Games Like Bee Island

An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.

Why similar: Tower Defense 21.4%, Base Building 18.8%, RTS 17.6%, Resource Management 12.8%, Building 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines deep automation and resource management with intense tower defense mechanics similar to the hive-building loop.

A minimalist game about building and defending your little kingdom.

Why similar: Tower Defense 20.6%, City Builder 18.2%, Action RTS 17.1% ★, Minimalist 9.7%, Base Building 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features a minimalist aesthetic and a focus on defending a central base with strategic tower placement.

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 19.2% ★, Tower Defense 16.4%, RTS 14.3%, City Builder 13.8%, Base Building 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Blends automation and tower defense in a way that mirrors the base-building and expansion mechanics of Bee Island.

Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.

Why similar: Tower Defense 18.6%, City Builder 15.9%, Colony Sim 14.6%, Base Building 10.1%, Minimalist 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist side-scrolling strategy game that emphasizes base protection and resource management.

The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.

Why similar: Tower Defense 18.1%, Base Building 17.8%, RTS 12.5%, Online Co-Op 12%, Isometric 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a high-action mix of base-building and tower defense where protecting your core is paramount.

They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6%, Base Building 18.7%, RTS 13.6%, Tower Defense 12.6%, City Builder 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A classic base-building strategy game that requires careful defense planning against massive waves of enemies.

Age of Darkness: Final Stand is a dark fantasy survival RTS where you must illuminate, build and defend humanity’s last bastion against hordes of Nightmares. Set in the remnants of a kingdom consumed by a deadly fog, you decide. Will you hide in the light? Or take back your world.

Why similar: Action RTS 20.6% ★, Tower Defense 13.7%, RTS 12%, Base Building 10.5%, Building 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Combines real-time strategy with tower defense elements to create a challenging survival experience.

You and allies, avian inhabitants of Sanctree City, build structures and production lines on the tree, crafting weapons to fend off subterranean insects. Defense is just the start—dig deeper, destroy nests, fortify new defenses against escalating threats for an impregnable stronghold.

Why similar: Colony Sim 17.3%, Tower Defense 15.5%, City Builder 15.2%, Base Building 13.7%, Building 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Features base-building and tower defense mechanics with a focus on co-op play and protecting a central tree.

Build a castle by day and defend it by night. Becastled blends cozy city-building with challenging tower defense strategy. Lead the Sun Kingdom’s last stand against the Moon Beasts and end the ancient conflict between light and darkness!

Why similar: Base Building 20.4%, City Builder 20.3%, Colony Sim 16.9%, RTS 13.7%, Building 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy game centered on building and defending a castle against waves of enemies during the night.

Build. Automate. Defend.

Why similar: Tower Defense 21.2%, Base Building 17.3%, Resource Management 12%, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Minimalist 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Integrates automation and tower defense with a clean, minimalist visual style.

Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9%, City Builder 18.4%, Base Building 13.5%, RTS 13.3%, Building 11%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on intricate base-building and structural defense against waves of monsters.

Diplomacy is Not an Option is a strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Build your town and defenses, raise huge armies and fight against massive hordes of enemies. How long can you survive?

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.6%, Action RTS 14.7% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Resource Management 10.6%, Tower Defense 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Challenges players to build and defend a settlement against massive armies using strategic fortifications.

Isle of Arrows is a Puzzle Tower Defense game in which you build a fortress in the sky. Place towers, expand the isle, and build your own paths. Can you find the perfect spot for each tile to beat the RNG and defend against waves of invaders?

Why similar: Tower Defense 34.2%, City Builder 17.4%, Minimalist 17.1%, Building 9.3%, Strategy 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, roguelike tower defense game that focuses on strategic placement and resource management.

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: Action RTS 24.9% ★, Tower Defense 24.2%, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Building 8.4%, Survival 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A 3D tower defense game that captures the colorful and strategic essence of defending a specific point.

Infinitode 2 - a strategy in the Tower Defense genre, in which the player will have to build towers to protect his base from endless waves of enemies. The game features huge maps, lots of towers, resource miners, upgrade tree and map editor.

