# Maze Defenders - Tower Defense — user reviews > 42 indexed App Store user reviews of Maze Defenders by Johan Lindberg, rated 4.80/5 from 456 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/maze-defenders-tower-defense/id1607823483/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/maze-defenders-tower-defense/id1607823483.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 392 · 4★ 46 · 3★ 13 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 4 ## What do users think of Maze Defenders? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Fun game mechanic - 👍 No pay-to-play scheme - 👍 Developer is active and responsive - 👍 Plenty of content and challenges - 🔒 No heavy microtransactions - 👍 Free to play with optional support **Cons** - 🐛 Bugs and glitches - 🔍 Scaling issues on larger screens - 🚫 Lack of rewards for losing levels **Commonly reported bugs** - Hard mode crashes the game - Endless mode glitches and doesn't stop - Level 47 fails to load - Upgrade buttons not working **Most requested features** - Larger screen support - Improved endless mode stability - More localization options ## Newest reviews (13 of 42) ### 5/5 — Great Tower Defense Game! *2023-09-14* I enjoyed the graphics and game play. So many ways to develop and upgrade your strategy to keep the game interesting. Give it a try! ### 5/5 — Amazing *2023-09-14* Perfect even the in app purchases are cheap and so worth it can’t wait to see where this game goes ### 5/5 — Great TD game! *2023-09-11* Just downloaded and completed 10 levels. If you’re a TD fan, this game is for you! Clearly the lone developer is a TD fan. Enjoy the game that isn’t pay to win. (But I did buy the developer a cup of coffee😀.) **Developer response:** Thank you so much, glad you like it 😊 ### 5/5 — High quality game here folks *2023-08-31* This is probably the best tower defense game I’ve ever played on mobile. It’s free to play. I chose to spend $ to go premium in the hopes the devs make a second one. Also as a thanks for making such an awesome game. I didn’t need to go premium to advance. It’s a great game. Highly recommend if you like td games. Thank you to the dev team **Developer response:** Thank you for your kind words, it means a lot to hear this :) ### 5/5 — Good TD for phones *2023-08-22, version 1.7* This is a good TD. However ive only played the first six levels, and its screen size is for phones only. You can zoom in on an ipad, but there are large black areas all around. However the gameplay is fantastic and its worth playing. ### 5/5 — Love the game, just discovered it *2023-08-05* How did I not find this before, now my favorite phone time fun ### 5/5 — My favourite Tower Defense game! *2023-07-31, version 1.7* I’ve played nearly all of the TD games out there, and this one is my favourite. First, it is not pay to win. You can watch ads for extra rewards, but they are definitely not required…or if you’d like you can make a 1-time purchase of $.99 to get extra rewards forever and never watch another ad for this game…totally worth it! Also, there are a pile of different builds that you can explore (builders, equipment, runes, etc) to find the strategy that you like best. It’s usually better to upgrade a few towers to higher levels than to create a dozen weaker towers, and I like that approach. On most maps you can create mazes to force the enemies to go past your most dangerous towers multiple times. It has a good Discord community. The developer is continuing to actively work on the game and take players’ feedback. ### 5/5 — 希望有繁體中文 *2023-07-29, version 1.5* 這是玩過最好玩的塔防遊戲了 希望增加商店素材的購買 ### 5/5 — Legit TD. Very Fun *2023-07-27* This dude deserves your $0.99 purchase to remove ads and “buy him a coffee”. Not sure where you get a cup for that price, even when you make it yourself. Anyway, you can play for free too, without a significant disadvantage. Would recommend. ### 5/5 — An amazing tower defense *2023-07-25* One of the best tower defense available on iOS. Reminds me of the old wc3 maps. There are a variety of different types of maps, which can involve creating a maze between two points or around several nodes, or towers on the edge of a predetermined path. ### 5/5 — Game in BETA but I Love it already.! *2023-07-24, version 1.5* Great gameplay for now. Waiting to see how Jonathan will be developing new updates. ### 5/5 — Not like most mobile games nowadays! *2023-07-23* This is a nice, classic-feeling tower defense game. It has been very enjoyable. The best part is how no ads are shoved in your face. This game feels like a breath of fresh air! ### 5/5 — Very fun TD! *2023-07-21* This game reminds me of the tower defense maps on WC3 or SC! I’ve been looking for a tower defense that you can actually maze and build your lanes to kill the creeps! Great game! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Piece of trash *2023-08-07, version 1.7* Don’t bother wasting ur time downloading its a waste of time after lvl 20 its just a cash grab to get u to buy so u can progress u get zero rewards for losing so u cant power up so ur forced to spend cash to level up ur towers so u can proceed. nice try but next time don’t be so obviously greedy and make it so free players cant progress!! BOTTEM LINE DON’T DOWNLOAD UNLESS U PLAN TO SPEND MONEY!!!!! ### 1/5 — Frustrating *2023-07-08, version 1.3* To receive zero rewards when losing a level is very frustrating ### 2/5 — Way too many bugs *2023-12-23* Cant do hard mode. It locks the game up. Endless mode, glitches and never stops when you die. 50% of the claim buttons dont work 20% of the upgrade buttons are glitched with n/a Level 47 does NOT load meaning when you get there, its uninstall time Good game but its been left to rot and unplayable, see no update in sight and these are game breaking problems ### 2/5 — Meh *2023-11-18, version 1.91* I installed around lvl 5 when the map was just a path…. So just plopping down towers. The “maze” component IMO should be the main concept of the game but here it is not even utilized… making it feel pointless in game already too easy on max difficulty ### 3/5 — Fun game with scaling issues *2023-08-20, version 1.7* I like this game but my iPhone 14 Pro cuts a bunch of text off. There are also a few clipping issues with the wizzard float around. He gets stuck in pond s and in walls. ### 3/5 — Generous and nice td game play *2023-07-08, version 1.3* A stellar indie td game, not absolutely original but effective and balanced. ### 4/5 — Looks good, but *2024-01-03* Because of his 3-D nature, it really needs to have a larger screen support than just the phone. ### 4/5 — Awesome *2023-12-27* Amazing TD just lots of bugs. If you get stuck make sure you post to discord so dev can fix. ### 4/5 — Crash *2023-12-22, version 1.91* Game keeps crashing or stalling world 3 level 47. Bug fix needed asap ### 5/5 — Fun game mechanic, doesn’t force you to pay for things *2025-08-26* I’ve been bummed lately that every tower game has some sort of pay to play scheme. Upgrades and towers that have bonuses only when you buy some loot box. This game doesn’t do that and even if I didn’t like the game - which I do - I’d still be happy about playing it. It’s fun, and you can play a round very quickly. ## Most praised reviews (9 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Love this game! *2025-05-02, version 2.30* Really great TD game. The developer is active in his discord and listens to us when we have ideas or report bugs etc etc. Is it perfect? No, but he try’s hard to make us happy and to adjust any issues that pop up. What more can you ask for? The game play itself is really fun. Live having a “builder” that you can also cast spells with and equip gear on to boost towers. And the towers themselves have levels and talent trees plus runes that can be equipped to customize them for certain things. It’s really great. There is a crafting system as well where you can craft gear and runes. Some things can only be got from the seasonal maps though. Generally they are on a 30 day reset. The campaign is fairly easy and straightforward but the last world is actually pretty challenging and the season/trail maps are generally a pain in the butt at times. Then you have hard modes on each level you can go back and do, those get increasingly hard to do. Then you also have rifts and endless levels you can do. Point is, plenty of stuff to do after the campaign to challenge yourself. ### 5/5 — Great game by a dev who cares *2025-03-08* Pretty much the title. I’d put this in easily top 3 TD games of all time. No heavy micro transactions, bugs actually get *fixed*, which is refreshing. I think many triple-A game dev companies could learn a lot from the attitude of this solo developer. He isn’t after your money, just wanted to make a fun game and succeeded spectacularly. ### 5/5 — Exactly what I needed *2025-02-10* This is tower defense done right. You can scour the App Store for days and not find anything even remotely close to a tower defense game that has bones, and then there’s this one which has it all. The dev clearly was a big fan of classic TD games and their appeal. Awesome job, I will be supporting you ### 5/5 — Wow where did this come from? *2023-12-20* I love this game. Already much more than bloons and I like bloons a lot, but this feels much more technical in a good way. Not only that, the dev clearly loves just making games, and isnt out here to make the game just to hit someones wallet. Bloons I can put down after 2 rounds, this? I cannot stop lol ### 5/5 — Good game *2023-12-03, version 1.91* Nice game a lot of fun ### 5/5 — Free to Play *2023-11-12* Haven’t played a game in a while with out a pay wall. Awesome dev that is super responsive! ### 5/5 — Great game! *2023-10-28, version 1.91* Well done sir. Great tower defence game you have created with a lot of depth! Free but no obnoxious micro transactions and I even love how you made a little note saying if you can’t afford to remove the ads just message you! I of course have supported you and I urge anyone who likes this game to please support this developer even if it is just a dollar. Again well done! ### 5/5 — Love this can’t wait for more *2023-10-01, version 1.81* Been having a great time on this very creative TD game been looking for a game like this for a while, so excited for future updates and new content!! ### 5/5 — Super fun *2023-09-15* If you like tower defenses, then this is a must! Can’t wait for more updates!! **Developer response:** Thank you! More updates are being developed! :) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-10.*