Hot Gates app icon: a red Spartan shield with a gold lambda

Hot Gates: Spartan Tower Defense

Xerxes is coming. Hold the line. Lead the Spartans at Thermopylae, the Athenian fleet at Salamis and the allied army at Plataea. Place your hoplites, archers and siege engines along the path. Stop every Persian wave before it reaches the Gate.

Free game for Android 7.0 and later.

Xerxes is coming. Hold the line.

Hot Gates is a tower defense game set in the Greco-Persian Wars. Build towers along the road, upgrade them between waves and keep the Persian army away from the Gate. Play alone, team up with a bot or a friend in Allies, or fight another player in Troy.

Four towers, three tiers each

Tap a free spot next to the road to build. Tap a tower to upgrade it or sell it.

Phalanx

A wall of Spartan shields. It holds the enemy on the road.

Archers

Fast Cretan bowmen. They pick off the weak enemies.

Oxybeles

A bolt-thrower. Its bolt goes through armour and hits the units behind.

Pitch cauldron

Burning pitch. It slows and burns everything in reach.

Hot Gates build menu with the Phalanx, Archers, Oxybeles and Pitch cauldron towers

Six historic chapters, thirty maps

Each chapter has five hand-made maps. Each chapter brings a new enemy or a new tower. Fight on land in narrow passes and open plains. Fight at sea, where Persian triremes row through the straits.

Marathon, 490 BC

Darius sends his fleet to the bay of Marathon. Hold the road to Athens.

Thermopylae, 480 BC

Xerxes marches on Greece. Leonidas holds the narrow pass with 300 Spartans.

Artemisium, 480 BC

The Greek fleet blocks the strait. Protect the flank of Thermopylae.

Salamis, 480 BC

Athens burns. Themistocles pulls the Persian fleet into the straits of Salamis.

Plataea, 479 BC

Mardonius stays in Greece with a large army. Meet him on the plain of Plataea.

Mycale, 479 BC

The Persian fleet is on the beach at Mycale. The Greeks land and attack.

Fight at sea

Artemisium and Salamis are sea chapters. The Persian fleet rows through the straits toward your Gate.

Ships, not soldiers

Stop penteconters, triremes and the Phoenician flagship before they reach the Gate.

Build on the shore and on islets

Towers stand on land only. Pick the sand and the small islands next to the sea lanes.

Clear the reefs

Pay drachma to clear a reef and get more space to build.

Sea map at Artemisium: Persian triremes row along a winding sea lane past towers on the shore and islets, one ship is a wreck

Allies: play together

Allies is a co-op mode for two players on one board. Each of you holds one gate on your own half. A temple stands in the middle, and you both defend it. Three roads cross the board: one to each gate and one to the temple.

Play with a bot

No friend nearby? A bot holds the other gate on your phone. It builds its own towers and throws a Fire pot when enemies crowd your gate or the temple. It plays offline too.

Play online with a friend

Host a game and get a 4-letter code. Your friend types the code and joins. The game runs through a SystemFreaks server over an encrypted connection. No account needed.

Pick the right counter

Every enemy is light, shield or heavy. Every tower beats some of these classes, like rock, paper, scissors. The build menu marks the tower that is strong against the enemies on the board.

Three Allies maps

The twin gates, The two passes and The long walls. Allies opens when you have 5 stars in chapter 1.

Allies map The twin gates: two gates with the temple between them, the MP bar at the top and the Reinforce, Fire pot, Rally and Repair buttons at the bottom

Fill your MP bar. Help your ally.

Your MP bar fills during the battle. You get extra MP for kills on the temple road, for an early call of the next wave and for a perfect wave, when no enemy gets past on your road. Spend MP on four support actions. Cast them anywhere on the board, also on the half of your ally.

Reinforce: 4 MP

Put a Phalanx on the road for 10 seconds. It holds the enemy where you need it.

Fire pot: 3 MP

Throw a pot of burning pitch. It slows and burns the enemies it hits.

Rally: 5 MP

The towers near the spot fire 50% faster for 6 seconds.

Repair: 6 MP

Tap a gate or the temple. It gets one hoplite back.

Troy: fight another player

Troy is a battle between two players, set in the Trojan War. You hold the Achaean camp, and the other player holds Troy. A river runs between you. Build towers to defend your gate, and spend MP to send your soldiers over the river to the other gate. The first gate to fall loses. Troy opens when you have 5 stars in chapter 1.

Send your army

Send runners, shield bearers, chariots and, from wave 8, Hector or the Trojan Horse. Cheap soldiers also bring you more drachma at every wave.

Quick match

Tap Quick match, and the game finds another player who is waiting. You can also host a game and send a 4-letter code to a friend.

Play against a bot

Practise offline against a bot. It builds its own towers and sends its own soldiers.

Sudden death

After wave 10, every wave gets stronger. At wave 20, the side with more hoplites wins.

Troy map The plain of Troy: the Achaean camp on the left, the Scaean gate of Troy on the right, the river between them, towers on both sides and chariots on the roads

Endless mode

After the campaign, the war never ends. Every endless level builds a new map with longer paths, more spawn points and stronger waves. The game saves your best level. How far can you hold?

Upgraded towers and a burning Pitch cauldron stop the Persian column on the road to the Gate at Plataea

Grow your army between battles

Earn drachma on every map. Spend it on permanent upgrades.

Permanent upgrades

Get a bigger war chest, more hoplites at the Gate, longer range, a cheaper Phalanx and better spoils.

Daily reward

Come back every day. The reward grows for seven days in a row.

Stars

Earn up to three stars on every map. Stars open the next chapter.

Hot Gates upgrades screen with War chest, Reserve hoplites, High ground and more

No ads. No purchases. No account.

Hot Gates is made for your phone. You pay nothing and you share nothing.

Works offline

Play the campaign, the endless mode, and Allies and Troy with a bot anywhere. Only the online games need an internet connection.

No ads

No banners and no videos. Nothing stops your game.

No purchases

No in-app purchases. You earn every upgrade in battle.

No account

No sign-in. The game keeps your progress on your phone only.

Screenshots

Persian infantry and cavalry march on the dirt road toward the Greek Gate past Archers and Oxybeles towers The build menu opens on a free spot next to the road Persian triremes row along the winding sea lane at Artemisium while towers on the shore and islets fire at them Upgraded towers and a burning Pitch cauldron hold the road at Plataea as the Persian column comes close to the Gate A selected Oxybeles tower shows its range and the Upgrade and Sell buttons The straits of Salamis: Persian triremes row along two long lanes toward the Gate on the left, one ship is on fire On the Allies map The twin gates, the build menu marks Archers and Pitch cauldron as counters, above the four support buttons In Troy, Trojan and Argive chariots cross the plain toward the two gates while towers fire on both sides of the river Campaign screen with the chapters Marathon, Thermopylae, Artemisium and Salamis Upgrades screen with eight permanent upgrades to buy with drachma

Frequently asked questions

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