Canvas Tower Defense Unblocked

Canvas Tower Defense is about scaling. The first waves of red squares crawling along the blue road go down to a couple of cheap turrets, but creep health keeps rising forever, and the question becomes whether your economy can keep pace. Four turret types, three maps and ten upgrade levels per stat give you plenty to tune. It started life as Teddy Cross’s open-source Canvas TD, and here it plays unblocked with its crisp retro neon look intact.

The Loop of Build, Upgrade, Survive

Choose a map first. Loopy coils inward toward the center, Backtrack folds back on itself, and Dash runs straight across. Your wallet opens at $35, and you can afford to leak ten creeps.

Waves of ten creeps arrive on a timer. The red square in the bottom corner slowly dims while the next group gets ready, and clicking it calls the wave early. A kill on wave 12 earns $12, a kill on wave 30 earns $30, so late kills are worth much more than early ones.

Turrets go anywhere on the black ground that is not path and not overlapping another turret. Every turret has three stats, Damage, Rate and Range, each upgradable to level 10. Upgrade prices climb from $25 to $1,000 per step. You can also move a turret for $90 or sell it for 70 percent of its value.

Every leak through to the far end of the path burns one life. Lose all ten and the run ends with your score, which goes on that map’s top-five board if it is good enough.

Canvas Tower Defense controls

To do this	Keyboard	Mouse	Touch
Pick a Laser, Missile, Tazer or Mortar to build	1, 2, 3 or 4, then click the map	Click a turret in the bottom bar, then click an empty spot	Tap a turret, then tap an empty spot
Choose a turret on the map	—	Click it	Tap it
Raise the chosen turret's damage, rate or range	1, 2 or 3	Click Damage, Rate or Range in the bottom bar	Tap the same buttons
Relocate the chosen turret ($90)	4	Click Move, then click a new spot	—
Sell the chosen turret	Shift + 8 (the * key)	Click Sell	—
Call the next wave early	Enter	Click the red square at the bottom right	—
Speed the game up or back down	=	Click the blue square under the red one	—
Cancel, deselect or pause	Esc	Click Pause	—

A Plan for Your First Good Run

Opening, waves 1 to 5. Buy two lasers right away. At $15 each, nothing else lets you afford two guns that early, and they shred early creeps. Put them on a bend so each covers more road.

Middle game. Add a tazer near your lasers. Its zap slows down the quickest creep nearby, keeping targets in your kill zone longer. Then start pushing one turret’s damage hard rather than spreading cash thin. A single heavily upgraded turret usually outperforms three weak ones.

Late game. Bring in mortars and missiles for splash, and aim for maxed bonuses. A fully upgraded mortar that sets creeps on fire is a big jump in power. Use fast forward during easy stretches, and call waves early when your defense is comfortable, since extra kills and cash both feed your score.

Mistakes to avoid. Selling to fix a bad placement costs you twice, once in lost value and again in score. Turtling with unspent cash is just as bad, because spending is half the score formula.

Who It Suits

Players who enjoy squeezing a few more waves out of the same map will get the most from this. It rewards experiments and tracking your top five. For a tower defense with a story-like finish line, try Elematter and its twenty set waves. More builders and planners are waiting in strategy games.