All about tower-defence games on Roblox

Tower-defence games are seemingly simple, but the hidden depths of this genre have made it a favourite among gamers for decades. It's no different in Roblox, where there are a huge number of interesting and inventive tower-defence games to keep you busy, alone or with friends. Here's everything you need to know about tower-defence games in Roblox.

Tower-defence games are strategy games with a simple underlying formula. Your enemies will follow a set path through a location from one side to the other, trying to reach a goal – usually, the player's base.

Your job is to stop the enemies by building defences – usually towers with guns – along the enemy's route, in order to defeat them before they reach the base and attack you. While that might sound easy, tower-defence games often have lots of different kinds of enemies, along with towers to beat them. Planning where to put towers on the route is essential if you want to stop the advancing horde.

You'll usually fight enemies in groups or waves. You'll earn currency from each defeated enemy in a wave, and use that money to build new defences or upgrade your existing ones. Tower defence requires both planning – creating a strategy for where to put defences effectively – and quick thinking, to make changes to your defences on the fly to stop enemies who slip through.

Lots of tower-defence sims offer variations on the theme and create different problems for players to solve. Many show you an enemy route and force you to adapt to it by creating the best defence strategy that you can with limited resources. In others, you use barriers to change the enemy path, allowing you to stretch out their route so that you can place more towers and do more damage.

Roblox has so many players that you can find a lot of tower-defence games that you can play cooperatively or competitively. The different approaches in tower-defence games often provide unique challenges – all tower-defence games start from a similar place, but mix things up enough to keep the genre from getting repetitive.

On Roblox, tower defence is considered a subgenre of the strategy genre. That means that you can find a lot of tower-defence games pretty easily. Just go to the Roblox search bar and enter 'tower defence' to get a list of the games. You can also search for 'Strategy' to get similar games, although that will return a much broader group of experiences, so you'll have to sift through them more.

If you're looking to get started with some great tower-defence games, Defender's Depot is a good place to start. It uses a grid system for placing towers and traps that can help you learn the basics of the genre, with the game going on to become pretty challenging.

Tower Defense Simulator trades towers for stationary military units and provides a lot of interesting, varied maps to defend. Anime Last Stand provides a variety of modes and limited-time events, as well as single-player and multiplayer options. Finally, Tower Battles focuses on cooperative and competitive multiplayer, with two teams fighting it out to see who can defend the longest.