Townhold

Ashen Ridge, the eighth wave: they gather on the road, then come for the gate.Played and rendered by the game itself

REAL SCREENSHOTS

Have a look around.

See what holds: your gate, your towers and the people behind them.

Raiders at a stone gatehouse, the town's spearmen and towers holding it — **Hold the gate.** Towers and spears at the wall while the raiders come up the road.

The town from above: houses, farms, a smith and the town centre, with the build tray open — **Grow the village.** Fields, woods and gold, and a job for everyone.

A wall being drawn across open ground, its cost shown — **Draw the walls.** Drag a line, see the cost, lay it square by square.

Blue squad banners on the road out of town, a red raider banner beyond — **Move the banners.** Drag a squad to a road, or onto a red banner to attack.

The smith's card, researching better spears — **Bronze, Iron, Steel.** Better soldiers from the smith, for gold.

The home screen: the valleys of Act I and Maren's brief — **Six valleys to hold.** Each with its own roads, rivers and raiders.

HOW IT PLAYS

A town first.
Then a fortress.

Between waves you build. When the horn goes, everything you built has to hold.

Grow the village.

Houses, farms, a smith. Send villagers to food, wood or gold, and drag them between jobs as the town needs.

Wall the roads.

Draw walls with a finger, gates where the roads go through, and towers behind them. Turn palisade to stone when there is gold for it.

Plant the banners.

Every squad marches under a banner. Drag it where you need them, onto another to join them, onto a red one to attack.

THE LITTLE DETAILS

Good to know.

Raiders who think

They gather on the road before they charge, look for the cheapest way through your walls, and steer clear of your towers when they can.

Rams, catapults, siege towers

Catapults outrange your towers, rams go for the gate, and siege towers carry raiders over the first wall. Each valley teaches one new answer.

An army that needs feeding

Spearmen, archers, horsemen and guardians, made Bronze, Iron and Steel at the smith. Every soldier eats, so the farms matter as much as the barracks.

A story, told by Maren

The reeve of Greenhollow, who has kept the village forty years. What she says at the end of a valley depends on how you held it.

Free to start

Act I, the Greenlands, is free: six valleys and the Warlord at the end of them. The rest of the campaign is one purchase. No ads, no subscription.

Made for touch

Build, draw walls and move banners with a finger. Pause any time; your match is saved if you leave.

A FEW LITTLE ANSWERS

Curious already?

When is it out?

Soon. Townhold is in playtesting now, being tuned wave by wave. The download link will appear on this page the day it is out, and our game updates will say so too.

Is it free?

Free to start: Act I, six valleys, is free to play through. One purchase unlocks the rest of the campaign. No ads and no subscription.

Is it like an RTS?

A little. You run a village and move squads, but there is one town to keep and the waves come to you. A match takes about fifteen minutes, and you can pause whenever you like.

Which devices?

iPhone and iPad, played in landscape. In English to begin with.

COMING SOON