
Mining & Tower Defense! Build miners to gather ores, buy diverse cores, and freely assemble your own defense towers from modules! Your strategy and creativity forge the ultimate frontier against endless enemies!
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Mining & Tower Defense! Build miners to gather ores, buy diverse cores, and freely assemble your own defense towers from modules! Your strategy and creativity forge the ultimate frontier against endless enemies!

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An experimental game that combines sandbox survival and tower defence. Expand your island from scratch and build it any way you want, also defend the enemies from destroying island's core.At last escape from this fake world!
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Goblin Takes No Argument[s]
In this retro style tower defence, we have created a short experience for all of you seeking a true Atari-like experience. This is off cause bull___. This was a school project completely made with Python and Pygames. Be sure to give us a grade;)
An experimental game that combines sandbox survival and tower defence. Expand your island from scratch and build it any way you want, also defend the enemies from destroying island's core.At last escape from this fake world!
Why similar: Mining 32.4% ★, Tower Defense 32.3%, Building 17.1%, Strategy 16.2%, Indie 1.3%
In this retro style tower defence, we have created a short experience for all of you seeking a true Atari-like experience. This is off cause bull___. This was a school project completely made with Python and Pygames. Be sure to give us a grade;)
Why similar: Tower Defense 47.8%, Building 24.1%, Strategy 18.7%, 2D 5.8%, Indie 1.9%
Gemstone Guardians is a tower defense game where selection and combinations are key. Similar to a game of poker, players are given a set of random towers each round and must make the best combinations to prevent the waves of enemies from reaching the end.
Why similar: Tower Defense 46.8%, Strategy 25.4%, Building 23.3%, Singleplayer 2.4%, Indie 2.2%
Fight waves of mutated creatures in this roguelite tower defense game. Turrets can be used to defend or to harvest — you decide! How much can you secure before being overrun?
Why similar: Mining 45.5% ★, Tower Defense 34.3%, Building 15.4%, 2D 3%, Indie 1%
《Cloud Castle》It is a strategic tower defense game that builds your defense route by placing and upgrading on a grid map, resisting waves of monsters.
Why similar: Tower Defense 62.6%, Strategy 16.4%, Building 14.2%, Indie 4.5%, Singleplayer 2.3%
Several realms being attacked by monsters, and you don't know what to do, just fight
Why similar: Tower Defense 54.3%, Strategy 21.1%, 2D Platformer 14.6%, 2D 6.3%, Indie 2.1%
This is a game where players need to defend every monster's attack. Beware that monsters can destroy the buildings of the camp. Players exchange gold coins by collecting food produced by planting plants and breeding animals. Keep improving the properties of the defense tower to protect your camp.
Why similar: Tower Defense 46.2%, Building 25%, 2D Platformer 13.1%, 2D 9.4%, Singleplayer 3.7%
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: Mining 35.7% ★, Tower Defense 35.7%, Strategy 16.9%, Building 9.4%, 2D 1.7%
Modo Defense is a strategy tower defense game. Spin yut, similar to dice, to obtain various resources and summon or strengthen towers. You can customize your tower however you like. Specialize in multi-attack or strong one-by-one! And we have to stop the demons coming in. How far can you stop it?
Why similar: Tower Defense 62.4%, Strategy 25.2%, 2D 9.1%, Singleplayer 3.2%
Escape from daily life and immerse yourself in the exciting tower defense strategy game 'Little TD'. Experience a unique gaming style in 'Little Tower Defense', with various fresh game modes that are different from traditional tower defense.
Why similar: Tower Defense 49.2%, Strategy 20.4%, Building 11.3%, 2D Platformer 10.8%, 2D 3.9%
SpaceMine is a third-person tower defence game where your mission is to defend your mining operation by building towers and barriers to hold off waves of local fauna and collect enough resources to meet the company's quota.
