- #1 Archipelago
97% matchMostly Positive76% of 38 reviews2022
Dev: Isaac Lee
Windows
Archipelago is a roguelike tower defense game about defending randomly generated islands. Setup your defenses, manage your income, and find powerful charms to repel the enemy. Archipelago introduces tension and strategy to the tower defense genre.
Why similar: Tower Defense 43.5%, Roguelite 18.5%, Strategy 13.1%, Procedural Generation 12%, Base Building 6.6%
- #2 Tessellar
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nightware Games
Windows
A grid-based Roguelike Tower Defense where the board fights back. Survive the swarm, expand the terrain, and draft powerful rewards. Build the perfect defense, but beware: the grid flips, forcing you to fight on two fronts. Will you master the twist or be consumed by the abyss?
Why similar: Tower Defense 44.4%, Strategy 20.5%, Roguelite 15.9%, Procedural Generation 10.1%, 3D 4.4%
- #3 Anomaly Defenders
96% matchMostly Positive78% of 685 reviews2014
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 60.7%, Strategy 23.6%, Action 10.8%, Sci-fi 2.7%, Indie 2.3%
- #4 Nuclear Tides
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Inspiration Beggar
Windows
A minimalist game of building and defending an isolated island after a nuclear apocalypse
Why similar: Tower Defense 44.2%, Strategy 20.6%, Roguelite 14.4%, Procedural Generation 10.8%, Base Building 9.5%
- #5 Crystal Tower Defense
94% matchMixed68% of 34 reviews2023
Dev: Hot Roof Studios
Windows
Stop an endless hoard of crystal-type enemies, with different attributes, from reaching the portal to earth! You can build your own labyrinths, unlock new turrets, upgrade them, unlock abilities, and also gather permanent bonuses.
Why similar: Tower Defense 34.8%, Procedural Generation 15.3%, Roguelite 14.2%, Strategy 11.5%, Base Building 7.7%
- #6 Defense of the Dauntless
94% matchPositive93% of 14 reviews2024
Dev: THREESIDED POLYGON
Windows · Mac
Fend off endless hordes of enemies in this roguelite tower defense. Build your own path to maximize carnage. Unleash devastating hero abilities to turn the tide of battle. Upgrade your arsenal with dozens of new towers and heroes to keep your castle from oblivion. Survive and become dauntless.
Why similar: Tower Defense 45.7%, Strategy 20.7%, Roguelite 16.4%, Procedural Generation 7.5%, Fantasy 5.8%
- #7 Rags to Liches
93% matchPositive91% of 23 reviews2023
Dev: Louis BuiPub: Neumont College of Computer Science
Windows
A small, third-person, action, tower defense game where you play as a peasant who gets tired of adventurers breaking into his house. Place down towers and fight off waves and waves of "enemies." Progress through the story and see just how far one man will go to protect his beloved llama.
Why similar: Tower Defense 47.9%, Strategy 20.7%, Action 12.4%, Fantasy 5%, 3D 4.9%
- #8 D.P.S: Weapons Testing Facility 2
92% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Cool Smithy Games
Windows
Find the best combinations of projectiles and components to create the ultimate weapon. Mutate and upgrade your components to create stronger weapons. Fight wave after wave of monsters to reach the top.
Why similar: Tower Defense 41.9%, Strategy 23.7%, Roguelite 14.9%, Futuristic 8.6%, Sci-fi 7.3%
- #9 Rush for Glory
91% matchMixed61% of 150 reviews2014
Dev: Parseh Game StudioPub: KATNAPPE SP. Z O. O.
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 29.7 hrs≥1hr: 34%
Rush for Glory is featuring challenging and rewarding Tower Defense battles, in which players are defending their base against an alien invasion. By strategically building towers and upgrading them, the player can keep his base safely and further progress through the extensive singleplayer campaign.
