Games Like Cannons-Defenders: Steam Edition

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 92.3%, Singleplayer 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling strategy game that perfectly captures the essence of defending a base against waves of enemies.

Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.

Why similar: Gore 35%, Action 25.3%, Indie 10.5%, 2D 8.8%, Difficult 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, gore-filled survival game where you defend against waves of enemies in a 2D space.

Rescue hostages, disarm bombs and save the day in this old school, side-scroller action game with retro graphics and retro sensibilities. Online and Couch Coop Included.

Why similar: Action 35.2%, Casual 23%, Indie 19.3%, 2D 16.5%, Singleplayer 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling tactical action game that emphasizes clearing rooms and defending objectives with high intensity.

Distant future… Brutal gladiatorial battles is a top-rated show, extremely popular all over the Universe. You’ve been sent to the abandoned planet as one of the participants of the show. Your goal is to survive as long as possible, fighting back deadly creatures in the focus of billions of viewers.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 16.3%, Tower Defense 15.7%, Action 13.6%, Gore 11.5%, Difficult 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Combines 2D platforming with tower-defense elements, making it a direct mechanical match for the seed game.

Broforce is an action-packed side-scrolling run ‘n’ gun ode to freedom, putting you in control of an under-funded, overpowered paramilitary organization dealing exclusively in excessive force.

Why similar: Action 24.3%, Gore 18.1%, Side Scroller 16.2%, Platformer 15.5%, Indie 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: An ultra-violent, side-scrolling action game that matches the high-octane, gore-filled combat of the seed game.

Katana ZERO is a stylish neo-noir, action-platformer featuring breakneck action and instant-death combat. Slash, dash, and manipulate time to unravel your past in a beautifully brutal acrobatic display.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 34.8%, Action 15.4%, Difficult 12.3%, Gore 11.8%, Platformer 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A difficult 2D action game that requires quick reflexes and strategic movement to survive waves of enemies.

Take on wild beasts, ruthless soldiers, and ancient gods in this 2D Action-Platformer inspired by Tower-Defense combat.

Why similar: Tower Defense 38.3%, Action 19.7%, Platformer 15.3%, Indie 13.4%, Great Soundtrack 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Blends platforming with tower-defense mechanics, requiring both combat skill and strategic base placement.

Super House of Dead Ninjas is an action arcade game with roguelite elements. Race against a 30 second timer as you descend floor after foe-filled floor and attempt to unlock the secrets of this deadly tower!Play as the fearsome Crimson Ninja, wielding an arsenal of deadly ninja weapons and attacks.

Why similar: Action 28.8%, Platformer 24.5%, Difficult 22.2%, Indie 14.7%, 2D 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A brutal, fast-paced action platformer that rewards precision and features intense, gore-heavy combat.

Bleed 2 is a relentless arcade action game featuring air-dodging, bullet-reflecting, and tons of bosses. Now with randomly-generated levels and daily challenges, too!

Why similar: Action 35.8%, Indie 22.2%, Great Soundtrack 20.7%, Platformer 14.3%, 2D 7%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging 2D platformer focused on fast-paced action and boss-heavy combat sequences.

Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.

Why similar: Difficult 34.2%, Action 22.3%, Platformer 20.5%, 2D 12.2%, Indie 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging 2D action-platformer that features intense combat and a high difficulty curve.

Atomik: RunGunJumpGun is a tough as nails game that puts a gravity-defying weapon in your hands. One button lets you fly, the other blasts obstacles out of the way. With a cast of crazed characters, challenging gameplay, and a pulsing musical score, it delivers twitchy platforming goodness.

Why similar: Action 29.5%, Indie 20.4%, Great Soundtrack 18%, Difficult 16.3%, Platformer 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A high-difficulty, fast-paced 2D platformer that demands constant movement and precision.

Challenging 2D platformer with simple graphics and a great chiptune soundtrack.

Why similar: Gore 22.1%, Difficult 21.1%, Action 13.8%, Side Scroller 13.7%, Platformer 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging precision platformer that requires careful navigation and quick reactions.

BUTCHER is a fast-paced, blood-soaked 2D shooter where carnage is the only way forward. Become a ruthless cyborg tasked with eradicating humanity, leaving nothing but blood, guts, and destruction in your wake. There's no such thing as too much violence in this grim, retro-styled gorefest.