Why similar: Mining 42.8% ★, Tower Defense 32.3%, Building 16.5%, Strategy 8.2%, Singleplayer 0.3%
Yavalanche is a tower defense game in which you take control of a courageous yeti that lives on top of the mountain to repel waves of the sinister goblins coming to get you. Place your pins, strategize your attacks, upgrade your fortifications, and send those pesky green goblins down!
Why similar: Tower Defense 57.6%, Strategy 17.3%, Building 16.4%, 2D 6.8%, Singleplayer 1.9%
Build your towers of paper before they get out of the box and make a big mess in the room. Manage the turrets, upgrade and be careful where you put them... every decision can be fatal! Watch out for the air units, they have a different route!
Why similar: Tower Defense 71.7%, Strategy 22.9%, Indie 5.4%
Stunning detail of levels, in-depth gameplay, finely tuned balance of all levels and turrets. During the game you will hold your defense with your turrets against the massive hordes of enemies.
Why similar: Tower Defense 70.1%, Strategy 24.3%, Indie 5.6%
Hidden Valley TD is a tower defense with rogue-like elements offering many different strategies. Built towers, upgrade magic, and gather artifacts to see how long you can last against waves of undead minions!
Why similar: Tower Defense 49.8%, Building 22%, Strategy 19.1%, 2D 6%, Singleplayer 3%
Stunning detail of levels, in-depth gameplay, finely tuned balance of all levels and turrets. The new, engaging levels are even more stunning and impressive.
Why similar: Tower Defense 74.5%, Strategy 20.7%, Indie 4.8%
Orcdom is a minimalist tower defense game with full freedom in tower placement. Defend your crystal from waves of orcs attacking from all directions. Plan your layout, time your spells, and unlock new strategy modes in this fast-paced tactical challenge!
Why similar: Tower Defense 35.3%, Mining 31.6% ★, Building 14.5%, Strategy 10.6%, 2D 4.4%
Become a dungeon lord to defend your dungeons with the deadliest of traps and insidious contraptions against greedy adventurers and wannabe heroes.
Why similar: Tower Defense 58.8%, Strategy 30.1%, Indie 7.1%, 2D 4%
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: Tower Defense 71.9%, Strategy 23%, Indie 5%
A tower defense game about about 10 guardians who protect crystals.Anyway, It's Simple!But it's a bit challenging!Defend the crystal from a large number of demons and become a legendary guardian!
Why similar: Tower Defense 62.2%, Strategy 24.9%, 2D 7.5%, Singleplayer 2.8%, Indie 2.6%
"Chaos Invasion TD" – Immerse Yourself in a Fantasy 2D Strategy Tower Defense Epic! Build. Defend. Conquer. The chaos awaits.
Why similar: Tower Defense 58.4%, Strategy 24.2%, 2D Platformer 14.3%, Singleplayer 3.1%
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 67.4%, Strategy 24.8%, Indie 6%, Singleplayer 1.8%
Just Updated! Version 1.1 now has 6 New online Mayhem levels, Character Customization, 35 Defense levels, 25 Skirmish levels, and more!
Why similar: Tower Defense 70.7%, Strategy 22.2%, Indie 5.6%, Singleplayer 1.5%
This is a game that combines mining and tower defense elements. Players need to build defense towers by digging and gathering minerals underground to resist a constant stream of monsters!
Why similar: Tower Defense 46.6%, Strategy 25.4%, 2D Platformer 17.1%, 2D 6.7%, Indie 2.2%
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 69%, Strategy 19.9%, 2D 6.7%, Singleplayer 2.9%, Indie 1.5%
Crumbled World is a tower defense game where you're tasked to create a maze of defensive structures with the purpose to defend the world crystal. The world crystal is what keeps the world from further collapsing into darkness and without it no hope exists.
Why similar: Tower Defense 63.7%, Strategy 28.7%, Indie 7.5%
Dead TD is a tower defense game that was inspired by the old school original maps from WC3. It features a wide range of towers that upgrade into more powerful types and features a range of different abilities that can be used to create the ultimate defense.
