Hero Defense King

Mission briefing

Your mission is to defend your tower from relentless waves of enemies by commanding a powerful hero, using strategic skills, precise timing, and smart upgrades to survive increasingly difficult battles and protect your stronghold at all costs.

Field manual

Lead your heroes into battle and protect your towers from all the invading enemies. As the game progresses, stronger enemies will spawn. Customize your defensive strategy with different tower upgrades and heroes.

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 landscape (wide) screen and takes its orders from mouse, keyboard or touch, depending on the mission. It is built wide, for a landscape screen — rotate a phone sideways, or give it a tablet or monitor to stretch out on. If it offers a fullscreen control, use it — a fight this size deserves the whole screen.

Field notes for tower defense operations

• The first tower's position matters more than its type. Place it where the path bends — a corner doubles the time each enemy spends inside its range.
• Slow is a damage multiplier. A tower that slows enemies multiplies every other tower's output; one good frost or glue placement routinely outperforms a second cannon.
• Upgrade the chokepoint before widening the net. Concentrated strength at the narrowest ground beats thin coverage everywhere, especially when armoured waves arrive.

Hero Defense King — questions from the ranks

What does it cost to play Hero Defense King?

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 Hero Defense King?

Hero Defense King is filed in our Tower Defense 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 Hero Defense King 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 wide, for a landscape screen — rotate a phone sideways, or give it a tablet or monitor to stretch out on.

Do I have to install anything before playing?

No installation of any kind. Hero Defense King 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 Tower Defense theatre is one click away — Pick the ground, place the guns, hold the line. Fifty tower-defense operations where the enemy files past in waves and your layout does the arguing.