- #1 Neocon Tower Defence 3
97% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Dincicode
Windows
A finger-blisteringly action-packed Tower Defence advanture!
Why similar: Action RTS 36% ★, Tower Defense 24.1%, Base Building 13.8%, Resource Management 9.4%, Futuristic 7.1%
- #2 Atahion - Tower Defense
96% 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 26.7%, RTS 23.6%, Base Building 16.3%, Action RTS 13.4% ★, Sci-fi 7.7%
- #3 Minion Slayer
96% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2022
Dev: TansanGames
Windows
Prevent the invasion of the minions that stimulate the desire for challenge and prove that you are a slayer physically and mentally.
Why similar: Action RTS 33.2% ★, Tower Defense 25.8%, RTS 22.2%, Strategy 9%, Base Building 8%
- #4 Hobgoblins Against Dwarfs
95% 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 26.2%, Action RTS 24% ★, RTS 23%, Base Building 13.7%, Strategy 9.9%
- #5 Forsaking Valhalla
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stemmlar Technologies
Windows
A survival RTS game where you defend your village against relentless waves of Norse mythological creatures. Build defenses, train warriors, and gather resources to survive as long as possible. If your Town Hall falls, it's game over. How long will you last?
Why similar: Action RTS 34.8% ★, Tower Defense 20.9%, RTS 19.8%, Base Building 12.1%, Strategy 6.6%
- #6 Our Last Stand
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Maurice
Windows
Our Last Stand is a tower defence game that allows you to command a powerful mech and defend against relentless waves of enemies. Play on different worlds to gather resources, unlock advanced technology, and level your commander to gain powerful new abilities. Build defend, survive.
Why similar: Action RTS 31% ★, RTS 22.4%, Tower Defense 20.9%, Strategy 11%, Base Building 8.8%
- #7 Celestial Defense
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GoUnconditionalGames
Windows
Celestial Defense is a sci-fi space tower defense strategy game where tactical base building and resource management determine your survival. Build asteroid belts, evolve planets, and withstand relentless wave survival combat against the Void.
Why similar: Action RTS 36.1% ★, Tower Defense 24.1%, Strategy 11.6%, Base Building 9.9%, Resource Management 7.5%
- #8 Critter Chaos TD
92% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Chaos Creations
Windows
Critter Chaos TD is a fast, frantic and chaotic Tower Defence game in which you must rid the world of the evil Critters. Build stations and guns to fortify your defences and prevent the various types of Critters from reaching your base.
Why similar: Action RTS 38.5% ★, Tower Defense 19.8%, RTS 18.4%, Base Building 10.7%, Strategy 8.1%
- #9 TAVU
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Juhani Viitanen
Windows
TAVU is a PvE RTS game with a tactical combat system. Build your bases and defend them against waves of enemy attacks. Upgrade your units and destroy enemy bases to gain new territories and resources.
Why similar: Action RTS 23.8% ★, RTS 18.9%, Base Building 14.9%, Tower Defense 11.7%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #10 Arise Dark Lord
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Introversion Software
Windows · Mac
You are The Dark Lord! Raise an evil army, and crush the race of men. An action-strategy hybrid RTS, blending tower defence, base building and direct control of your Dark Lord avatar, currently in early development.
Why similar: Action RTS 37.1% ★, Tower Defense 20.9%, RTS 19.7%, Base Building 11.5%, Strategy 8.1%
- #11 Fight for Freedom: Civil War
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Big Hands Game
Windows
A minimalist game about fighting for freedom and independence in the United States of America!
Why similar: Action RTS 30.8% ★, Tower Defense 22.2%, RTS 17.8%, Base Building 12.7%, Strategy 7.4%
- #12 Don't Mind the Robots
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 2bitleft
Windows
Build deadly mazes and outsmart a rogue AI in this strategic tower defense game. Adapt your defenses, use aiming parameters to your advantage, and activate powerful perks to survive increasingly complex waves of incoming robots.
Why similar: Action RTS 23.9% ★, Tower Defense 20.2%, RTS 18.9%, Base Building 10.9%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #13 ChargeDrop
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GliderDrones
Windows
A physics-driven tower defense game where one massive cube does everything: fight, build, activate, and survive. Drop into a neon sci-fi battlefield, hold back waves of Chaos Dice, and power up your defenses through energy, momentum, and precision.