Why similar: Tower Defense 62.6%, Strategy 26.1%, 2D 8.5%, Singleplayer 2.8%
A mining adventure with incremental roots where you must delve deep to find and stop The Anomaly. Dig and upgrade your weapons, abilities and even the Mine itself, to discover the truth.
Why similar: Mining 73.4% ★, Strategy 18.8%, 2D 4.5%, Indie 1.9%, Singleplayer 1.4%
An epic, challenging tower defense game with an emphasis on strategy and replayability. Summon gems of immense magical potency and harness their unique abilities against a seemingly endless horde of monsters. The archdemon seeks to swallow the world, and you must journey to stand against her.
Why similar: Tower Defense 77.8%, Strategy 15.9%, Indie 2.6%, Singleplayer 2%, 2D 1.7%
Defense Technica is the next evolution in hardcore tower defense strategy games. Protect the core from an onslaught of unrelenting biomechanical terrors with a powerful range of tower defense units – each with their own upgradable features and methods of attacks.
Why similar: Tower Defense 81.3%, Strategy 15.3%, Indie 3.3%
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 68%, Strategy 25.5%, Indie 6.5%
While a formidable evil emerges, an unexpected alliance is taking shape! It will take the finest warriors of Linirea and the relentless Dark Army to stop it. Beware! Though they may journey side by side the ever-changing winds of fate could swiftly alter their course.
Why similar: Tower Defense 58.4%, Strategy 19.9%, Building 12.6%, 2D 5.5%, Singleplayer 1.9%
Defeat hordes of imps in the very first Tower Defence game about the order of monks! All this to defend humankind from hordes of demons!
Why similar: Tower Defense 69.1%, Strategy 30.9%
The biggest installment of the award winning Sentinel sci-fi tower defense series now on PC!Take the fight to the alien homeworld and unleash a massive arsenal of weaponry. Get up close and personal on the battlefield in your power armor to execute devastating attacks and support your defenses! * An epic campaign across 20 levels.
Why similar: Tower Defense 80.5%, Strategy 16.2%, Indie 3.3%
Evil Defenders is a fun, frenetic defense game: build and upgrade your towers, сast spells to repel enemy forces, use special landmarks and defend the Lands of Evil from invaders! Feel free to play the game in many different ways through unique tower upgrades, a deep skill tree and 100 in-game achievements.
Why similar: Tower Defense 76.6%, Strategy 19.4%, Indie 4.1%
Bots Rush is a unique mix of Tower Defense and logistic puzzle. You will find a set of interesting and complicated game levels, original enemies. Your task is simply to build a network of roads to deliver resources to factories and ammo to towers. Sounds easy, right? Lets check this out.
Why similar: Tower Defense 59.6%, Strategy 32.3%, Indie 8.1%
Fieldrunners is now available on Steam! Download it now to play the hit tower defense game critics and fans have been raving about. Descend into the world of Fieldrunners, the most anticipated and visually stunning game in tower defense history!
Why similar: Tower Defense 79%, Strategy 16.9%, Indie 4.2%
Defend the clearance shelf. When the lights go out, the seasonal war begins. Lead your unsold Easter stock against waves of full-price enemies — before morning reveals the secret.
Why similar: Tower Defense 56.6%, Strategy 31.6%, 2D 8.8%, Singleplayer 3%
In this uniqueTower Defense you will travel through William’s mind in a colored and dreamlike universe.
Why similar: Tower Defense 71.2%, Strategy 22%, Indie 6.8%
A Tower Defense game made in the best tradition with 35 unique towers, 70 upgrades and 8 biomes. A 20 level campaign and 2 challenge levels for now, with more to come! Made by an indie developper.
