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Stack Attack Tower
A tower defense game for kids. Monsters come at your tower from every side: pop them with the big cannon on top, then spend their gems stacking floor after floor, all the way up to space.
- genre
- Tower defense
- made for
- Kids (and grown-ups)
- plays on
- Desktop and phones
- install
- None - it runs in your browser
- worlds
- 7, with 10 levels each
- plus
- Endless mode
- tower
- Up to 30 floors
- status
- New, still changing
Where it came from
My daughter came up with this one: "build a tower and the monsters attack, but you shoot them." Most of what's in it came straight from her playtests and ideas - towers tall enough to reach space, bombers, zombies and mini bosses, weather, day and night, helper floors, and the tower crumbling when you lose. I'm helping bring her ideas to life.
It's a new game and still being worked out, so expect it to grow as she thinks up more.
01 how to play
- Pop the monsters. Hold your finger or mouse button on the island to fire the big cannon on top of the tower. It aims at the monster nearest to where you point.
- Spend your gems. Popped monsters drop gems. Between waves, stack more floors, put a weapon or a helper on each one, and build walls and defenses. There's no timer while you build.
- Pick a power. Monsters also give XP. Each time the tower levels up, you pick 1 of 3 power cards, like a bigger cannon, more hearts, or floors that shoot farther.
- Keep stacking. Clearing a level earns 1 to 3 stars, and the next level starts with the same tower, so it keeps getting taller. Lost a wave? Try it again from the start of that wave.
Controls
| Keyboard and mouse | Touch | |
|---|---|---|
| Shoot the cannon | Hold the mouse button | Hold a finger on the island |
| Build menu | Bor the hammer button (pauses the battle) | The hammer button |
| Next wave | SpaceEnteror the green button | The green button |
| Pause | PEsc | The pause button |
| Double speed | The 1x / 2x button | The 1x / 2x button |
| Zoom | Mouse wheel | Pinch with two fingers |
| Power cards | The star button (they also open between waves) | The star button |
02 the tower
Stack up to 30 floors - high enough to poke out of the sky into space. Higher floors shoot farther, and from floor 8 the island grows, so bigger monsters come from farther away. Every weapon and helper upgrades from 1 to 3 stars, and Swap trades a floor's item for another one with half of what it cost taken off the price.
Weapons
Machine Gun
Rat-a-tat-tat, super fast.
from the startBoom Cannon
Big booms that hit whole groups.
from the startFrost Crystal
Slows monsters down.
from the startCatapult
Huge boulders, for monsters on the ground only.
at 3 starsRockets
Homing rockets that hit flyers at any height.
at 6 starsZap Rod
Zaps jump from monster to monster.
at 10 starsRainbow Laser
A laser that never stops.
at 15 starsHelper floors
Repair Shop
Workers fix the walls and heal the tower.
from the startPower Plant
Floors next to it shoot faster.
at 2 starsRadar
Floors next to it shoot farther and see at night.
at 4 starsAmmo Depot
Floors next to it hit harder.
at 5 starsTreasury
More gems from every monster.
at 8 starsPower Plants, Radars and Ammo Depots only boost the floors right next to them, and glowing links show which ones.
Walls and defenses
- Walls: a wood fence to start, then stone, then crystal.
- Outer Wall: a second wall, farther out.
- Spikes: ouch! They hurt walkers that step on them.
- Mines: go boom under walkers, and re-arm every wave.
- Zap Fence: zaps monsters hitting the walls.
- Tower Lights: see farther at night and in storms.
Each defense has 3 levels. When the hearts run out, the tower crumbles to the ground.
03 monsters
Monsters pop into confetti. They get tougher every wave and much tougher every level, to keep up with your growing tower.
Walkers, fast ones and tanks
The usual crowd. Fast ones start dashing on later levels, and tanks are slow but tough.
Flyers
Come in at different heights. A floor can only shoot so far above itself, so the high ones need a tall tower or Rockets.
Bombers
Fly bombing runs over the tower. Your shots can pop their bombs in mid-air.
Zombies
Come in hordes, and get back up once after being popped.
Poppers
Wobble and glow, then burst into little monsters when popped.
Blasters
Stop outside the walls and lob fireballs at the tower. Shoot the fireballs to pop them.
Kaboom carriers
Run in carrying a bomb. Pop one early and its bomb hurts the monsters around it instead of your walls.
Mini bosses and bosses
Mini bosses are big and wear a crown. Bosses come every fifth wave and on the last one.
04 worlds
Seven worlds, each with its own island, monsters, music and weather, and each with its own tower. Every world has 10 levels, from 7 waves up to 16. Clear level 3 to open Endless mode, which saves your best wave.
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Sunny Meadow
Slimes, Fluffballs, Bats, Mushrooms and Bumble Bombers
Jelly King rain · wind -
Junkyard Jam
Wind-up Bots, Wheelies, Drones, Tread Bots and Junk Blimps
Giant Toaster dust storms · zappy storms -
Pumpkin Hollow
Bone Bunnies, Candy Sprites, Ghosts, Pumpkins and Pumpkin Balloons
Pumpkin King thunderstorms · spooky fog -
Tiny Planet
Blobs, Zoomers, Saucers, Rock Crawlers and Bomb Saucers
Mother Blob meteor showers · star power -
Cyber Grid
Bit Bots, Glitch Bugs, Pixel Bats, Firewalls and Spam Blimps
Mega Virus glitch storms · overclock -
Frosty Peaks
Snowballs, Slide Penguins, Snow Owls, Yetis and Ice Balloons
Frost Giant blizzards · northern lights -
Lava Land
Ember Blobs, Lava Lizards, Fire Birds, Magma Golems and Tiny Dragons
Volcano King eruptions · heat waves
05 weather, night and difficulty
Weather
- Helps you: lightning, glitches, meteors and lava rocks zap or smash the monsters. Star power and overclock make every floor shoot faster, and northern lights make it shoot farther.
- Slows them down: rain turns the ground to mud, and blizzards make monsters trudge through the snow.
- Gets in the way: wind blows flyers around, and fog and dust storms make floors shoot a bit shorter.
- Both: heat waves hurry the monsters along, but your floors shoot faster too.
Night
- Every third wave is a night wave. At night (and in dark storms), floors can only shoot what the tower's light reaches.
- Tower Lights widen the light, and Radar floors see in the dark.
Difficulty
Pick it on the title screen, right under PLAY. Your stars, best Endless wave and tallest tower are saved in your browser.
| Easy | Normal | Hard | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hearts | 30 | 20 | 15 |
| Starting gems | 130 | 90 | 80 |
| Monster toughness | x0.6 | x1 | x1.4 |
| Monster speed | x0.85 | x1 | x1.1 |
Ready to stack?
Free, no install, and it runs on your computer or your phone. Build it tall!