget which enemies your tower is good at killing, or which ones your runners are vulnerable to? Tough luck. Enemy has a tower or runner youve never seen before? Lol, good luck, there is no way to access that information. We still play a couple times a day, because as we said the core gameplay is great. But all we do is unlock our latest cheat, play till we win one more, see if we unlocked anything new, then sign out. This game would be an easy 5star review with improved progression/monetization. Instead of giving a paltry sum of gold and nothing more for a win when slots are full, lower the timer on one or more current chests. Give us one or two cards (a third to a half of what a low end chest gives). Give us a tiny bit of premium currency to unlock other chests with. Heck, give us cosmetics to work towards. Just give us SOME sense of progression in a genre built around always feeling a sense of progression.
Great, fast-paced game with great strategy. The refreshing advancement of the TD genre Ive been waiting for for a long time. Well done.
Never played anything like it before! So much fun! Give it a shot, you wont be disappointed! The only thing like it on the App Store.
Im am really speechless when we write this for your game its practically revolutionary you can guarantee that the orc chief gamer channel will be a sponser that is if you consent of course.
Super fun, challenging, and addictive. It takes a while until you feel pressure to pay to play more… But this can be alleviated by doing some normal grinding to get experience and in game currency. Humorous at times with card designs and lore. Clearly designed attack and defense system. This game is really fun, really easy to learn but hard to master.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.1.8
- Size: 289.76 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Crit Crew GmbH
Last updated: 20th September 2023 | Genre: Action, Entertainment | Developer: Crit Crew GmbH