Threnfall TD vs Lyran Defense

Threnfall TD No ads. No in-app purchases. No interruptions. Buy it once, own it forever. Play offline. No pay-to-win. Threnfall TD is a fantasy tower defense game built by one person. Not a big studio, just me, working through many late nights trying to make something genuinely fun and worth your time. This isn’t a "place towers and hope" kind of game. It’s designed to be challenging, even on easy mode. If your strategy isn’t right, the game will push back. What’s in the game: • 20 handcrafted levels Each with its own layout, pacing, and difficulty • 14 distinct tower types Each with 2 upgrade paths and 10 upgrades per path, all with their own visuals and roles • A real challenge Even on easier settings, you’ll need to think, adapt, and improve • Achievements & persistent upgrades Progress carries forward as you refine your strategy • Cinematic intros & unique music Each level has its own atmosphere, with custom intros and backing tracks This is my first release, built entirely by me. Every system has been designed, tested, broken, fixed, and rebuilt more times than I can count. There’s more coming. New features, improvements, balancing, and player feedback will directly shape where the game goes next. One small request: If you enjoy the game, leaving a review really helps. If you don’t, that’s completely fair, but instead of dropping a bad review and disappearing, reach out. I’ll do my best to fix what isn’t working. Thanks for taking a chance on it. – Dan

LYRAN DEFENSE is a painterly, fully offline tower defense campaign set in the Lyran Wars: 21 story levels, an endless mode, four difficulties, no ads and no accounts. The Lyran homeworld is falling. The evacuation ships are loading. Between the rift and the beacon stands one thing: you. This is the story of a proud feline people holding the line so their children can reach the stars. FIGHT THE LONG RETREAT • A 21-level story campaign across the falling homeworld. Every level is a rearguard action on the road to the evacuation fields. • The Long Watch: an endless mode where you hold as long as you can. The longer you stand, the more ships get away. • Four difficulties, from a calm first watch to an edge that will take your soul. BUILD THE LINE • Eight tower families that upgrade into an elite form: arrow, frost, ember, mortar, venom, lance, banner and mender. Three families fork at the top, and the choice is permanent: a Longbow becomes a Starshot Bastion or a Skypiercer, a Glacier an Aurora Spire or a Shatterfrost, a Mortar a Siege Bombard or a Cinderfall Battery. One or the other, never both. • Terrain that matters. Mires that slow the column, rifts that tear open mid-wave, roads that fork and cross. • Special attacks by hand. Aim the Chord, time the Pulse, save the wave. • Target priorities per tower: first, last, strongest, nearest. • Weather that fights you. Rain and snow slow the field and hide the road. A PEOPLE WORTH SAVING • Every board is a painting. Twenty-two hand-illustrated maps, gold against violet, each with its own biome and its own landmark. • Painted towers and painted enemies, not sprites on a grid. • A fully procedural orchestral score that rises with the battle and mourns the defeats. • The Journal: a war codex of every tower, creep and doctrine you meet. • The Gallery and The Score: chronicles of the war, earned by holding the line. PLAY IT ANYWHERE • iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV. One free download, the same campaign, the same save carried between them by your own iCloud. • Game controller support (PlayStation, Xbox and Switch pads). On Apple TV a pad drives the whole interface; everywhere else it drives the battle. • Pinch, drag and zoom the board by hand on iPhone and iPad. Keyboard and mouse on Mac, with a rebindable battle keymap. Drive it from the couch on Apple TV. • Every board is painted TALLER than it is wide, so a phone held upright and an iPad in portrait both give the battlefield the whole screen. MADE TO BE FAIR • Plays fully offline. No ads. No accounts. No tracking. Nothing collected. Your progress stays on your device, and rides your own iCloud between your devices if you are signed in. • Free, complete, and not cut in half. "Light the Beacon" is an optional supporter purchase for people who want to leave a light on. It unlocks nothing you need to win. • A deterministic engine, checked bit-for-bit against committed golden state hashes on every build, so every battle is exactly replayable and every victory is earned. Hold the beacon. The song of the stars is in your hands.