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Build your own towers from modular units, adapt mid battle, and master custom defenses in this Build-a-Tower Defense.

Why similar: Tower Defense 25%, RTS 15.5%, Difficult 14.5%, Sandbox 12%, PvE 10.6%

Phoenix Hope is a pixel art 2D real-time, side-view strategy game in which you must develop your colony during the day and repel waves of monsters at night.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7%, Tower Defense 18.4%, Base Building 14%, RTS 13.3%, Building 9.5%

A unique tower defense game. Where you design and build your defense block by block. With many component that can be combined for different effect. To survive in a hostile world.

Why similar: Tower Defense 23.1%, Strategy 15%, Simulation 14.6%, Sandbox 13.4%, Base Building 12.2%

Alpha Lyrae (Vega) is the brightest star in the northern constellation of Lyra. You were sent to Alpha Lyrae system, and your first object is to discover and to transmit data back. The last and only message from the previous team: "It is a rich and soft planet. They are everywhere."

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9%, Tower Defense 20.5%, Sandbox 13.2%, Building 11%, RTS 10.2%

Land on a planet, pick up some rocks, leave before the solar system explodes. Oh, and don't die in the nightly robot attacks! Freaking Meatbags is a humorous real-time strategy game that's all about building a base, mixing meatbag DNA, then convincing those dolts to help you gather resources.

Why similar: Tower Defense 29.6%, RTS 14.8%, Colony Sim 13.7%, Strategy 12.5%, Base Building 7.8%

Colonize rich planets with vegetation or deserted moons. Build a functional and prosperous colony. Take care of your colonists. Experience adventures on distant worlds or build a colony on planets in our solar system.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6%, Base Building 14.4%, RTS 13.2%, Sandbox 13%, Building 9.6%

Zomboard is a post-apocalyptic colony sim and base defense game. Start with a few survivors, build your settlement, and fortify defenses to survive overwhelming zombie hordes.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9%, Tower Defense 21.4%, Base Building 16.4%, Strategy 9.7%, Building 9.4%

Build your defense base to repel alien invaders. Atahion is a strategy and tactical defense game in which you have to extract resources, build defense towers and use bonuses to complete the mission.

Why similar: Tower Defense 29.5%, RTS 23%, Base Building 17%, Sci-fi 9.7%, Strategy 8.8%

Your people are the power, and the problem. Land on an unknown planet and build a thriving colony in this sci-fi sim. Humanity’s last hope, rests in a pristine, yet perilous world. Will your COLONY survive, or will their conflicts BREAK it apart?

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.1%, RTS 15.5%, Sandbox 9.6%, Difficult 8.8%, Base Building 8.7%

Survival strategy game set in a world inspired by Slavic mythology and the nature of Eastern Europe. Build your settlement, protect its dwellers, and help them prepare for the coming Darkness.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7%, RTS 17.5%, Tower Defense 16.2%, Base Building 12.9%, Building 11%

Choose between 4 factions and wage war against your enemies in this real-time strategy game. Insect Empires is a cartoon style Isometric real-time strategy game about colony type insects. Choose your faction and wage war against any foe!

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.1%, RTS 13.7%, Base Building 13.3%, Tower Defense 13.1%, Sandbox 11.9%

The Wild Age is a micromanagement strategy game with tower defense gameplay mechanics. The game is designed mainly for a peaceful and relaxed gaming experience that offers a break from the busy realities of life.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7%, Tower Defense 20.9%, Base Building 16.6%, Building 10.3%, Strategy 8.6%

An epic war and strategy game set in the medieval universe.

Why similar: Tower Defense 26.4%, Colony Sim 26.4%, Building 15.2%, Strategy 13.5%, Base Building 12.6%

Gather exotic resources, build defenses, research new technologies, and explore the mysteries of the void, all while being chased by the darkness from the end of time.

Why similar: Tower Defense 22%, Colony Sim 19.3%, Base Building 16.9%, Strategy 12%, Building 8.4%

Rise of the Cones is a tower defense game where a relentless army of cones is marching toward your base. They will not stop. Build towers, shape them with branching upgrades, and figure out how to hold the line.

