- #1 They Are Billions
86% matchVery Positive85% of 50,587 reviews2019
Dev: Numantian Games
Windows
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 56.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?
Why similar: Tower Defense 20.8%, RTS 20.3%, Base Building 19.6%, Zombies 17.3%, Strategy 8.5%
- #2 Infested Planet
85% matchVery Positive94% of 3,012 reviews2014
Dev: Rocket Bear Games
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Command a team of 5 elite soldiers against an alien horde of 100,000. Surrounded on all sides, you must outmaneuver and outsmart the enemy.
Why similar: Tower Defense 37.5%, RTS 27.2%, Strategy 17.5%, Tactical 8.6%, Sci-fi 5.4%
- #3 Grim Nights
84% matchVery Positive88% of 1,529 reviews2018
Dev: Edym Pixels
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Your village must survive for 13 days! Gather resources, expand, explore the underground for riches, and train soldiers to defend against hordes of the undead.
Why similar: Tower Defense 27.4%, RTS 16.4%, Zombies 13.3%, Base Building 13%, Strategy 9.2%
- #4 Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,760 reviews2014
Dev: Knuckle Cracker
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 76.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Creeper World 3 is what happens when cellular automata takes over a strategy simulation. Instead of discrete units that attack your base, a fluid-like substance spreads over the terraformable terrain. Your base, your weapons, your strategy... you must adapt them all.
Why similar: Tower Defense 61.1%, RTS 15.2%, Strategy 11.4%, Base Building 4.7%, Sci-fi 3.9%
- #5 Taur
81% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,072 reviews2020
Dev: Echo Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 41%, RTS 14.1%, Base Building 12.8%, Strategy 11.7%, Tactical 7.2%
- #6 Protolife
78% matchVery Positive86% of 465 reviews2018
Dev: Volcanic Giraffe
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Protolife is an unique tower-based strategy game which gives you a direct control over the builder robot in a struggle against the hungry proto-life organism.
Why similar: Tower Defense 35%, RTS 27.3%, Base Building 16.4%, Strategy 10%, Sci-fi 6.5%
- #7 Zombo Buster Advance
77% matchVery Positive83% of 242 reviews2020
Dev: FIREBEAST
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Zombo Buster Advance is a tower defense game taking place inside buildings with interchangeable elevators. Deploy, swap and shoot like a boss!
Why similar: Tower Defense 32.1%, RTS 21.3%, Zombies 19.7%, Strategy 10.7%, Tactical 8.7%
- #8 Risen Kingdom
76% matchMostly Positive78% of 442 reviews2020
Dev: MyDreamForever
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Risen Kingdom is a real-time strategy game. Build and fortify your settlements to survive and push back armies of the undead.
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.2%, RTS 22%, Strategy 17.5%, Zombies 15.1%, Base Building 13.6%
- #9 Cataclismo
73% matchVery Positive89% of 4,073 reviews2025
Dev: Digital SunPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.
Why similar: Tower Defense 19.7%, RTS 16.1%, Zombies 13.3%, Base Building 10.3%, Tactical 10.3%
- #10 Tower Dominion
72% matchVery Positive86% of 4,796 reviews2025
Dev: Parallel 45 Games
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 21.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Build and design the terrain while defending your stronghold against alien invasion in this unique Roguelike tower defense. Choose from 30 heroes, survive enemy waves, and upgrade a variety of destructive towers to hold the line!
Why similar: Tower Defense 31.3%, RTS 19.7%, Base Building 13.2%, Tactical 13%, Strategy 8.5%
- #11 Last Hope - Tower Defense
75% matchVery Positive83% of 455 reviews2016
Dev: JE Software
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Zombie Tower Defense: Join the ongoing war, in an open world, against the undead zombie horde. Choose between multiple powerful heroes all with unique epic gear and skills! With the wide variety of towers you can create your own perfect strategy.
