# Chip Defense (open-source game)

> 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.

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.

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/ochadenas/cpudefense |
| Platforms | Android |
| Built with | Kotlin |
| GitHub stars | 207 |
| License | MIT (open source) |
| F-Droid | https://f-droid.org/packages/de.chadenas.cpudefense/ (package de.chadenas.cpudefense) |
| F-Droid anti-features | none flagged |
| Google Play | not linked |
| App Store | not linked |
| Website | none listed |
| Official | no |
| Category | Games |
| Latest release | v1.63 (Aug 30, 2026) |
| Last commit | Sep 22, 2026 |

F-Droid builds its apps from source and flags anti-features: https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Anti-Features/

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