- #1 Artificial Extinction
97% matchMostly Positive76% of 264 reviews2020
Dev: 100Hr Games Inc
Windows
You have 9 days to find a safe place on the planet. Your ship is low on fuel and you have to land. Setup sentry guns around you to defend yourself while you collect more fuel for the ship. AI controlled Drones and Tanks attack you trying to find weaknesses in your defenses.
Why similar: Tower Defense 50.6%, FPS 17.8%, Sandbox 14.3%, First-Person 8.8%, Action 8.5%
- #2 Towerful Defense: A Rogue TD
96% matchMostly Positive74% of 237 reviews2024
Dev: Mini Fun Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 68%
A roguelike tower defense 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 unique effect items to craft powerful builds that lead you to victory.
Why similar: Tower Defense 53.9%, Top-Down Shooter 29.9%, Top-Down 11.2%, Action 4.9%
- #3 X-Morph: Defense
96% matchVery Positive91% of 4,137 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 30.2%, Aliens 14.2%, Top-Down Shooter 13.9%, Isometric 12.7%, Futuristic 11.3%
- #4 Block Fortress 2
94% matchVery Positive82% of 265 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 30.7%, FPS 21.8%, Sandbox 20.2%, Shooter 11.8%, Action 6%
- #5 Armed to the Gears
95% matchMixed63% of 215 reviews2020
Dev: Deonn Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Control a fully armed Mech and fight through cyberpunk cities, military bases and industrial ruins. Capture and defend territories, build turrets and structures, and wage war against powerful enemies!
Why similar: Tower Defense 22.1%, RTS 22%, Top-Down Shooter 18.3%, Isometric 11.5%, Shooter 9.4%
- #6 Acid Planet
94% matchVery Positive80% of 70 reviews2024
Dev: Adam Travers
Windows
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: Action RTS 27.4% ★, Tower Defense 22.4%, RTS 18.9%, Top-Down Shooter 12.7%, Building 11%
- #7 Artificial Defense
93% 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 73.2%, Action 26.8%
- #8 Frontline Crisis
91% matchVery Positive88% of 389 reviews2024
Dev: BCQTPub: Gamersky Games
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Defend humanity's last hope, pilot a powerful mech, in Frontlines Crisis! A battlefield swarming with insects makes strategic and combat decisions crucial. Each decision will determine your fate. Defend humanity's last sanctuary, fight fiercely, and uphold human honor with wits and courage!
Why similar: Tower Defense 27.8%, Action RTS 25.7% ★, RTS 25.6%, Top-Down Shooter 20.8%
- #9 Out of Ammo
92% matchVery Positive84% of 740 reviews2016
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Out of Ammo is an intense VR Tower Defense / FPS hybrid strategy game that will have you constructing defenses, calling in artillery, issuing orders, and taking direct control of your soldiers in order to survive a relentless enemy onslaught.
Why similar: Tower Defense 29.5%, Military 24.2%, FPS 18.6%, Shooter 12%, First-Person 7.4%
- #10 Northend Tower Defense
89% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,442 reviews2024
Dev: Northend Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Jump into a realtime strategy, action filled battlefield, deploy relentless soldiers, unlock powerful troops and vehicles, upgrade your army, decimate the enemy. If that's not enough, jump into a chaotic Zombie mode, with traps, fun upgrades, and a new gameplay!
Why similar: Action RTS 32.1% ★, Tower Defense 26.3%, Military 18.8%, Artificial Intelligence 17.8%, Action 2.7%
- #11 IDUN - Frontline Survival
89% matchMostly Positive79% of 702 reviews2025
Dev: IDUN InteractivePub: Surefire.Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 27.8%, RTS 27.1%, Building 23.8%, Top-Down 10.1%, 3D 7.8%
- #12 Warfront Defenders
91% matchMixed42% of 53 reviews2017
Dev: Flying Robot Studios
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
The gameplay is inspired by famous last stands from some of history's deadliest conflicts, such as the Second World War and the Sino-Japanese War. A hybrid of Tower Defense and Real-Time Strategy with a lot of replay value.
