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Steam app 2447060 · updated 12 Sep 2026, 22:36 UTC

Monster Tiles TD: Tower Wars

Free Tower Defense game with unique roguelike elements. Custom base building mechanics allow you to create your own base and maze with tiles earned after each wave. Unleash a variety of monsters, each with its own evolution path and unique skills, and evolve them into legendary creatures.

Monster Tiles TD: Tower Wars Steam header artwork
Swell Games LLCSwell Games LLC
8playing now
1324-hour peak
327all-time peak
7average, last 30 days

The last 30 days

+0.7Gain+9.77%% gain15Peak

277 hourly samples, with the daily peak drawn over them. Weekends are shaded.

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Daily peakEvery hourly sample

All time

38 months, August 2023 to September 2026. The highest number of people in the game at once, each month, on a time axis -- a gap in the record stays a gap.

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Monthly peak

The last four months

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The highest number of people in the game at once, each month. Four, because four is as far back as the source keeps anything finer than one figure a month.

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July 2026

31 days, each one the highest figure that day. The source keeps no hourly detail this far back. Weekends are shaded.

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August 2026

31 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 162 hourly samples from 13 Aug, which is as far back as the source keeps every hour. Weekends are shaded.

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September 2026

12 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 115 hourly samples. Each dip is a night. Weekends are shaded.

048121601 Sep03 Sep05 Sep07 Sep09 Sep11 SepTuesday 01 September 202611 peakWednesday 02 September 202611 peakThursday 03 September 20269 peakFriday 04 September 202611 peakSaturday 05 September 202610 peakSunday 06 September 202615 peakMonday 07 September 202612 peakTuesday 08 September 202610 peakWednesday 09 September 202613 peakThursday 10 September 20269 peakFriday 11 September 202612 peakSaturday 12 September 202613 peak

October 2026

Monster Tiles TD: Tower Wars was released on 11 Feb, 2024.

Not out yet.There is nothing to draw for this month.
Nothing here is interpolated or estimated; where a sample is missing the line is broken.

Game information

Free to playUpdated 12 Sep 2026, 22:36 UTC
App ID
2447060
Last updated
01 Dec 2023 build 12846169
Developer
Swell Games LLC
Publisher
Swell Games LLC
Release date
11 Feb, 2024
Platforms
WindowsmacOS
Download size
85 MB85 MB
Install size
524 MB524 MB
Genres
Action, Casual, Indie, RPG, Strategy, Free To Play
Game modes
Single-player
Controller support
Unknown
Achievements
18

Features & support

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Popular tags

CasualStrategyTower DefenseAction RoguelikeAuto BattlerStrategy RPGRoguelikeIdlerRogueliteTactical RPG3DColorfulCuteBuildingFantasyMagicManagementSpaceTacticalBase Building
About this gameFull description from Steam
Join millions of others - Play Monster Tiles TD: Tower Wars for free today! Forget the boring old days of defending a fixed path that the developers created for you 👎. Monster Tiles TD offers a breath of fresh air in the tower defense genre, allowing you to build your own path to defend 💪! After completing each wave, you gain a new randomly generated tile to place wherever you want (try to be smart and strategic about it, though 😛). Building your own custom tower defense allows you to play how YOU want, with the characters and strategies that YOU enjoy the most, and on a map that YOU created. This dynamic base-building mechanic creates endless replayability with every single game being different than the last! ✨✨✨ 🔥 FEATURES 🔥 A fleet of medieval space pirates are invading the monsters' base, and it is up to you to stop them! Unlock, upgrade, and evolve your monsters to defend the base from spacefaring knights, mages, pirates, and countless other unique enemies. Build and defend a custom tower defense maze. Roguelike progression and upgrades. Over 35 monster tower types to build, each with unique skills and synergies. Evolve monsters to greater forms for powerful stat and skill bonuses. Multiple RPG and TD classes and specialties. Optimize tower placements to activate powerful synergy effects. Equip monsters with epic gear dropped from bosses. Conquer different maps, difficulties, and game modes. Unlock, upgrade, and evolve your monsters to defend against spacefaring knights, mages, pirates, and more! 🛠️ BUILD YOUR BASE 🛠️ Monster Tiles TD features a unique tower defense mechanic where you manually rotate and place a randomly generated tile after each wave to control the enemy path. Each game starts off easy, with only one enemy spawn location and a simple straightforward path. However, as you reach higher waves, the path will branch off into dozens of spawn points, increasing the difficulty and number of locations to defend. Strategically placing tiles to optimize tower placements and enemy spawn locations is key to a successful defense. Influence your defensive positions and enemy pathing by choosing where to place the next tile and expand your base after each wave. Branch out to loot Treasure Islands for huge rewards, while still maintaining a strong, consolidated defense. Each new tile is randomly generated, meaning every single game you play is different! Roguelike and RPG base defender mechanics. 💪 EVOLVE & UPGRADE 💪 Improve your defense and speed up your gameplay by researching countless upgrades that affect nearly every aspect of the game. Strengthen your monsters, bolster your tower defenses, debuff your enemies, and influence the tiles on the map with several hundred upgrade combinations. Unlock and upgrade countless artifacts, spells, specialties, and technologies. Collect and upgrade dozens of powerful equipment, ranging from common to divine. Upgrade your player level and collect rewards by completing games. Upgrade monsters by collecting gold, energy, credits and PvP Tournament points. 🚀 ENDLESS PROGRESSION 🚀 Progress through multiple difficulty modes ranging from easy to impossible. Then, spice the end-game up with the unique endless and score attack modes. Each game mode adds new powerful enemy types and additional challenges. Reach higher waves on each difficulty to unlock new monster towers and upgrades, and compete against others on the leaderboards! The fun never ends in Monster Tiles TD! Reach higher waves and difficulties to unlock new monsters, upgrades, and rewards. Each game mode adds new enemy types and challenges. Unique Endless, Sudden Death, Score Attack, and Swarm game modes. Competitive PvP game modes. Compete against other players for the highest rank on the leaderboards. Customize your personal leaderboards look by completing challenges to unlock custom leaderboard icons, titles, and backgrounds. Complete daily tasks and achievements to bolster your towers. Enjoy free rewards from regular in-game events and gifts. In Monster Tiles TD: Tower Wars, you're not only defending, but also building a custom maze, evolving monsters, and strategizing for the next level. The dynamic roguelike base-building system makes each wave unique and unpredictable, requiring you to adapt your tactics on the go. Unleash a variety of monsters, each with its own evolution path and unique skills, and evolve them into legendary creatures. Synergize your towers to defeat even the toughest foes. Build and guard your base, evolve your monster towers, defend against the attacking space pirates, and compete in PvP Tournaments. The fun never ends in Monster Tiles TD! Chat with the developer and other players, and get more information on our Discord!
Content & age ratings2 regional ratings