Why similar: Tower Defense 28.7%, RTS 19.4%, Base Building 17.6%, Strategy 11%, Sci-fi 10.5%

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 32.8%, Strategy 11.6%, RPG 10.7%, Sandbox 9.9%, Sci-fi 9.1%

Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.5%, Building 17.1%, Sandbox 15.6%, Tower Defense 11%, Strategy 9.1%

The original castle sim, Stronghold HD allows you to design, build and destroy historical castles. Engage in medieval warfare against the AI in one of two single player campaigns or online with up to 8 players.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.1%, Tower Defense 17.6%, RTS 15.1%, Base Building 12.4%, Sandbox 12%

Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.4%, Base Building 12%, Sci-fi 11.9%, Strategy 9.2%, Simulation 8.4%

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 27%, Base Building 22.1%, RTS 17.4%, Tower Defense 16.6%, Strategy 7.1%

Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 39.8%, Base Building 17.9%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 10.2%, Strategy 7.5%

Halftime Builders is a game that mixes Tower Defense, Horde Survivor, RTS and Roguelike elements. Pick your defenses, build them up, collect scrap, level up and kill an endless amounts of mobs. Once you die use your hard earned gold to improve your chances and start again!

Why similar: Tower Defense 24%, RTS 18.3%, Base Building 17.5%, Building 10%, PvE 9.3%

Dig minerals, manufacture ammunition, and build defense towers to fend off swarms of insects. A tower defense game with light production line elements.

Why similar: Tower Defense 27.8%, RTS 19.4%, Strategy 14.5%, Base Building 13%, Sci-fi 11.7%

Build towers, manage resources, and lead units to defend your kingdom against goblins. Every decision you make determines your kingdom's fate.

Why similar: Tower Defense 21.3%, Colony Sim 19.2%, RTS 17.2%, Base Building 14.3%, Building 9.8%

VENOY is a relaxing roguelite real-time strategy game with deep settler logistics, true sandbox freedom and exciting meta progression. Build your medieval colony, optimize production chains and defend it against enemies!

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.6%, RTS 21.7%, Sandbox 13.4%, Base Building 12.2%, Strategy 12.2%

A strategic tower defense where you command a flock of chickens to gather resources, fortify defenses, and survive relentless predator attacks. Balance growth and survival as you protect the next generation through treacherous nights against tactical predators.

Why similar: Tower Defense 27.3%, Colony Sim 26.2%, Base Building 15.2%, Strategy 11.1%, Building 7.8%

Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.

Why similar: Colony Sim 17.6%, Base Building 15.8%, Tower Defense 14.8%, Building 12.7%, Strategy 10.8%

Tired of RNG and card draws? Experience a "Plan first, pay later" economy where construction scales with your income in real time. As the map grows massive, only careful planning. Not a lucky roll, will keep you alive.

Why similar: Tower Defense 31.3%, RTS 25.3%, Base Building 17.7%, Building 13.6%, Strategy 8.4%

Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6%, Base Building 18.4%, Building 14.8%, Sandbox 13.4%, Strategy 8.9%

Random Realms Hero Under Siege is a fast-paced single player tower defense RTS where every match is a fresh roll of the dice. Build bases from randomized building options, lead a leveling hero and their army, and hold the line against escalating enemy waves.

Why similar: Tower Defense 26.3%, RTS 16.5%, PvE 11.9%, Base Building 10.5%, Building 9.7%

Flowchart is your weapon. Recursion is a strategy game merging logic circuit design with tower defense. architect their paths, and defend the system by engineering the perfect logic loop with maximum efficiency.

Why similar: Tower Defense 28.9%, RTS 14.2%, Building 13.7%, Base Building 12.4%, Strategy 11.3%

Protolife is an unique tower-based strategy game which gives you a direct control over the builder robot in a struggle against the hungry proto-life organism.