Why similar: Tower Defense 64.7%, Strategy 24.3%, Action 10.9%
- #10 M.A.C.E. Tower Defense
91% matchMostly Positive70% of 61 reviews2017
Dev: EntwicklerX
Windows
M.A.C.E. Tower Defense is a classic tower defense game with unique towers and enemies and an ingame shop system for getting better towers, upgrade existing towers and buy special items.
Why similar: Tower Defense 46.6%, Strategy 28.6%, Action 15.8%, Sci-fi 5.5%, Indie 3.5%
- #11 Twisted Tower Tactics
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Team Sämst
Windows
You have awoken from your century long slumber only to find out your domain has been occupied by invading forces. Drive these invaders out and reclaim what is rightfully yours in this roguelike tower defense game.
Why similar: Tower Defense 38.4%, Strategy 24.2%, Roguelite 15.8%, Procedural Generation 11.2%, Fantasy 4.7%
- #12 Monos: The Endless Tower
89% matchPositive84% of 25 reviews2023
Dev: EvilStar Studios
Windows
Guard the last remaining tower with an array of weapons and magical powers! In this unique tower defense on a tower game, the horde of monsters coming from down below is relentless, and it is your duty to dispatch them.
Why similar: Tower Defense 37.1%, Roguelite 17.4%, Procedural Generation 15.2%, Strategy 12.3%, Action 5.6%
- #13 The Runics
89% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Alexa Gaming
Windows
The Runics is a tower defense game with auto chess, Rougelite and incremental flavors. Deploy "Runics" as defenders, best infinite enemies, gathering resources to upgrade your base and gigantic technology tree.
Why similar: Tower Defense 44.4%, Strategy 26.4%, Roguelite 18.4%, Fantasy 6.2%, Combat 4%
- #14 Rogue Tower
88% matchVery Positive83% of 5,896 reviews2022
Dev: Die of Death Games
Windows
Median: 10.7 hrsMean: 20.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Rogue Tower is a tower defense game with roguelike elements and a continuously expanding path which you can influence. Unlock, build, upgrade, expand, defend.
Why similar: Tower Defense 52.6%, Strategy 14.9%, Procedural Generation 12.1%, Roguelite 8.7%, Base Building 6.5%
- #15 Solheim
87% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Noktula Studios
Windows
Tower defence meets roguelite on a moving fortress. Craft towers from blueprints, stack powerful augments, and fight through escalating biomes in Solheim, a dark fantasy TD unlike any other.
Why similar: Tower Defense 34.9%, Roguelite 17.5%, Strategy 15.7%, Procedural Generation 11.9%, Action 8.5%
- #16 Time Wars
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Sugar Mummy Productions
Windows
Go on a journey through more then 30 levels traveling from prehistoric caves all the way to futuristic lunar bases. Along the way; upgrade, level up, and unlock cosmetics for your Hero. Adapt your strategy to whatever the level requires with more than 100 defense variations & Slay epic bosses!
Why similar: Tower Defense 40.4%, Strategy 22.7%, Roguelite 16.9%, Base Building 5.7%, Sci-fi 5%
- #17 Rivet & Ruin
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gargantua Interactive
Windows
A procedurally generated tower defense game. Shape creep pathing with defenses and buildings. Gather enough resources to keep up with increasingly powerful waves of creeps.
Why similar: Tower Defense 42.4%, Procedural Generation 19.1%, Strategy 18.3%, Base Building 7%, Fantasy 3.2%
- #18 Chronicle Legends: Tower Defense
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Waterfront Softworks
Windows
An incremental idle tower defense roguelite spanning 10 maps and 2 planets. Build defenses and production buildings to gather resources. Buy stat upgrades, upgrade equipment and unlock new buildings and turrets. Trade resources and employ mercenaries to maximize profit.
Why similar: Tower Defense 39.4%, Strategy 21.9%, Roguelite 16.3%, Base Building 7.1%, Sci-fi 4.8%
- #19 Cube Guardian : Tower Defender
84% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: PHACOPOTAM STUDIO
Windows
Cube Guardian: Tower Defender is a rogue-like tower defense game on a procedurally generated, cube-based battlefield. Protect the Nexus by strategically placing resource buildings as enemy waves intensify every 10 seconds. Earn XP to unlock upgrades and beat your high score!
