Pixel Tower Defense: A beginner's guide

Pixel Tower Defense is a Roblox experience with Minecraft-inspired aesthetics, featuring tower defense-style gameplay. In this game, you must collect units and use them in battle to keep dozens of enemy waves at bay. Featuring multiple game modes, various summonable units, and numerous methods of enhancing them, this title is all about strategic usage of your resources in combat.

Here’s what you need to know about Pixel Tower Defense to get started with the game.

Getting started in Pixel Tower Defense

Overview

Official cover art for the game (Image via Roblox)

The core gameplay loop of Pixel Tower Defense requires you to place units next to the path that enemies take in an effort to stop them. You’re responsible for managing your unit placements, upgrades, Cash allocation, and most importantly, defending your home base.

The home base has a health pool, which must be protected at all costs. If reduced to zero, the game ends and you lose the match, sending you back to the lobby.

At the start of a match, you will be given a fixed amount of Cash to start placing one or two of your cheapest units. As the match progresses, and you take down enemy waves, you will earn more money to use on expensive and supremely powerful units. Simultaneously, you can use the monetary resources to upgrade your units and make them even better at their task.

While simple enough in concept, you must pay close attention to your units and how they perform against enemy mobs. If any enemy manages to pierce through your defenses, they will reach the home base and deal damage to it. The damage they deal directly depends on the type of enemy; basic enemies deal very little damage, while bosses take off dozens of points at a time.

Watch over your units in combat and prevent this from happening by placing them strategically across the field. Clear stages in different game modes to earn Coins, Gems, and other useful rewards.

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Controls

Being a tower defense experience, this game does not feature special keybindings. It utilizes the universal Roblox control scheme, which is listed below:

Movement: W, S, A, D
Jump: Spacebar
Interact: E / Left Mouse Button

Gameplay mechanics

All difficulty options (Image via Roblox)

Level Structure: The game features six numbered stages at the end of the lobby, each of which features multiple difficulty options. Each stage can be accessed by clearing the one preceding it, giving you a clear path of progression. Furthermore, each stage ramps up the difficulty when compared to its predecessor, requiring you to evolve your units.
Difficulty: When a match starts, you can choose from multiple difficulty options based on your preference. The easiest difficulty gives you the lowest number of rewards and does not present much of a challenge. In contrast, the hardest difficulty is also the most rewarding while giving your units a run for their money. We recommend starting at Easy if you’re new to this style of game and working your way up to Medium, Hard, and then Nightmare.
Expanding Unit Selection: There are two main ways of obtaining more units: summoning and Crafting. Summoning requires you to spend Coins, which can be earned through stage completion and login bonuses. Doing so rewards you with a random unit from a pool of featured towers. Crafting, on the other hand, lets you spend Gems to make the specified unit. There is no RNG involved in this, and you can obtain the chosen unit instantly, so long as you have the required amount of Gems.
Unit Upgrades: There are multiple ways of dealing with difficulty, which includes upgrading your units with Enchants. Enchants are special items that give your units a random buff, making them more effective in battle. These require you to spend Gems, and the amount required to assign an Enchant depends on the unit rarity.
Premium Features: You can purchase various boosts, in-game items, and currencies at the in-game Store. The Store is exclusively premium, which means you can’t spend in-game currencies at the shop. Its stock can be quite useful for endgame options, giving you easy access to late-game units through Gems or helpful combat bonuses.
AFK World: The AFK World lets you earn resources passively. Located next to the spawn point, you will passively earn Coins for spending time in this area. Once you teleport to this area, you can simply walk away for some extra freebies over the next few hours.