Why similar: Tower Defense 57.7%, Zombies 27.8%, Strategy 11.2%, Indie 3.3%
- #12 Anomaly 2
75% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,055 reviews2013
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Anomaly 2 is a sequel to the critically acclaimed Anomaly Warzone Earth. Maintaining the core elements of the original, Anomaly 2 adds plenty of new features: unit morphing, over million tactical combinations, post-apo world and tower defense vs tower offense multiplayer mode.
Why similar: Tower Defense 47.5%, Strategy 26%, RTS 14.6%, Sci-fi 6%, Indie 5.3%
- #13 DG2: Defense Grid 2
74% matchVery Positive86% of 3,331 reviews2014
Dev: Hidden Path Entertainment
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Great strategy is timeless. Build, adapt, and defend across dynamic maps, solo or online - every session brings new strategies, new solutions, and new surprises. Now is the perfect time to enter the grid.
Why similar: Tower Defense 66.4%, Strategy 21.3%, Sci-fi 4.8%, Indie 4.7%, Space 2.5%
- #14 Anomaly: Warzone Earth
74% matchVery Positive87% of 4,668 reviews2011
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Lead an armored squad through the perils of this reversed tower defense action-strategy game!
Why similar: Tower Defense 46%, Strategy 27.8%, RTS 13.1%, Sci-fi 7.7%, Indie 4.6%
- #15 Warpips
72% matchVery Positive87% of 5,035 reviews2022
Dev: Skirmish Mode GamesPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Warpips is the ultimate quick to learn but amazingly deep tug-of-war strategy game. Deploy the right composition of soldiers, tanks, helicopters and planes in this tight, streamlined strategy-focused war game. Compose the best army, research the right tech; overwhelm your enemy!
Why similar: Tower Defense 32%, RTS 25.4%, Tactical 13.7%, Strategy 10%, Base Building 9.6%
- #16 GemCraft - Chasing Shadows
73% matchVery Positive95% of 4,328 reviews2015
Dev: Game in a BottlePub: Armor Games Studios
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 19.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
An epic, challenging tower defense game with an emphasis on strategy and replayability. Summon gems of immense magical potency and harness their unique abilities against a seemingly endless horde of monsters. The archdemon seeks to swallow the world, and you must journey to stand against her.
Why similar: Tower Defense 73.7%, Strategy 14.6%, Tactical 5.8%, Indie 2.7%, Difficult 2.5%
- #17 Revenge of the Titans
73% matchVery Positive82% of 1,250 reviews2011
Dev: Puppygames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The ultimate mash-up of Real-time Strategy and Tower Defense!
Why similar: Tower Defense 64%, Strategy 14.6%, RTS 7.2%, Sci-fi 5.8%, Difficult 4.2%
- #18 Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 16,263 reviews2014
Dev: Ironhide Game Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Get ready for an epic journey to defend your kingdom against hordes of orcs, trolls, evil wizards and other nasty fiends using a vast arsenal of towers and spells at your command!Fight on forests, mountains and wastelands, customizing your defensive strategy with different tower upgrades and specializations!
Why similar: Tower Defense 65.6%, Tactical 15.1%, Strategy 12.7%, Difficult 3.6%, Indie 2.1%
- #19 Defense Grid: The Awakening
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 5,298 reviews2008
Dev: Hidden Path Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Defense Grid: The Awakening is a unique spin on tower defense gameplay that will appeal to players of all skill levels. A horde of enemies is invading, and it's up to the player to stop them by strategically building fortification towers around their base.
Why similar: Tower Defense 76.7%, Strategy 12.4%, Sci-fi 6.1%, Indie 2.3%, Futuristic 1.7%
- #20 Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 150,417 reviews2009
Dev: PopCap Games, Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 41.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Why similar: Tower Defense 51.3%, Zombies 30.7%, Strategy 11.1%, Tactical 5.1%, Indie 0.9%
- #21 Kingdom Rush Frontiers - Tower Defense
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 10,206 reviews2016
Dev: Ironhide Game Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 20.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Command your troops through an epic (mis)adventure as you defend exotic lands from dragons, man-eating plants, and ghastly denizens of the underworld -all with flashy new towers, levels, heroes, and more goodies to help you crush your foes in this Fantasy Action Tower Defense game!
