Bloons TD 6

Beautiful game honestly can't recommend it enough, that being said skip the DLC it's not good every other piece of content in the game is better and if you find that you still need more then go for it

For the longest time I avoided this game as it just looked like a glorified mobile game. But after seeing the reviews and trying to find an alternative to Plants Vs Zombies to scratch that Tower Defense itch, I caved in and got the game. I'm so glad I did.

Despite some things here and there that make it very "mobile-like", the game can be played without any further micro-transactions and it's a lot of fun.

I'm not so sure what else I can add that the other reviews haven't said already, the summary is this. The game is deeper than it seems, with enough variety of towers, maps and strategies to keep you entertained for hours (as evidenced by my current played hours in a relatively short amount of time). It's not without flaws, but it's a very fun game.

I started playing this game on June 5th 2020 and it saved my life. I was depressed, riddled with anxiety because I didn't know what the future would hold with this new craziness that would become known as covid lockdown. Whew... what a time that was, anyway as I started on this new rollercoaster I was finding new ways to occupy my brain. That's when I found Bloons TD6... what a relief. Ever since I have walked through life realising things might not be so bad after all.
Thank you Ninja kiwi.

Awesome game! MONKEYS POP BLOONS!!! Cool art, but also fun game. Good for all age groups in my opinion.

5+ Hours Review -

What else is there to say other than its Bloons TD, a tower defense game thats stood the test of time. Alot of us are flooded with nostalgia from the flash days, and rightfully so. Bloons TD is a consistently well made tower defense game. Now with Bloons TD 6 we have the introduction of Heroes, new units occasionally, and many more unlockable via skill trees. The only real complaint I have with Bloons tower defense 6 is the removal of one of my favorite units the Bloonchipper.

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After playing the game for many years the Co-op feature still sucks in so many ways i cant be bothered to list them all. Everything else about this game is top tier in terms of quality. However personally I enjoy playing games with friends, if you don't care about playing with friends and already like bloons I recommend this game with every fibre of my being. If you enjoy playing most games with friends I can't tell you enough DO NOT BUY THIS for Co-op. 7/10

BTD6 is the perfect tower defense game, while it offers many hours of game time, completion-ist will find lots of to do, such as, achievements, Hero's/skins for the hero's. and 13 medals for each of the 77 and counting. You will receive a black border for unlocking all the medals on a map.
BTD6 offers Cross-Progression play at your desktop or on the go with mobile and be able to access your account and pick up where you left off.
A new rogue like game mode is actively being worked on, enjoy the base game and think you want to expand your BTD6 game play I would recommend this add-on.
Their are active events such as odysseys, boss battles, races, etc. These events offers trophies a free currency obtained simply by completing the events, trophies unlock variety of rewards.

If you are looking for a tower defense game that you can play here or on the go, and wanting to learn strategies to beat the hardest game modes or attempt your highest round, I highly recommend BTD6.

Legends DLC and the recent updates that came alongside it are frustratingly bad. Way too many microtransactions and pushes towards spending money for a game targeting "all ages".

while it is a good game at its core similar to BTD 5, BTD 6 feels a lot more like a mobile game. some of these aspects are neutral such as heroes or art style - but some things, like the many different micro transactions, powerups and hidden costs (such as the map editor being partially locked behind a real money purchase or rogue legacy being locked behind a full one WITHOUT the ability to see or review any of that on the steam page) makes me really not like what this game does. I paid for it and I will play it and I like the fact that it can be synchronized between the different devices (mobile and pc) but I despise the added microtransactions. I thought I was buying a full game. but I guess not

Really fun game, if you like Tower Defense games you'll enjoy this one, it's fun to play with a group and it's pretty unique on his own way

This game is an amazing strategy based game where you have to build a Monkey army to pop the balloons. This game is my favourite, and i recommend it to all ages

Good. Personally I like BTD5 more for maybe nostalgia but this game has better overall mechanics

very fun, if you like to play battles 2 or even btd5 it is very much worth the money.

good game the start and grinding takes awhile but this game has alot of content, its simple its fun to play with friends and i recommend it and its pretty cheap.

