- #1 Warpips
97% matchVery Positive87% of 5,047 reviews2022
Dev: Skirmish Mode GamesPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Warpips is the ultimate quick to learn but amazingly deep tug-of-war strategy game. Deploy the right composition of soldiers, tanks, helicopters and planes in this tight, streamlined strategy-focused war game. Compose the best army, research the right tech; overwhelm your enemy!
Why similar: Strategy 79.4%, Indie 10.4%, Action 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive modern tug-of-war strategy game that shares the exact lane-based unit deployment and base-to-base combat feel of Battlepillars.
- #2 Swords and Soldiers HD
96% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,045 reviews2010
Dev: Ronimo GamesPub: Atari
Windows · Mac
Median: 36 minMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Rewrite history as you take control of the brutal Vikings, the devious Aztecs or the crafty Chinese in their global quest to win the favour of the Gods! Swords & Soldiers is a side-scrolling strategy game that lets you control an entire army and lets you wield devastating magical abilities.
Why similar: Strategy 95.7%, Casual 1.7%, Indie 1.4%, Action 1.3%
Why You'll Like It: A classic 2D side-scrolling strategy game that perfectly mirrors the lane-based tug-of-war mechanics and unit-spawning gameplay.
- #3 Tooth and Tail
96% matchMostly Positive80% of 4,111 reviews2017
Dev: Pocketwatch Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Lead the revolution with an army of flamethrowing Boars, mustard gas-lobbing Skunks, and paratrooper-puking Owls. Tooth and Tail is a Real-Time-Strategy game featuring Single Player, Online Competitive Play, Split Screen, Replays, and more. Build a base, lead your army, eat your enemies!
Why similar: Strategy 73.4%, Action 10%, Indie 9.2%, Casual 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a streamlined real-time strategy experience that focuses on unit control and base management in a compact, fast-paced environment.
- #4 Stickman Trenches
95% matchVery Positive80% of 1,695 reviews2023
Dev: Big Play Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Stickman Trenches is a Real Time Strategy game in which you need to manage your men and weapons and build up your defenses in the brutal trenches of Stick World War 1.
Why similar: Strategy 71.3%, Action 18.7%, Casual 10%
Why You'll Like It: Features intense lane-based warfare where managing your unit flow and resources is critical to pushing back the enemy line.
- #5 Cannon Brawl
94% matchVery Positive91% of 796 reviews2014
Dev: Theresa DuringerPub: Temple Gates Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Cannon Brawl is action RTS and artillery hybrid. Pilot an airship, command powerful weapon emplacements and use the destructible terrain to out think and destroy your enemy! It's a new take on artillery strategy!
Why similar: Strategy 66.9%, Indie 17.6%, Action 15.5%
Why You'll Like It: Combines artillery-based combat with lane-style strategy, requiring quick reflexes and tactical unit placement.
- #6 Mushroom Wars 2
94% matchMixed62% of 975 reviews2017
Dev: Zillion WhalesPub: Azur Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
In Mushroom Wars 2, enemy tribes of feisty mushroom creatures face off in short but fierce RTS battles. Step into the shoes of a fearless Mushroom Commander, choose a hero to lead your army, and take control of the battlefield in a variety of multiplayer modes or challenging story campaign.
Why similar: Strategy 79%, Action 12.6%, Indie 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced strategy game that focuses on capturing nodes and managing unit swarms in a way that feels very similar to lane-based tug-of-war.
- #7 Toy Soldiers
92% matchVery Positive89% of 1,485 reviews2012
Dev: Signal Studios
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Command your TOY SOLDIERS in epic, action-packed battles.
Why similar: Strategy 70.7%, Action 16.1%, Casual 13.2%
Why You'll Like It: Blends tower defense with direct unit control, capturing the same 'toy-like' aesthetic and strategic depth found in Battlepillars.
- #8 Operation: Polygon Storm
91% matchMostly Positive71% of 285 reviews2024
Dev: Toxic Studio
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 49%
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: Strategy 87.2%, Action 12.8%
Why You'll Like It: A modern lane-based tug-of-war game that emphasizes auto-battler mechanics and strategic unit composition.
- #9 Tower Wars
91% matchMostly Positive72% of 1,753 reviews2012
Dev: SuperVillain Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Tower Wars combines elements of tower defense, RTS, and all-out multi-player mayhem to bring you a completely unique experience, delivered with a fun and funny not-so-old world style!
Why similar: Strategy 82.1%, Indie 10.8%, Action 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: A competitive tower defense game that allows you to send units to attack your opponent, creating a tug-of-war dynamic.
