Crown Guard

Mission briefing

Crown Guard is an action tower defense game where you control a king defending his castle from enemy hordes. Collect gold, build and upgrade towers, recruit knights, and unleash a powerful royal strike. Conquer 100 maps across 10 biomes, unlock new defenses, and strengthen your king with permanent upgrades.

Field manual

Move with WASD, the arrow keys, or by holding and dragging your mouse or finger. Stop moving to shoot automatically. Collect dropped gold, then stand still on marked building plots to construct or upgrade defenses. Press Space or tap the strike button to hit nearby enemies. Protect your castle through five waves to unlock the next map. Choose a reward after each wave and spend crowns on permanent upgrades in the pause menu.

Launch orders: press Launch mission above and the game loads on this page itself — nothing downloads and no form stands between you and the first move. It is designed for a portrait (upright) screen and takes its orders from mouse, keyboard or touch, depending on the mission. It is built tall, for an upright screen — a phone held normally frames it best, though any window will run it. If it offers a fullscreen control, use it — a fight this size deserves the whole screen.

Field notes for action operations

• First run is reconnaissance. Spend it learning where the danger actually spawns from instead of chasing a score — most action games announce their patterns honestly in the opening minute, then repeat them with worse manners.
• Movement is a defensive stat. A moving target at half health outlives a stationary one at full health in nearly every game on this board, so keep relocating between shots, strikes and reloads.
• Learn the exit before the entrance closes. In arena and chase games alike, the players who survive longest are the ones who noticed the second doorway while everyone else was watching the first.

Crown Guard — questions from the ranks

What does it cost to play Crown Guard?

Nothing at all. The mission is free from the first order to the last — no sign-up, no download, no paid tier guarding the good levels. The advertising around this page is what keeps the board free.

What sort of mission is Crown Guard?

Crown Guard is filed in our Action theatre. Like every operation on this board, it is a browser game — read the briefing above for the publisher's own account of what you are deploying into.

Can I run Crown Guard on a phone or tablet?

Yes. It plays in the browser on phones and tablets exactly as it does on a computer. It is built tall, for an upright screen — a phone held normally frames it best, though any window will run it.

Do I have to install anything before playing?

No installation of any kind. Crown Guard is an HTML5 game: press the launch button and it loads on this page, and closing the tab leaves nothing behind.

After-action

Mission complete, or still pinned down? The full Action theatre is one click away — The main hall of the board: 469 operations where something is always moving, exploding, escaping or being chased. If a game has a pulse and a problem, it is probably filed here.