Why similar: Action RTS 32.1% ★, RTS 23.1%, Tower Defense 21.6%, Strategy 11.2%, Futuristic 4.6%
- #14 Skyfort
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Space Byte Studios
Windows
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: Action RTS 28.5% ★, Tower Defense 22.7%, RTS 18.6%, Base Building 15.9%, Strategy 7.4%
- #15 Yãkoana: Dreams of Resistance
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Minimol Games
Windows · Mac
Yãkoana: Dreams of Resistance is a strategy game with roguelite and tower defense elements. Defend your people’s legacy against colonizers, mastering the land and awakening ancient powers in a relentless fight for freedom.
Why similar: Action RTS 25.1% ★, Tower Defense 20.6%, RTS 19.4%, Base Building 13.9%, Resource Management 7.4%
- #16 Cosmic Robots
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Aniode Pub: Aniode
Windows · Mac
Defend your planet from waves of robot invaders! Build powerful turrets, upgrade your defenses, and command robot units to fight drones, tanks, and massive bosses. Then send your own forces to attack the enemy planet in this action-packed sci-fi tower defense game.
Why similar: Tower Defense 24.3%, Action RTS 20.8% ★, RTS 20.5%, Strategy 9.3%, Base Building 8.5%
- #17 Fable Forts! - Tower Defense
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wirescribe Corp
Windows
Fable Forts! TD: defend your fairy kingdom from stupid human invaders!
Why similar: Action RTS 27.9% ★, Tower Defense 25.2%, RTS 22.6%, Base Building 11.6%, Strategy 9%
- #18 Tower Defense Ultimate: Crashfall Protocol
84% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Thonus Digital
Windows
Defend your base against relentless alien waves in a sci-fi tower defense strategy game. Build deadly kill zones, unlock new towers and special abilities, and adapt your loadout to survive escalating assaults across a hostile campaign.
Why similar: Action RTS 33.5% ★, Tower Defense 23.2%, RTS 18%, Strategy 6.8%, Sci-fi 5.9%
- #19 JKRobots
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: JKRobots
Windows
A real time strategy game, push the robots off the map to win, but they push back.
Why similar: RTS 31.6%, Tower Defense 26.4%, Base Building 14.4%, Strategy 14%, Resource Management 12.5%
- #20 Witch Way
83% matchPositive86% of 21 reviews2025
Dev: e-sheep
Windows
Assemble your army, build your village, manage your villagers, and survive the night's monster attacks until dawn.
Why similar: Action RTS 42.3% ★, Tower Defense 25.1%, Base Building 14.1%, Strategy 7.5%, Resource Management 6.5%
- #21 Decimation
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Elementum Software Development Services
Windows
Sci-fi tower defense meets ARPG-like hero combat. Build towers then fight alongside them with your hero as you battle through a campaign to uncover the fate of a colonization effort on a distant planet.
Why similar: Tower Defense 27.8%, Action RTS 26.6% ★, RTS 15.6%, Sci-fi 9.4%, Strategy 9%
- #22 Annexation
82% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Hotkey Clicker
Windows · Mac · Linux
Annexation is a fast-paced real-time strategy game with old-school roots. Build bases, train armies, and outmaneuver your enemy to claim victory. Start by playing the campaign and then challenge yourself in Arcade Missions, which bring the intensity of multiplayer RTS into a single-player setting.
Why similar: Action RTS 42.4% ★, RTS 22%, Base Building 10.7%, Strategy 8.9%, Arcade 5.7%
- #23 Stellar Infestation
81% match7 user reviews86% of 7 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 26.5%, RTS 21%, Strategy 13.1%, Base Building 13%, Resource Management 12.2%
- #24 Stick Infinite Kingdom
81% matchMixed67% of 43 reviews2025
Dev: Arckon Arts
Windows
Master strategic gameplay as you build, train, and upgrade units to protect your base. With an immersive storyline, stunning visuals, and easy controls, it's an epic battle for survival!
Why similar: Action RTS 38.1% ★, Tower Defense 23.2%, RTS 22.4%, Strategy 7.5%, Score Attack 3.7%
- #25 Steel Command
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Smitty Games
Windows
A classic RTS featuring traditional base-building, resource-driven warfare, PvP, skirmish, and a powerful, easy-to-use Mission Editor. Build your base. Secure the ECO. Conquer the battlefield.