Why similar: Gore 28.4%, Action 18.2%, Difficult 15.7%, Great Soundtrack 11.8%, Indie 10%

Why You'll Like It: An ultra-violent 2D shooter that mirrors the gritty, gore-focused aesthetic of the seed game.

Professional assassin turned amateur campaign manager Steve is charged with cleaning up the city by an anthropomorphic rabbit and mayoral candidate from the future named BunnyLord.

Why similar: Gore 23.1%, Great Soundtrack 21.1%, Action 20.4%, Indie 12.7%, Difficult 9%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D side-scrolling action game that focuses on clearing areas and defending positions with a unique, fast-paced feel.

Mechs V Kaijus is an addictive hardcore tower defense gameplay. In Mechs V Kaijus you take on the role of Commander of a powerful Mechs squadron. Improve your Mech, strategically place towers and factories on the battlefield. Deploy support units on the battlefield, and save our civilization.

Why similar: Tower Defense 72.4%, Indie 13.2%, Action 12.9%, Singleplayer 1.6%

Why You'll Like It: A tower-defense game that incorporates action elements and large-scale combat against waves of enemies.

Splasher is a fun and challenging 2D Platformer filled with humor and surprises. Armed with a paint cannon, you’ll face the dangers of the Inkorp mega-factory in order to save your companions, the Splashers, and put an end to the Machiavellian projects of the evil boss, Le Docteur.

Why similar: Action 33.5%, Platformer 26.2%, Indie 24.2%, Difficult 8.9%, 2D 6%

Why You'll Like It: A precision-based 2D platformer that emphasizes difficult, fast-paced movement.

The ultimate mash-up of Real-time Strategy and Tower Defense!

Why similar: Tower Defense 57%, Indie 13.8%, Action 13%, Difficult 10.2%, 2D 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A strategic tower-defense game that offers deep base-building mechanics similar to the seed game.

Challenging 2D platformer in the best traditions of classic games, with an excellent chiptune soundtrack. The game will check your nerves for strength and bring a lot of emotions.

Why similar: Gore 23.9%, Difficult 22.4%, Side Scroller 19.4%, Platformer 14.2%, Indie 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled, difficult precision platformer that tests player reflexes in a 2D environment.

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: Indie 29.2%, Action 27.1%, 2D 18.8%, Tower Defense 18%, Singleplayer 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Features 2D artillery-based combat that captures the strategic defense feel of the seed game.

Firebase Defence is a new spin on the traditional tower defence gameplay. You have to defend yourself from the waves upon waves of incoming enemies. You are free to build, place and manage your available resources and units in any way you want. But failing to balance those will result in defeat!

Why similar: Gore 26.7%, Tower Defense 22%, Action 16.6%, Great Soundtrack 12.3%, Indie 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A direct take on the base-defense genre with a focus on violent, action-packed combat.

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: Tower Defense 36.9%, Action 18.2%, Difficult 15.9%, Casual 11%, 2D 7.8%

Black blood is a mix of hardcore Tower Defense strategy and top-down shooter. Act as a defender against alien invaders, attack and destroy all their insidious plans...

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 26.7%, Tower Defense 26%, Difficult 15.7%, Action 12.6%, Casual 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down combat and strategy game that shares the defensive focus of the seed game.

Defense: Abominations is a first person tower defense game where you try to survive the abominations stored in the laboratory, as long as you can.

Why similar: Gore 31.6%, Action 18.4%, Tower Defense 14.8%, Great Soundtrack 14.5%, Indie 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: A gore-filled strategy game that tasks players with defending against waves of monsters.

"Age of Steel: Recharge" is a 2D strategy with a view from the side. You're taking the role of commander, who was entrusted the management of the military base. Your mission is to defend a base from the waves of enemies at any price.

Why similar: Action 30.6%, Casual 25.9%, Tower Defense 23.2%, Indie 20.3%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling strategy and tower-defense hybrid that focuses on base protection.

Freedom Defender is a satirical tower defense game set in a fictional country obsessed in keeping it's borders free from foreigners.

Why similar: Tower Defense 29.1%, Casual 21.3%, Indie 16.6%, Great Soundtrack 13%, Difficult 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A tower-defense game that focuses on defending a base with various strategic units.

Steampunk Tower 2 is an action-strategy game set in the alternative Steampunk universe. In Lord Bingham’s military service there is a new secret weapon under your command, the gigantic aircraft Carrier transporting the Battle Tower.

