About

Tower & Tactics started as a shared notebook between a few friends who kept arguing about which tower defence game was the least frustrating on a small screen. We turned those arguments into a proper site so the notes would stop getting lost in group chats.

Everybody here plays on real phones, not just emulators. When we review a game we sit with it for at least a week, push past the easy tutorial levels and see how it holds up once the difficulty curve bites. That is where most strategy games either shine or fall apart.

We pick games based on curiosity, not press lists. If a title has an interesting idea about pathing, resource management or how you place units, it gets on our to-do board. Genre matters less than whether the game respects your time and your thumbs.

Nothing here is sponsored. We buy or download the games ourselves and say what we think, even when the verdict is a shrug.

Matthias Keller — Matthias has been building spreadsheets about tower placement since he was a teenager. He runs the editorial side and still loses to the harder maps more often than he admits.