Why similar: Tower Defense 40.5%, Strategy 23.4%, Roguelite 16.8%, Procedural Generation 10.1%, 3D 4.6%
- #20 Hold It In
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Timothy Graham
Windows · Mac · Linux
This game is a brutally hardcore sci-fi tower defense, featuring BBS-era and ASCII graphics. You are a commander who must use everything at your disposal to stop the AI horde from opening the rift, and unleashing a cosmic horror upon the earth.
Why similar: Tower Defense 53%, Strategy 17.2%, Roguelite 10.6%, Action 9%, Base Building 4.8%
- #21 Defense of the Offensive King
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: YawningCat Games
Windows
Save the king from hordes of angry orcs, elves, and various other fantasy races in this castle-building tower defense game. Build a maze of walls using tetromino-shaped pieces and fortify it with loyal soldiers, powerful mages, and defensive siege weapons. Can your fortress withstand the onslaught?
Why similar: Tower Defense 46.4%, Roguelite 18%, Strategy 16%, Base Building 10.1%, Fantasy 6.2%
- #22 Anomaly Korea
82% matchMostly Positive78% of 798 reviews2013
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Exclusively brought to Steam for PC, Mac and Linux in Anomaly Bundle, Anomaly Korea is an expansion campaign to Anomaly Warzone Earth. The alien robots are back and this time they’ve got Korea in their sights. It’s your job to lead a squad into fierce fire-fights and fend off the alien invasion.
Why similar: Tower Defense 39.7%, Strategy 36.2%, Action 16.4%, Sci-fi 6.2%, Indie 1.3%
- #23 Hold the Core
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Faven Games
Windows
Hold the Core is a roguelite tower defense game about trading safety for power. Draft Risk Cards, shape enemy routes, evolve towers, and survive deadly enemies and bosses.
Why similar: Tower Defense 46.6%, Roguelite 19.2%, Strategy 13.2%, Action 8.3%, Sci-fi 8%
- #24 Anomaly Warzone Earth Mobile Campaign
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 556 reviews2013
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Anomaly Warzone Earth Mobile Campaign continues Steam's Anomaly Warzone Earth in an extra 15-level campaign. Originally released on mobile devices, the campaign is brought to Steam for PC, Mac and Linux exclusively in Anomaly Bundle. AWE Mobile Campaign turns tower defense on its head.
Why similar: Tower Defense 38.4%, Strategy 36.1%, Action 18.3%, Sci-fi 5.8%, Indie 1%
- #25 Shad'O
81% matchMixed55% of 128 reviews2012
Dev: Okugi StudioPub: Okugi Sudio
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
In this uniqueTower Defense you will travel through William’s mind in a colored and dreamlike universe.
Why similar: Tower Defense 64.3%, Strategy 22%, Action 10.4%, Indie 3.4%
- #26 Up To Clouds
79% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2023
Dev: Bela MagyarPub: Undead Factory
Windows
Protect your village, don't let the monsters climb down the sky-high bean. Buy traps and upgrade them to the highest level. Wear the strongest armour and always use the right weapon to defeat the enemy.
Why similar: Tower Defense 48.1%, Strategy 20.9%, Action 12.5%, Third Person 6.7%, Fantasy 3.8%
- #27 Tiestru
80% matchMostly Negative27% of 48 reviews2014
Dev: Warlock Arts
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 20%
Tiestru offers a new perspective to strategy games. The player has control all over the map and defines his strategy with the structures that he builds. Each structure, each connection, each location offer new and enhanced powers. In this deep and complex game everything is up to you! Define your strategy!
Why similar: Tower Defense 51.3%, Strategy 27.8%, Action 17.2%, Indie 3.6%
- #28 Alien Robot Monsters
78% matchVery Positive85% of 124 reviews2015
Dev: Kraftix Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Epic sci-fi tower defense action with 16-bit era look and feel, pitching your colonists against an almost endless horde of hostile alien robots who strongly oppose your attempts of colonizing their planet! Deluxe version includes the soundtrack!