Why similar: Tower Defense 43.5%, Action 22.8%, Indie 13%, Side Scroller 12.3%, 2D 6%

Why You'll Like It: A tower-defense game with a distinct aesthetic and a focus on defending a central structure.

Tower defense reimagined! Dead Ground is a procedurally generated tower defense game with rogue-like elements. Each playthrough will offer randomly generated guns, skills and augments. You'll have to travel, collect scrap, water, manage your inventory and upgrade your base to survive!

Why similar: Tower Defense 47.9%, Action 14.3%, Great Soundtrack 12%, Indie 9.9%, Difficult 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A tower-defense game that integrates RPG elements and action-oriented combat.

Man the guns! The enemy fleet is on the horizon! Defend your fort from attacks – show your tactical skill.

Why similar: Tower Defense 31.3%, Difficult 22.8%, Action 17.7%, Casual 16%, Indie 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: A casual tower-defense game that emphasizes strategic placement and base protection.

Rocked by an explosive soundtrack, choose your band, place your equipments and defend the Rock 'N' Roll from everyone and everything who try to pull it down, on a totally hardcore tower defense!

Why similar: Tower Defense 50.3%, Great Soundtrack 18.7%, Casual 10.9%, Action 9.7%, Indie 3.9%

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: Tower Defense 46.2%, Platformer 22.2%, Action 17.9%, Indie 9%, Singleplayer 4.8%

The Culling Of The Cows is a side-scrolling shooter / tower defence game. You will take the role of Sammy, a soliloquizing schizophrenic farmer with a self prophesied mission to lay waste to the disease spreading over his farm.

Why similar: Tower Defense 23.2%, Indie 21.3%, Gore 18.3%, Action 15.7%, Casual 14.6%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling action game that features tower-defense elements and a unique, gritty theme.

Dynamic, hardcore and explosive action on the passage with a bunch of weapons, enemies and bosses.

Why similar: Action 21.4%, Great Soundtrack 15.5%, Indie 13.6%, Gore 13.2%, Side Scroller 10.8%

Pizza Tower is a fast paced 2D platformer, with an emphasis on movement, exploration and score attack. Featuring highly stylized pixel art inspired by the cartoons from the '90s, and a highly energetic soundtrack.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 46.5%, Platformer 11.8%, Difficult 11.5%, Indie 11.4%, Action 10.7%

Hardcore pixel 2D platformer with steampunk elements, with randomly generated levels.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 21%, Indie 20.1%, Casual 19.3%, Difficult 12.7%, Side Scroller 12.4%

Tired of moving around without purposes? Come and protect the goddess with multiple combination of skills and elements. Discover and upgrade your weapon to super, even hyper! Play this game with a joy from both tower defense and rogue!

Why similar: Tower Defense 34.2%, Casual 29.2%, Action 21.5%, Indie 7%, 2D 6.9%

Survive and defend your land against the armored train in this arcade achievement-attack puzzle. Think smart, find the right sequence to create combos by destroying wagons with different bonuses to speed up and boost your cannon, and stop the train before it stops you.

Why similar: Difficult 33.3%, Tower Defense 29.6%, Casual 24.6%, Action 8.3%, Singleplayer 4.2%

Defend your castle in this fast-paced tower defense/action hybrid game with stunning pixel art graphics! Play as alchemically enhanced warrior Bellator, set traps, build towers, craft powerful weapons, and defend your home! The fate of the castle lies in your hands!

Why similar: Tower Defense 48.7%, Action 21.5%, Indie 14.6%, 2D 10.7%, Singleplayer 4.6%

RedEx is a 2D shooter with Tower Defence mechanics, with a minimalist pixel art stile. You are to fight against mercenaries of underground smuggling organization which pretends to be a logistic corporation called RedExpress.

Why similar: Action 37.6%, Side Scroller 24.6%, Platformer 21.1%, Indie 8.1%, 2D 6.8%

Blast-off is a hardcore jumper/runner/shmup, where your alter ego will be a ball of anti-matter seeking to leave our Universe. Anti-matter is extremely difficult to exist in our universe, because when it contact with matter it annihilates.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 41.9%, Action 27.4%, Indie 18.4%, 2D 8.6%, Singleplayer 3.7%

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: Tower Defense 43.6%, Action 22.4%, Casual 19.4%, 2D 11.2%, Singleplayer 3.5%

Tank Destroyer is a top-down shooter with a dynamic gameplay and stealth elements.

