- #1 SENTRY
97% matchVery Positive82% of 882 reviews2024
Dev: Fireblade Software
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 73%
SENTRY is an action-defense first person shooter where you defend your spaceship against invading aliens. Plot an escape route through hostile space and battle the enemy across your vessel with the support of traps, turrets and environmental destruction.
Why similar: Tower Defense 40.7%, FPS 13.7%, Strategy 12.6%, Survival 10.3%, Sci-fi 10.3%
- #2 Artificial Defense
96% matchVery Positive82% of 210 reviews2016
Dev: Thiemo Bolder, ONEMANGAMES
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Artificial Defense is a one man made, real time strategy game combining orbital shooter and tower defense components within an electrifying, virtual reality setting. You are the machine, a mighty computer-system defending its servers against swarms of intruding creeps.
Why similar: Tower Defense 36.9%, Strategy 32.6%, Action 17%, Indie 13.6%
- #3 Dig or Die
96% matchVery Positive90% of 4,269 reviews2018
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.
Why similar: Tower Defense 31.2%, Survival 20%, Sandbox 18.3%, Strategy 10.2%, RPG 6.2%
- #4 Taur
95% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,092 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 61%, Strategy 17.7%, Sci-fi 8.8%, Action 7%, Indie 4.6%
- #5 Desperate Place
94% matchMostly Positive72% of 297 reviews2025
Dev: BruceGalaxy
Windows
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 46.8%, Strategy 15%, Survival 12.2%, Sci-fi 12.2%, Adventure 7.2%
- #6 Stellar Survivor
94% matchMixed66% of 175 reviews2019
Dev: Sticks & Stones
Windows
Stranded on an alien planet, you must defend your Powercore! Use your weapons to fight hordes of alien enemies and strategically use traps in this new FPS tower-defense survival game!
Why similar: Tower Defense 37.7%, Strategy 16.3%, Survival 9.8%, Action 9.6%, FPS 8.5%
- #7 Abyss Raiders: Uncharted
93% matchMixed41% of 176 reviews2015
Dev: DarkStar GamesPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Abyss Raiders: Uncharted is an action tower defence game, set in a future where robots are the dominant species in the universe. You will need to survive waves of fierce enemies whilst searching for the ancient ruins that have the power to prevent the second apocalypse.
Why similar: Tower Defense 42.6%, Strategy 29.6%, Action 10.9%, Adventure 9.7%, Indie 7.1%
- #8 Notrium
92% matchVery Positive94% of 72 reviews2015
Dev: Ville Mönkkönen
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 36%
You have crash-landed on Notrium. Your food supplies are running low, and a pack of predatory aliens have your scent. You're out of bullets for your pistol, your only weapon a handful of rocks. A freezing night is setting in, and you are desperately looking for firewood. Can you survive?
Why similar: Survival 24.3%, RPG 20.9%, Action 16.1%, Adventure 13.7%, Sci-fi 13%
- #9 Infested Planet
91% matchVery Positive94% of 3,025 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 50.3%, Strategy 24.5%, Sci-fi 9%, Action 8.9%, Indie 5.6%
- #10 Block Fortress 2
91% matchVery Positive82% of 263 reviews2025
Dev: Foursaken Media
Windows · Mac
Choose a planet, build your fortress, and prepare for war. Arm yourself with powerful weapons, deploy troops, and defend your stronghold against relentless attacks. In this action-packed block-builder, survival is earned, and only the strongest will remain.
Why similar: Tower Defense 44%, FPS 17.2%, Sandbox 13.5%, Action 10.7%, First-Person 5.8%
- #11 Minimalist Tower Defense
89% matchVery Positive95% of 1,746 reviews2024
Dev: Happy213
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Collect resources and establish a defense line before dark And then Facing countless enemies
Why similar: Tower Defense 55.4%, Strategy 16.2%, Resource Management 9.8%, Survival 9.6%, Difficult 4.2%
- #12 Astro Looter: Survivor
90% matchMostly Positive70% of 425 reviews2024
Dev: Soda Game Studio
Windows · Mac
Explore alien planets to mine resources, kill alien insects, build defense turrets, and survive waves of insect attacks across the galactic frontier. Astro Looter combines elements of survival, roguelike, and tower defense in a top-down shooter.