Why similar: Tower Defense 49.7%, Strategy 29.7%, Action 16.9%, Indie 3.7%
- #29 Selknam Defense
79% matchMixed42% of 57 reviews2014
Windows · Mac
Median: 30 minMean: 1.7 hrs≥1hr: 33%
Selknam Defense is more than an exceptional strategy game. It’s a gateway to the past that puts a nation’s destiny into your control. Do you have the skills to alter history and save the Selknam?
Why similar: Tower Defense 62.9%, Strategy 26%, Action 7.8%, Indie 3.3%
- #30 Boundless Paths
77% matchPositive100% of 18 reviews2024
Dev: Oaklin
Windows
An Exploration Tower-Defense Roguelite that lets you control the evolving map and monster spawns. Find resources, reveal encounters, adapt defenses, and enjoy endless replayability with procedural map/path generation and a quest/prestige system.
Why similar: Tower Defense 42%, Roguelite 16.7%, Procedural Generation 15.7%, Strategy 11.8%, Resource Management 6.8%
- #31 Tiny Toyfare
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 45 reviews2017
Dev: Super Suite Studios
Windows
Tiny Toyfare is a Tower Defense/FPS hybrid with a focus on strategic calm followed by twitch action. Construct powerful towers, recruit adorable squads and fight off the Dino invasion!
Why similar: Tower Defense 50.9%, Strategy 28.8%, Action 16.4%, Indie 3.9%
- #32 Commando Jack
77% matchMixed50% of 562 reviews2014
Dev: Colossal GamesPub: KISS ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 94%
A Tower Defence game, that actually allows you to sit inside the turret and come face-to-face with the enemies! Addictive strategy - action game, with loads of shooting and explosions! Nearing 2 MILLION DOWNLOADS!
Why similar: Tower Defense 47.8%, Strategy 33.8%, Action 15.1%, Indie 3.3%
- #33 Orcs Must Die!
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 8,479 reviews2011
Dev: Robot Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Slice them, burn them, skewer them, and launch them - no matter how you get it done, orcs must die in this fantasy action-strategy game from Robot Entertainment.
Why similar: Tower Defense 66.4%, Strategy 12.1%, Action 8%, Third Person 7.4%, Fantasy 4.5%
- #34 Anomaly 2
76% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,066 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 48.8%, Strategy 30.3%, Action 12.2%, Sci-fi 5.5%, Indie 2.8%
- #35 Champi
75% matchPositive93% of 28 reviews2025
Dev: Lucas François
Windows
Prepare to defend your village in Champi, a captivating Tower-Defense where your mission is to repel a invasion of mutated mushrooms.
Why similar: Tower Defense 47.2%, Strategy 28.1%, Roguelite 17.8%, Fantasy 4.7%, Indie 1.2%
- #36 Defense Zone 3 Ultra HD
75% matchMostly Positive80% of 513 reviews2016
Dev: Artem Kotov
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 31.3 hrs≥1hr: 69%
The sequel to the hit strategy game, with new weapons, landscapes, and options.
Why similar: Tower Defense 47%, Strategy 32.4%, Action 16.9%, Indie 3.7%
- #37 Astro company
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Elephant Arts
Windows
Defend your Core in an endless tower defense where every decision matters. Build too slow and you’re overrun. Build too fast and chaos breaks your defenses.
Why similar: Tower Defense 38.3%, Roguelite 19.5%, Strategy 16.8%, Procedural Generation 11.3%, Base Building 7.8%
- #38 Fantasy Tower Defense
73% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Ktisis Games
Windows
Fantasy Tower Defense is a challenging, fast-paced, and strategic Tower Defense game where you frantically build towers, cast spells, and upgrade to stop monsters from reaching your castle.