Why similar: RTS 29.3%, Action RTS 28.3% ★, Base Building 18.3%, Strategy 11.4%, Sci-fi 4.8%
- #26 Total Tower Engine
79% 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 29.7%, RTS 27.2%, Base Building 17.8%, Resource Management 13.9%, Strategy 7.6%
- #27 Dangerous Land
79% matchPositive93% of 30 reviews2023
Dev: Randi Games
Windows
Dangerous Land is a first-person strategic game enriched with elements of exploration and action. Assume the role of the ruler of your settlement, manage and develop it in real-time, recruit and upgrade units, take care of resources, and participate in epic battles.
Why similar: Action RTS 26.9% ★, RTS 22%, Tower Defense 17.1%, Base Building 14.6%, Resource Management 7.9%
- #28 Negative Energy
78% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: ByVal Games
Windows · Linux
Negative Energy is a tower defense game with basic RTS mechanics, where your goal is to defend the construction of a Dyson sphere, while fighting against waves of hundreds of enemies ships.
Why similar: Action RTS 26.6% ★, Tower Defense 24.6%, RTS 23%, Strategy 11.9%, Sci-fi 4.4%
- #29 Battle For Cosmos
78% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: Oscar Makes Games
Windows
Battle For Cosmos is a fast-paced, action-packed RTS set in space. With a focus on the battle it is perfect for those who want a thrilling and engaging strategy game without the unnecessary filler. Take control of your empire, build your defenses, and conquer the cosmos!
Why similar: Action RTS 46.8% ★, RTS 25.6%, Strategy 8.8%, Resource Management 7%, Sci-fi 6.1%
- #30 LowPoly Towerdefense
77% match8 user reviews67% of 9 reviews2024
Dev: Holger Trampe
Windows
You play in a SciFi environment with LowPoly graphics, engaging in Tower Defense. Manage resources! Each round introduces more enemies that you must defeat. Build resource ships in the factory and simultaneously construct towers on the platforms to fend off the adversaries.
Why similar: Action RTS 42% ★, Tower Defense 28.4%, Strategy 14.7%, Base Building 11.9%, 3D 1.5%
- #31 THE AEON FALL
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dalla Games Inc.
Windows
Survival breeds threat. THE AEON FALL is a system-driven hardcore defense where growth noise stimulates the swarm. Build and survive an onslaught of 100,000 entities. Master strategic choices that evolve every session.
Why similar: Action RTS 28% ★, Tower Defense 22.2%, RTS 21%, Base Building 15.4%, Sci-fi 5.8%
- #32 Defence of Nythrial
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fantasy Bytes Entertainment
Windows
Defence of Nythrial is a 2D, Top down, Tower Defence / Real Time Strategy Game.
Why similar: Action RTS 36.2% ★, RTS 26.2%, Tower Defense 24.4%, Strategy 12.9%, Singleplayer 0.3%
- #33 BioFusion
76% matchPositive90% of 20 reviews2024
Dev: Pcubed VR
Windows
BioFusion is a VR co-op multiplayer, PvE, first-person-shooter, tower defense game. Swing on a grappling hook, ride a hovercraft, throw grenades, collect buffs, build towers and traps. Do what you must to keep the mutants from the Spores of Evolution.
Why similar: Action RTS 34.7% ★, Tower Defense 20.7%, RTS 19.7%, Base Building 11.8%, Strategy 6.1%
- #34 Starfall Defenders
75% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: EntwicklerX
Windows
Starfall Defenders is a classic tower defense game that features unique towers and enemies. It also has an in-game shop system that allows players to purchase better towers, upgrade existing ones, and buy special items like the Atom Bomb, Splash Bomb, and Air Supply.
Why similar: Action RTS 41% ★, Tower Defense 26.8%, Strategy 11.8%, Arcade 7.8%, Sci-fi 4.1%
- #35 Uncrewed 2
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quite Different Mechanics
Windows
Uncrewed 2 is a real-time strategy game that lets the player design units from the ground up. Wheels, treads, walker legs, and rocket engines - the game offers a variety of propulsion options, as well as the ability to craft your own weapons.
Why similar: Action RTS 35.7% ★, RTS 22.9%, Base Building 11.2%, Strategy 8%, Sci-fi 6.8%
- #36 Battle Among Stars - Alien War
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dewin DevPub: Dewin Games
Windows
Battle Among Stars – Alien War Five Houses. One galaxy. You are the heir thrown into the war. Command fleets, assemble modular units, forge fragile alliances — every decision reshapes the balance of power. Free demo available now.