Why similar: Tower Defense 43.1%, FPS 14.5%, Survival 12.8%, RPG 12.4%, Adventure 7.6%
- #13 Beacon of Neyda
88% matchVery Positive90% of 52 reviews2025
Dev: Ghost Creative Studio
Windows · Linux
In a world where a robot revolution failed, the last humans search for a way to survive and escape. Beacon of Neyda is a side-scrolling action-strategy game where you must survive waves of enemies while creating and upgrading your base as you explore a world in ruins.
Why similar: Tower Defense 42.8%, Strategy 16.8%, Sci-fi 9.2%, Survival 8.6%, Action 8%
- #14 LIFE EFFECT Survival
87% matchVery Positive88% of 453 reviews2026
Dev: LIFE EFFECTPub: EFFECT STUDIO
Windows
Survive in a harsh and dangerous world after an alien invasion. Gather resources, craft equipment, fight mutants and massive monsters, use weapons, vehicles and robots, explore territories, defend strongholds and fight for survival.
Why similar: FPS 26.7%, Sandbox 22.7%, Survival 21.9%, Action 14.5%, Adventure 14.1%
- #15 PolyCore Defense
89% matchVery Positive90% of 58 reviews2022
Dev: TorksGame
Windows
PolyCore Defense is a tower defense game where you have to raise your defenses in order to defend your core. Build unique turrets, upgrade them with special effects and use abilities to survive waves of enemies that are trying to destroy your core!
Why similar: Tower Defense 53.2%, Strategy 15.6%, Difficult 11.4%, Action 7.4%, Survival 5.4%
- #16 Lumencraft
86% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,273 reviews2023
Dev: 2Dynamic GamesPub: Star Drifters
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Lumencraft is a unique combination of a top-down, rogue-like shooter and base building with tower defense elements. Dig and light up dark halls of a fully destructible environment on procedurally generated maps and campaign levels to find precious Lumen - humanity's only chance for survival.
Why similar: Tower Defense 39.4%, Sandbox 13.3%, Strategy 12.4%, Survival 10.8%, RPG 10.7%
- #17 Project Astra Dominium
85% matchVery Positive90% of 88 reviews2024
Dev: Snob Entertainment UG
Windows · Mac · Linux
Project Astra Dominium is a Tower Defense game with Basebuilding and Automation elements. Build up your base to become a supply hub for Earth's desperately needed materials, gather resources while defending against an unknown alien threat and improve your tower's and AI capabilities.
Why similar: Tower Defense 53.3%, Strategy 14.4%, Resource Management 12.9%, Sci-fi 10.9%, Indie 6.8%
- #18 Dome Keeper
82% matchVery Positive92% of 20,921 reviews2022
Dev: BippinbitsPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Defend against waves of alien monsters in this unique roguelike action miner. Dig for resources, collect useful gadgets, and upgrade equipment to increase odds of survival – just hurry back before your dome is destroyed!
Why similar: Tower Defense 46.2%, Sci-fi 16%, Resource Management 14.8%, Action 12.4%, Adventure 7.9%
- #19 Planetoid
86% matchMixed53% of 107 reviews2017
Dev: GameWriterStudioPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Planetoid is a physics based building game in which you construct facilities and protect humanoids on the planetoid. Build a facilities which can defeat the enemies on your way.
Why similar: Tower Defense 35.5%, Strategy 18.6%, Indie 15.4%, Action 10.6%, Adventure 10.2%
- #20 FortressCraft Evolved!
84% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,057 reviews2015
Dev: ProjectorGamesPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
Why similar: Sandbox 19.1%, Tower Defense 18%, Survival 15.5%, Strategy 14%, RPG 10.8%
- #21 EVOTINCTION
81% matchVery Positive89% of 227 reviews2024
Dev: Spikewave GamesPub: Astrolabe Games
Windows
In 'Evotinction', a third-person hacking and stealth game, you are Dr. Liu, the only one who can stop rogue AIs in a futuristic research facility. Use a variety of hacking skills to overcome robotic threats and uncover the secrets that hold the key to humanity's survival or its potential extinction.