Why similar: Tower Defense 27%, Building 17.6%, Minimalist 15%, Tactical 13.3%, PvE 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A highly minimalist tower defense game that emphasizes deep strategic planning and efficient base layout.

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 26.6% ★, Tower Defense 20.1%, RTS 15.1%, Base Building 15%, Building 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: An action-roguelike that incorporates base-building and tower defense elements for a fast-paced experience.

Last Outpost is a minimalist Base Building & Strategy game where you build and defend your outpost in zombie apocalypse. Choose your vehicle and loadout before embarking on your adventure. Use your abilities and control your units to eliminate all threats. Will you manage to defend your outpost?

Why similar: Action RTS 16.7% ★, City Builder 15.7%, Tower Defense 15.7%, RTS 12.5%, Base Building 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines tower defense and city-building elements in a strategic, real-time environment.

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 23%, RTS 15.5%, Base Building 15%, Building 9.9%, Tactical 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A tower defense game with roguelike elements that focuses on base expansion and strategic unit placement.

Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8%, Base Building 17.5%, Building 12.5%, City Builder 12.1%, Survival 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person base-building game that requires managing colonists and defending against nightly monster attacks.

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Why similar: City Builder 26.5%, Colony Sim 24%, Base Building 13.7%, Building 11.6%, Resource Management 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: While more focused on city-building, it shares the resource management and structural planning found in Bee Island.

Beware, Monsters are Coming! In this Tower-Survivor rogue-lite, you protect an ever-moving city from unrelenting hordes. Gather resources, fortify defences, and survive for as long as you can. Will you reach the Ark?

Why similar: City Builder 18%, Tower Defense 18%, Base Building 13.9%, Isometric 11.7%, Building 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: An action-oriented tower defense game that focuses on quick reactions and base protection.

Jump a rift, fight off monsters, plunder their world. A strategic mix of juicy tower loadouts, varied monster behaviors, and forgiving mechanics.

Why similar: Tower Defense 17.8%, Action RTS 15.4% ★, RTS 12.5%, Base Building 12%, Minimalist 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist tower defense game that emphasizes strategic placement and base-building efficiency.

Flooded is a reversed city-builder, in which you need to optimize your production on an island that shrinks over time. Gather enough resources to flee to safety, while the surrounding world is getting flooded.

Why similar: City Builder 19.5%, RTS 16.9%, Colony Sim 15.8%, Isometric 10.7%, Building 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A real-time strategy game that requires efficient resource management and base building under pressure.

A minimalist tactical base defense game where you fight as a hero, command troops, and build powerful class synergies while fortifying your city against relentless waves of invading sheep.

Why similar: Action RTS 20.4% ★, City Builder 16.3%, Tower Defense 16.1%, Base Building 10.3%, Minimalist 9%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist tower defense game that focuses on defending a central location with strategic building.

Nanuleu is a strategy game where you control a network of magical trees that protect the land from an invading dark force. Gather resources and grow trees to repel the invaders. Each tree has a different role to play in this battle to protect the land.

Why similar: Tower Defense 18.6%, RTS 14.1%, Action RTS 13.9% ★, Minimalist 12%, Isometric 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist strategy game where you manage resources and build defenses to protect your territory.

A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8%, City Builder 21.7%, Base Building 15.5%, Building 12.4%, Resource Management 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite city-builder that emphasizes efficient resource management and adapting to changing threats.

Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!

Why similar: City Builder 23%, RTS 18.3%, Colony Sim 13.4%, Base Building 9.5%, Building 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A strategic base-building game that requires careful resource management and defense against environmental threats.

Citywars TD is a cute multiplayer third person Survival Tower Defense. Build towers, gather resources, craft tools, upgrade weapons, level up buildings, expand your city with your friends and work under pressure before the next incoming wave of monsters.

Why similar: Tower Defense 19.9%, Action RTS 17.9% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Building 10%

Why You'll Like It: Combines city-building and tower defense mechanics in a survival-focused gameplay loop.