Why similar: Action RTS 27.1% ★, RTS 23.9%, Tower Defense 16.5%, Sci-fi 8.1%, Strategy 6.7%
- #37 Plasma Dome
73% matchNo user reviews2026
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 28.3%, RTS 26.3%, Base Building 13.9%, Strategy 13.8%, Sci-fi 6.7%
- #38 Shatterswarm
73% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Iron Fin Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Command Captain Hope's ship in this strategic 2D space game. Build structures, deploy fleets, and manage resources to defend the Citadel against waves of enemies. Combine direct ship combat, tower defense, and base building as you face epic boss battles.
Why similar: Action RTS 32.5% ★, RTS 22.9%, Tower Defense 21.6%, Strategy 10.2%, Futuristic 3.8%
- #39 Little Kingdom RTS
71% matchVery Positive87% of 68 reviews2025
Dev: MyDreamForeverPub: Andgo Games
Windows
Little Kingdom RTS is an indie real-time strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Gather resources, build settlements, raise walls, and grow your small kingdom. Command an army of knights, archers, and mages to fight off rival kingdoms, orcs, and undead.
Why similar: Action RTS 25.9% ★, Tower Defense 20.7%, RTS 20.4%, Base Building 15.6%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #40 Liquidia
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FloatUpGames
Windows
Liquidia is a survival-crafting game about water. You're a cat-folk exploring islands, using magical water to wake ruins and restore the land. Build by day, fight monsters by night. Summon water spirits, grow plant defenses. Simple systems, pure creation and survival.
Why similar: Action RTS 39.2% ★, Tower Defense 20.5%, RTS 13.5%, Base Building 13.5%, Resource Management 7.7%
- #41 WitchRider
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: OnionGame
Windows
This is a building tower defense game with RPG elements to hunt down the demon guard altar.
Why similar: Action RTS 30% ★, Tower Defense 22.3%, RTS 19.4%, Base Building 16.6%, Strategy 7.2%
- #42 Crustacean Nations
71% matchVery Positive92% of 511 reviews2022
Dev: Team Beans
Windows
🦀Crustacean Nations🦀 is a real-time strategy game about total crab warfare. Build a sprawling sand castle and amass huge armies to dominate the beach and become the one true crustacean nation!
Why similar: Action RTS 39.9% ★, RTS 20.3%, Base Building 18.3%, Resource Management 9.7%, Strategy 8.3%
- #43 Cyberwinter
73% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2021
Dev: Panda Pasha Games
Windows
Cyberwinter is an isometric action strategy game. On a distant planet with a harsh climate, you have to fight legions of dangerous monsters for a new home for humanity. Build bases, develop and defend them.
Why similar: Action RTS 35.3% ★, Base Building 16.1%, RTS 15%, Resource Management 11%, Sci-fi 7.4%
- #44 Roots Of Ruin
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Lison Studios
Windows
Build powerful defenses and fight beside them as the hero. Hold back relentless waves, adapt your strategy in real time, and face massive bosses that can destroy everything you’ve built.
Why similar: Action RTS 29.1% ★, RTS 19.5%, Tower Defense 19.2%, Base Building 13%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #45 Ant Guardians Prologue
70% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2025
Dev: JCGames
Windows
It’s a defense game where you create your own strategy, grow your units, and defend against enemies.
Why similar: Action RTS 35.3% ★, Tower Defense 23.7%, RTS 23.1%, Strategy 7.6%, Sci-fi 5.2%
- #46 Rise of the Cones: Planetary Defense
68% matchPositive92% of 26 reviews2026
Dev: Baris Lab
Windows
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 29.7%, RTS 22.8%, Base Building 19.2%, Strategy 10.9%, Sci-fi 9.5%
- #47 Rebellion Corporation
70% matchPositive93% of 15 reviews2023
Dev: OO Games
Windows
On planets occupied by robots, mine resources and escape while fending off their attacks! The Ark's survival is entirely in your hands. Many elite crews with abilities will assist you in your mission. The various turret modules are always doing their best to defend your base without your attention.
Why similar: Action RTS 28.7% ★, RTS 19.3%, Tower Defense 19%, Resource Management 8.3%, Base Building 8.2%
- #48 HYPER 2
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MutoXicated
Windows
Defend your tower for as long as you can from the aliens invading your space! Level up, earn money and new units, and strategically place them in the grid!
