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Place and upgrade monkey towers along tracks to pop incoming Bloons across maps, game modes, missions, and co-op.
Released 19 Nov 2014
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Five-star tower defense with unrivaled depth and replayability. The Bloons are back in full HD glory and this time they mean business! Build awesome towers, choose your favorite upgrades, hire new Special Agents, and pop every last invading Bloon in the most popular tower defense series in history.
Developed by Ninja Kiwi · Published by Ninja Kiwi
Bloons TD 5 is a tower-defense game in which you defend tracks from waves of Bloons by placing monkey towers beside their routes. Each tower attacks in a different way, so placement matters when trying to stop the Bloons before they reach the end.
Build and improve a defense using 21 tower types, each with two upgrade paths and activated abilities. Special Agents can join the defense, while Specialty Buildings and the Monkey Lab add further upgrades and abilities to develop.
Play across more than 90 tracks in different modes and difficulty settings, or take on Special Missions, Random Missions, Daily Challenges, Boss Bloon events, and online co-op. Beating tracks unlocks Freeplay, and continued play opens up additional upgrades and content.
Players in the supplied reviews often enjoy the straightforward tower-defense loop, finding satisfaction in choosing tower combinations and placements, upgrading defenses, and gradually unlocking more options. Many also praise the abundance of maps and challenges, the game's lasting replay appeal, and its nostalgic connection to the Flash-era games. Some reviews prefer its simpler approach to later entries, while others find it dated or repetitive; complaints also mention co-op friction and lost progress.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
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| Achievements | 135 |
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| Players | 1–2 |
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| Multiplayer | Bloons TD 5 supports single-player and online co-op multiplayer. Store metadata lists Online Co-op and Cross-Platform Multiplayer. Reviews consistently describe co-op as 2-player, with private matches and quick match/public matchmaking. Co-op uses separate co-op maps, and no competitive PvP mode is mentioned. |
| Multiplayer & mods | No mod support or multiplayer mod features are mentioned in the provided information. |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 18 listed on Steam |
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| Website | Official website |