Why similar: Tower Defense 54%, Strategy 32.5%, 3D 6.7%, Fantasy 5.8%, Singleplayer 1%
- #39 Endless Defense
72% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: Yamu Studios
Windows
Endless Defense is a roguelite sci-fi tower defense game where every run becomes a new build. Place turrets, choose traits, draw upgrade cards, use special tiles, and evolve your defense to survive endless waves of enemies, elites, and bosses.
Why similar: Tower Defense 43.2%, Strategy 19.4%, Base Building 10.8%, Procedural Generation 9.5%, Roguelite 6.1%
- #40 Island Defense
74% matchMixed53% of 123 reviews2015
Dev: Stereo7 Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 99%
Get ready for modern battles! Defend your islands against evil invaders in jungles! Your team will consist of modern snipers, gunners, rockets, ice towers and other great things. A deep conflict has been brewing between you and the evil invaders. Fight to protect your freedom and liberty.
Why similar: Tower Defense 56.8%, Strategy 29.6%, Action 10.9%, Indie 2.6%
- #41 Defense Golem
73% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: LodisGame
Windows
Defense Golem is a tower defense game that supports random evolution.
Why similar: Tower Defense 59.3%, Roguelite 24.2%, Strategy 10.3%, 3D 5.3%, Singleplayer 0.9%
- #42 Magic Quest
73% matchMixed67% of 58 reviews2016
Dev: Stereo7 Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 99%
Magic Quest is a tower defense game with towers, mighty enemies, bosses and heroes with unique abilities.
Why similar: Tower Defense 53.3%, Strategy 28.2%, Action 9.8%, Fantasy 6.5%, Indie 2.3%
- #43 Wander Vyrosa
71% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: Pumpkin House GamesPub: MAGIC Spell Studios
Windows
A tower-defense game with roguelite elements on fully explorable mini planets! Travel the galaxy of Vyrosa, land on planets, and defend your drilling equipment while mining fuel to continue your journey throughout the galaxy!
Why similar: Tower Defense 32.7%, Procedural Generation 13.2%, Roguelite 12.6%, Strategy 11.1%, Base Building 8.3%
- #44 Anomaly: Warzone Earth
71% matchVery Positive87% of 4,685 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 47.5%, Strategy 33%, Action 9.2%, Sci-fi 7.1%, Indie 2.5%
- #45 Dreadful Defenders
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Erelag Studio
Windows
Choose an ancient deity to worship and use its power to defeat the unbelievers. Find Relics with eldritch abilities. Summon dreadful Defenders with unique traits, control the path by placing them, and combine their Benedictions to create otherworldly synergies!
Why similar: Tower Defense 40.3%, Strategy 22.2%, Roguelite 16.9%, Procedural Generation 16.5%, Fantasy 3.3%
- #46 The Anchored Hour
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Hourwisp Studio
Windows
Defend a displaced royal keep in a roguelite tower-defense strategy game. Build, scout, gather resources, and send units down the path to destroy enemy towers, outposts, and bases across unstable timelines as each run escalates.
Why similar: Tower Defense 39.4%, Roguelite 20.1%, Strategy 19.3%, Base Building 10.3%, Resource Management 6.5%
- #47 Tiny Planets: Dream Defender
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Listopad Games
Windows · Mac
Defend tiny planets by rotating them under enemy attacks. Build towers, smash meteors, unlock new mechanics, and grow stronger after every defeat. A cozy roguelite tower defense focused on fun, experimentation, and satisfying progression.
Why similar: Tower Defense 48%, Roguelite 18.9%, Strategy 18.6%, Base Building 9.1%, Action 3.9%
- #48 Spoids
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 116 reviews2017
Dev: AirWave GamesPub: BindleBot
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Spoids is a challenging throwback to the original brand of tower defense games. Command the Remote Defense Space Station and respond to distress calls of those who are being attacked by the invaders. Travel from planet to planet using your powerful arsenal to hold back the Spoids.