Why similar: Tower Defense 55.6%, Strategy 13.7%, RTS 10.7%, Difficult 9.7%, Building 6.9%
- #22 Mindustry
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 25,533 reviews2019
Dev: AnukenDev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
Why similar: Tower Defense 37%, Base Building 20.4%, RTS 12.4%, Strategy 10.2%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #23 Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 7,626 reviews2018
Dev: Ironhide Game Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 19.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Command your elven army and defend mystical lands from sea serpents, evil sorcerers, and wave after wave of gnoll tribesman, all with the help of brand-spankin’ new towers, heroes, and spells to fend off every last baddie.
Why similar: Tower Defense 49.2%, Tactical 17.3%, Strategy 12%, Difficult 10.1%, Building 7.9%
- #24 Warstone TD
69% matchVery Positive83% of 3,869 reviews2018
Dev: Battlecruiser Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Warstone is a Tower Defense game, with RPG, Strategy, and even city building elements. Detailed Hi-res graphics and beautiful illustrations combine with a deep storyline to draw you into the world.
Why similar: Tower Defense 63.5%, Strategy 18.1%, RTS 14%, Indie 4.4%
- #25 Age of Darkness: Final Stand
66% matchMostly Positive75% of 10,387 reviews2025
Dev: PlaySide
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Age of Darkness: Final Stand is a dark fantasy survival RTS where you must illuminate, build and defend humanity’s last bastion against hordes of Nightmares. Set in the remnants of a kingdom consumed by a deadly fog, you decide. Will you hide in the light? Or take back your world.
Why similar: Tower Defense 28.2%, RTS 22.4%, Tactical 13.8%, Base Building 13.7%, Strategy 8.4%
- #26 Harvest: Massive Encounter
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 159 reviews2009
Dev: Oxeye Game Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Harvest: Massive Encounter is an award-winning real-time strategy game with battles of epic proportions and a unique style of resource management and exploration. Build power plants, mineral harvesters and defense towers and make sure they have sufficient energy to fend off endless hordes of evil aliens.
Why similar: Tower Defense 64.4%, Strategy 22.9%, Indie 6.2%, Sci-fi 5.8%, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #27 Space Run
68% matchVery Positive85% of 2,123 reviews2014
Dev: Passtech GamesPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Space Run is a «real-time spaceship construction strategy game». Space Run takes the well-known Tower Defense-style gameplay and twists it, challenging you to manage and protect a spaceship and its cargo against the hazards of deep space!
Why similar: Tower Defense 65.5%, Strategy 15.6%, Space 9.7%, Sci-fi 5.9%, Indie 2.9%
- #28 Oil Rush
70% matchMixed58% of 531 reviews2012
Dev: Unigine Corp.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 33%
Oil Rush is a naval strategy game that takes place in a world where nuclear war has melted the ice caps, changing the face of the planet forever. Oil Rush offers unique gameplay, avoiding micromanagement of every single unit, while still providing full control over all important aspects of strategy and economy.
Why similar: RTS 35%, Tower Defense 30.9%, Strategy 28.3%, Indie 5.8%
- #29 Mechs V Kaijus - Tower Defense
65% matchVery Positive84% of 529 reviews2022
Dev: Doble Punch Games
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Mechs V Kaijus is an addictive hardcore tower defense gameplay. In Mechs V Kaijus you take on the role of Commander of a powerful Mechs squadron. Improve your Mech, strategically place towers and factories on the battlefield. Deploy support units on the battlefield, and save our civilization.
Why similar: Tower Defense 74.6%, Strategy 10.1%, Tactical 6.4%, Base Building 5.3%, Indie 3.2%
- #30 Ancient Planet Tower Defense
66% matchVery Positive82% of 1,183 reviews2015
Dev: Moonlight Mouse
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Ancient Planet is classic tower defense game. The stronghold of an ancient civilization has been invaded by hordes of alien raiders. Use powerful technologies of the Ancient and repel the attack of the enemy's armies!