Regional ratings

DEJUS6Violência fantasiosa
IGRS13Kekerasan
System requirementsMinimum and recommended hardware

Minimum

Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 and above Processor: 1Ghz or faster processor Memory: 2 GB RAM

Recommended

macOS

Minimum: OS: Sierra 10.12+ Processor: 1Ghz or faster processor Memory: 2 GB RAM
Supported languages1 languages
LanguageFull audio
English

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AchievementsTotal count and selected achievements

18 achievements in total.

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10 developer announcements, Aug 2023 to Dec 2023 · times in UTC

December

  1. Patch v48 (Dec 1)

    Changes: Slightly buffed damage and skills for Galaxia and Bolt Cat divine towers. Bug Fixes: Improved targeting logic when manually clicking on an enemy to force target it. Improved targeting logic when using the "focus bosses" option. UI…

    Patch notes

November

  1. Patch v46 (November 11)

    Changes: Lowered cost of energy income upgrade in SWARM mode. Increased wave requirements for some SWARM related Leaderboard Titles. QoL Improvements: Performance improvements. UI improvements. Bug Fixes: Fixed bug where not all enemies…

    Patch notes

October

  1. Major Update v44 (October 31)

    New Content: New "Sudden Death" progression game mode featuring significantly stronger enemies than Endless mode with some unique mechanics to make it even more challenging. New "SWARM" competitive game mode featuring super fast paced…

    Patch notes
  2. Update v43 (October 21)

    New Content: MAX a tower at level 30 for a final +100% DPS boost. Changes: Rerolling a tile will always give a different tile than the last. You can now reroll away from the cross-path tile on a boss wave. You can now reroll a cross-path…

    Patch notes
  3. Update v42 (October 17)

    New Content: Spend energy to reroll the original tile you are given. Tier 11 research upgrades. New achievements and daily missions. Changes: Unlock and use up to five divine towers, rather than just one. Significantly increased the amount…

    Patch notes

September

  1. Patch v38 (September 26)

    QoL Improvements: You can now cast most Spells between waves, so that they activate as soon as the next wave begins. Minor UI improvements. Bug Fixes: Fixed rare bug where the game would let you try to equip items on a tower with no slots…

    Patch notes
  2. Update v37 (September 23)

    Changes: PC players can spend gems for a "Last Stand" attempt (gives you 5 extra lives) after losing a wave. Also, at waves 25, 50, and 75, you can spend gems for a bonus resource package. Added a limit in so that you will never get more…

    Patch notes
  3. Update v34 (September 8)

    New Content: Added new limited time events. Added new leaderboard title that requires 100k points in score attack. Changes: Everyone receives max game speed setting in Tournament mode for competitive fairness. Merchants and Explorers give…

    Patch notes

August

  1. Update v31 (August 25)

    Changes: Adjusted scoring of the Score Attack game mode. QoL Improvements: Added “G” hotkey for changing game speed. Various UI improvements. Performance improvements. Bug Fixes: Server and account improvements. Fixed rare bug where waves…

    Patch notes
  2. Update v28 (August 14)

    New Content: New Tournament game mode! Compete against others in this biweekly competition to earn unique rewards and upgrades depending on how well you place. This game mode is unique in that all players compete fairly (all upgrades are…

    Patch notes

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