Ironvale Siege

Ironvale Siege is the tower defense we keep coming back to when we want to actually think. Instead of dropping fixed towers, you assemble them from parts — a base, a barrel, and a modifier — so a single slot can become a slow field or a burst cannon depending on the run.

The maps are built around chokepoints that shift as you unlock new routes, so a layout that carried you on wave ten can collapse by wave twenty. That forces real decisions between rounds. The economy is tight but fair, and hoarding gold usually punishes you.

Difficulty scales cleanly and the endless mode is where the game shines. Our only gripe is a fiddly menu for saving tower presets, which matters more the deeper you go.

What we liked

• Modular tower building
• Maps that change between waves
• Deep endless mode