Why similar: Tower Defense 76.7%, Strategy 14%, Difficult 4.4%, Indie 3.6%, Atmospheric 1.4%
- #31 Anomaly Defenders
66% matchMostly Positive77% of 676 reviews2014
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Anomaly Defenders is the closing installment of the Anomaly series. The original incarnation of the Tower Offense sub-genre had players controlling humans fighting alien invaders. Now, the tables have turned. The human counterattack is underway and the alien homeworld is under threat.
Why similar: Tower Defense 68.4%, Strategy 23.3%, Indie 5%, Sci-fi 3.3%
- #32 Starship Troopers: Terran Command
63% matchVery Positive87% of 11,692 reviews2022
Dev: The ArtistocratsPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Lead the Mobile Infantry in this RTS game set in the Starship Troopers film universe. Balance your army composition with a diverse set of unit types, overcome line-of-sight and line-of-fire challenges through tactical positioning, and use special abilities to smash the Arachnid hordes!
Why similar: RTS 40%, Strategy 19.4%, Tactical 16.1%, Tower Defense 8.5%, Sci-fi 5.8%
- #33 iBomber Defense
66% matchMostly Positive74% of 244 reviews2011
Dev: Cobra Mobile
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 54%
iBomber Defense combines classic tower defense gameplay with intense action and strategy. Keep enemies at bay all over the world using a variety of weapons and tactics, from rattling Machine guns, explosive cannons and awesome anti-aircraft artillery!
Why similar: Tower Defense 72.2%, Strategy 22.3%, Indie 5.4%
- #34 GemCraft - Frostborn Wrath
63% matchVery Positive89% of 2,817 reviews2020
Dev: Game in a Bottle
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 38.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
The epic tower defense dark fantasy journey continues! Create powerful gems with various abilities and take on the battle against an endlessly flowing army of monsters, and face the growing darkness as you fight your way back towards the Spiritforge.
Why similar: Tower Defense 32.7%, RTS 25.2%, Tactical 13.7%, Strategy 9.3%, Difficult 9.2%
- #35 Conan Unconquered
64% matchMixed68% of 1,847 reviews2019
Dev: PetroglyphPub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
From the Command & Conquer veterans at Petroglyph comes the first ever survival RTS set in the savage world of Conan the Barbarian. Play solo or team up in multiplayer in Conan Unconquered’s action-packed co-op Mode where you build a shared stronghold and fend off the hordes together.
Why similar: RTS 32.8%, Strategy 21.9%, Tower Defense 21.6%, Base Building 10.1%, Management 8.5%
- #36 Nordhold
60% matchVery Positive88% of 3,005 reviews2025
Dev: StunForgePub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Enemies are coming! Every decision matters: build your city, grow the economy, and prepare for enemy waves. Strengthen your defenses, adapt your strategy, and unleash your hero’s full potential. This unique Tower Defense will test your skills – are you worthy to claim a place at Valhalla?
Why similar: Tower Defense 33.5%, RTS 14.4%, Base Building 14.2%, Strategy 10.4%, Management 10.2%
- #37 REDCON
64% matchVery Positive85% of 806 reviews2016
Dev: Hexage
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Command your own fortress in FTL-like real-time battles! Crush the enemy fortress with unrelenting bombardment or seize it with carefully executed invasion.
Why similar: Tower Defense 44.5%, Strategy 28.9%, Base Building 19.5%, Indie 6.1%, Singleplayer 1%
- #38 Stellar Infestation
61% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: YogurtGames
Windows
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 30.6%, RTS 19.8%, Strategy 15.2%, Base Building 10.1%, Resource Management 6.8%
- #39 HERO DEFENSE
65% matchMixed63% of 766 reviews2016
Dev: Happy TuesdayPub: Headup
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
CREEPS CRUMBLE. HEROES RISE. Command a team of renegade heroes and impale, slash, tear and burn through legions of undead hell-bent on world domination. Your mission: to defeat the world’s most powerful vampire, Count Necrosis.