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 23%, Action RTS 18.9% ★, Base Building 17%, Resource Management 12.1%, Strategy 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy game that blends base-building and tower defense with a distinct visual style.

shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

Why similar: Base Building 37.8%, Resource Management 28%, Building 20.1%, Strategy 11.3%, Singleplayer 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on minimalist automation and base expansion, appealing to players who enjoy the logistical side of Bee Island.

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 20.6% ★, Tower Defense 18%, RTS 15.9%, Building 9.8%, Co-op 8.4%

Islets Defense is a turn-based tower defense game in which you build a small village to gather resources and defend your castle. Carefully plan your actions, as each move brings the enemy waves closer! Strategize building placements and play your cards wisely, as timing and order are key.

Why similar: City Builder 22.2%, Tower Defense 21.4%, Base Building 15.4%, Building 12%, Resource Management 11.9%

Here Comes the Swarm is a survival RTS with a pause button! Create your strategy, build, manage, and defend your settlements at your own pace. Take the fight to the hive mind and lead expeditions to deliver a deadly blow and eradicate your foes. Will you reclaim Ulora from the relentless Swarm?

Why similar: Action RTS 18.8% ★, Colony Sim 16.1%, Tower Defense 12%, RTS 12%, City Builder 11.6%

Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?

Why similar: Tower Defense 18.3%, Base Building 14.4%, Building 10.9%, Resource Management 10.5%, Online Co-Op 10%

A colony building game with an emphasis on unexpected events, online co-op, and managing a unique community. Build your colony, feed your colonists, research technologies, craft advanced weapons, explore the world, fight enemies and defend your property.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9%, City Builder 18.1%, Base Building 14.6%, Building 10.6%, Online Co-Op 9.9%

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: Tower Defense 36.2%, RTS 31.9%, PvE 11%, Strategy 10.1%, Colorful 7.8%

Gather resources, build your base, and lead your people to victory in this captivating reimagining of classic RTS, set in the Bronze Age. Secure fertile land, fend off raids, and stockpile food to generate knowledge and unlock powerful village advancements.

Why similar: Action RTS 24.7% ★, City Builder 16.9%, RTS 12.8%, Base Building 11.7%, Isometric 8.9%

Defend the fortified beaches of Pacific against invading forces in this WW2 FPS game as the enemy attacks you with troops, tanks, planes and more! Play on your on own or COOP while using iconic Japanese and American WWII weapons and prepare your defenses with mines, explosives, and more!

Why similar: Tower Defense 55.2%, Co-op 26.1%, 3D 10.9%, Action 7.8%

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: Colony Sim 20.3%, City Builder 18.4%, Tower Defense 16.2%, RTS 13.4%, Base Building 10.3%

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: Tower Defense 51.2%, Strategy 21.9%, Action 12.9%, 3D 7.3%, PvE 5.4%

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 41%, Building 11.4%, Strategy 10.7%, Tactical 9.7%, Survival 7.2%

Sudden disaster has put the town at risk, and you are the Incident Commander! It is up to you to control the responder teams who can stop the growing threat and save the community. The mayor is watching. Can you keep the public safe and stay within budget?

Why similar: Action RTS 18.2% ★, RTS 14.3%, Base Building 10.5%, Tactical 9%, Building 8.9%

clickyland is a tower defense village builder where clicks are your main resource. Use clicks to harvest resources, fight enemies and manage your village, but use them wisely as you only get 20 clicks every day! Can you reach day 100?

Why similar: Tower Defense 25.4%, City Builder 20.3%, Base Building 18.6%, RTS 12.9%, Strategy 11%

Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?

Why similar: Colony Sim 15.1%, City Builder 13%, Base Building 11.9%, Tower Defense 11.2%, Action RTS 11.1% ★

From Glory To Goo is a Sci-Fi survival RTS set on an alien world. Serve as humanity's bulwark by establishing a colony and supporting your colonists still in orbit. But beware, for The Goo, a relentless and shape-shifting force approaches from all sides, even above and below.