- #10 Mob Control
89% matchMostly Positive71% of 106 reviews2024
Dev: VOODOOPub: QubicGames
Windows
Are you ready to become the ultimate champion in the world of tower defense battles? Create, grow and lead!
Why similar: Casual 56.6%, Action 43.4%
Why You'll Like It: A highly casual and satisfying lane-based game where you manage the flow of units to overwhelm enemy defenses.
- #11 Mushroom Wars
90% matchMostly Positive76% of 571 reviews2016
Dev: Zillion WhalesPub: Azur Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Mushroom Wars is a dynamic real-time strategy game, where smart strategy meets furious action in epic PvP and PvE battles.
Why similar: Strategy 70.5%, Action 17.3%, Indie 12.2%
Why You'll Like It: The original title in the series that provides a solid foundation for lane-based, fast-paced strategic combat.
- #12 R.O.O.T.S
89% matchMixed52% of 69 reviews2015
Dev: reMaginarium
Windows · Linux
Median: 18 minMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 27%
R.O.O.T.S is a real-time strategy game that pits the player against colorful yet invasive enemies that must be overtaken before the player themselves is uprooted! Warfare has never been so beautifully unorthodox.
Why similar: Strategy 68.6%, Casual 17.7%, Indie 13.8%
Why You'll Like It: A casual, minimalist strategy game that focuses on expanding your territory and managing unit flow across a map.
- #13 Fortify
88% matchMostly Positive74% of 98 reviews2016
Dev: Holgersson Entertainment
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Fortify is a real-time strategy game with a tower defense twist. Defend your castle from attacking monsters and siege weapons by using ranged and melee defenders, catapults, cannons, oil fields and more. You start at the iron age, advancing to the medieval age, and later, the imperial age.
Why similar: Strategy 69.2%, Action 17.5%, Indie 13.3%
Why You'll Like It: A strategy game that focuses on lane-based defense and base management with a similar indie aesthetic.
- #14 Anomaly: Warzone Earth
86% matchVery Positive87% of 4,668 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: Strategy 80%, Action 10.9%, Indie 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A 'reverse' tower defense game where you lead a convoy through enemy lanes, focusing on pathing and unit management.
- #15 Bug Heroes: Tower Defense
84% matchVery Positive92% of 51 reviews2024
Dev: Foursaken Media
Windows · Mac
Help the Bug Heroes defend their food stash from hordes of enemies! Control powerful heroes, build your defenses, level up your heroes and towers, equip upgrades, and more!
Why similar: Strategy 72.4%, Action 22.1%, Casual 3.1%, Indie 2.4%
Why You'll Like It: Features action-oriented tower defense mechanics with a focus on small, insect-like units, mirroring the theme of the seed game.
- #16 iBomber Defense
86% matchMostly Positive74% of 244 reviews2011
Dev: Cobra Mobile
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 54%
iBomber Defense combines classic tower defense gameplay with intense action and strategy. Keep enemies at bay all over the world using a variety of weapons and tactics, from rattling Machine guns, explosive cannons and awesome anti-aircraft artillery!
Why similar: Strategy 80.7%, Indie 13.5%, Casual 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: A classic tower defense experience that shares the same military-themed, casual strategy appeal.
- #17 Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 150,567 reviews2009
Dev: PopCap Games, Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 41.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Why similar: Strategy 80.1%, Casual 15.4%, Indie 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: The quintessential lane-based defense game that shares the same accessible, charming, and strategic core as the seed game.
- #18 Northend Tower Defense
83% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,398 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: Strategy 70.7%, Indie 14.8%, Action 14.6%
Why You'll Like It: A modern tower defense title that incorporates auto-battler elements and lane-based strategy.
- #19 Toy Soldiers: HD
85% matchMixed63% of 162 reviews2021
Dev: Signal StudiosPub: Accelerate Games
Windows
Command antique WWI Toy Soldiers in the trench-filled battlefields of Europe. Deploy an exciting arsenal of guns, artillery, flamethrowers, tanks and planes to defend your WWI toy dioramas. Take direct control of individual units or command the entire battlefield from above.
Why similar: Strategy 87.4%, Action 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: A remastered version of the classic tower defense game, offering improved visuals and the same tactical unit-deployment gameplay.
- #20 Topple Tactics
80% matchVery Positive89% of 1,518 reviews2023
Dev: Braian StrakPub: Tewtiy
Windows
Topple Tactics is a physics-based multiplayer tower defense game where one huge player controls the map by placing towers and using abilities, whilst the little players level up their stats and equipment to reach the end of the map and defeat the huge player!
