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Build and upgrade tower mazes, redirect monster waves across fantasy maps, and adapt your defense with limited resources.
Released 22 Jul 2024
Build Tower Mazes
Reroute Monster Waves
Rewind Earlier Waves
Artisan TD is a puzzle-oriented Tower Defense game where you must survive by building mazes.
Developed by 4rtisans · Published by Unexpected






As a member of the Artisan’s Guild, you defend against monsters and confront the Titans across a fantasy campaign. Each map gives you a battlefield to shape before enemy waves reach your portal.
Place walls and towers to influence the route ground enemies take, then choose defenses to handle different threats. You can upgrade towers and adjust your layout between waves; flying enemies can bypass the paths you build.
Manage limited resources as you build, with some maps offering economic structures such as farms. Maps can add their own rules, and you unlock more towers as you progress. You can also return to earlier waves to revise your decisions.
Players who enjoy Artisan TD often praise its maze-building puzzle, the challenge of planning tower placement, and the option to retry from earlier waves rather than replaying a whole map. Some also appreciate the visuals and tower choices. Criticism most often focuses on higher difficulties feeling restrictive, with trial and error needed to find effective layouts; others find the maps repetitive or want more room for experimentation and replay.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 41 |
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| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| Demo | View demo on Steam |