Why similar: Tower Defense 48.3%, Strategy 29.9%, Action 13%, Sci-fi 4.9%, Indie 3.9%
- #49 MageGuard Tower
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Daniel BatistaPub: Finite Shift
Windows
MageGuard Tower is a roguelike tower defense game where thousands of physics-driven monsters surge toward your crystal. Build, unlock, and adapt across procedurally generated maps in a relentless struggle for survival.
Why similar: Tower Defense 41.5%, Strategy 18.6%, Procedural Generation 16.4%, Roguelite 15.4%, Fantasy 4.2%
- #50 Sample Required
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Unassailable Games
Windows
Embark on a journey through space and defend your ship with turrets while you explore planets for upgrades, items, and samples! Defeat, while not ideal, is not the end as there's always another set of dispatch drones to try again with.
Why similar: Tower Defense 38.9%, Strategy 24%, Roguelite 16.1%, Third Person 7.2%, Sci-fi 5.1%
- #51 Ancient Tower
69% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2018
Dev: Carlo Monzini
Windows · Mac
The monsters are coming to invade our kingdom. Can you help our guild to stop them? Play it BEAUTIFULLY: the ultimate tower defense game has finally arrived. An epic guild of epic Heroes, dozens of angry monsters, amazing powers, golems, a lot of different and unique colorful levels is what is waiting for you in Ancient Tower.
Why similar: Tower Defense 45.1%, Strategy 27.9%, Action 23.4%, Indie 3.7%
- #52 The Defender: Farm and Castle
67% matchVery Positive89% of 1,095 reviews2019
Dev: Kobsoft Kitti
Windows
You are an archer tasked with defending a castle from invading monsters. Inside the castle, you can manage resources and harvest crops, gather experience points to level up, and learn new skills and abilities to face stronger enemies.
Why similar: Tower Defense 65.7%, Strategy 20.9%, Action 11.7%, Singleplayer 0.9%, Indie 0.8%
- #53 We Are the Universe
67% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2023
Dev: Uncle Grouch Gaming
Windows
Sci-fi tower defense where you create your own maze, manage drones and power levels, and harvest for resources. Upgrade your turrets, buildings and ground units. Upgrade and buy new vehicles and motherships.
Why similar: Tower Defense 56.9%, Strategy 22%, Sci-fi 11%, 3D 6.9%, Indie 2%
- #54 Harvest: Massive Encounter
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 164 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 64.8%, Strategy 26.3%, Sci-fi 5.2%, Indie 3.2%, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #55 Unstoppable Gorg
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 307 reviews2012
Dev: Futuremark
Windows · Mac
Median: 36 minMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Defend the solar system from fearsome aliens by sending satellites into orbit in revolutionary tower defense action!
Why similar: Tower Defense 72.1%, Strategy 16%, Action 5.8%, Sci-fi 4.7%, Indie 1.5%
- #56 Glorpotron
65% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: Bitwise Botworks, Inc
Windows · Mac
A tower defense roguelike about robots and ooze. Play solo or local multiplayer, protect the Glorp, and defeat the creeps.
Why similar: Tower Defense 41.9%, Roguelite 16.7%, Strategy 13.4%, Procedural Generation 13.1%, Futuristic 6.1%
- #57 Wilted Echoes
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MorDanGames
Windows
A wild mix of action and classic Tower Defense formula. Plan your defenses and dive directly into battle.
Why similar: Tower Defense 60.5%, Strategy 18.5%, Action 11.1%, Fantasy 5.7%, Combat 2.8%
- #58 Fat Chicken
67% matchMixed70% of 46 reviews2014
Dev: Mighty Rabbit StudiosPub: Relevant Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Fat Chicken is a REVERSE TOWER DEFENSE game where you fatten up farm animals for slaughter by pumping them full of hormones, overfeeding them and basting them with antibiotics to keep them alive so they're worth more when you turn 'em into tasty, tasty packaged meat...it's what's for dinner!
Why similar: Tower Defense 45.8%, Strategy 33.6%, Action 16.3%, Indie 4.2%