Why similar: Strategy 58.4%, Action 15.8%, Casual 15.3%, Indie 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: A physics-based tower defense game that adds a layer of comedy and chaotic movement to the genre.
- #21 Trenches of War
82% matchVery Positive90% of 91 reviews2017
Dev: Vashta Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Trenches of War is a fast-paced World War I-inspired strategy game. Battle through the Alps by spawning units and capturing trenches, barracks, and factories. Cross rivers that rise when it rains. Use or destroy bridges and cornfields that may aid or deter your maneuvers.
Why similar: Strategy 58.4%, Action 15.4%, Casual 14.4%, Indie 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: A simple, indie-style tug-of-war game that focuses on WWI-themed lane combat.
- #22 Multiwinia
82% matchVery Positive82% of 600 reviews2008
Dev: Introversion Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 12 minMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 25%
Multiwinia is a fast-paced, retro-inspired RTS that blends arcade action with strategic depth. Command armies of Multiwinians in multiplayer battles across vibrant, nostalgic environments. With simple controls and dynamic gameplay, it offers endless fun and challenge for players of all skill levels.
Why similar: Strategy 67.6%, Action 17.4%, Casual 15%
Why You'll Like It: An RTS that features chaotic, small-scale unit combat that feels very similar to the frantic energy of Battlepillars.
- #23 Siege of Centauri
81% matchMixed66% of 448 reviews2019
Dev: Stardock Entertainment
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 44%
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: Strategy 80.7%, Action 19.3%
Why You'll Like It: A tower defense game that emphasizes large-scale waves and real-time tactical decisions.
- #24 Be Queen Bee
76% matchVery Positive96% of 130 reviews2026
Dev: Three Blanket StudioPub: Jungle Game Lab
Windows
"Be Queen Bee" is an action-strategy game where you become the Queen Bee and command your swarm with pheromones. Defeat predators, seize flower fields to escape hunger, evolve your swarm with honey, and strategize in real time to secure victory.
Why similar: Strategy 73.8%, Action 18.7%, Indie 7.5%
- #25 Yardlings
79% matchVery Positive85% of 52 reviews2020
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Yardlings is a local multiplayer battle arena about vegetables in a garden! Build an adorable army, place yourself strategically on the battlefield, using special abilities, capturing potted plants (outposts) and big seed-shooting flowers while you try to gain control over the yard!
Why similar: Strategy 80.6%, Indie 16.4%, Action 3%
Why You'll Like It: A local multiplayer strategy game that focuses on quick, lane-based combat and casual fun.
- #26 King Pins
79% matchVery Positive85% of 107 reviews2020
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
King Pins is a small scale real-time strategy game. Collect resources and expand your territory while defending your main unit: the king! If your king dies, you lose!
Why similar: Strategy 78.4%, Action 16.2%, Indie 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: A real-time tactics game that focuses on lane-based unit combat and competitive play.
- #27 Bees vs Zombees
77% matchVery Positive89% of 99 reviews2024
Dev: DeadpixelPub: Nuntius Games
Windows
A fast-paced roguelike tower defense where you choose your Queen Bee with unique skills and the Artisan to build turrets and cast powerful spells to defend your hive through regions infested with zombees. Face bosses with insane mechanics and survive the Zumbeecalypse!
Why similar: Strategy 74.2%, Casual 14.9%, Indie 10.9%
- #28 Gun Bombers
78% matchVery Positive88% of 52 reviews2016
Dev: Antti Vaihia
Windows
Grab your pickaxe and enter the mines! Search for treasures and fight against other miners in this fast, round-based multiplayer game (up to 10 players over LAN or internet). Comes with a map editor and an addictive single player endless mode where you fight waves of enemy monsters.
Why similar: Strategy 74.4%, Action 16.5%, Indie 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A real-time strategy game that emphasizes top-down combat and unit management in a multiplayer setting.
- #29 Buggos
75% matchVery Positive88% of 1,349 reviews2022
Dev: Intrepid Marmot
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Lead your hive to victory in 'Buggos', an RTS Auto Battler! Customize your swarm with 120+ evolutions and conquer humanity. Strategy meets bug chaos!
Why similar: Strategy 84.5%, Casual 10.2%, Indie 5.3%
- #30 PixelJunk™ Monsters 2
78% matchMixed66% of 277 reviews2018
Dev: Q-Games Ltd.Pub: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 59%
PixelJunk™ Monsters is back with the simple, yet highly strategic real-time tower defense gameplay gameplay of the original title, now with updated graphics and brand new multiplayer modes!