Edit: (2nd of Feb, 2025)
My partner found the patch notes for 47.1 on Reddit, though I still can't find them anywhere else. Seeing the changes documented and explained has eased my anxiety considerably. While I am still experiencing crashes on launch when continuing from a cloud save, the patch notes do claim to address many of the other bugs and crashes I was seeing upon 47.0 release.
I'm going to play a bunch more now that I know what's different, and I'll update my review again as needed.
For now, the new Rogue Legends mode is flawed but awesome, and it looks like the team at Ninja Kiwi are rapidly iterating on player feedback to improve its rocky initial launch. Kudos to them! and thanks for all the bloons.

It is, and also not, suprising how devs keep updating the game, bringing new things.

Not only is this game addictive, the devs are still adding content to this day. It's pretty rare to find that these days, definitely recommend.

if you like td games or you have play any of the other games this game is great if you want to feel that orignal td game feel

One of the greatest games you can find for the price and it works pretty good on mobile too

its really fun and enjoyable, can play for long periods of time and its definitely beginner-friendly

this game triggers my PTSD of the hindenburg but other than that it's pretty cool

Bloons TD is amazing love it! However, don’t waste your money on Rogue Legends, beyond difficult. Every move must be perfect, not fun.

Bloons TD 6 historically has been a pretty neat game, but I can't recommend you get into it at this stage because it feels like it's getting worse over time.

New mode or feature releases are often underdeveloped, undercooked, and quickly abandoned because Ninja Kiwi doesn't want to make fundamental changes to the mode. Modes are often too grindy and/or have some fundamental issue that makes the gameplay lack variety It happened with Contested Territory, it happened with Map Editor, it happened with Boss Rush, and now it's happening with Rogue Legends, which is more sad when you have to pay $10 for it.

When the multiplayer oriented modes are mainly the brunt of this, it also hurts the community. Shortcomings in Contested Territory, Boss Rush, Map Editor, Ranked Boss categories and the quality of curated live content in addition to the shortcomings of tower balance and underwhelming map releases have burnt off a significant portion of the community. The playerbase overall is still healthy, and there's a few things to do, but you can definitely feel the loss of certain community figures.

There's a small live content element but that part has especially degraded. The daily challenges are not amazing, with a mix of stuff you beat in 30 seconds to stuff where you have to use an incredibly obscure stalling glitch and then wait 5 minutes because there's zero actual curation involved. Featured community challenges, odysseys and maps are horrendous (there's literally a "free win" challenge featured in the browser right now). Official odyssey quality has taken a hit and boss events and races are okay but definitely hampered by the quality of the bosses themselves and the variety of ranked categories (why does Dreadbloon always have to be least cash?)

Future prospects for BTD6 are rather grim. Ninja Kiwi has committed themselves to releasing a steady stream of paid Legends DLCs bi-annually, which if Rogue Legend's poor balance and ten hour runs are anything to go by, will likely both not be as great of contributions to the game as they could be and will also be a massive time sink for the company, forcing them to focus on the DLCs to get them out in a timely manner while having to then correct the technical debt the DLC's create (the game has crashed like, three times today for no reason). The content that would still be mostly guaranteed to come to the base game, like Maps, which have been very uninteresting as of late, balance changes, which aren't amazing for previously stated reasons, and skins, which i don't care about, aren't going to satiate players, and Ninja Kiwi hasn't proven they care about making adjustments and fixes to existing modes that would let them engage players without having to do big content drops.

BTD6 is not at the end of its lifespan, but this is probably a pretty good place to get off the bus if you've been on it, and if you haven't been on it yet, not a great place to start.

Was a really fun game when I started to play with decent maps, characters, updates to content, and semi-decent weekly challenges.
For the most part, it still is.
I would rate the base game at a solid 8/10.

Recently however, the game has gone downhill, with an increase in microtransactions, half baked updates, and just generally seems to have lessened in quality overall.

This review is mainly about one of the recent updates that came out and introduced the new game mode Rogue Legends.

Absolute RNG garbage.
I paid the 9 dollars the game was asking for the new game mode because it seemed like an interesting, new way to play a game I already more or less enjoy, so I was pretty optimistic as I bought it.

Within the first few RL games I played I noticed bugs such as map glitches, where my character's tile would teleport out of bounds onto a completely different map and become landlocked after a game instance, meaning I had to restart the game due to not being able to do anything.
Various bugs with gameplay showed up as well, such as certain tower builds not being able to detect camo bloons and others when pre-upgraded as your default start characters (which you can't swap btw).

