
Jump into the shoes of an interplanetary defender! Grab weapons, build towers, expand ground economics and protect planets from space invasions in this unique mix of twin-stick shooter, tower defense and city builder game.
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Jump into the shoes of an interplanetary defender! Grab weapons, build towers, expand ground economics and protect planets from space invasions in this unique mix of twin-stick shooter, tower defense and city builder game.

The Ember Guardian
Defend the embers of hope in this roguelike strategy game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Recruit and command workers to gather resources, build your camp and set up your defenses during the day. When night falls, fend off waves of deadly creatures with powerful, upgradable weapons.

Queen's Revenge
Queen’s Revenge is a fast-paced tower defense game where you play as a fallen queen, betrayed and cast into darkness. Build defenses by day, fight relentless foes at night, and reclaim your throne. Every action counts—plan, battle, survive!
Defend the embers of hope in this roguelike strategy game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Recruit and command workers to gather resources, build your camp and set up your defenses during the day. When night falls, fend off waves of deadly creatures with powerful, upgradable weapons.
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 23%, Tower Defense 20%, City Builder 16.2%, Building 11.8%, Base Building 11.2%
Queen’s Revenge is a fast-paced tower defense game where you play as a fallen queen, betrayed and cast into darkness. Build defenses by day, fight relentless foes at night, and reclaim your throne. Every action counts—plan, battle, survive!
Why similar: Tower Defense 29.2%, Building 14%, City Builder 12.5%, Base Building 12.4%, Strategy 10.5%
About:The solar system was invaded by aliens of unknown origin. The earth has fallen. As the commander of the surviving space fleet, return to the solar system from outer space and save the earth.
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 24.1%, Tower Defense 22.1%, RTS 20.2%, Top-Down Shooter 12.2%, Strategy 11.5%
Project VTS is a real-time TD game. You'll need to build your defence around your base and defend against different enemies from all directions in various terrains of the alien planet.Use your turrets, obstacles, power supply, resource facillities to defend your base.
Why similar: Tower Defense 30.3%, Base Building 17.6%, Building 15.5%, Top-Down 11.4%, Futuristic 9.7%
clickyland is a tower defense village builder where clicks are your main resource. Use clicks to harvest resources, fight enemies and manage your village, but use them wisely as you only get 20 clicks every day! Can you reach day 100?
Why similar: Tower Defense 28.8%, Base Building 20.7%, City Builder 19.4%, RTS 13.4%, Strategy 13.2%
Desperate Place is a strategic tower defense game where you play as a crew member who wakes up early on a damaged colonization starship. Stranded on an unknown planet, you must gather resources, repair the ship, and defend against alien monsters to survive and escape.
Why similar: Tower Defense 17.8%, City Builder 16%, Base Building 12.8%, Top-Down Shooter 10.9%, Building 10.1%
They're Coming! Get ready to defend your lovely Flower from invading insect! Prepare your Bug Spray, Call your Holo-Pet, Fortify base and don't forget your mission: Find the Watering-Can!
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 25%, Tower Defense 18.9%, Base Building 13%, Top-Down Shooter 11%, Building 8.7%
A mini action city-builder in a post-post-apocalyptic world. Grow your settlement. Fend off waves of enemies. Restore nature.
Why similar: Tower Defense 22.4%, City Builder 20%, Base Building 13.7%, Top-Down Shooter 11.5%, Building 9%
Take the crown in this story-driven city builder, where you construct defenses by day to survive endless attacks by night. Explore diverse lands, upgrade your ruler, lead your armies against relentless hordes and bosses, and uncover dark secrets of your lineage.
Why similar: City Builder 22.7%, Tower Defense 17.6%, Base Building 17.2%, RTS 17.1%, Strategy 11.4%
Rise of the Cones is a tower defense game where a relentless army of cones is marching toward your base. They will not stop. Build towers, shape them with branching upgrades, and figure out how to hold the line.