Why similar: Action 100%
Why You'll Like It: A tower defense game where you control a character on the field to manage defenses, offering a more active take on the genre.
- #31 Cubemen 2
77% matchMixed68% of 231 reviews2013
Dev: 3 Sprockets
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Cubemen 2 is a fast paced, action packed, original 3D Strategy game where you use your little Cubemen units to defend and attack enemies in a range of awesome game modes including CTF, Skirmish, Territory and more.
Why similar: Strategy 82.4%, Indie 17.6%
- #32 Tangy TD
70% matchVery Positive92% of 1,121 reviews2026
Dev: Cakez
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Strategic tower defense where you play a witch, place class-based towers, equip them with items that grant powerful abilities, combine them, create unique builds & deal ridiculous amounts of damage! Customize your builds with a deep stat system and giant skill tree!
Why similar: Strategy 65.1%, Action 17.5%, Casual 11.1%, Indie 6.3%
- #33 Trial Of Empires TD
74% matchMixed69% of 70 reviews2022
Dev: Mustafa YILMAZER
Windows · Mac · Linux
Trial of Empires TD, is a Free to Play 3D tower defense game. Pick your ally and build your strategy with different combinations. Compete with other players on the Leaderboards with Single-Player or CO-OP game modes
Why similar: Strategy 52.4%, Action 20.2%, Indie 13.8%, Casual 13.6%
- #34 Torins Towers: Rise of Heroes
74% matchMostly Positive76% of 51 reviews2022
Dev: Delta Engine
Windows · Mac · Linux
Torins Towers is a free-to-play, action - strategy game with fast matches.
Why similar: Strategy 68.2%, Casual 18.2%, Indie 13.6%
- #35 Sunstone War
71% matchVery Positive100% of 52 reviews2024
Dev: Blukulélé
Windows · Mac · Linux
Sunstone War is a unique Action game with Tower Defense element where you can carry EVERYTHING! Move towers, toss away enemies, carry obstacles, upgrade skills and journey through lands to protect your village from calamity!
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #36 OTTTD
75% matchMostly Positive75% of 356 reviews2014
Dev: SMG Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Take command of HEROCORP™ and launch a Preemptive Defence Campaign™ against parallel dimensions in OTTTD, the most outrageous Tower Defence title around.
Why similar: Strategy 69.6%, Action 16.2%, Indie 14.2%
- #37 Starlaxis Supernova Edition
76% matchMixed60% of 62 reviews2015
Dev: Spiderwork Games
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Prepare yourself for mind-blowing puzzle strategy in new dimensions! You think Starlaxis is just a small puzzle game? THINK AGAIN! Master breath-taking challenges, win seemingly impossible boss fights, complete multiple missions goals, overcome dozens of enemies, and last but not least: Save EARTH!
Why similar: Strategy 59.5%, Action 16.2%, Casual 12.5%, Indie 11.8%
- #38 Firmament Wars
73% matchMixed65% of 55 reviews2018
Dev: Neverworks Games
Windows
Firmament Wars is a multiplayer strategy game with fast-paced real-time warfare. Build a wall, fire cannons, and launch missiles on your way to victory! Select from 7 government types and compete with up to 8 players on a variety of maps! Go forth and conquer!
Why similar: Strategy 83.7%, Indie 16.3%
- #39 Crustacean Nations
70% matchVery Positive93% of 505 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: Strategy 80.2%, Casual 19.8%
- #40 Super Sanctum TD
72% matchVery Positive87% of 1,575 reviews2013
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 33.2 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: Strategy 62.2%, Casual 14.3%, Action 13.9%, Indie 9.6%
- #41 Mold on the Pizza
73% matchVery Positive81% of 151 reviews2015
Dev: BTNcafe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Mold on the Pizza is a mold-growing game to fight against the Preservative troops and conquer a pizza! Meet up 53 types of unique molds and preservatives!
Why similar: Strategy 59.4%, Action 15.1%, Casual 14.1%, Indie 11.3%
- #42 Forged Battalion
72% matchMixed58% of 1,108 reviews2018
Dev: Petroglyph
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Customize your unique faction in a new take on real-time strategy as you fight in a variety of skirmish, solo, and multiplayer battles. You are not only a commander, but also an engineer – so you have ultimate control over your faction’s units, factories, superweapons and economy.
