If you like the anxiety of holding the line as hordes creep up on you, then today is your lucky day. For the second game giveaway of 2026, the Epic Games Store has picked one of its most popular tower defense games, but you have to act quickly if you want to keep it.
This week's giveaway is the chaotic yet adorable universe of Bloons TD 6. You can claim the game to keep forever so long as you get it before 16:00 GMT on Thursday, January 15th.
The Peak of Tower Defense
Maybe it's the nostalgia speaking from my long-gone days of playing Biscuit Brigade on the earlier versions of the Neopets website, but tower defense games like Bloons TD 6 always warm my heart.
Bloons TD 6 adds an original spin on the genre by having monkeys as your primary means of defense, fighting against evil balloons. It's all a little nonsensical, but it works just fine with the chaotic gameplay that the series is famous for.
What sets Bloons TD 6 apart from most tower defense games is the variability in levels. Some of them will be fairly standard static setups, but others will have...