Why similar: Tower Defense 27.6%, Base Building 18.7%, RTS 17.9%, Strategy 10%, Building 8.7%
We Are The Wall is a city-builder / RTS where you lead a hardy dwarf settlement fighting to protect their mountain home. Train armies, gather vital resources, explore the surrounding lands, and defend the Heart of the Mountain at all costs. We Are The Wall!
Why similar: City Builder 21.9%, Base Building 21%, RTS 17.6%, Tower Defense 15.7%, Strategy 9.8%
WarShape is a "Top Down Shooter" where you face growing hordes of enemies. As you progress, the weapons and defenses of everyone in the arena evolve, starting from primitive equipment to technological weapons. Build, find weapons, recruit allies and buy upgrades to survive the attacks.
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.7%, Top-Down Shooter 17%, Bullet Hell 13.9%, Building 10.6%, Strategy 7.5%
Citadelic is a base building and defending strategy game with roguelite elements. Survive against waves of constantly evolving enemies while expanding your base and managing resources.
Why similar: Tower Defense 21.4%, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 16.2%, RTS 13.7%, Building 8.2%
As the kingdom's most promising pioneer, embark on a legendary journey to tame the frontier! Build thriving towns across various landscapes, fending off waves of diverse enemies until you establish a firm foothold and have explored everything the eye can see!
Why similar: Tower Defense 23.9%, City Builder 20.1%, Base Building 16.7%, RTS 15.5%, Strategy 6.7%
The Zombocalypse is upon us. Build up and defend your settlement from the Zombie hordes until help arrives.
Why similar: Tower Defense 25.4%, City Builder 19.9%, Base Building 14.6%, RTS 13.3%, Strategy 9.5%
A minimalist game about fighting for freedom and independence in the United States of America!
Why similar: Tower Defense 23.6%, City Builder 20.1%, RTS 15.8%, Base Building 14%, Building 10.7%
Circuit Defense is a grid-based tower defense game. Build power lines, connect functional modules, and energize your turrets to create a high-efficiency network. Master your layout and optimize module synergies to survive the relentless enemy swarm.
Why similar: Tower Defense 24.9%, Base Building 21.8%, Building 14.8%, Bullet Hell 10.9%, Strategy 9.6%
Tired of RNG and card draws? Experience a "Plan first, pay later" economy where construction scales with your income in real time. As the map grows massive, only careful planning. Not a lucky roll, will keep you alive.
Why similar: Tower Defense 30.1%, RTS 22.9%, Base Building 18.5%, Building 13.5%, Strategy 7.6%
Fight gigantic hordes of goblins with a supercharged vehicle and arsenal of crazy weapons, in a chaotic physics-based battle for survival
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 24.6%, Tower Defense 23.7%, Top-Down Shooter 13.1%, Strategy 11.3%, Shooter 8.8%
U.F.O. K.O. Tower Defense: Place lasers, missile launchers, sniper turrets, and use combat strategies such as airstrikes and the space ray to repel waves of alien invaders in this sci-fi tower defense game.
Why similar: Tower Defense 30.3%, RTS 22.6%, Building 17.9%, Top-Down 9.9%, Strategy 8%
Tanks Etc. is a modern reimagining of co-op overhead arcade classics; it offers classic gameplay while adding in depths of strategy to keep players reinventing strategies for waging war with their friends.
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 23.1%, Tower Defense 19.8%, Top-Down Shooter 11.1%, Base Building 8.9%, Shooter 7%
Fortifend is a fantasy city builder with a mix of resource management and strategic tower defense. As Lord Mayor, build your settlement into a fortified city capable of fending off waves of demonic invaders. Guard the gates!
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.9%, Base Building 23.1%, City Builder 23%, Strategy 10.3%, Building 9.2%
A strategy game that combines MOBA and Tower Defence, You would control guardians with different skills,building your outpost to fend off enemy attacks.