Why similar: RPG 28.2%, Sci-fi 24%, Strategy 23%, Adventure 12.5%, Action 9.8%
- #22 Fragmented
84% matchMixed43% of 1,964 reviews2017
Dev: Above and Beyond Technologies
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Stranded in a hostile alien world, you must fight to survive. Hunt, harvest, craft, advance skills, and build using local resources along with technology from your voyage.
Why similar: Survival 31.7%, Sandbox 15.5%, RPG 14.8%, Sci-fi 10.8%, Action 10.2%
- #23 DOTFI
83% matchMixed57% of 51 reviews2020
Dev: Open World Interactive
Windows
Do you have what it takes to defend what is yours? This is not a typical tower defense game where the troops do all the work. This is a hybrid FPS/TPS tower defense game which you take over the control to defend your island.
Why similar: Tower Defense 41.6%, Strategy 14.8%, Survival 9.6%, FPS 9.6%, Action 9.4%
- #24 Anomaly: Warzone Earth
82% matchVery Positive87% of 4,676 reviews2011
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 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 45.8%, Strategy 28.7%, Sci-fi 9.7%, Action 8%, Indie 6.6%
- #25 2112TD: Tower Defense Survival
80% matchVery Positive88% of 435 reviews2023
Dev: Refinery Games
Windows
Get ready for the ULTIMATE tower defense onslaught. Build, deploy, research and upgrade your defenses in this epic, old school RTS inspired sci-fi adventure.
Why similar: Tower Defense 49.3%, Strategy 15.1%, Sci-fi 13.1%, Survival 13%, Action 7.7%
- #26 IRON GUARD
79% matchVery Positive95% of 151 reviews2021
Dev: Xlab Digital
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A sci-fi roomscale VR Tower Defense game. Strategize to destroy waves of rogue robots and assist the powerful turrets with a handheld drone. Build and collect resources and help evacuate your crew from the alien planet.
Why similar: Tower Defense 50.2%, Strategy 15.8%, Sci-fi 13.4%, Action 8.1%, Survival 7.9%
- #27 ReEarth
78% matchMostly Positive75% of 117 reviews2024
Dev: Jiangzuogongfang Shanghai Game Co.,Ltd
Windows
ReEarth is an exciting TD & (RTS) indie game. Here, you will play as humanity's last hope. You will fend off the oncoming swarms by continuously building your base and dispatching various types of units. Prepare for the challenge and save the future of humanity!
Why similar: Tower Defense 59.1%, Strategy 21%, RPG 18.7%, Singleplayer 1.2%
- #28 Freaking Meatbags
79% matchVery Positive86% of 173 reviews2015
Dev: Wild FactorPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 37%
Land on a planet, pick up some rocks, leave before the solar system explodes. Oh, and don't die in the nightly robot attacks! Freaking Meatbags is a humorous real-time strategy game that's all about building a base, mixing meatbag DNA, then convincing those dolts to help you gather resources.
Why similar: Tower Defense 47.7%, Strategy 19.8%, Sci-fi 7.3%, Action 7.2%, Survival 6.1%
- #29 Defend Earth: Xenos Survivors
77% matchMostly Positive79% of 61 reviews2023
Dev: ReijaPub: indie.io
Windows
You are Earth's last line of defense in a relentless alien invasion. Experience intense top-down roguelite action across diverse landscapes, fighting invaders with a versatile arsenal. Outsmart, outgun, and survive your foes. Every run increases the challenge - so adapt, evolve, dominate!
Why similar: RPG 22%, Survival 21.5%, Sci-fi 19.9%, Action 13.1%, Adventure 12.4%
- #30 Stellar Initiative
76% matchMostly Positive77% of 401 reviews2024
Dev: Five Head Games
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Stellar Initiative is a roguelike tower defense game where you land on the planet and use your orbit ship to deliver buildings and support you with fire. Complete missions, install new upgrades, discover powerful artifacts, and find the best strategy!
Why similar: Tower Defense 57.4%, Strategy 16.4%, Sci-fi 13.5%, Difficult 11.9%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #31 The Spotter: Dig or Die
74% matchVery Positive87% of 1,459 reviews2026
Dev: Puppyroar GamesPub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Dig by day, fight by night in this blend of mining and Tower Defense. As the last Spotter at a ruined gas station, hold back mutant hordes, scavenge the wasteland, and repair your receiver to capture the President’s vital message and humanity’s last hope.
