Tiny Empire: Castle Defense

Noah Miller

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this game

Raise a tiny kingdom into a spacefaring empire — then defend it.

Tiny Empire is an idle empire builder, a medieval castle-defense game and a tower-defense game in one. Build your town, research upgrades, train a real army of knights and archers, and hold your fortress gate against everything the wilds send at you. Your empire keeps producing while you're away, and it all plays offline.

RULE 8 ERAS
• Advance from the Stone Age through Castle, Gunpowder, Discovery, Industrial and Modern — into a neon-lit Information city and a starlit Space colony
• Every era transforms your whole town: buildings, walls, units, even the sky
• Offline earnings: your empire keeps producing while you're gone

BUILD YOUR EMPIRE
• Place and upgrade Gold Mines, Sawmills, Farms, Quarries, Storehouses, Barracks and your Town Hall
• A living base — waving banners, chimney smoke, a shimmering moat, grazing sheep
• Research tree, resource market, idle expeditions, daily quests and kingdom events

EXPLORE THE WILDERNESS
– Pan past your walls: forests, wild deer and boar, berry bushes, gold and stone deposits
– Rebel camps dot the wilds — tap one to raid it; farther camps hit harder
– A minimap tracks your town, your resources, and every camp

COMMAND A REAL ARMY
• Eight troop types with rock-paper-scissors counters: Soldiers, Pikemen (anti-siege), Archers, Cavalry, Catapults, Skirmishers (anti-archer), Scout Cavalry (fast raiders) and Priests, who HEAL your wounded mid-battle
• A leveling Commander with a skill tree and a devastating Hero Strike
• Pick your stance — Aggressive, Balanced, or Defensive — before every fight

TWO WAYS TO FIGHT
• DEFEND: siege waves stream toward your gate — hold the line through Night Raids, Blood Moons and the Battering Ram boss
• TOWER DEFENSE: build and upgrade towers along the winding lane, repair the gate, unleash the Hero Strike
• 24 campaign levels across three regions with live difficulty ratings — from the Bandit Camp to the Ember Throne

CLIMB THE ARENA
Five ranked battles a day against rival companies, from Raw Recruits to the Grandmaster's Host. Every win moves your rating - climb from Bronze through Silver, Gold, Platinum and Diamond to Grandmaster. Seasons close every two weeks and pay gems for the tier you finish at.

AN EMPIRE TO GROW
• Chief levels, achievements, battle pass, unit veterancy, login streaks
• Prestige: rebirth for permanent, stacking empire bonuses

PLAY IT YOUR WAY
Like idle games? Set your economy running, close the app, and come back to a fuller treasury.
Like tower defense? Jump straight into the campaign and route the lane your way.
Like kingdom and city builders? Take your time — eight eras of buildings, walls and research are waiting.
Like base builders and tycoon games? Lay out your base, run the economy, and watch the empire tick over while you are away.
Like war and conquest RPGs? March out from the fortress, raid the rebel camps, and take the wilds region by region.
Like strategy? Counter their composition, pick your stance, and time the Hero Strike.

PLAYS OFFLINE
No signal needed. Build, raid and defend on a plane, on the train, or anywhere the bars run out.

FREE TO PLAY
Tiny Empire is free to download, with optional in-app purchases and ads.

Free to play. Build your empire today.

What’s new

Fixes ads not loading. A consent step added in late August could wait forever if it never got an answer, and while it waited the ad system never started - so rewarded offers like double loot gave you nothing when you accepted them.

It now waits eight seconds and carries on.