Kingdom Rush 6: Genesis Sends Tower Defence Back to Where It All Started

Ironhide Game Studio has released Kingdom Rush 6: Genesis on iOS and Android, taking its long-running tower-defence series back towards the world and history of the original Kingdom Rush. The new entry revolves around another confrontation with Vez'nan and promises new mechanics wrapped around the familiar formula of placing towers, upgrading defences and discovering that the one lane you neglected is precisely where forty monsters have decided to go.

Genesis is notable because Kingdom Rush helped demonstrate years ago that sophisticated tower defence was perfectly suited to touchscreens, and Ironhide has spent subsequent entries refining rather than abandoning that foundation. The sixth main instalment arrives as a premium release rather than another aggressive free-to-play conversion, which should please players who prefer buying a game to maintaining a spreadsheet of currencies. Early App Store rankings also suggest interest is strong.

Sometimes mobile gaming really can be wonderfully straightforward: buy game, place tower, destroy goblins, wonder why it is suddenly two in the morning.