Why similar: Tower Defense 50.9%, Sandbox 14.7%, Survival 14.6%, First-Person 9.9%, Adventure 8.2%
- #32 Decision: Red Daze
77% matchMostly Positive74% of 880 reviews2022
Dev: FlyAnvilPub: Nordcurrent Labs
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Decision: Red Daze is an action RPG with a unique mix of survival and tower defense mechanics. Explore an apocalyptic wasteland, build a safe haven, and lead your team of specialists in a hopeless world, searching for a cure for the infectious disease that turns people into monsters.
Why similar: Tower Defense 43.9%, Survival 16.7%, RPG 16.2%, Action 10.3%, Strategy 8.3%
- #33 Frontline Zed
78% matchMixed59% of 336 reviews2019
Dev: Richard EastPub: Volcanic Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Defend your fortified barricade by night, collect weapons and conduct repairs by day. Survive long enough to make your way through America and towards rescue.
Why similar: Tower Defense 49.1%, Strategy 17.2%, Survival 14.6%, Action 10%, Indie 7.4%
- #34 Machine Mind
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 484 reviews2026
Dev: Chudo-Yudo GamesPub: Targem Games
Windows · Mac
Machine Mind is an action game in a post-apocalyptic setting with elements of survival and RTS. You will fight, craft modules, build your transport, develop and protect your base. You can control other vehicles to automate operations. Discover all the secrets of the destroyed world!
Why similar: Tower Defense 38.4%, RPG 12%, Strategy 11.6%, Resource Management 11.3%, Survival 11.1%
- #35 Deep Among the Swarm
73% matchVery Positive88% of 138 reviews2024
Dev: Pebble Mountain Games
Windows
Deep Among the Swarm is a challenging survival RTS roguelite about surviving against thousands of enemies. Drill ever deeper underground while fighting the endless onslaught of the Swarm. Can you save humanity?
Why similar: Tower Defense 47.4%, Strategy 14.3%, Resource Management 14.1%, Survival 13.9%, Difficult 4.8%
- #36 Alien Marauder
75% matchMixed63% of 341 reviews2021
Dev: Vexan Studio
Windows
“Alien Marauder” is a real-time strategy game with survival and confrontation theme. In this game, you will be the leader to a treacherous alien planet, build and defend base to survive against the vexan waves. Make the right decision!
Why similar: Tower Defense 40.5%, Strategy 15.5%, Survival 14.4%, Resource Management 14.4%, Sci-fi 13.5%
- #37 Tower Factory
71% matchVery Positive89% of 1,199 reviews2024
Dev: Gius Caminiti
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Tower Factory is a tower defense and automation game with roguelite elements. Optimize resource production using conveyor systems while defending against monster waves. Can you find and destroy the enemy tower before it's too late?
Why similar: Tower Defense 57%, Strategy 17%, Resource Management 15.3%, Sandbox 9.3%, Singleplayer 1.4%
- #38 Pixel Gladiator
74% matchVery Positive82% of 455 reviews2017
Dev: Flying Islands Team
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Distant future… Brutal gladiatorial battles is a top-rated show, extremely popular all over the Universe. You’ve been sent to the abandoned planet as one of the participants of the show. Your goal is to survive as long as possible, fighting back deadly creatures in the focus of billions of viewers.
Why similar: Tower Defense 45.5%, Action 13%, Survival 10.9%, Sci-fi 10.4%, Difficult 9.8%
- #39 IDUN - Frontline Survival
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 690 reviews2025
Dev: IDUN InteractivePub: Surefire.Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A defense RTS where you can move turrets at will. Extract resources, upgrade technology, and defend against enemy swarms in a gripping space campaign. Hold the line, set up your turrets, and brace for screen-filling hordes!
Why similar: Tower Defense 45.3%, Strategy 14.1%, Survival 12.7%, Sci-fi 12.1%, Adventure 7.3%
- #40 Defense: Abominations
75% matchMostly Positive74% of 54 reviews2018
Dev: Ominous Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Defense: Abominations is a first person tower defense game where you try to survive the abominations stored in the laboratory, as long as you can.