Why similar: Action RTS 27.8% ★, RTS 21.8%, Tower Defense 20.3%, Military 11.4%, Artificial Intelligence 10.3%
- #13 Stellar Survivor
90% 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 27.3%, Aliens 16.3%, RTS 14.1%, FPS 11.2%, Shooter 8.2%
- #14 TDS - Tower Defense Strategy
88% matchVery Positive81% of 366 reviews2025
Dev: Blockage
Windows · Mac · Linux
TOWER ▪ DEFENSE ▪ STRATEGY. Control Vessels. Utilize their uniquely deep set of towers. Create an everchanging defense. Play with friends. Protect your Basin at all costs. An absolute Tower Defense, Real-Time Strategy Hybrid
Why similar: Action RTS 28.3% ★, Tower Defense 26.9%, RTS 26.6%, Building 14.8%, 3D 3.4%
- #15 No Creeps Were Harmed TD
86% matchVery Positive89% of 492 reviews2024
Dev: MinMax Games Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Employ lethal turrets, traps, and gadgets to defend against an onslaught of evolving creeps! Step into a twisted, hyper 3D, mind bending realm. Upgrade and adapt your defenses. Become a master maze crafter. Collect bizarre artifacts. Rush creeps for lucrative rewards, and succumb to greed!
Why similar: Tower Defense 29.7%, Action RTS 28.2% ★, Aliens 14.4%, Futuristic 10.4%, Building 10.4%
- #16 IRON GUARD
87% matchVery Positive95% of 153 reviews2021
Dev: Xlab Digital
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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: Action RTS 23.2% ★, Tower Defense 20.2%, RTS 19.8%, Military 12.4%, Futuristic 9.8%
- #17 2112TD: Tower Defense Survival
85% matchVery Positive87% of 439 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 37.9%, Isometric 23.2%, Aliens 21.3%, Top-Down 12.8%, Action 4.7%
- #18 Super Sanctum TD
86% matchVery Positive86% of 1,577 reviews2013
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 33.9 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Super Sanctum TD is a retro-styled Tower Defense game that focuses on strategy, customization and replayability. Build advanced mazes and construct powerful towers to prevent alien hordes from reaching the Core!
Why similar: Tower Defense 40.7%, Isometric 20.5%, Aliens 17.5%, Futuristic 14.6%, Top-Down 3.7%
- #19 Sanctum 2
84% matchVery Positive90% of 14,384 reviews2013
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Sanctum 2 is the sequel to the world’s first Tower Defense/FPS hybrid game. Pick from four unique character classes and embark on a mission to protect the oxygen-producing Cores from hordes of deadly aliens who are threatened by their existence.
Why similar: Tower Defense 53.3%, FPS 23.7%, Aliens 6%, Futuristic 5.1%, Shooter 4.6%
- #20 Tower Dominion
82% matchVery Positive86% of 5,160 reviews2025
Dev: Parallel 45 Games
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 21.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 28.8%, RTS 22.4%, Military 13.1%, Building 12.6%, Isometric 11.3%
- #21 Outpost: Infinity Siege
83% matchMixed65% of 13,600 reviews2024
Dev: Team RangerPub: Lightning Games
Windows
Median: 16.2 hrsMean: 41.5 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 25.1%, RTS 21.2%, Military 20.5%, FPS 15.7%, Shooter 9.3%
- #22 DOTFI
84% 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 38.7%, FPS 16.2%, Shooter 16.1%, Realistic 16.1%, Action 6.9%
- #23 Astro Looter: Survivor
81% matchMostly Positive70% of 428 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 24.9%, Top-Down Shooter 19.5%, FPS 15.2%, Realistic 11.5%, Shooter 10.9%
- #24 Black blood
82% 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 30.2%, Aliens 22.3%, Building 18.5%, Shooter 12.7%, Top-Down 12.4%
- #25 Eximius: Seize the Frontline
79% matchMostly Positive73% of 740 reviews2021
Dev: Ammobox Studios
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
EXIMIUS is a FPS/RTS hybrid that focuses on squad-based combat. The game features an intense 5v5 multiplayer experience with each team comprising of 4 Squad Officers and one Commander.
