Iron Gauntlet
Build the maze. Hold the line.
A maze-building tower defense game for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Raiders always take the shortest road, so line the wasteland with guns and make them walk the long way.
Free to start, with no ads and no timers.
- 60 missions
- 6 theaters
- 7 armored defenses
- Goliath walkers
- Infinite mode
- Daily seed
- 29 achievements
- iCloud sync
- Game controllers
- 120 Hz ProMotion
- Plays offline
There are no walls.
Your guns are the maze.
Raiders path-find across open ground, and every gun you place reshapes their route. Cheap Gun Nests become the walls.
- Build. Place a gun and the route bends around it instantly.
- Bend. You can’t seal the road, only lengthen it.
- Bounty. Every tile you add pays out when the wave clears.
Every barrel turns. Every shot lands.
Turrets recoil, howitzer shells arc, Tesla Rigs fork lightning and the Sunspear’s twin laser cuts any armor.
Play a mission right here.
No download needed. Chapter 1’s Two Fronts, rebuilt for the browser with the game’s own sprites and rules.
- 123 pick a defense
- Space send wave
- U upgrade
- S sell
- F speed
- M sound
Seven armored defenses.
Three ranks each.
Raiders, scrap machines and robots.
60 missions. Six theaters of war.
Rivers, lava, cliffs and crystal fields bend every map, and airboats and gyrocopters ignore your maze.
Endless waves.
Shareable battlefields.
Infinite mode generates every battlefield from an eight-character seed, so you can send one to a friend and compare runs.
- New daily seed, same map for everyone
- Infinite and daily leaderboards in Game Center
- Challenge modifiers for veterans
29 achievements worth earning.
Every one of them is tracked in Game Center.
Features
iCloud sync
Start a campaign on iPhone, finish it on Mac.
Controller support
Plug in a gamepad and command from the couch.
120 Hz battles
Silky on ProMotion iPhone and iPad Pro displays.
No ads, ever
No timers, no energy, no pay-to-win.
Plays offline
Hold the line on a plane, a train or the far side of nowhere.
Original soundtrack
Seventeen battle and menu tracks forged for the wasteland.
Turn it up.
Two tracks from the original soundtrack.
Hold the line
The first chapter is free. One purchase adds the full campaign and Infinite mode on every device you own.
Requires iOS 26, iPadOS 26 or macOS 26.