Why similar: Tower Defense 31.2%, Strategy 21.3%, Action 12.9%, Survival 10.4%, Indie 9.2%
- #41 AI: Rampage
76% matchMostly Negative40% of 543 reviews2016
Dev: Sekerin ProductionsPub: New Reality Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Fight against the robots and reclaim the land! Attempt to survive in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, where it seems like everything wants you dead! Tactical stealth action in a post-apocalyptic settings!
Why similar: Indie 70.6%, Strategy 19.3%, Action 10.1%
- #42 Black blood
73% matchMixed66% of 58 reviews2020
Dev: Arcane Games
Windows
Black blood is a mix of hardcore Tower Defense strategy and top-down shooter. Act as a defender against alien invaders, attack and destroy all their insidious plans...
Why similar: Tower Defense 42.9%, Strategy 13.2%, Resource Management 12.5%, Survival 11.4%, Difficult 7.8%
- #43 Volcanoids
70% matchVery Positive83% of 9,267 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: FPS 22.7%, Sandbox 19.8%, Survival 19.5%, First-Person 14.1%, Action 11.3%
- #44 Siege of Centauri
72% matchMixed66% of 449 reviews2019
Dev: Stardock Entertainment
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 43%
Defend against thousands of enemies in this explosive tower defense game. Deploy upgradable towers and unleash powerful orbital abilities as you try to protect Earth's first colony world from destruction.
Why similar: Tower Defense 60.5%, Strategy 17.7%, Sci-fi 13%, Action 8.7%
- #45 Bee Island
68% matchVery Positive86% of 1,613 reviews2023
Dev: Lemma Arts
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Take control of the hive and protect it from enemies. Build factories and defence, research technologies and, if necessary, use nuclear weapons, but do not let the enemies harm the queen!
Why similar: Tower Defense 49.4%, Resource Management 14.7%, Strategy 13.3%, Sci-fi 12.2%, Action 8.5%
- #46 The Last Caretaker
66% matchVery Positive86% of 11,047 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 17.2 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.
Why similar: Survival 21.9%, Resource Management 21.6%, Sandbox 20.6%, Sci-fi 18%, First-Person 15.1%
- #47 Trashed
72% matchMixed47% of 147 reviews2021
Dev: Josh PresseisenPub: Crescent Moon Games
Windows
Take over a disfunctional Waste Management Facility on a distant planet. Build incinerators, recyclers, robots, turrets, and more. Battle vicious creatures on the planet's surface with powerful weapons!
Why similar: Strategy 26.7%, Action 25%, Indie 17.3%, Adventure 14.7%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #48 Outpost: Infinity Siege
68% matchMixed65% of 13,570 reviews2024
Dev: Team RangerPub: Lightning Games
Windows
Median: 16.5 hrsMean: 41.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Command Mobile Outpost and take XEN Firearm to venture deep into the Signet surveillance off-limit area. Collect unique Weapon Units. Amp up the firepower of the Outpost that fights with you. This is an FTD game - FPS, Tower Defense, Base Building and much more all at the same time.
Why similar: Tower Defense 38.3%, FPS 13.3%, Resource Management 11.6%, Strategy 10.9%, Sci-fi 10.1%
- #49 Towerful Defense: Prologue
68% matchVery Positive88% of 75 reviews2024
Dev: Mini Fun Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A tower defense action roguelike where you control a single tower to fight against hordes of aliens coming from all directions. Pick your tower, equip up to 4 skills, and choose from a variety of traits and items to craft powerful builds that lead you to victory.
Why similar: Tower Defense 50.1%, Strategy 15.9%, RPG 13.5%, Survival 10.7%, Action 8.5%
- #50 Craterbound
70% matchMixed54% of 99 reviews2022
Dev: Daniel Marquez
Windows
Crash-land onto a unique and hostile alien world and begin your fight to survive. Face its inhabitants, upgrade your technology, create outposts & bases, and find a way to repair your ship. Explore the beautifully strange terrain, all while blasting and crafting your way off of the planet.