Why similar: RTS 20.4%, Military 17.6%, Isometric 16.2%, FPS 13%, Futuristic 12.6%
- #26 Towerful Defense: Prologue
78% 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: Action RTS 28% ★, Tower Defense 26.1%, RTS 21.1%, Aliens 13.6%, Top-Down 7.7%
- #27 Siege of Centauri
80% matchMixed66% of 450 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 40.1%, Isometric 28.4%, Aliens 20.2%, 3D 6.7%, Action 4.6%
- #28 Executive Assault 2
77% matchVery Positive83% of 1,751 reviews2023
Dev: Hesketh Studios Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
The RTS/FPS phenomenon has moved into space! Build your base on an asteroid, command fleets of starships for epic battles, pilot fighters, mine and trade resources, assemble robots to defend or assault other stations. Take sole command or share the glory as you fight for control of the quadrant.
Why similar: RTS 31.7%, Action RTS 21.3% ★, Building 18.1%, FPS 13.8%, Shooter 6.9%
- #29 Nuclear Dawn
79% matchMostly Positive78% of 2,489 reviews2011
Dev: GameConnectPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Explore war-torn post-apocalyptic landscapes and take fight against enemies using various weapons in this FPS/RTS hybrid.
Why similar: RTS 29.4%, FPS 22.3%, Futuristic 14.3%, Shooter 10.7%, Top-Down 8.2%
- #30 SENTRY
76% matchVery Positive82% of 893 reviews2024
Dev: Fireblade Software
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 36%, FPS 22.1%, Aliens 17.4%, Shooter 8.6%, First-Person 7%
- #31 Executive Assault
78% matchVery Positive85% of 1,457 reviews2015
Dev: Hesketh Studios Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Executive Assault is an indie real-time strategy/first-person shooter where you can not only build your base and create armies, but also take control of your units and fight as one of them.
Why similar: RTS 49.8%, FPS 25.2%, Shooter 10.6%, Action 5.9%, First-Person 5.4%
- #32 Taur
77% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,099 reviews2020
Dev: Echo Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 48.6%, RTS 20.5%, Futuristic 10.8%, Top-Down Shooter 10.4%, Top-Down 5.3%
- #33 Axon TD: Uprising - Tower Defense
75% matchVery Positive86% of 758 reviews2024
Dev: Element Studios
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Axon TD lets you expand the map boundaries themselves. A huge arsenal of towers and a wide variety of enemies clash in a battlefield that grows to your whims. Engage in single, cooperative, and roguelite gameplay.
Why similar: Tower Defense 43.3%, RTS 35.1%, Building 17.9%, 3D 3.7%
- #34 Cluckmech Oasis
74% matchVery Positive88% of 3,555 reviews2024
Dev: BlackLightPub: Mammorize
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Cluckmech Oasis, a top-down shooting Roguelike tower defense game. Play as the Warcluck and lead your team of animal heroes in a fight for survival. Collect, build and upgrade defenses, and engage in intense battle against waves of plant enemies.
Why similar: Tower Defense 32.8%, Top-Down Shooter 24.5%, Building 18.7%, Shooter 11.3%, Top-Down 8.9%
- #35 Operation: Polygon Storm
74% matchMostly Positive70% of 291 reviews2024
Dev: Toxic Studio
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 50%
A fastpaced, military tug-of-war game with minimal micromanagement. Choose and deploy from a mix of specialized military units to overwhelm the enemy. Experiment with a huge variety of unit compositions, synergies, abilities, and upgrades to lead your army to victory!