Why similar: Action RTS 19.6% ★, Colony Sim 14.9%, Tower Defense 13.1%, City Builder 13.1%, RTS 12.2%

"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: Action RTS 39.7% ★, RTS 25.6%, Tactical 11.6%, PvE 11.2%, Strategy 7.1%

Creeping Dusk is a tower defense game. Build a town around an abandoned gold mine and defend against monsters that swarm the area. Fortify your defenses, and prepare for the increasingly challenging nights. Will you be able to protect your town from the encroaching darkness?

Why similar: Tower Defense 23.2%, Base Building 16.5%, Building 13.1%, Resource Management 11%, Tactical 10.2%

Hexguardian is a roguelite, tower defense game where you build your own maps with hexagonal tiles! Build and upgrade towers, recruit armies, learn spells, construct wonders and place hexagonal tiles to create a path to enhance your defenses. With plenty of game modes and talents to unlock!

Why similar: Tower Defense 24.1%, RTS 19.8%, City Builder 16.7%, Tactical 12.8%, Strategy 6.5%

Build your apiary on islands above the clouds, travel on your medocycle, crossbreed bees with unique traits and create a cozy home in the sky. Grow plants, explore islands and send healing honey down to Earth, where people still hope for your help.

Why similar: Base Building 29%, Building 25.2%, Co-op 22.6%, Survival 21.6%, Singleplayer 1.6%

Kingdom Eighties is a short story-based standalone expansion set in the Kingdom universe. A rad adventure of micro-strategy and base building in vivid ‘80s neon. Defend your town against the mysterious Greed and discover the secrets of your family lineage!

Why similar: Action RTS 22.8% ★, Colony Sim 18.2%, City Builder 16.1%, Tower Defense 14.9%, Base Building 11.9%

Your main task in NecroCity is to push back the hordes of monsters and build your fortress! Defend your undead outposts from the persistent forces of the so-called “good”! Take on the role of the young Prince of Undead, trying to prove himself in the world of the Undead Kingdom. 👹

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.2%, City Builder 19.4%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 11%, Isometric 9.7%

Colony Siege combines the best of RTS and tower defense, including base building, mazing, and unit physics. Defend Earth's remaining colonies using an arsenal of deadly weapons to torch, slice, throw, and impale swarms of alien invaders.

Why similar: Tower Defense 28.7%, Strategy 21.3%, RTS 18.4%, Co-op 10%, Base Building 9.3%

Tempest Tower is an action packed tower defense platformer where you must brawl with incoming hordes of Creepers while herding the local critters to safety. Build, fight, upgrade, overcome.

Why similar: Action RTS 28.7% ★, Tower Defense 24.5%, Base Building 18.6%, Resource Management 13.8%, Strategy 6.4%

The Territory of Egg is a unique twist on tower defense game. You need to build defense lines with egg warriors to protect the Holy Egg, the core of all eggs. Remember to upgrade your Tech Tree with the resources you've collected and unlock more skills to fight against the evil monsters.

Why similar: Tower Defense 22.9%, RTS 19.6%, Isometric 14.7%, Minimalist 12.7%, Building 11.2%

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 25%, RTS 18%, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Tactical 10.3%, Building 10.2%

Discover one of the hardest tower defense games with strategic elements, individual gameplay and challenging mechanics. Play together with your friends in co-op mode, create a team and compete with other players in the online ranking.

Why similar: Tower Defense 29.7%, RTS 21.6%, Base Building 16.5%, Tactical 10.8%, Strategy 9%

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 21.3%, Base Building 17%, RTS 16%, Resource Management 12.3%, Co-op 10%

Repterra is a base-building survival RTS set in a world overrun by dinosaurs. Manage your colony while battling massive dino hordes. Breed and ride your own dinos, unlock permanent upgrades, and fight to reclaim the world for humanity.

Why similar: Colony Sim 12.8%, City Builder 12.3%, Tower Defense 11.8%, RTS 10.7%, Base Building 9.7%

Block Tower TD is a roguelike tower defense strategy game with interesting innovations. Build a world out of blocks, choose random upgrades to make every run unique.

Why similar: City Builder 20.6%, Tower Defense 19.4%, Isometric 11.8%, Minimalist 9.5%, Base Building 8.6%