Digfender vs Tower Maze Defense
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Digfender
Defend your castle by digging deep underground to find resources and build powerful towers and traps. Customize your defenses through upgrade trees and challenge friends in survival mode. Enjoy a unique tower defense experience with no paywalls or wait timers.
- Digging for treasure and relics
- Building towers and traps
- Customizable defense upgrades
- Survival mode with leaderboards
- Over 70 challenging levels
- No paywalls or wait timers
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"Digfender is easily one of the best tower defense games I've played in a long time" - TOUCH ARCADE "There's a million tower defense games but only one like this" - GAMERANX Beneath your castle an enemy lies waiting. Grab your shovel and prepare your defenses! Dig deep into the ground and find valuable treasures and ancient relics to help you on your mission. Then use your loot to build powerful towers, set clever traps and unleash spectacular magic on your enemies. FEATURES - Over 70 challenging levels - 5 upgrade trees to customize your defenses - Survival mode - challenge your friends to beat your high score - Leaderboards and achievements - No paywalls or wait timers - Digging. Everyone loves digging Terms of service: http://www.mugshotgames.com/terms
Tower Maze Defense
Build strategic tower mazes to defend against waves of enemies in this unique tower defense game. Explore an old-school setting with trippy music, upgrade towers, and utilize shaman powers. Choose from three difficulty modes to enjoy the story or test your strategic limits.
- Build towers anywhere
- Upgrade and delete towers
- Utilize shaman powers
- Face 60 waves of enemies
- Three game modes (Easy, Normal, Extreme)
- Mega Attacks for area damage
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Build towers anywhere in this tower defense game to damage and block incoming waves of evil enemies. Surprisingly, those enemies look like yourself. Discover where they came from in an old-school setting with trippy music as you move from wave to wave unlike in any other tower defense game you have played. You can delete, upgrade, and chose different types of towers to make the most optimal play. Most towers rely on the powers of the shaman who guides you through the game. You have a fixed 60 waves to go through. Make sure to rebuild your tower defenses to best fit the current wave. Once you beat the final monster terrorizing the village, you will have a choice to make. Chose wisely, Defender! Three modes are available: - Easy: casually finish the game, and enjoy the story line. - Normal: some challenge towards the end. Learn tips for extreme mode. - Extreme: learn the full power of mazes to beat the game. No mega attack required to finish it. Mega Attacks are in this td game because they are fun; experience the full power of the shaman and damage all enemies on the board.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Tower Maze Defense at every 5 days against Digfender's every 4 months. Digfender's advantage is review sentiment (91% vs 64%) and rating (4.7 vs 4.4). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Digfender sells 11 one-off in-app purchases and Tower Maze Defense sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Digfender holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Digfender has 1K ratings behind it against 149, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 91% of Digfender's written reviews are positive against 64% of Tower Maze Defense's.
Digfender ships an update every 4 months, Tower Maze Defense every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Digfender | Tower Maze Defense |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (1K ratings) — better | 4.4 (149 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 91.0% of reviews — better | 64.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1K — better | 149 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 5 days — better |
| 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 | 12.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 482 MB | 102 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Mugshot Games Pty Ltd | Paperboi data management, llc |
Customer experience
Digfender
Tower Maze Defense
User reviews
Digfender
From 1K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Enjoyable gameplay
- 🚀 No intrusive ads
- 👍 Meaningful challenge
- 👍 Fun upgrade mechanics
- 👍 Engaging gameplay
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional game freezes
- 🐛 Compatibility issues with newer devices
- 🐛 Enemies that can destroy towers
Tower Maze Defense
From 149 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Old-school TD fun
- 👍 Challenging gameplay
- 👍 Addictive and entertaining
- 👍 Great strategy game
- 👍 Good art and gameplay
Room to improve
- 🐛 Buggy lightning tower
- 🐛 Shop resets frequently
- 🐛 Endless mode formatting issues
- 🐛 Cannot see entire map in endless mode
- 🐛 Limited story runs
Bugs and requests
Digfender
Reported bugs
2 issues- Game freezes and crashes
- UI elements not visible on newer devices
Requested features
4 requests- More levels and content
- Custom level creator
- Endless mode without tower-destroying enemies
- Target priority options for towers
Tower Maze Defense
Reported bugs
6 issues- Lightning tower only hits land
- Shop resets after reopening app or playing endless
- Endless mode formatting is incorrect
- Cannot see entire map in endless mode
- Cannot build on top row in endless mode on iPhone 15
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- UI elements obstruct tower placement in endless mode
Requested features
9 requests- Fix lightning tower bug
- Add more tower types for air attacks
- Add a rank-up system with points
- Improve endless mode formatting
- Increase map space
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- Add infinite play mode
- Add different boards with themed enemies
- Allow disabling air attackers
- Add time-speed controls (1/2x, 1x, 2x)
In-app purchases
Digfender
- 1500 Diamonds$1.99
- 4000 Diamonds$3.99
- Remove Ads$3.99
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- Special Offer 1$4.99
- Jeweler's Cart$5.99
- 10000 Diamonds$7.99
- Dwarven Stronghold$7.99
- Dark Fortress$7.99
- Ice Palace$7.99
- Special Offer 2$14.99
- 30000 Diamonds$19.99
Tower Maze Defense
- Mega Attack$0.99
- Tesla Tower$0.99
- Poison Tower$0.99
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- Vortex Tower$0.99
- Start at wave 17$1.99
- 5000 Skull Coins$2.99
- Mega Attacks X 10$8.99
- Full Game - no ads$9.99
Questions
Is Digfender free?
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