Chip Defense
Chip Defense is a free, open-source game for Android. A tower defense game with a microprocessor theme. It has 207 GitHub stars and is released under the MIT license, and you can install it from F-Droid.
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About Chip Defense
Chip Defense is a casual game for Android devices of the tower defense genre. It centres around a design of electric circuits and logical chips, evoking the good ol' days of 8 bit micro-processors. The attackers in this game are represented as bits and bytes. To defend the cpu against them, the player builds chips in designated slots. These "towers" deal damage by operations such as subtraction, right shift, bitwise and, etc. As usual in these games, the chips can be upgraded in strength. The game features "heroes of the information age": persons that had great influence on the development of modern computers.
Privacy and F-Droid
F-Droid builds Chip Defense from its published source code and flags anti-features such as ads, tracking or reliance on non-free services.
No anti-features flagged on the latest F-Droid build.
Screenshots
Screenshots from the app's F-Droid listing.
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What is Chip Defense?
Chip Defense is a free, open-source game for Android. A tower defense game with a microprocessor theme. It has 207 GitHub stars and is released under the MIT license, and you can install it from F-Droid.
Is Chip Defense free and open source?
Yes. Chip Defense's source code is public on GitHub under the MIT license, which is OSI-approved or FSF-free. F-Droid, which builds it from source, flags no anti-features such as ads or tracking on its latest build.
How do I install Chip Defense?
You can install Chip Defense from F-Droid (package de.chadenas.cpudefense); the links are on this page. Its GitHub repository also publishes releases (latest: v1.63).
Is Chip Defense still maintained?
The repository's most recent commit was on Sep 22, 2026. Its F-Droid listing was last updated on Sep 2, 2026. appsgit only lists apps whose repository had a commit in the last six months.