Bloons Tower Defense 5

Bloons Tower Defense 5 (sometimes referred to as Bloons TD5 due to a trademark issue with another company) is a tower defense game developed and published by Ninja Kiwi. It was first published on the Ninja Kiwi website, but has since been ported to mobile systems such as iOS and Android, and later consoles such as the Xbox One and PlayStation 4.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) You get to virtually pop millions of balloons.
 * 2) Three (four on mobile/steam) difficulty levels to chose from, and completing each on each map will give you Monkey Money, which is used to purchase permanent upgrades for your towers.
 * 3) Lots of types of Bloons to fight, and some of them have weaknesses, strengths, and immunities so just one type of tower isn't enough to allow survival. For example, Black Bloons are immune to explosions.
 * 4) Each Bloon other than the lowest tier of Red Bloon has another type of Bloon in it so they become more durable as you progress through the rounds.
 * 5) After reaching a certain round you'll encounter the "Massive Ornary Air Blimp" which is a giant blimp that must be destroyed before it reaches the end of the map. If it leaks out of the map you immediately lose. It drops loads of smaller Bloons upon being destroyed. Eventually you'll encounter the Brutal Flying Behemouth and then Zeppelin of Mighty Gargantuaness which are higher upgraded versions of the M.O.A.B.
 * 6) A whopping eighteen towers to choose from.
 * 7) *Dart Monkey shoots a single dart that pops a single bloon, and is a good, cheap tower suitable for early rounds and a little above.
 * 8) *Tack Shooter shoots eight tacks spread in all directions, each tack can pop one bloon. It has short range and a medium-slow fire rate.
 * 9) *Sniper Monkey is armed with a high-tech long range rifle, and pops two layers of bloons with unlimited range.
 * 10) *Boomerang Thrower throws a single boomerang in a single arc back round to the monkey. Each boomerang can pop three bloons.
 * 11) *Ninja Monkey is a stealthy tower that can see Camo Bloons and throw sharp shurikens rapidly.
 * 12) *Bomb Tower Shoots a single bomb that explodes in a radius burst on impact. It has good range and a medium-slow fire rate. The bombs can pop every type bloon other than black or zebra bloons which cannot be blown up by bombs.
 * 13) *Ice Tower freezes bloons in its burst radius for a short time. Frozen bloons are immune to sharp objects.
 * 14) *Glue Gunner shoots a glob of monkey glue at a single bloon. Glued bloons move more slowly than normal.
 * 15) *Monkey Buccaneers can only be placed in the water, but they are a decent choice if water is available as it shoots a single, heavy dart that can pop up to five bloons each.
 * 16) *Monkey Ace patrols the skies above the action, regularly strafing the area with powerful darts in eight directions.
 * 17) *Super Monkey is a very expensive tower to buy, but you get what you pay for as it throws darts incredibly fast, and also has long range and lots of insanely powerful upgrades.
 * 18) *Monkey Apprentice is trained in the arts of monkey magic so it shoots magical bolts of power that pop two bloons with a single shot, and can be upgraded to cast additional spells.
 * 19) *Monkey Village is a support tower as it does not attack directly (at least at first) but instead lowers the cost of all towers and upgrades in a select radius by ten percent. It has many useful upgrades that help nearby towers.
 * 20) *Banana Farms grow bananas that you can collect to turn into cash. When your farm produces some bananas, collect them by moving your mouse over them. Don't leave them too long however, or they will spoil!
 * 21) *Mortar Tower targets a specific bit of ground anywhere on the screen which can be selected by the player, and launches explosive mortar shells to that spot. Useful for placing far away from the track to make room for other towers who need to be placed near the tracks for an effect.
 * 22) *Dartling Gun shoots darts like a mini gun towards where you're pointing (either by using a mouse, tapping on the screen on touch screen capable devices, or a cursor on consoles), and it is super fast but not very accurate.
 * 23) *Spike Factory generates piles of road spikes on bits of nearby track. Each pile can pop five bloons, and unused spikes disappear at the end of each round. They are virtually required on the Impoppable Difficulty which only allows you one life ever and you can not ever get extra lives.
 * 24) *Monkey Sub is another water based tower that shoots homing darts. It can be upgraded to shoot at Bloons in the radius of any other tower. Can also upgrade to submerge and become a support tower.
 * 25) Towers can be upgraded in mid-session using cash. Each upgrade enhances the abilities of the tower and changes its appearance. Each tower has different upgrades which either give the tower a new ability or enhances one already present.
 * 26) Choose between two upgrade paths for your towers for upgrade levels three and four. The first path gives a passive ability at level four, the second path gives an ability that can be activated at any time but has a cooldown time at level four.
 * 27) As you earn experience earned by popping bloons you rank up. Ranking up unlocks stuff such as new towers, upgrades, maps, and modes.
 * 28) Using a tower to pop many bloons will unlock new upgrades for that tower.
 * 29) If you beat a map you can continue and attempt to complete additional rounds in freeplay mode.
 * 30) You can play co-op with other players.
 * 31) You can play the tracks in reverse.
 * 32) Apopalypse Mode is a mode where there is no pause between each round.
 * 33) A sandbox mode exists that allows you to try out tower compositions before you invest time in using them to beat the modes.
 * 34) Impoppable difficulty only allows you one life ever and you can not ever get extra lives, while most bloons are buffed in terms of speed and health.
 * 35) Various special missions are available to pit the player against various scenarios, ranging from protecting a Monkey Town to completing a game on medium with all bloons being camo.
 * 36) The mobile/steam version is one of the few games that did microtransactions correctly, giving the player all the content without additional payment.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Very few people plays co-op since everybody moved to Bloons TD Battles or Bloons Tower Defense 6 and due to Flash being slowly discontinued. Nowadays, you're probably going to only be able to play co-op if you have a friend to do it for you.
 * 2) New daily challenges for the Flash version has been discontinued as of June 30, 2018 in favor of Bloons Tower Defense 6, and some of the later (late 2016-2018) challenges may require glitches such as the Hypersonic Juggernaut to complete.
 * 3) The later mobile maps are somewhat badly designed, mostly suffering problems with map masking (allowing towers to be placed in nonsensical areas and road items glowing red when trying to be placed).
 * 4) While the console ports are good and all, the Switch port does not have an option to use the touch screen, which could have made the game more comfortable to play in hand-held mode.