Why similar: Tower Defense 70.8%, Strategy 12.3%, Zombies 9.6%, Indie 3.6%, Difficult 3.3%
- #40 The Riftbreaker
61% matchVery Positive90% of 23,018 reviews2021
Dev: EXOR Studios
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 22.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.
Why similar: Tower Defense 34.5%, RTS 22.2%, Base Building 22%, Strategy 8.1%, Building 7.1%
- #41 Evil Defenders
64% matchVery Positive82% of 395 reviews2015
Dev: CP Decision
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 11.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Evil Defenders is a fun, frenetic defense game: build and upgrade your towers, сast spells to repel enemy forces, use special landmarks and defend the Lands of Evil from invaders! Feel free to play the game in many different ways through unique tower upgrades, a deep skill tree and 100 in-game achievements.
Why similar: Tower Defense 76.9%, Strategy 18.8%, Indie 4.4%
- #42 Kingdom Rush Vengeance - Tower Defense
61% matchVery Positive94% of 10,421 reviews2020
Dev: Ironhide Game Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 18.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
It's payback time! Lead your mighty dark army and make the Kingdom tremble with every step. Build powerful towers, choose your arsenal for destruction, and find the deadliest combination - train legendary heroes and lead them to victory!
Why similar: Tower Defense 65.6%, Strategy 17.7%, Difficult 15.2%, Singleplayer 1.6%
- #43 Cursed Treasure 2
63% matchVery Positive82% of 565 reviews2017
Dev: IriySoftPub: Armor Games Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Why be good when you can be... bad? Cursed Treasure 2 is an addictive tower-defense game that puts the power of darkness at your fingertips. Build towers of powerful orcs, demons, and undead, and master powerful spells, to protect your precious hoard from all manner of no-good do-gooders.
Why similar: Tower Defense 58%, Strategy 17.9%, RTS 15.8%, Indie 4.8%, Resource Management 2.9%
- #44 Dungeon Warfare 2
62% matchVery Positive90% of 1,137 reviews2018
Dev: Valsar
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Become a dungeon lord to defend your dungeons with the deadliest of traps and insidious contraptions against greedy adventurers and wannabe heroes.
Why similar: Tower Defense 61.6%, Strategy 30.5%, Indie 8%
- #45 Halo Wars: Definitive Edition
60% matchVery Positive91% of 9,116 reviews2017
Dev: Ensemble StudiosPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Halo Wars: Definitive Edition is an enhanced version of the real-time strategy classic, Halo Wars, updated to run natively on PC. Halo Wars: Definitive Edition includes improved graphics, new achievements and all of the DLC created for the landmark real-time strategy game.
Why similar: RTS 46.2%, Base Building 21.6%, Strategy 18.8%, Sci-fi 6.2%, Tactical 5.9%
- #46 Atahion - Tower Defense
60% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: EhtChaos
Windows
Build your defense base to repel alien invaders. Atahion is a strategy and tactical defense game in which you have to extract resources, build defense towers and use bonuses to complete the mission.
Why similar: Tower Defense 34.4%, RTS 24.8%, Base Building 14%, Strategy 9.8%, Sci-fi 5.7%
- #47 Thronefall
56% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 22,496 reviews2024
Dev: GrizzlyGamesPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A minimalist game about building and defending your little kingdom.
Why similar: Tower Defense 58.9%, Strategy 16.9%, Base Building 14.9%, Building 7.3%, Indie 1.5%
- #48 Kingdom Rush 5: Alliance TD
56% matchVery Positive88% of 11,008 reviews2024
Dev: Ironhide Game Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 17.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
While a formidable evil emerges, an unexpected alliance is taking shape! It will take the finest warriors of Linirea and the relentless Dark Army to stop it. Beware! Though they may journey side by side the ever-changing winds of fate could swiftly alter their course.
Why similar: Tower Defense 68.4%, Strategy 22.6%, Building 6.2%, Indie 2%, Singleplayer 0.9%
- #49 Tempest Rising
56% matchVery Positive88% of 10,813 reviews2025
Dev: Slipgate Ironworks™Pub: 3D Realms
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Command distinct factions in a desperate struggle for power and resources in Tempest Rising - a classic RTS set on Earth after a nuclear war.
