Tower vs Goblins vs Shapes N Maze
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tower vs Goblins
Defend your castle from waves of attacking goblins in this strategic tower defense game. Upgrade your hero and fortress with various weapons and special skills to survive increasingly difficult enemy raids. Enjoy a visually appealing medieval world with endless fun.
- Build and defend your castle
- Upgrade hero and base
- Strategic placement of weapons
- Level up hero abilities
- Variety of weapons and skills
- Visually appealing graphics
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Aim, shoot and protect your castle from waves of enemies in tower defense game THE OWNER OF THE CASTLE Show your strategy skills in a unique tower defense game and protect your base against waves of goblins. Discover an unforgettable gaming experience of TD games with interesting levels, improvements and strategic challenges. Encounter various enemy raids on your difficult path, upgrade your hero and base to stop them all! Endless fun is waiting for you in Spire vs Goblins: Tower Defense game download right now absolutely free. BUILD AND DEFEND To turn your tower into an impenetrable fortress, with each reflected wave, collect a reward that can be used to add new blocks and a variety of weapons: a spear, a ballista or a magic crystal. Each type of weapon unlocks special skills that will help you stay safe, destroy the enemy base and waves of goblins. You need to build wisely - a lot depends on the position of the blocks in your survival. Aim and shoot - the goblins are attacking! This RPG shooter will constantly keep you in suspense, be ready to skillfully use your bow to protect the tower from flying monsters, dark magicians, terrible demons. Each time the enemies become stronger and be sure that you have properly upgraded your hero and defensive structure to become an epic invincible archer. Strategic- Use your sharp wits to fight off enemies as you wander around looking for blocks to add to your tower. It may seem that everything is simple in Tower vs Goblins: RPG Shooter, as in many idle games, but you need to plan ahead and think about how to properly display all the weapons in your fortress. Another important detail is the strategic use of resources and unique abilities. Level Up - Go through the levels in this TD RPG shooter game and discover awesome upgrades, weapons, and other improvements. After defeating each wave, you are given the opportunity to choose the leveling of the hero to your heart's content: attack power and speed, damage crit, number of arrows and much more! After completing the level, upgrade your fortress: it's up to you to upgrade your defenses and be an impregnable defender or upgrade your weapons and not even let the enemies near you. Catchy - it's about the gameplay and especially about the graphics. The cute design and attention to detail makes Tower vs Goblins: Aim and Shoot a very visually appealing adventure that mesmerizes and maintains a chill vibe. The animation of waves of enemies is a special work of art! MEDIEVAL EPIC WORLD So come on, build your mighty tower, survive and wage war against the goblins in this exciting RPG tower defense game. Travel through different areas to explore new opportunities to protect your fortress and ways to destroy an ever-increasing number of enemies! Dive into the world of non-stop fun TD games full of dangerous monsters, magic, and castles.
Shapes N Maze
Strategically place and merge turrets to extend enemy paths and defend your base. Purchase upgrades from a shop to create powerful defenses against incoming foes. Enjoy a tower defense experience with merging mechanics.
- Place turrets
- Merge turrets
- Extend enemy paths
- Defend base
- Shop for turrets
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Place turrets to make the path longer for enemies! You can buy turret from a shop and place them along the path you created in order to defend your base from enemies. You can merge your turret to create powerful ones!
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Verdict
Tower vs Goblins and Shapes N Maze both sit at 4.4 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Shapes N Maze's written reviews are positive against 14% of Tower vs Goblins's. Tower vs Goblins's advantage is ratings volume (408 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Tower vs Goblins sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Shapes N Maze sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Tower vs Goblins against 4.5 for Shapes N Maze. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tower vs Goblins has 408 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 14% of Tower vs Goblins's written reviews are positive against 100% of Shapes N Maze's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tower vs Goblins | Shapes N Maze |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (408 ratings) | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 14.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 408 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 192 MB | 188 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 24 HIT Riga SIA | Yso Corp |
Customer experience
Tower vs Goblins
Shapes N Maze
Bugs and requests
Tower vs Goblins
Reported bugs
7 issues- Archer/hero level stuck at 3/4 through level 1 despite progressing to later worlds
- Locked menu items never unlock even at high levels
- Challenge mode notifications appear but mode is inaccessible
- Ad-free purchase fails to remove optional reward ads
- Ads persist even with airplane mode enabled
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- Game waves last only seconds when offline
- Misleading promotional images showing more towers than actually available
Requested features
7 requests- Archer HP upgrade system
- Nerf flying enemy damage
- Increase tower placement limit beyond 16
- Add settings/options menu
- Unlock mechanism for locked features
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- More content and progression variety
- Clearer unlock requirements for menus
Shapes N Maze
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Tower vs Goblins
- Bunch of money$4.99
- Chest of money$9.99
- No Ads$9.99
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- A lot of money$14.99
- No Ads Pack$14.99
Shapes N Maze
- Remove Ads$2.99
Questions
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