Why similar: Tower Defense 29.1%, Base Building 21.1%, Building 14.7%, Strategy 13.8%, Top-Down 7.7%
Get Off My Space! is a tower defense game where you rely on skillful tower placement and resource management to beat upcoming dangers of the galaxy. Combining strategy and micro-managing fire groups, you will overcome the hardest level objectives.
Why similar: Tower Defense 20.2%, RTS 17.6%, Top-Down Shooter 10.7%, Bullet Hell 10.6%, Building 8.9%
Pilot your ship through dangerous space and defend against relentless imperial attacks in Space Battle, a high-intensity round-based strategy game. Upgrade your ship, mine for essential resources, and survive the onslaught to protect the galaxy!
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 26.7%, Tower Defense 19.9%, RTS 11.2%, Top-Down Shooter 11%, Bullet Hell 10.9%
Plasma Dome is a tactical tower defense with roguelite progression and no predefined paths. Defend your city from an aerial assault of geometric entities from another dimension.
Why similar: Tower Defense 33.1%, RTS 24%, Base Building 14%, Strategy 11.7%, Building 9.6%
Become a hero of Eastern legend. Explore ancient secrets, plan your defenses, combine tower types and modifiers, and build an indestructible fortress in a tower-defence game with survival elements.
Why similar: Tower Defense 27.9%, City Builder 23.8%, Building 15.4%, Strategy 13.1%, Base Building 11.1%
Upgrade and evolve, expand your territory, and build mighty defense towers to repel hordes of monsters.
Why similar: Tower Defense 23.1%, RTS 17.2%, Base Building 15.2%, Building 13.5%, Top-Down Shooter 8.4%
Become humanity's last hope. Gear up, upgrade, and unleash hell in a relentless third-person sci-fi shooter against a ruthless robotic army. The future is yours to forge in fire and steel.
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 32.7%, Bullet Hell 16.4%, Top-Down Shooter 16.2%, Shooter 7.7%, Top-Down 6.8%
Dig minerals, manufacture ammunition, and build defense towers to fend off swarms of insects. A tower defense game with light production line elements.
Why similar: Tower Defense 28.9%, RTS 19%, Base Building 14.6%, Strategy 14%, Building 9.3%
Survive on a hostile planet by automating a factory, fighting alien waves, and buying random upgrades. Hold out until the cleansing bomb drops! Roguelike strategy with drones & survival.
Why similar: Tower Defense 23.1%, RTS 17.4%, Bullet Hell 16%, Top-Down Shooter 15.7%, Strategy 8.4%
Paddle Protectors is an mix of tower defense, real-time strategy and city-building. You will fight against crabs. Establish farms and factories to produce ammunition and resources, fortify your land, lead your soldiers and tanks.
Why similar: Tower Defense 24.1%, City Builder 20.1%, RTS 16.8%, Base Building 9.6%, Building 8.7%
Step into The Mad House, a futuristic cyberpunk game show! Battle waves of enemies, conquer unique room challenges, and climb the Leaderboard. Upgrade your gear, master each fight, and earn your place in the legendary Hall of Legends.
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 34.1%, Top-Down Shooter 17.5%, Shooter 11%, Top-Down 8.4%, Action 8.1%
A couch co-op tower defense game, in which the towers you build can hurt you and your friends just as much as they can hurt your enemies. Build towers, aim them towards your foes and collect the crystals that drop in order to build more turrets and survive the endless hordes of enemies!
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 23.7%, Tower Defense 19.3%, RTS 16.2%, Top-Down Shooter 10.7%, Building 9.6%
In this Procedural City-Building and Survival game, you must manage your resources, expand your village, assemble an army and destroy the source of evil, which changed the entire eco system of a land that was once prosperous and peaceful.
Why similar: Tower Defense 19.8%, City Builder 17.6%, RTS 17.2%, Base Building 15.7%, Building 11.1%
Co-op twin-stick base building survival game.