Why similar: Strategy 88.3%, Indie 11.7%
- #43 Molten Armor
73% matchMixed62% of 60 reviews2017
Dev: Brutal Muse
Windows
Molten Armor is an action tower defense game with a non-linear story in sci-fi setting! Command defenses and stop hordes of enemies! Fight on land, sea and in the skies!Decisions taken in the heat of battle will change the course of the war.
Why similar: Strategy 64.9%, Action 15.5%, Casual 13.6%, Indie 6%
- #44 Toy Soldiers: Complete
71% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,257 reviews2016
Dev: Signal Studios
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Bring your toys to life in this action-packed, Toy Soldiers game bundle which includes the original Toy Soldiers, Toy Soldiers: Cold War, and all four DLC’s – Kaiser’s Battle, Invasion, Napalm and Evil Empire.
Why similar: Strategy 64.3%, Action 18.6%, Casual 10.3%, Indie 6.9%
- #45 Firework War
68% matchVery Positive96% of 51 reviews2025
Dev: 正方形劳伦斯Pub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Use a variety of fireworks to fend off misfortune and protect your family!
Why similar: Strategy 72.7%, Casual 22.3%, Indie 5%
- #46 One Troll Army
70% matchVery Positive86% of 1,481 reviews2016
Dev: FlyAnvilPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Play as a giant troll in One Troll Army - a defense game about building forts, upgrading your troll, and fighting off waves of enemies. Play Against The Twitch Chat!
Why similar: Strategy 88.9%, Casual 5%, Indie 4.1%, Action 2%
- #47 Towerful Defense: Prologue
67% 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: Strategy 66.7%, Action 17.4%, Casual 15.8%
- #48 TDS - Tower Defense Strategy
65% matchVery Positive81% of 354 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: Strategy 82.1%, Indie 17.9%
- #49 Age of Goblins
66% matchVery Positive88% of 67 reviews2024
Dev: Bruno Valla
Windows
AoG is a real-time strategy game (RTS) with simplified mechanics and cute visuals, but VERY challenging at times. Lead your goblin tribe into what they do best: expand, conquer, and exterminate each other. Any resemblance to humans is purely coincidental.
Why similar: Strategy 81.1%, Casual 11%, Indie 7.9%
- #50 Blasted Road Terror
69% matchVery Positive82% of 94 reviews2018
Dev: Tryzna83
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Blasted Road Terror is real-time tactical looter in post apocalyptic setting. Command mighty warcrawler and manage squadron of vehicles in order to get unseen riches of the world and reach immortal glory.
Why similar: Strategy 67.2%, Action 19.3%, Indie 13.5%
- #51 No Creeps Were Harmed TD
65% matchVery Positive89% of 482 reviews2024
Dev: MinMax Games Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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: Strategy 84.3%, Action 15.7%
- #52 War Tortoise
66% matchVery Positive81% of 142 reviews2024
Dev: Foursaken Media
Windows · Mac
War Tortoise is a new type of hybrid idle game, taking core incremental gameplay and adding new features, idle elements, and advanced graphics. Explore, command and upgrade, equip weapons and armor, level up, unlock abilities, recruit heroes and pilots, and more!
Why similar: Strategy 54.6%, Action 29.3%, Indie 11.6%, Casual 4.4%
- #53 D.O.T. Defence
64% matchVery Positive86% of 139 reviews2025
Dev: Rattleaxe Games
Windows · Linux
Welcome to the frontlines! Build towers, muster armies, and conquer the map. Challenge yourself in the single-player campaign following the Chroma Wars, survive relentless waves in solo defense, or battle it out in local matches against friends and AI bots. Victory comes with the last HQ standing!
Why similar: Strategy 78.6%, Action 21.4%
- #54 Bardbarian
67% matchVery Positive89% of 1,508 reviews2014
Dev: TreeFortress Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%
You play as Brad the barbarian, who is awoken to the sounds of his town under siege. Today is different though; Brad has grown tired of fighting all the time. The usual grind for XP has grown dull, and he has decided to pursue his dreams of making music instead of shedding blood.
Why similar: Strategy 59.4%, Indie 14.5%, Casual 13.8%, Action 12.4%
- #55 Bloons TD Battles 2
62% matchVery Positive84% of 33,499 reviews2021
Dev: Ninja Kiwi
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 61%
From the creators of Bloons TD6... Bloons TD Battles 2 is a brand new installment of the top-rated head-to-head tower defense game. Gather your Hero, choose your team of powerful Monkey Towers, and prepare to battle one on one against other players and relentless waves of Bloons!
Why similar: Strategy 62.3%, Action 15.1%, Indie 11.7%, Casual 10.9%