Dreadspire
Painted key art: two rival keeps face each other across a green valley while creatures march along a winding road between towers.
Dreadspire app icon: a dark spire wreathed in fire and blue flame.

Maze-building tower defense for iPhone

Dreadspire Tower Wars

Tower defense where the enemy builds a maze too. Your towers are the walls: shape a path that drags invaders past your guns, then spend the same crystals to send creatures into your rival's maze.

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  • Free
  • Fully offline
  • No ads
  • No in-app purchases
  • No data collected

How it plays

There is no fixed road. Every crystal you spend is a choice: another tower for your maze, or a pack of creatures sent straight into theirs.

Painted archer tower Painted cannon tower

I

Build the maze

Place every tower yourself. Shape a winding path that keeps creatures under fire for as long as possible — just never seal it completely. Sell, rebuild and reshape at any moment.

Painted frost wolf Painted red-eyed sheep

II

Send the wave

Spend crystals on creatures that march into your rival's maze. Most sends raise your income; every creature that leaks through takes a life from the defender and hands it to you.

Painted elemental core tower with a blue crystal Painted fire pit tower

III

Outthink the AI

The computer plays by your rules — same crystals, same towers, same sends, no peeking at your economy. On higher difficulties it reads your maze, prepares counters and strikes when you are weakest.

Screenshots

Portrait, touch-first and made for your phone.

  • A player-built maze of towers forcing creatures along a long winding path across the field.
    Your towers are the maze
  • A grid of painted tower forms, from fire and frost to lightning and arcane towers.
    95 towers to evolve
  • A long line of creatures sent marching through the computer's maze.
    Send the wave
  • A bestiary of painted creatures, from the sheep to the phoenix.
    Know your enemy
  • The match setup screen with five difficulties, Nightmare selected and its computer income bonus labeled.
    Can you beat Nightmare?
  • The challenges list with numbered handcrafted challenges, shown over a maze.
    12 challenges + daily

Everything in the box

One complete game. No energy timers, no store, no account.

5

Difficulties

Normal, Hard, Expert, Master and Nightmare. Nightmare is clearly labeled and gives the computer an income bonus; the rest is pure strategy.

2

Classic and Quick

Classic is a full war that ends in Sudden Death after 25 minutes. Quick is faster: a rising Siege makes every creature tougher by the minute.

12

Challenges + daily

Handcrafted challenges with their own rules and opponents, a daily challenge, achievements and unlockable banner colors.

∞

Maze Lab

A free-build sandbox to test layouts without pressure. Every match ends with detailed results for both sides.

0

Offline, no ads

Plays completely offline. No account, no ads, no in-app purchases and no data collected.

Build the maze. Send the wave.

Dreadspire: Tower Wars is in beta on iPhone. Ask for a TestFlight invite and help shape the game before it reaches the App Store.

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