Hold Fire: Tower Defense

Your finger is the best turret on the field. 100 waves, 10 bosses, one pact per run — and a line that only holds if you shoot straight.

Hold Fire is a tower defense game where you pull the trigger yourself.

Hold your finger down: the cannon aims, heats up and fires. Between waves, place your turrets. Then do it again, a hundred times, all the way to the Leviathan.

▸ TWO GAMES IN ONE Turrets hold the lane while you cover what they cannot see: the jammer they ignore, the runner that outruns them, the flyer no mortar will ever catch. They will never be enough on their own.

▸ 100 WAVES, 10 SECTORS Ten lanes, ten field rules, ten bosses. A brand new enemy type every ten waves, and a boss that pushes to the extreme whatever it just taught you. Twenty-two foes in all, from the Grunt to the Leviathan.

▸ AIM FOR THE CORES Yellow weak points take triple damage. One placed shot beats ten sprayed ones, and the cannon overheats if you never let go.

▸ 5 TURRETS, 7 UPGRADES Gatling, mortar, flak, tesla, missile launcher: each covers what the others let through. In the workshop: caliber, rate of fire, cooling, optics, piercing, volley and a second cannon, each with its own final breakthrough.

▸ ONE PACT PER RUN Twelve deals, only one taken, binding to the end. More damage for less range, gold for hit points. Nothing comes free.

▸ EVERY RUN COUNTS Waves reached earn fragments, fragments buy permanent modules. Seventeen of them: starting gold, base plating, turret blueprints, negotiated prices. The next run starts higher.

▸ OFFLINE, NO ACCOUNT Everything lives on your device. No sign-up, no waiting, no lives to refill.

▸ FREE, NO CATCH No ads during a run. Only at the end can you choose to watch a video to double your fragments or restart from the wave you fell on. Nothing is for sale, and no ad ever makes your cannon stronger.

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Hold the line.