Why similar: Action RTS 31.5% ★, Tower Defense 20.4%, RTS 19.6%, Military 15.5%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #36 Astral Lords
73% matchVery Positive82% of 101 reviews2026
Dev: Dark DimensionPub: 量子艺界(QUANTUM ARTS)
Windows
Shatter genre boundaries in this sci-fi survival Roguelite blending bullet-hell action and base-building RTS. Dodge and unleash screen-clearing firepower against alien hordes, while constructing fortresses and real-time automated defenses to crush your enemies.
Why similar: Tower Defense 45.3%, Military 32.9%, Shooter 15.7%, Action 6%
- #37 Firebase Defence
76% matchMostly Positive74% of 62 reviews2019
Dev: Rasmus Agergaard
Windows
Firebase Defence is a new spin on the traditional tower defence gameplay. You have to defend yourself from the waves upon waves of incoming enemies. You are free to build, place and manage your available resources and units in any way you want. But failing to balance those will result in defeat!
Why similar: Tower Defense 46.1%, RTS 21.5%, Building 12.9%, Top-Down 10.4%, Action 9.1%
- #38 AI War 2
73% matchVery Positive88% of 1,550 reviews2019
Dev: Arcen Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
The most devious and acclaimed artificial intelligence in strategy gaming is better than ever. A grand strategy/RTS hybrid that reverses many conventions of both genres. Take territory without attracting attention, build your empire with care, and adapt to an ever-evolving galactic battleground.
Why similar: Tower Defense 30.1%, RTS 29.5%, Military 25.3%, Sandbox 15.2%
- #39 HYPERNOVA: Escape from Hadea
75% matchVery Positive80% of 82 reviews2017
Dev: ActaLogic
Windows · Mac · Linux
A colorful but challenging blend of classic RTS and tower defense. Build, expand, research, and defend your alien colony as you race to construct a teleportation device and escape a dying star.
Why similar: Tower Defense 31.1%, RTS 28.8%, Top-Down 11%, Building 10.9%, Aliens 9.9%
- #40 Machine Mind
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 534 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: Action RTS 26.3% ★, Tower Defense 23.1%, Isometric 17.9%, Building 14.3%, Sandbox 12.5%
- #41 Alien Marauder
73% 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: RTS 23%, Military 20.1%, Tower Defense 18.3%, Building 13.9%, Aliens 12.2%
- #42 Lumencraft
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,280 reviews2023
Dev: 2Dynamic GamesPub: Star Drifters
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 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 28.7%, Top-Down Shooter 21.4%, Sandbox 20.7%, Realistic 12.8%, Shooter 11.3%
- #43 Defend Earth: Xenos Survivors
72% matchMostly Positive77% 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: Top-Down Shooter 26.2%, Military 24.9%, Aliens 21.4%, Futuristic 18.3%, 3D 4.7%
- #44 Project Astra Dominium
70% 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 44.1%, Aliens 30.3%, Futuristic 20.3%, 3D 5.3%
- #45 Artisan TD
68% matchVery Positive87% of 2,460 reviews2024
Dev: 4rtisansPub: Unexpected
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Artisan TD is a puzzle-oriented Tower Defense game where you must survive by building mazes.
Why similar: Tower Defense 54.8%, Building 28.6%, Top-Down 11.6%, 3D 5%
- #46 Infested Planet
70% matchVery Positive94% of 3,032 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 36.4%, RTS 32.9%, Top-Down 13%, Aliens 12.6%, Action 5.1%
- #47 Cyber Tower 2048
69% matchVery Positive87% of 101 reviews2025
Dev: Galactic Geckon
Windows
Cyber Tower 2048 is an action tower defense game where players fight insectoids by building defenses and developing tactics.
Why similar: Tower Defense 72.5%, Top-Down 15%, Action 12.5%
- #48 SHOOPER NOVA
68% matchVery Positive85% of 641 reviews2025
Dev: JamesikaPub: Gamersky Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Craft Your Ultimate Circular Fortress! Dive into SHOOPER NOVA, where you choose props and components to build a unique fortress. Unlock combos to shape your strategy and battle style. Become an unstoppable barrage machine and obliterate waves of enemies from all directions!
