Hive Defense

Hive Defense is a cartoon tower defence set inside a giant beehive. Winding wax tunnels run from a hole in the outer comb all the way down to the queen's chamber, and everything that wants her honey has to walk past whatever you have built on the way.

Five towers, three levels each. Guard bees fire quick stinger darts at one target. Honey cannons lob sticky splash that slows a whole clump. Pollen puffers throw a pollen arc that jumps between up to five foes. Royal trumpets do not shoot at all - they speed up and extend every tower around them. And wax walls go straight into the tunnel: they plug a cell for a while, so the swarm either chews through or takes the long way round one of the comb junctions. Once per wave you can also call the Queen's Swarm, a cloud of bees that sweeps the whole tunnel.

Worker wasps come first, then dust moths and dart wasps that fly over your walls, armoured comb beetles, nurse wasps that heal the pack, and a bear's paw that reaches in every fifth wave and stuns the towers it swipes. Wave twenty brings the Hornet King. Nectar comes from kills and from clearing a wave, flowers bloom on the comb for a bonus when you tap them, and calling a wave early pays extra. Three hives - Meadow, Orchard and Old Oak - twenty waves each, three stars for a flawless hold, and an endless run once the queen is safe.