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 21.1%, Tower Defense 17.7%, RTS 15.4%, Top-Down Shooter 9.6%, Building 8.7%
Beware, Monsters are Coming! In this Tower-Survivor rogue-lite, you protect an ever-moving city from unrelenting hordes. Gather resources, fortify defences, and survive for as long as you can. Will you reach the Ark?
Why similar: Tower Defense 19.9%, City Builder 16.9%, Base Building 15%, Building 12.1%, Bullet Hell 10.6%
Action tower defense with physics & couch co-op: carry your turrets, hurl objects, and survive swarm attacks.
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 28.1%, Tower Defense 21.5%, Top-Down Shooter 9.3%, Top-Down 8.8%, Building 7.2%
Construct a base, harness resources, defend against relentless waves of hostiles. Don't forget to choose which technologies to research to combat a spreading corruption and restore nature in this roguelike base defense. But be quick the last wave is something else entirely.
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 28.3%, Tower Defense 23.3%, Top-Down Shooter 13.6%, Building 11.8%, Top-Down 8.4%
| Rogue elements + Free Layout + BattleMastery + Turn-based March | What kind of different experience will it bring ? Will you be able to hold on to a tower caught in a tidal wave of enemy attacks ? May be this is the answer you're looking for.
Why similar: Tower Defense 27.3%, City Builder 21.2%, Base Building 15%, Building 12.6%, Combat 8%
A mazing tower defense where tower placement is everything. Force enemies the long way around, build choke points, push through lava, and adapt as levels change beneath you. No spells, no card modifiers. Just planning, placement, and a cat stuck in a jar.
Why similar: Tower Defense 32.3%, Strategy 16.1%, Building 15.9%, Base Building 13.2%, Top-Down 11.8%
Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware is a free prequel to the original game. In a medieval fantasy world, you are to build settlements, raise huge armies, and defend against massive hordes of enemies. Learn how Ironbrow clan shaped the world's map the first time - if you survive, that is.
Why similar: City Builder 21.1%, Tower Defense 20.8%, RTS 17.2%, Base Building 15.3%, Building 11.3%
Soulcaller's Tower is a 2D survival game where you play as a Soul Mage, collecting souls from defeated enemies in your tower. As you gather souls, you can spend them on upgrades for yourself or your tower. Your tower attracts enemies, so be careful not to attract too many.
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 32.3%, Tower Defense 21.1%, Top-Down Shooter 13.4%, Bullet Hell 12.9%, Shooter 5.7%
Paper Protocol is a Tower Defense game with elements of Real Time Strategy. Command a versatile mech and a squad of high tech turrets to defend the Paper Co. building from angry trees! Upgrade both yourself and your turrets to defend against the trees and their unique abilities.
Why similar: Tower Defense 31.4%, Top-Down Shooter 16.5%, RTS 13.6%, Strategy 8.9%, Building 6.5%
Build an unparalleled tower defense kingdom in "Skyline Defense"! With your strategic wisdom, construct defense towers, develop the economy, and withstand the fierce attacks of the enemies. Multiple difficulty levels of battle modes. Join now and start your sky island tower defense journey!
Why similar: Tower Defense 23.7%, City Builder 19.2%, RTS 18.6%, Building 11.1%, Strategy 10.7%
This is an RTS game less than 300MB, but it already contains many interesting game mechanics, There are many types of soldiers and tactics for you to choose. Support LAN online battle. Special Thanks for Pixel Art UwU~ I hope you will be interested in more RTS games after playing :)
Why similar: Tower Defense 23.1%, RTS 20.1%, Base Building 17.6%, City Builder 15.9%, Top-Down 9%
Taur is an action-strategy sci-fi game. Control the Prime Cannon and unlock all of its powerful weapons and abilities. Build turrets, droids, aircraft and more as you fight to protect the homeworld of the Tauron droids against a relentless invasion. Will your Taur stand against the Imperion warmachine?
