Boxed Tower: Actual Tower Defense

Boxed Tower: Actual Tower Defense

boxedworks · July 16, 2023 · Survival, Roguelite, Archery, Tower Defense, Difficult

Boxed Tower: Actual Tower Defense is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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Boxed Tower: Actual Tower Defense price

Boxed Tower: Actual Tower Defense is free to play — there is no purchase price, on Steam or anywhere else we track. We keep watching it, so if it ever stops being free the price history on this page will show when that happened and what it changed to.

About Boxed Tower: Actual Tower Defense

Your tower is under siege! Click and drag your cursor to shoot arrows. Collect gold and use it to buy powerful upgrades and abilities at the shop. You'll need speed and accuracy to survive. How far can you go?

Developer notes


This is a game I made years ago for mobile and decided to port it to Windows- enjoy!

Boxed Tower: Actual Tower Defense — game info

Platforms
Windows, Linux / SteamOS
Steam Deck
Playable
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included
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What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Jan 13, 2025
"Boxed Tower: Actual Tower Defense" is one of those "I can't believe it's not Adobe Flash" tier games (more suitable as a browser game than competing with Black Myth Wukong and Baldurs Gate 3 here on Steam). This is a kind of autobattler (with a bit of your own Angry Birds style slingshot flinging mechanism that seems more at home on mobile phones), and I guess the interesting part is there's a progression system not completely unlike Poncle's "Vampire Survivors", as you buy enhancements over time to help you fight the waves of miniamlist blobs and rectangles moving your way. The graphics were phoned in, to say the least, this is some really lazy tech implementation. This game features very lacklustre minimalist "art" for graphics instead of anything remotely contemporary. I'm sure the "developer" thought this would come across as "artistic", but it doesn't, it comes across as "really lazy" and looks bad as a result of their lack of interest in doing their job properly. Developers must try to understand that gaming is a visual medium, and gamers spend a lot of money on high end gaming rigs for a reason. And that reason is not so they can look at lazy, phoned-in half efforts…
2 found this helpful
Recommended Feb 21, 2025
Good Game, Painful Game.
1 found this helpful
Recommended Feb 3, 2024
pretty good game so far, but there isnt enough features and currently the game is way too hard. you need extreme precision just to hit a target and the arrows are so small that it makes it almost impossible to hit smaller targets, making it basically a game of luck unless you are really good at it. still, it could be fun if there were more features in the game edit: not even fun anymore its too hard to do anything
1 found this helpful
Recommended Jul 4, 2026
funsies
Recommended Mar 1, 2025
a really fun game, awesome game loop and lots of fun to just play around trying to hit trickshots, although its a bit weird with casino music playing over it
Recommended Apr 8, 2024
absolutely. i love this game already

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