Ironvale Siege

Ironvale Siege is the kind of tower defence that rewards planning over reflexes. Each map has fixed buildable tiles, so the challenge is where you place your towers, not how fast you can tap. Enemy waves telegraph their composition a round ahead, giving you just enough time to adjust before the swarm arrives.

The upgrade tree is where it gets interesting. Every tower branches into specialisations, and you can't max everything in a single run, so you commit to a strategy early and live with it. We lost a few maps simply by over-investing in splash damage and getting punished by armoured singles.

After two weeks it still had maps we hadn't cracked. The difficulty curve is honest and the game never feels like it's cheating you. If you like reading a board and solving it, this is an easy recommendation.

What we liked

• Position-driven defence puzzles
• Meaningful, mutually exclusive upgrades
• Fair, readable difficulty curve