Why similar: Tower Defense 37.2%, Base Building 17.9%, RTS 13.1%, Strategy 10.3%, Top-Down Shooter 6.1%
Shoot. Dash. Collect. Upgrade. VCTR is a kinetic arcade shooter where two simple actions create countless strategies. Read the field. Choose when to act. And turn the chaotic battlefield into a dance of high-risk, high-reward play.
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 33.6%, Bullet Hell 17%, Top-Down Shooter 16.7%, Abstract 8.7%, Shooter 8.5%
Defend your Command Centers against relentless waves of mutated insects! Customize powerful tanks with an arsenal of weapons and tactical modules in this action-packed tower defense game. Go solo or team up with friends in online co-op.
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 24.6%, Tower Defense 23.3%, Top-Down Shooter 12.1%, Strategy 11%, Building 8.4%
This game is a arcade block placing game mixed with action-packed Tower Defense gameplay mechanics. Build forts out of tetrominoes high up in the sky and defend it against the incoming waves of airships, by shooting at them with your minigun and building defenses!
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.4%, Base Building 19.1%, RTS 18%, Building 15.9%, Strategy 8.5%
A minimalist game about building and defending your little kingdom.
Why similar: Tower Defense 32%, City Builder 24.1%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 10%, Strategy 9%
Build a kingdom by day, slash ragdoll hordes by night in this streamlined hack-and-slash strategy game.
Why similar: Tower Defense 23.5%, City Builder 23.2%, Strategy 12.8%, Base Building 9.2%, Building 9.1%
Immerse yourself in a 3D tower defense game set in a medieval realm. Build towers with unique effects and strategically manage your town to amass resources. Master the elements and devise cunning strategies to triumph in this captivating fusion of defense and city management.
Why similar: Tower Defense 23.7%, City Builder 19%, Base Building 17.3%, Building 12.4%, RTS 11.7%
A 2D Strategic Base Defender game set in Medieval times. As relentless Waves of enemy forces threaten your Stronghold, you must gather Resources, Fortify your Defenses and lead your Rebellion. Prepare to strengthen your Base and manage your Resources. But beaware of the Storms!
Why similar: Tower Defense 23.1%, City Builder 21.4%, Base Building 17.5%, RTS 12%, Building 10%
Gold and Bricks is a small game that mixes elements of city builder, roguelite, strategy and tower defense. Plan the layout, manage your economy and invest your gold in defensive towers to protect yourself from the hordes of enemies invading your village.
Why similar: Tower Defense 24.6%, Base Building 20%, City Builder 15.7%, Bullet Hell 13.6%, Strategy 7.9%
Acid Planet is a caustic blend of horde-survival, tower-defense and strategy. Build, fight and evolve to survive against rampaging swarms of monsters and fearsome Kaiju.
Why similar: Tower Defense 22.5%, Base Building 16.4%, RTS 15.5%, Building 10.5%, Bullet Hell 9.9%
Random Realms Hero Under Siege is a fast-paced single player tower defense RTS where every match is a fresh roll of the dice. Build bases from randomized building options, lead a leveling hero and their army, and hold the line against escalating enemy waves.
Why similar: Tower Defense 27.8%, RTS 16.5%, Top-Down 12.5%, Base Building 12%, Building 10.6%
A classic 3D Tower Defense fantasy game, made by a very small and dedicated team.
Why similar: Tower Defense 43%, City Builder 14.5%, Strategy 12.6%, Building 10.1%, Action 6.5%
Cast Out Colony combines roguelite and bullet-heaven action with robust town-building elements. Choose from various characters, fight hordes of foes, and grow your colony, which in return grows your stats, offering a unique twist on the survival genre.
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 29.2%, City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 13.1%, Bullet Hell 12%, Top-Down 7.6%
In this retro style tower defence, we have created a short experience for all of you seeking a true Atari-like experience. This is off cause bull___. This was a school project completely made with Python and Pygames. Be sure to give us a grade;)
Why similar: Tower Defense 40.2%, Building 21.5%, Strategy 14.8%, Top-Down 11.1%, Top-Down Shooter 10.6%