Nordhold is a tower defense game for strategy enthusiasts who crave high replayability through endless combinations. Build and manage a cozy medieval Nordic village while enjoying deep tactical gameplay that doesn't require extensive learning.
Grow Your Economy
With over 20 buildings offering diverse strategic development options through unique upgrades and meta-progression, find the balance between economic growth and defending Nordhold.
Build Towers
8 towers with unique abilities offer numerous customization options. Fine-tune your tactics to protect Nordhold effectively.
Tailored Upgrades
100+ custom upgrades offer versatile customization options, providing strategic depth and countless combinations.
Heroes, Relics, Spells & more
Which general should defend Nordhold? Choose from hundreds of hero combinations! Relics grant you bonuses across the board, whether for your economy or defense. The oracle always gives you a different choice, for example: 5 waves of stronger enemies, which also offer higher rewards, or 5 waves of cheaper tower construction?
Master Escalation
The snowball effect becomes reality. Smart decisions create synergies that let you conquer ever-stronger waves of enemies and bosses in a firework of effects.
Leaderboards
Compete globally or with friends in our ranking system. Can you reach the Valhalla rank?
Hotfixes
- Fixed an issue that could cause crashes on Wave 50 starting from Ascension 12
- Fixed crashes related to specific device settings when placing towers
- Resolved connectivity issues with Steam in certain network configurations that prevented proper game launch
Adjustments
- Outposts now store their individual construction costs and calculate demolish costs based on those, rather than using a global value
- Ascension 17 effect now also applies to Specializations
- Orc Caller (Enemy, starts spawning on Wave 12) Nerf:
- Movement Speed: 2.3 2.0
- Health: 2300 2250
- Elite Health Increase: +170% +150% - Signs of Death (Lvl 3 Spell of Shadow Rain) Nerf: 6 5 Projectiles
- Fatal Weakness (Lvl 3 Spell of Shadow Rain) Buff: 8 10 Projectiles
- Golden Fertility (Mill Production Upgrade) Buff: Reduced Costs from 5/20/55 5/15/40
Improvements
- Performance optimization
- No more oversized green healing symbols on higher Ascensions
- UI refresh improved in some areas (e.g. certain events not updating counters/resource values correctly)
- Rank percentage display corrected in the overview
- Texts revised for clarity in multiple places
- Smoother camera movement
- Improved visuals of tower models on lower graphic settings
- Several hint texts corrected
Minimum Setup
- Processor: 3.5 GHzMemory: 4 GB RAM
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: 2 GB
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