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A faithful remake of the WC3 / Dota classic

Gem Maze TD

The legendary Gem TD from Warcraft III and Dota, rebuilt from scratch — natively for iPhone & iPad. No ports, no ads-with-a-game-attached. The real thing.

Free beta · iPhone & iPad · iOS 17+

The rule that makes the game Your towers ARE the maze
Sapphire, turning to wall
Topaz, turning to wall
Ruby — the kept gem
Emerald, turning to wall
Amethyst, turning to wall

Each round, place 5 random gems — then keep only one. The rest turn to stone and become the walls of your labyrinth. Bad luck isn't wasted; it's bricks. Carve the longest, cruelest road you can, then hold it for 50 waves.

A wave of creeps winding through a gem maze under fire
Wave 1 breaks against the beach board
The Codex listing the 8 base gems and their abilities
The in-game Codex — every gem, tower & creep
A crafted tower's detail card with stats and abilities
A crafted Red Coral wearing five MVP crowns
20lives — spend them wisely 50waves 71towers & traps 67creeps 8base gems 0ads, forever

Craft the classics

Combine exact gem sets into 71 elite towers & traps — auras, chain lightning, poison, slows — plus the Pedal tree: walkable pressure plates that root, stun and panic whatever steps on them. True to the original recipes.

50 waves of trouble

Flyers that ignore your walls, invisible stalkers, evasive tricksters, self-healing tanks — and bosses that walk alone. Leak one and it costs you dearly.

FlyingMagic-ImmuneEvasion👑 BOSS

Eight gems, real decisions

Diamond hits like a truck but can't touch flyers. Opal sees the unseeable. Aquamarine slows the stampede. Every keep matters.

Fully native 3D

Swift + SceneKit, built for Apple hardware. No web wrapper, no Unity bloat — launches instantly, runs cool. Single-player, offline-friendly, no energy timers.

Waves 1 – 50 The bestiary
Browse the full Codex — every gem, tower & creep, live from the game's code →
Wave 50, if you get there Why this game exists

Gem TD is one of the most beloved custom maps ever made — born in Warcraft III, kept alive for nearly two decades in the Dota 2 Arcade. But it never had a real home on mobile.

This is that home: the place-five-keep-one heartbeat, the authentic crafting recipes, the Dota-style aura stacking and deferred damage — rebuilt piece by piece and tuned by hand, not ported. If you've ever kept a terrible gem just because the wall was in the perfect spot, this was made for you.

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