Why similar: Tower Defense 58.2%, Top-Down Shooter 18.7%, Top-Down 14.7%, Action 8.5%
- #49 Desperate Place
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 299 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 26.1%, Top-Down Shooter 21.1%, Building 15.7%, Futuristic 15.6%, Shooter 11.2%
- #50 Dark Prospect
70% matchMixed69% of 104 reviews2023
Dev: CashcowGames
Windows
Dark Prospect is an asymmetrical FPSvsRTS multiplayer game. FPS players must survive by gathering resources, building defenses and fighting against a player or AI who summons, commands, upgrades monsters and casts spells from an RTS perspective.
Why similar: Action RTS 40.9% ★, RTS 21.4%, FPS 17.7%, Shooter 10.8%, First-Person 6.8%
- #51 Castle Of Alchemists
67% matchVery Positive82% of 759 reviews2025
Dev: Team Machiavelli
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Defend your castle in this fast-paced tower defense/action hybrid game with stunning pixel art graphics! Play as alchemically enhanced warrior Bellator, set traps, build towers, craft powerful weapons, and defend your home! The fate of the castle lies in your hands!
Why similar: Tower Defense 47.3%, Top-Down Shooter 31.1%, Top-Down 15.9%, Action 5.7%
- #52 PolyCore Defense
69% 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 54.8%, Top-Down 15.9%, Building 15.4%, 3D 7.9%, Action 6.1%
- #53 Band of Defenders
71% matchMixed50% of 399 reviews2018
Dev: Alda Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
A Co-Op FPS game with base building in a post-apocalyptic world. Craft weapons, build barricades and automated turrets, unlock new gear and items for visual customization and kill all savages and mutants trying to destroy the remnants of human civilization.
Why similar: Tower Defense 23.5%, Military 16%, FPS 15.9%, Building 13.8%, Sandbox 13.8%
- #54 A.I. Invasion
72% matchMostly Negative34% of 68 reviews2015
Dev: GameArt Studio GmbH
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 97%
A.I. Invasion is an action-loaded top-down-shooter in a futuristic setting. The superior machines subjugated the universe. In a wide range of missions you take the role of a soldier and equip and command a team of special units to reclaim the planet system.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 64.7%, Shooter 18.9%, Action 16.5%
- #55 Tower Factory
65% matchVery Positive89% of 1,226 reviews2024
Dev: Gius Caminiti
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 6.4 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: Action RTS 27% ★, Tower Defense 25.1%, RTS 24.6%, Isometric 13.1%, Sandbox 10.1%
- #56 Bee Island
66% matchVery Positive87% of 1,649 reviews2023
Dev: Lemma Arts
Windows
Median: 2.3 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 53.1%, Building 31.2%, 3D 8.3%, Action 7.4%
- #57 Ash & Adam's Existential Treads
64% matchVery Positive93% of 355 reviews2026
Dev: Ash & Adam's Games
Windows · Mac
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 36.7%, Top-Down Shooter 25%, Building 15.8%, Top-Down 11.5%, Action 5.5%
- #58 Natural Selection 2
67% matchVery Positive85% of 13,351 reviews2012
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 24.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A fast paced multiplayer shooter that pits aliens against humans in a strategic and action-packed struggle for survival!
Why similar: RTS 29.4%, FPS 28.8%, Aliens 19.9%, Shooter 7.3%, Futuristic 6.2%
- #59 Byte Lynx
66% matchVery Positive98% of 88 reviews2022
Dev: Artful Games
Windows
Byte Lynx is a fast-paced RTS with no units. Build defenses, dismantle your enemy, and steal their buildings in this deeply tactical building combat-based strategy game. Expand your arsenal across a series of diverse levels!
Why similar: Action RTS 30% ★, RTS 22.9%, Tower Defense 19.9%, Artificial Intelligence 12.9%, Building 6.3%