Why similar: Tower Defense 28.9%, RTS 24.2%, Base Building 19.2%, Sci-fi 10.5%, Strategy 8.7%

Von Neumann Project is about a self replicating probe as it charts the galaxies, peacefully of course. Mine, build, expand, and explore in this sci-fi RTS. Remember to have as little impact on your surroundings as possible and protect yourself at all costs.

Why similar: Tower Defense 33.2%, RTS 25.7%, Base Building 13.8%, Strategy 8.8%, Building 6.9%

A sci fi business colony simulation on an alien planet. Extract resources, create production pipelines, research new buildings and trade resources with the Earth as you manage the expectations of your employees and defend from the alien flora that inhabits this world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.3%, Sandbox 17.7%, Strategy 14.6%, Base Building 13.6%, Simulation 12.1%

Build realistic medieval castles and defend them against rival knights. Bergfried is a strategy game featuring organic castle building and tactical siege battles. Manage your lands, plan your defenses and lead your troops to victory!

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2%, Tower Defense 17.4%, RTS 16.5%, Sandbox 12%, Building 8.3%

After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9%, RTS 17.5%, Base Building 13.8%, Tower Defense 12.5%, Sandbox 11.5%

Wood needed! Return to the green roots of Stronghold in this narrative prequel to the original 'castle sim'. Immerse yourself in a cinematic campaign, hone your siegecraft with new mechanics in skirmish mode and customise your castles with a wide selection of castle pieces and cosmetics.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22%, Tower Defense 17.8%, RTS 16.7%, Sandbox 12%, Building 8.1%

Zombie Warz is a strategy survivor RTS with rogue-lite gameplay elements. Play as the king of a kingdom under siege by zombies and survive to discover their origins.

Why similar: Tower Defense 23.8%, Colony Sim 21.6%, RTS 18.1%, Base Building 13.7%, Building 9.9%

Create a buzzing village and become a powerful enough wizard to defend it in this RPG inspired city builder!

Why similar: Colony Sim 23%, RTS 19.6%, Building 14.9%, RPG 10.3%, Strategy 9.5%

Become part of historical battles, take the lead and help your army defeat the enemy.

Why similar: Tower Defense 20.9%, RTS 19.1%, Sandbox 14%, PvE 10.6%, Strategy 7.4%

Defend your castle from the attacks of the night creatures. Collect coins, interact with the elements of the game, discover, explore, learn and survive for 30 days or try again.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5%, Tower Defense 21.2%, Base Building 16.1%, Building 12.2%, Strategy 9.9%

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

Why similar: Tower Defense 24.2%, RTS 19.4%, Base Building 19%, Sandbox 10.1%, Building 9.5%

A modular tower defense strategy game where you design, build, and upgrade fully customizable towers to survive relentless enemy waves.

Why similar: Tower Defense 33.1%, Sandbox 19.3%, Base Building 17.8%, Building 16.6%, Strategy 10.5%

Uncrewed is a real-time strategy game with the ability to design units from scratch. Unlike in more traditional RTS, units obey the laws of physics, making design choices especially important.

Why similar: RTS 23.1%, Sandbox 16%, Building 14%, Base Building 13.9%, Strategy 13.7%

The goblin tribes of the realm have united against you and the power of the Eye of the Void. Build towers, fortify walls, construct gold mines to gather resources, and cast powerful spells to fend off waves of determined goblins and their allies who seek to destroy you.

Why similar: Tower Defense 26%, Colony Sim 25.4%, Base Building 17.8%, Building 16.3%, Strategy 10.2%

NecroCity: Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full version of the game. Take on the role of the young Prince of Undead, trying to prove himself in the world of the Undead Kingdom. Push back the hordes of monsters and build your fortress! 🔥

Why similar: Tower Defense 24.7%, Colony Sim 18%, Base Building 16.1%, Building 14.8%, Strategy 9%

StarSim: BattleZone is a real-time strategy (RTS) game set in the StarSim universe. Take command of an army and lead your faction to victory. Gameplay includes classic RTS mechanics such as: building a base, gathering resources, researching new technologies, building defences, training units, etc.