Why similar: Action RTS 35.2% ★, Tower Defense 23.4%, RTS 17.1%, Futuristic 6.7%, Sci-fi 6.5%
- #49 Space gold rush TD
69% matchNo user reviews2028
Dev: Bottled Pixel
Windows
Join in on the next gold rush and become a prospector in space. In this unique tower defense you can set up and reposition towers for maximum efficiency and adapt to the environment.
Why similar: Action RTS 30.6% ★, Tower Defense 22%, RTS 21.1%, Sci-fi 7.2%, Strategy 6.9%
- #50 Bacteria Wars
71% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2021
Dev: Patrick McGuinness
Windows
A real-time strategy game in which you fight to secure the victory of your Bacteria over the Cell Defense Force and other enemy Bacteria in a world where your units are your only resource, and where your mobile base will not be enough to keep you alive.
Why similar: Action RTS 33.2% ★, RTS 30.4%, Base Building 12.9%, Strategy 11.8%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #51 Age of Darkness: Final Stand
66% matchMostly Positive75% of 10,488 reviews2025
Dev: PlaySide
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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: Action RTS 30.7% ★, Tower Defense 19.5%, RTS 18.8%, Base Building 14.1%, Resource Management 7.4%
- #52 Necroflora
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dinoptique
Windows · Linux
A new evil has taken root - you. Become the Necroflora, an ever-growing many-headed hydra, feed upon your enemies, acquire powerful mutations and defeat the 4 kings and their armies.
Why similar: Action RTS 47% ★, Tower Defense 25.9%, Base Building 13.2%, Strategy 10.4%, Casual 1.9%
- #53 TechGuardian: Territory Defense
67% matchMixed70% of 26 reviews2025
Dev: Apex HorizonPub: Liquid Meow
Windows
This is a sci-fi strategy game featuring a Defense Mode focused on tower defense and an Attack Mode focused on combat. The game includes over 30 different buildings and units, all of which can be upgraded through entry editing to enhance their performance and firepower.
Why similar: Tower Defense 23.3%, RTS 22.9%, Base Building 13.4%, Resource Management 10.8%, Sci-fi 8.8%
- #54 Star Pulse:The War
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Star Pulse
Windows
Star Pulse: The War is an independent real-time strategy game that merges science fiction with fantasy. Players will command a sci-fi faction, harnessing the power of star pulse to gather resources, construct buildings, train troops, and nurture heroes in the fight against invading magical forces.
Why similar: RTS 33.6%, Action RTS 16.9% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Tower Defense 11.5%, Strategy 11.3%
- #55 Mechs V Kaijus 2
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Doble Punch Games
Windows
Mechs V Kaijus 2 is an Hybrid Tower/Base defense, with army vs army (tug of war style) tactics. From the cockpit of a mech, to build a huge base with Reactors, Mines and all type of tower army factories and super weapons.
Why similar: Action RTS 37.9% ★, Tower Defense 25.3%, Strategy 12.2%, Base Building 11.2%, Sci-fi 6.3%
- #56 Caxtilteca
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Perebite
Windows · Mac · Linux
A 1-4 player feudalism simulator: attack outlaws, rebellious ghosts, and fellow dukes in colonial Mexico.
Why similar: Action RTS 30.2% ★, Tower Defense 19.2%, RTS 16.5%, Base Building 13.7%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #57 They Fear The Mist
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Hidden Shadows Games
Windows
They Fear The Mist is a real-time strategy game, where you command your Troops, build your Settlement, fight off thousands of Enemies and explore the Unknowns of the Mist. Take command of your people and defend them from the incoming hordes… Can you survive?
Why similar: Action RTS 27.3% ★, RTS 21.3%, Tower Defense 17.4%, Base Building 15.3%, Resource Management 7.3%
- #58 Tempest Tower
65% matchVery Positive93% of 70 reviews2025
Dev: Half Past Yellow
Windows
Tempest Tower is an action packed tower defense platformer where you must brawl with incoming hordes of Creepers while herding the local critters to safety. Build, fight, upgrade, overcome.
Why similar: Action RTS 30.2% ★, Tower Defense 24.6%, Base Building 17.6%, Resource Management 12.2%, Strategy 6.9%