One Tower: Idle Tower Defense
Daniel Kim Games iPhoneiPadiPod touch
One Tower: Idle Tower Defense is a free Games app for iPhone and iPad by Daniel Kim. Rated 4.3/5 from 3 ratings. Requires iOS 15.0. Updated October 1, 2026.
- Rating
- 4.3
- 3 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 241 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 1
- 2026 · v1.0.4
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About One Tower: Idle Tower Defense
One Tower: Idle Tower Defense is an idle tower defense game with a single rule: you never build a second tower. One tower stands between the core and an endless alien invasion, and every run is a chance to upgrade it, survive longer, and turn defeat into permanent power. Combat fires automatically. You spend the cash each wave earns on attack, defense, and utility upgrades, decide when to trigger your special weapons, and push your tower as far as it can go. When it falls, you keep the coins, return to the workshop, and come back stronger. It is incremental tower defense: short runs, big numbers, and progress that never resets. ONE TOWER, ENDLESS WAVES • Defend a single tower against endless waves of aliens, elites, and bosses • Upgrade damage, attack speed, range, critical chance, health, regeneration, and more during every run • Layer overlapping defense fields, shields, and mines around your tower • Push through harder tiers and chase a new best wave every time IDLE PROGRESS BETWEEN RUNS • Invest coins in permanent Workshop upgrades that carry into every future run • Research in the Lab keeps progressing while you are away, so the tower grows even when you are not playing • Come back to rewards, finished research, and a stronger tower BUILD YOUR OWN TOWER DEFENSE STRATEGY • Collect and master Relics that reshape how your tower fights • Deploy support Drones that amplify damage, boost allies, and burn enemies • Forge and merge Augments for attack, defense, utility, and special power • Unlock Special Weapons such as nukes, barrages, and overdrive, and choose the right one for each wave • Every combination changes the run: a roguelike loop where the decisions are yours and the shooting is automatic COMPETE AND COLLECT • Enter tournaments and climb the standings against other tower defense players • Complete daily missions, milestones, and limited-time events for extra rewards • Track your best waves, total damage, and progression in your profile WHY ONE TOWER Most tower defense games are about placing more towers. One Tower is about going deeper with the one you have. No maps to memorize, no mazes to build: just your tower, an endless wave count, and the question of how far one tower can go. It is an idle defense game you can play in a few minutes on the bus or leave running while you work, and the workshop, research, and relics give it the depth of a full strategy game. MADE FOR IDLE TD FANS If you enjoy incremental games, idle games, or classic tower defense TD, One Tower gives you the best of both: the satisfying growth of an idle game and the wave-by-wave tension of tower defense. Runs are short, defeat is expected, and every defeat makes the next run better. How long can your one tower hold?
What’s new
Version 1.0.4 · Updated October 1, 2026
Performance improvements and bug fixes.
App privacy
The developer, Daniel Kim, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Location: Coarse Location
- Usage Data: Advertising Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Location: Coarse Location
- Identifiers: Device ID
- Usage Data: Advertising Data, Product Interaction
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data
Used for: Third-Party Advertising, Analytics
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