The field is open
There is no road. The Tilians cross an open field, and your towers and barricades are the walls. You draw the maze.
Tower defense · Coming soon
They are back. Build the maze.
Tilian Wars: The Return is a mazing tower defense game. There is no road for the invaders to follow: your towers are the walls, and every wall is your call.
- Six towers
- One hundred waves
- iPhone, iPad and Mac
Coming soon We are still polishing this one.
In 2010, the Tilians came for the colony of Solace, and were driven back. For sixteen years, Solace built, grew and forgot. Then something started digging under the front door.
How it plays
You draw the maze.
Every tower hits everything
Ground or air, every tower can fight every Tilian. The question is which tower, and where.
Fliers ignore your maze
Gliders and flying bosses come straight over the walls in swarms. Slow them down and hit them all at once.
One hundred waves
Bosses at waves 50, 75 and 100, on Meadow, Desert and Winter maps, from Easy to Epic.
Your side
Six towers. Three levels each.
Every tower can fight every Tilian, on the ground or in the air. Upgrade them twice and watch them get heavier, meaner and a lot more fun.
Rapid fire
Repeater
Cheap, quick and always busy. A wall of Repeaters chews through the small stuff while your big guns line up their shots.
Stun and slow
Thumper
Slams the ground and sends out rings that stun and slow everything nearby. It makes every other tower better.
Homing rockets
Seeker
Rockets that chase their target across the field, and hit even harder against anything that flies.
Flame cone
Incinerator
A short, wide cone of fire that sets a whole crowd burning. Put it where the maze squeezes tight.
Lightning
Arc Coil
One heavy bolt at first. Upgrade it and the lightning leaps to two, then four different Tilians at once.
Splash damage
Cannon
The big one. A long-range shell that bursts across a whole swarm, and your best answer when the sky fills up.
Wall
Hedgehog barricade
Welded steel that costs next to nothing. Heavy Tilians have to walk around it. Skitters squeeze straight through.
Their side
Meet the Tilians.
Small, green and extremely determined. Mischievous more than menacing, right up until wave fifty.
Trooper
The grunt of the invasion: lime crest, orange armor and a rifle he is very proud of.
Skitter
Small, fast and many. Skitters slip through barricades that stop everyone else.
Dart
The fastest thing on the field, on a hoverboard, and gone before a slow tower can turn.
Ironhide
A slow, armored tank on treads. Small guns barely scratch it.
Glider
Flies straight over your maze, and never comes alone. Look up.
Warden
Carries a shield aura that protects every Tilian marching beside it.
Mender
Patches up the others as they go. Take the Mender out first.
Splitter
One big red ball that bursts into three angry Splitlings when it pops.
Miner
Tunnels under everything to plant a bomb on your most expensive tower. Send the commandos.
Warchief
A boss who arrives by air, banner flying, and takes a great deal of convincing.
Hive Mother
A flying boss that drops a brood of Skitters wherever she goes.
Your commandos
Not a Tilian. Your own ten-strong team, sent out to defuse the Miner's bomb. No one gets left behind.
Work in progress
From the battlefield.
Real screens from the build we are playing in the studio. Everything here can still change.
A swarm squeezes through the first gap
The Arc Coil lights up a column
Wave twenty hits the maze
The Incinerator holds the door
Troopers on the march
Why "The Return"
Sixteen years later.
We made the first Tilian Wars in 2010. The Return is a brand new game, rebuilt from the first blade of grass: new art, new towers, a new invasion, and the same idea that made the original fun. Build a clever maze and watch it work.
- Status
- Coming soon
- Genre
- Mazing tower defense
- Towers
- 6, plus barricades
- Maps
- Meadow, Desert, Winter
- Plays on
- iPhone, iPad and Mac
Man the walls.
Tilian Wars: The Return is in the works. No date yet, but the Tilians are getting restless.
Coming soon We are still polishing this one.