Also, the difficulty is CRACKED. Oh. my. gosh.
Comparing it to the base game, RL is like cranking the difficulty to 1000x on hard mode with limited character and build options, adding an unstable RNG element where if you don't get a perfect perma-upgrade or character for your build EVERY SINGLE TIME THAT YOU GET ONE, you're basically guaranteed a loss by your fourth or fifth enemy map tile.

You also don't get to choose your base tower characters aside from your Hero tower, meaning that if you want different starting characters and base towers to use for your run, you would have to buy that hero character or character skin that has them included.

To summarize, Rogue Legends is an underdeveloped moneygrab that either needs to be seriously reworked for people to want to play it or that just needs to be removed from the game with a refund to everyone that bought it.

I'm not hating on the base game, as it's still something I really enjoy playing and will probably continue to do so.
But the way the game has been going recently and with an update like this... I'm really disappointed with it and so are a lot of other people who play BTD.

Love the game but nothing more frustrating than the connection issues getting to the last level on a boss bloon or chimps map Co-op and then the server crashing, happened far too many times

Roguelike mode could be amazing
atm though (Price aside) even for a free experience it wouldn't be worth it
unlike a roguelike experience, it's not fun
it's also not fast either, it's basically a odyssey except you don't gain anything for it at the end
also it's 10$...

Hopefully they can update it in a way that makes it good but atm DO NOT BUY IT
buy vampire survivors for 2$ instead

While I enjoy the game very much, appreciate the continued work the devs have put in, and have more play time than listed on steam due to previous mobile playtime, I do think that some of the recent content has fallen short. If you're thinking about buying the new dlc, I recommend you check out bloons monkey city instead: while technically not a roguelite, between the passive upgrades you can do and the areas outside your town being procedurally generated but using a set rotation of maps, it's a better product you can get for free.
I do still recommend this game, but I advise waiting for a sale and skipping on the dlc

It is very good for the price, I have enjoyed obliterating small peices of rubber with a mech suit that shoots giant missiles

very fun game there is lots of great things to do and i recommend playing it

Love this game. So fun. Love the monkeys so cute. BALLOONS BALLOONS BALLONS

too many microtransactions some lil kids have probably hopped on this game and maxed out their moms credit card after buying 2 monkey money, other than that it's a pretty nice game to just kinda relax and pop bloons ya feel me?

This game is starting to become micro-transaction hell. It's true that they have given us numerous free updates, and with those updates we were given new towers, heroes, maps, and maybe more I don't know about. But at the same time, we are starting to get charged for what should be basic game play features or even QoL additions. The new map editor luckily lets you grind in game for it, but for new players you have to either choose a map editor you could have fun with or a hero that could help with game play. It doesn't help that both the map editor and heroes cost monkey money, which is a purchasable currency. But then there are the other examples like three times fast mode(To speed up tracks an extra tier) and even something as simple as a double cash mode. Which from what I understand only doubles in map currency, not even monkey money. The double cash mode costs $18, the triple speed mode costs $7, the game costs $14. This is not acceptable even with the amount of free content.

Even the stuff we can get without purchasable currency is a weird daily/weekly grind. I'm talking about the trophy shop. I wish I could just grind a bunch of different options in a day, but from my experience you can only grind timed challenges that rotate and give you a reward once. This feels like a very unnecessary limit as it hinders cosmetic process for no reason.

And now with their newest DLS, Rouge Legends. This is $10, so even double cash mode is worth more than this. But besides that, this DLC offers a new rule set, a new explore-able map(You get to explore it, not play on it), and it gives you unlock-able rouge like artifacts that change how you play the game. No new tower, no new hero, no new playable map. The fact they charge $10 for a new rule set and artifacts is ridiculous.

It's starting to feel like they are attaching high dollar amounts to any little thing. I even had the option to purchase the new tower that came out a bit ago. But it feels like there is a cult around this game, justifying them putting high price tags on small things. Calling you stupid for even questioning price, pointing to the free things they have given us. I enjoyed this game and it is fun, and I highly appreciate the free updates, but there are so many micro transactions or a BIG amount of grind. I'd rather pay for content at a reasonable price than get free updates but seemingly random features get held until you pay more than they are worth, on top of the option to pay for just about anything in the game(New towers, more monkey money for heroes and more, random modifiers like money and speed, and even Monkey Knowledge). Not to mention, having to pay(or grind a lot) for the map editor and then having to pay even more for extra props. If then micro transactions can go down and become more fair, then I highly recommend this game. But as far as I see, it's only going to get worse. I'd recommend for new players to stay away unless they want to grind a lot or pay even more money.