Why similar: Survival 28.2%, Sci-fi 21.8%, Sandbox 18.9%, First-Person 15.7%, FPS 13%
- #51 BARRICADEZ
69% matchMostly Positive80% of 144 reviews2021
Dev: Fly Penguin inc.
Windows · Mac
Barricadez is a mix of tower defense and survival game. Take on your care robot and explore the underground, find new blueprints, gather resources and build your defenses and traps to survive through the night against a myriad of zombie-like creatures. Your goal: to defend the defenseless cradle.
Why similar: Tower Defense 50.3%, Strategy 16.6%, Resource Management 14.4%, Survival 10.5%, Indie 6.5%
- #52 Outpost Zero
71% matchMixed49% of 850 reviews2019
Dev: Symmetric GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Outpost Zero blends the genres of Multiplayer Base Building Survival and Simulation games in a Sci-Fi universe. On a lawless alien world, robotic scouts are tasked with building an Outpost for human colonists. Command AI minions, colonize the planet, and survive the perils of Gaiya.
Why similar: Survival 29.6%, Adventure 19.5%, Action 19.3%, Indie 12.4%, Sandbox 10.3%
- #53 Signal Zone
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 84 reviews2026
Dev: Norafox Studio
Windows
Defend your base against increasingly dangerous enemy waves each night in this minimalist survival strategy. Mine resources, build and repair defenses, and upgrade your structures, tools, and abilities to survive in this harsh world.
Why similar: Tower Defense 50.6%, Strategy 23.1%, Resource Management 13.8%, Difficult 7.3%, Action 4.7%
- #54 X-Morph: Defense
67% matchVery Positive91% of 4,115 reviews2017
Dev: EXOR Studios
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Unique fusion of a top-down shooter and tower defense strategy. You are the invader! Use destructive weapons or lead your enemies into a maze of towers. Strategize in the build mode by carefully selecting various types of alien towers or throw yourself right into the heat of the battle.
Why similar: Tower Defense 55.9%, Strategy 14.2%, Sci-fi 9.8%, Action 7.2%, Difficult 6.8%
- #55 Project Asteroids
67% matchMixed57% of 129 reviews2024
Dev: Aleksandr Serdiuk
Windows
In the vastness of space, you are a lone robot desperately trying to survive. Build, explore, and fight for your life as you face deadly threats in the asteroid belt. This hardcore game shows no mercy—dangers lurk at every step, ready to destroy you at any moment.
Why similar: Survival 26.3%, FPS 25.5%, First-Person 12.4%, Action 12.3%, Adventure 9.3%
- #56 GearStorm - Armored Survival
69% matchMixed56% of 82 reviews2019
Dev: Iron City Games
Windows · Mac
GearStorm - Armored Survival is a story-driven, open-world sci-fi survival adventure. Discover what led to the Phage, a deadly virus apocalypse and our escape to a alien world. Explore a vast alien planet, build your base, create your colony, acquire vehicles, weapons, and supplies to defend it.
Why similar: Strategy 22.9%, RPG 21.7%, Action 14.3%, Survival 13.1%, Adventure 12.3%
- #57 Defendoooooor!!
69% matchMixed45% of 69 reviews2017
Dev: White Dog GamesPub: SA Industry
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 47%
In Defendoooooor!!!, it's your job to fight an alien invasion.
Why similar: Tower Defense 34%, Action 17.5%, Adventure 15.9%, Indie 12.1%, Sci-fi 10.6%
- #58 MarZ: Tactical Base Defense
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 890 reviews2019
Dev: Giant Grey
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Build your defense base to fight back the undead hordes of Mars and secure the future of the red planet. MarZ is a game of strategy and tactical defense where you must carefully manage your crew and resources as you try to uncover the terrible secrets of the undead.
Why similar: Tower Defense 55.3%, Strategy 18.7%, Sci-fi 7.8%, Resource Management 6.3%, Difficult 5.9%
- #59 Depth of Extinction
67% matchMostly Positive75% of 209 reviews2018
Dev: HOF Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Explore a flooded world and save humanity from a terrible threat in this turn based, tactical RPG with roguelike elements
Why similar: Strategy 36.4%, RPG 35.3%, Sci-fi 24.9%, Singleplayer 3.4%