Snake Defense: Castle Rush
Eat Enemies, Build Towers
Free · In‑App Purchases
Now built for iPad: a full-screen board in landscape, a castle-shaped control sidebar and keyboard shortcuts. Raise towers, flood moats and let your snake do the rest.
Snake Defense is a snake game crossed with tower defense. Your snake guards a castle at the center of a 21x21 grid, and waves of enemies march in from every edge. Eat them before they reach the walls -- and build real defenses while you do it.
TOWERS AND MOATS
This is what makes it more than a snake clone. Spend the coins you earn mid-run to raise turrets on the castle's four corners, and to flood moats that slow attackers and soak damage. Upgrade tower range, tower damage, moat HP and moat slow between runs. Your snake is not the only thing standing in the way.
DEFEND THE CASTLE
Collide with an enemy to destroy it and grow one segment longer. The longer you get, the more board you cover -- and the easier it is to run into yourself. Run into your own tail and the run is over.
FOUR ENEMY TYPES
- Grunts: fast and numerous, the backbone of every wave
- Brutes: slow, two hits to kill, double damage to your castle
- Wraiths: quick and awkward to intercept
- Healers: mend nearby allies, so take them out first
BOSS WAVES AND MODIFIERS
Every 5th wave sends a boss with heavy HP. Other waves roll modifiers: Fast (enemies move 40% quicker), Armored (+1 HP each), and Swarm (double the enemies, all grunts). Every 10th wave is a bonus coin round.
COMBOS
Chain kills quickly for Double Kill, Triple Kill, Mega Kill, Ultra Kill and Rampage, each paying out bonus coins with a screen shake to match.
POWER-UPS
- Shield: survive one collision with yourself
- Coin Magnet: pulls nearby coins in automatically
- Castle HP upgrades: raise your castle's maximum health
- Coin and life pickups spawn across the board mid-run
SKINS
Unlock six snake skins (Green, Red, Blue, Yellow, Pink and White) and four castle skins (Gray, Tan, Cyan and Purple) with coins earned in battle. All cosmetic -- none of them change the odds.
DAILY CHALLENGES
Three new objectives every day, from reaching a target wave to collecting coins to killing specific enemy types. Clear all three for a bonus.
GAME CENTER
Global leaderboards for Highest Wave, Most Kills, Longest Snake and Daily Challenge score, plus achievements as you improve.
ALSO INCLUDED
- Swipe or tap-to-turn controls, plus full keyboard and game controller support
- Plays offline, no connection needed
- iCloud sync across your devices
- Piggy Bank that earns interest on your coins
- Live Activity showing castle HP while you play
- Home Screen widget with lifetime stats
- Haptic feedback, with a toggle
- Lifetime stats including a breakdown of how each run ended
- Share cards and screen recording to challenge friends
Ratings & Reviews
Your snake is no longer the only thing defending the castle.
New
- Built for iPad. In landscape the board fills the screen and your defenses move to a sidebar laid out like the castle itself. Rotate freely, play in Split View or Stage Manager, and use a keyboard with shortcuts for every tower, moat and item.
- Towers and moats are front and center. Raise turrets on the castle's four corners and flood moats that slow attackers and absorb damage, all with coins earned mid-run.
Improved
- Cleaner board during play. The enemy key no longer crowds the bottom of the screen, so the grid and your defenses get the room they deserve.
Fixed
- Corrected the store listing, which described a few things the game does not actually do. What you read is now what you get.
Thanks for defending the castle.
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Information
- Seller
- IndieCraft LLC
- Size
- 3.4 MB
- Category
- Action
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later. - Apple TV
Requires tvOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 10 more
- English, Arabic, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Age Rating
9+
- 9+
- Infrequent
Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Medium Tip $2.99
- Remove Ads $2.99
- Small Tip $0.99
- Break Open Piggy Bank $0.99
- Large Tip $4.99
- Defender's Pack $4.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 IndieCraft