Why similar: RTS 31.1%, Base Building 20.4%, Building 16.1%, Strategy 14.8%, PvE 8.2%

After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!

Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, Tower Defense 14.8%, Sandbox 10.7%, Base Building 10.5%, Building 10.2%

Lessaria is an RTS inspired by Majesty 👑 where you guide heroes with indirect control. Play through the campaign or relax in sandbox mode as you build your magical kingdom.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23%, Tower Defense 19.5%, RTS 18.1%, Sandbox 11.1%, PvE 7.7%

U.F.O. K.O. Tower Defense: Place lasers, missile launchers, sniper turrets, and use combat strategies such as airstrikes and the space ray to repel waves of alien invaders in this sci-fi tower defense game.

Why similar: Tower Defense 32.9%, RTS 26%, Building 18.9%, Strategy 9.3%, Simulation 5.5%

DarkSwitch is a vertical survival city builder. Build a city on a great tree and defend it against the Fog. Face the challenges of limited real estate, scarce resources, and tough moral choices as you seek to uncover the mystery of the Shroud. The Tree Provides! The Tree Protects! The Tree Prevails!

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5%, Tower Defense 16.4%, Base Building 13.1%, RTS 11.7%, Building 10.8%

Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.8%, Base Building 22.4%, Building 11.4%, Sandbox 9%, Difficult 4.5%

Dive into Astronaut Assault, a third-person Sci-Fi tower defense game, and battle against relentless enemy waves in diverse arena settings. Arm yourself with an array of turrets, traps, and gadgets to halt, hinder, and outmaneuver your foes.

Why similar: Tower Defense 25.7%, Sandbox 15.7%, Base Building 13.8%, Building 13.6%, PvE 11.4%

Build a fantasy settlement, guide unique villagers, reshape a fully destructible world, and lead your people in real-time battles against monsters, raiders, and rival factions. Raise a homestead, a druid's grove, a wizard's spire, a necromancer's deep lair—or something only you can imagine.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.9%, Sandbox 17.6%, Strategy 14.4%, Simulation 14.2%, Building 11.1%

IT HAS GONE ROGUE You are sent to an hostile Space-Station with the mission to stop an AI-Super-Computer that has gone rogue!

Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, Tower Defense 17.7%, RTS 14.6%, Sandbox 12.7%, Base Building 11.7%

Base Raid is a 2D base build and defence strategy game. In the game your goal is to build the best base to crush the enemy before it crushes you. You have a specific amount of in-game money to build your base and use it to fight against enemy bases.

Why similar: Tower Defense 26.1%, RTS 20.3%, Sandbox 15.9%, Base Building 14.7%, Building 9.6%

Discover a whole new world with Mars City Builder! Construct roads, erect buildings customize the city and take care of its safety. After all, you are the first Martian settler and this is a vast, unknown land. Develop it in any way you please!

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.3%, Base Building 16%, Sandbox 14.5%, Building 12%, Sci-fi 8%

Siege of Irdor is a city-builder strategy game set in dark medieval times, where fantasy and reality collide. Build by day and defend the sieges by night to survive against the armies of darkness.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4%, Tower Defense 18.2%, RTS 17.4%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 11.3%

Defend your planet from waves of robot invaders! Build powerful turrets, upgrade your defenses, and command robot units to fight drones, tanks, and massive bosses. Then send your own forces to attack the enemy planet in this action-packed sci-fi tower defense game.

Why similar: Tower Defense 28%, RTS 20.9%, Strategy 11.3%, Sci-fi 9.4%, Base Building 9.3%

You are on the run. Build stations in hostile systems, gather what resources you can, and jump away before you are overwhelmed. Your ships are slowly failing, but the Swarm is relentless, hungry, and on your heels. Can you survive long enough to secure a future for humanity?

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.4%, Base Building 19.6%, Building 12.5%, RTS 11.9%, Sci-fi 11.1%