Why similar: Action 66.6%, Indie 33.4%

Cube Destroyer is a top-down shooter with a dynamic gameplay.

Why similar: Indie 48.6%, Action 44.7%, Singleplayer 6.6%

Age of Defense is a tower defense game full of mind-blowing mayhem. There are tons of monsters and tough defenders in the game each of which fits perfectly into a funny cartoonish setting.

Why similar: Tower Defense 33.9%, Difficult 17.9%, Action 16.2%, Casual 14.5%, 2D 8.7%

In Defendoooooor!!!, it's your job to fight an alien invasion.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 22.6%, Action 22.5%, Indie 15.1%, Tower Defense 14.4%, Difficult 11.7%

Contract Rush DX is a hand-animated 2D Shoot 'Em Up, with multiple playable characters. Explore the world, collect powerful upgrades throughout levels, and unleash them to defeat difficult boss battles!

Why similar: Difficult 33%, Action 21.5%, Gore 18.5%, Platformer 18.1%, 2D 7.1%

Test your mind with this twist on a Tower Defense genre, wrapped up in a deep, dark story! Play as a scientist punishing ignorant peasants with burning balls of lava!

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 22.9%, Tower Defense 19.8%, Action 16.1%, Casual 14.2%, Indie 10.9%

Military valor, courage and honor – if these words mean something to you, then you are a direct road to the game Lord of the Click.

Why similar: Action 20.5%, Casual 19.9%, Great Soundtrack 16.7%, Indie 14.2%, Tower Defense 13.7%

Dynamic tower defence with an ever-scaling battlefield and unexpected twists!

Why similar: Tower Defense 44.2%, Casual 35.2%, 2D 11%, Indie 8%, Singleplayer 1.6%

Break through unlimited waves of enemies and fight unpredictable bosses!

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 27.6%, Action 19.6%, Indie 19.3%, Casual 17.4%, Difficult 13.4%

3D Hardcore Cube - this is not an easy platformer in which you want to get to the portal and not to fall into the trap. The game has boosters traffic boosters bounce, anti bounce, falling cubes, turrets and more!

Why similar: Action 33.1%, Indie 22.2%, Difficult 17.2%, Side Scroller 15.4%, Casual 9.5%

Dive deep into the exhilarating world of high-stakes battles. Lead your army against a relentless onslaught of enemy machinery, spanning from the iconic tanks of WW2 to the modern-day helicopters.

Why similar: Tower Defense 57.2%, Action 38.7%, Singleplayer 4.1%

Cosmic Dust & Rust is a tower defence game set in space. Upgrade your ship, build turrets and defence systems, undergo side missions and take control of your ship manually and use its cannons and super weapons to destroy your enemies.

Why similar: Casual 41.5%, Tower Defense 26.4%, Action 11.6%, Difficult 11.4%, Indie 9%

Dungeon Warfare is a challenging tower defense strategy game where you become a dungeon lord to defend your dungeons with deadliest of traps and insidious contraptions against greedy adventurers and wanna-be heroes.

Why similar: Tower Defense 32.1%, Great Soundtrack 23.1%, Gore 22.5%, Indie 11.3%, 2D 7.8%

Defend Billy and his crew on their way to the extraction zone! You have been authorized to use the defense system. Protect them from giant bugs, malfunctioning droids and more...

Why similar: Indie 52.3%, Casual 17.2%, Tower Defense 16.2%, Singleplayer 14.3%

Protect vehicles on the road and survive! Road Defense: Outsiders is a game that combines elements of the 'roguelike' and 'tower defense' genres. Upgrade the towers and your own skills to be able to annihilate all the life around you!

Why similar: Tower Defense 34.6%, Action 23.4%, Casual 19.2%, Indie 18.3%, Singleplayer 4.5%

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 39.2%, Difficult 27.9%, Action 16.5%, Casual 12.2%, Singleplayer 4.2%

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 41.7%, Action 30.6%, Indie 27.7%

The ultimate 2D Physics War Game - War just got fun, build your army with tanks, guns, spies, flame tanks and helicopters. Then embark on battles of mass destruction and tactical rescues. Bring peace to faction island by destroying all your enemies!

Why similar: Action 23.6%, Side Scroller 21.9%, Platformer 20.1%, Indie 15.6%, 2D 8.6%