Solid Tower Defense Game balancing is kinda wonky and its kinda hard to understand why some towers are better than others but not a big deal. Hero's are very strong and some are just over tuned but its fine because this game is best played casually in my opinion. I've done a few chimps maps and its just kinda annoying sometimes.

It is a fun game to play on all devices and is easy to play

Game is great and having a paid Dlc is completely fair for how much the base game offers for such a low price, plus with many free content updates. Btd6 is worth it.

60 conto numa DLC rushada que só reusa coisas que já existem no jogo.
Jogo base é incrível, mesmo que com bastante grind pra conseguir todos os heróis e MK, mas tenho medo do caminho que estão tomando, com o fast track e agora essa DLC meia boca.

BTD is just an amazing game the entire line in great and this one is the best its gameplay is superb and the soundtrack complements the gameplay so well. Honestly i recommend getting it while on sale as games like this's replayability is great. Get this game :)

its the in my opinion the second best tower defense i have played 1 place is tds but its still worth it if u like monke i recommend this game

Recently a roguelike DLC game-mode was released for purchase. Way too much $ for basically re-used assets and a rushed-for-bucks feeling of a "DLC".

Otherwise, good game to grab for sale and leave in the background while you do anything else.

I like this game a lot, just to be clear, just concerned at how NK is getting more greedy every update. A paid DLC doesn't sit right with me, especially when it doesn't work after I just bought it. The little monkey won't spawn so I can't even start the game, unfortunately. Real bummer. Feels like every game they release recently is pw2 and now paid DLC, this is sad.

UPDATE: DLC works fine now, just had to restart the game for some reason. Hoping it continues to work. Will say, some of the artifiacts need work. The one that speeds up all monkey's attack speed but also bloons in range is just trash, and it's rare so you can't upgrade it.

I only bought this game spontaneously when it was on a ridiculous discount. As of today, I paid approximately 1/4 of a cent per hour of playtime. It's ridiculously addictive, but in a relatively healthy way. Highly recommended for anyone who likes tower defense.

Rogue mode is the worst update I've ever played in this game.
If anyone can finish the whole trip of the rogue mode, they must be NK's loyal dogs.

I'm not liking the direction this game is taking. First, there was the double cash boost DLC, then a DLC that outright lets you skip part of the game, and now a rushed rogue-like DLC that mostly recycles assets from the base game. Modders have added better content for free. I can't recommend it right now unless NK stops with the EA-style microtransactions.

After the half baked dlc named Legends what's next to improve BTD6?

Instead of improving the base game, you made a new mode that uses 'unique temporary Monkey knowldge' Artifacts, as an excuse to ask for 11.99€ ? And one Legends run takes more than 3hours? Why?

You already sell fast track, that means you should understand playertime, and yet you sell the solution, Oh right we have Chimps, the hardest challange that makes every payed fefatures obsolete. Chimps the BTD6 shield.

Fast Track is a Premium Upgrade for Bloons TD 6 released on the Version 45.0. for 9.99€
Battle cat prestige pack for Bloons TD 6 released on the Version 46.0. for 8.99€
BTD6 Rogue Legends released on the Version 47.0. for 11.99€

Cant wait for Version 48.0 and the Battlepass update for 4.99€

It's been YEARS and they still refuse to do ANYTHING about the constant networking issues. Games will drop for no reason at all despite other multiplayer games with the same other players still working just fine. They refuse to refund any of the million microtransactions that they sell in the event of a disconnect or network error, but they sure do love coming out with more microtransactions.

If you have a really high level account that is really old and you wanna play on pc well forget it. they will ban you because your steam playtime dont match your high level and experience in game so the anti-cheat go nuts on u lmao

Got disconnected from multiplayer and got removed from the lobby by the other players before I could rejoin. And it was round 71 on hard. Also the multiplayer servers barely work.

It's very fun, is updated often, has events, and a TON of content. What's there not to like?

This game is so fun and silly and can be simple yet so complex. I am knee deep in the game and still see others do witchcraft yet it isn't limited by this innate complexity.

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☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

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☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☑ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☑ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☑ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☑ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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