
- 79/100
- Players11 ratings
- 81/100
- Metacritic11 critic reviews
More scores
- Metacritic usersuser score
- 67/100
- GameFAQsTough
- 3.31/5
- Player reviews
- 80% positive188 reviews
- Steam Deck
- Verified
- Runs on
- Windows, Mac
- Price
- US$4.99
Where to get it

2008 · Subatomic Studios · Indie · Strategy
Fieldrunners
Descend into the world of Fieldrunners, the most anticipated and visually stunning game in tower defense history! Defend and control the field using a diverse selection of upgradeable towers in a limitless adventure, using a wide array of tactics and strategies against countless waves of unique land and air combatants! Hours of entertainment and replayable challenges! Do you have what it takes to dominate the Fieldrunners and rise to the top as the ultimate Tower Defense master? Find out now!
- Released
- 5 October 2008
- Platforms
- AndroidBrowserLegacy Mobile DeviceLinuxNintendo DSPlayStation 3PlayStation PortableWindowsiOSmacOS
- Genres
- IndieStrategyTower defense
- Developers
- Subatomic Studios
- Publishers
- Hands-On Mobile
- Modes
- Single-player
- Perspective
- Bird view / Isometric
- Themes
- ActionKidsWarfare
- Country
- United States
- Age ratings
- PEGI 12GRAC 12+ESRB E10+
- Languages
- English
- Time to beat
- 7hmain story165hcompletionist
About
Fieldrunners is a tower defense video game developed for several platforms. Originally released on 1 October 2008 as an exclusive iOS title, the game was later ported to Nintendo DSi, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 3, and mobile phones. It was released on the Android platform in July 2011, on the Amazon Appstore and Android Market, then on 25 October, where it was ported to HTML5 by Gradient Studios and Bocoup and released on the Chrome Web Store with the first level, Grasslands, playable for free. It is the first release of developer Subatomic Studios.
Players say
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Gameplay
Unlike in other tower defense games, turrets can be placed anywhere and the enemies will go around them, forcing them to walk along any path the player makes. It is not possible to block the path however. Fieldrunners offers three types of gameplay: Classic, Extended and Endless. Playing in Classic and Extended modes limits the number of rounds in which the player must defend to 100.
Classic only lets players build the original four towers, Gatling, Goo, Missile, and Tesla (except Skyway which substitutes Laser for Tesla and Frostbite which substitutes Ice for Goo). Extended mode adds the two new towers, Flame Tower and Mortar Tower (except Skyway which adds Tesla instead of Mortar). In Endless mode, the player may defend indefinitely. In any mode, the player may play in Easy, Medium, or Hard mode.
Reception
Fieldrunners has received generally positive reviews, with the PSP version scoring 81% at the review aggregate website Metacritic. IGN gave the game an eight out of ten rating, and highly recommended it. Select Star Media was highly critical of the PC port, but expressed enjoyment of the mobile releases.
Of the iPhone version, Stuart Dredge of Pocket Gamer noted its "clever controls and cartoony visuals", calling it "the best Tower Defense game on iPhone so far".
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