Why similar: RTS 62.5%, Strategy 22.5%, Base Building 12.9%, Futuristic 1.4%, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #50 Total Tower Engine
60% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RubyRTS
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 34.7%, RTS 26%, Base Building 13.9%, Strategy 8.9%, Resource Management 7.8%
- #51 Hobgoblins Against Dwarfs
60% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Enigma Empire Entertainment
Windows
Craft an unstoppable defence using Dwarven Towers and a fearless squad, then take on waves of invading Hobgoblins in this thrilling real-time strategy tower defence game! Strategize, upgrade, and triumph in Hobgoblins Against Dwarfs!
Why similar: Tower Defense 33.4%, RTS 24%, Strategy 12.7%, Base Building 11.7%, Tactical 9.9%
- #52 Plasma Dome
59% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Yoberu
Windows
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 37.4%, RTS 26.6%, Strategy 13.6%, Base Building 10.3%, Sci-fi 4.3%
- #53 Endzone Girls
56% matchPositive95% of 20 reviews2025
Dev: Aozora
Windows
《Endzone Girls》is a Tower Defense Game. You will collect resources and build fortifications before the zombies arrive to kill the zombies that invade your home. In the game, you will unlock different defensive buildings, create a unique style, defend your home in a world full of zombies.
Why similar: Tower Defense 25.3%, RTS 20.4%, Zombies 14.4%, Base Building 10.4%, Tactical 9.2%
- #54 Prime World: Defenders
60% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,049 reviews2013
Dev: Nival
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Fight off hordes of monstrous mutants created from a strange cataclysmic event in the new tower defense game, Prime World: Defenders. Join a group of exile treasure hunters who have ventured into the capital of an ancient empire, vast with mystery and danger.
Why similar: Tower Defense 75.9%, Strategy 13.9%, Tactical 6.5%, Indie 2.9%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #55 CARNAGE OFFERING Tower Defense
56% matchVery Positive90% of 306 reviews2023
Dev: FuturtechPub: Nova's Army
Windows
The replicator robots are back! It's 2528. The machines are increasingly infecting the planets with genetically modified monsters. Challenge them and try to stop the onslaught. Upgrade buildings and heroes, mine resources, discover technology and fight to save humanity!
Why similar: Tower Defense 50.5%, RTS 33.9%, Strategy 14.5%, Indie 1.1%
- #56 Orcs Must Die! 3
57% matchVery Positive86% of 14,646 reviews2021
Dev: Robot Entertainment
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Slice, burn, toss, zap, grind and gib massive hordes of repugnant orcs in this long-awaited successor to the award-winning Orcs Must Die! series.
Why similar: Tower Defense 82.7%, Strategy 16.6%, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #57 YORG.io
57% matchVery Positive90% of 730 reviews2019
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
YORG.io is a game with an original twist on supply chains and zombies. Your goal is to build a base which survives the night which is when zombies attack. Build and upgrade defensive towers to protect your base and try to survive as long as possible.
Why similar: Tower Defense 43.6%, Zombies 19.2%, Strategy 18.5%, Base Building 9.4%, Indie 4.8%
- #58 Before the Walls Break
58% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: NyxoraPixel Studio
Windows
Tower defense with resource management. Defend against waves of enemies while building your settlement. Gather resources, construct towers, recruit units, and upgrade buildings to survive.
Why similar: RTS 34.3%, Zombies 16.1%, Tower Defense 10.5%, Tactical 9.9%, Strategy 9.7%
- #59 Fieldrunners 2
58% matchVery Positive86% of 524 reviews2013
Dev: Subatomic Studios LLC
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Get ready to DEFEND THE WORLD! The biggest sequel in tower defense history is finally here: Fieldrunners 2 has arrived! From Subatomic Studios, creators of the award winning classic strategy game comes an all new adventure that was years in the making.
Why similar: Tower Defense 84.7%, Strategy 15.3%