Why similar: Tower Defense 53.6%, Strategy 39.6%, Indie 3.5%, Singleplayer 3.3%
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: Tower Defense 64%, Strategy 28.2%, Indie 7.8%
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 70.4%, Strategy 24.9%, Indie 4.8%
A unique tower defense and RPG game, find new towers, build gold vaults, and defend against monsters. It will be hard to fight against the king monster, you may need to try different tactics.
Why similar: Tower Defense 64.1%, Strategy 17.5%, 2D 10.5%, Singleplayer 4.2%, Indie 3.7%
FIREWALL: DEFEND THE GRID is a tower defense strategy game where you take the role of a hacker tasked with building cyberspace defense systems. Deploy hardware and software defenses and manage your compute resources to build a perfect firewall and protect your clients from the ever-growing chaos.
Why similar: Tower Defense 49.8%, Strategy 20.2%, Building 16.6%, 2D 7%, Indie 3.6%
UIFO Defense has a special gameplay of tower defense. Utilize the terrain and different turrets to eliminate alien invaders and protect the crystal cores which are critical to science and technology of your civilization.
Why similar: Tower Defense 40.9%, Strategy 30.2%, Building 20.7%, Indie 8.2%
A Chinese underworld-themed TD game. Alter paths with anchors, build towers freely. Boost tower stats/effects by brewing the Pot of Oblivion with herbs. Place talisman traps on paths. Features varied maps, initial path challenges, and strategic obstacles.
Why similar: Tower Defense 64.1%, Strategy 18.9%, 2D 8.4%, Indie 4.7%, Singleplayer 3.8%
A mazing tower defense where tower placement is everything. Force enemies the long way around, build choke points, push through lava, and adapt as levels change beneath you. No spells, no card modifiers. Just planning, placement, and a cat stuck in a jar.
Why similar: Tower Defense 45.9%, Strategy 24.2%, Building 21.2%, 2D 7.3%, Singleplayer 1.4%
Layered Loop is a minimalist tower defense game built on stacking & evolution. Towers auto-level to boost damage/production, evolve via devouring key structures for new abilities or stat boosts. Stack towers with full effects retained, unlock global buffs at 5 layers.
Why similar: Tower Defense 57.5%, Strategy 16.8%, Building 14.7%, 2D Platformer 7.2%, 2D 2.8%
Finally, a tower defense game from popular distributor Kiri Komayama is now available! Join Kiri Komayama, a V-streamer with fox-eared glasses, and protect the observatory from the cat-shaped enemy [NEKO]!
Why similar: Tower Defense 51.3%, Strategy 27.9%, 2D Platformer 18.8%, Singleplayer 2%
Tower defense game with unprecedented freedom: move towers at will, access a vast array of cards, build decks freely, and even synthesize and upgrade them.
Why similar: Tower Defense 55.7%, Building 21.4%, Strategy 16.2%, 2D 3.7%, Singleplayer 3%
Tower defense, 24 characters, 50 + spells, challenge your level of operation and strategy.
Why similar: Tower Defense 46.9%, 2D Platformer 22%, Strategy 20%, 2D 5.5%, Indie 3.8%
Wave after wave of enemy shapes are looking to break through your defenses and ravage the land of Language. Build your defenses, all made of ASCII characters, to repel the invaders!
Why similar: Tower Defense 64%, Strategy 24.4%, 2D 8.6%, Singleplayer 3%
Explore and defend your mine against waves of monsters in this innovative roguelike survival game! Collect and manage your resources, discover buildings with unique effects and unleash mighty heroes to hold monsters out of the mine until the sun rises.
Why similar: Mining 49.6% ★, Tower Defense 27.3%, Building 9.6%, Strategy 9.3%, 2D 3.2%
Defense Grid: The Awakening is a unique spin on tower defense gameplay that will appeal to players of all skill levels. A horde of enemies is invading, and it's up to the player to stop them by strategically building fortification towers around their base.
Why similar: Tower Defense 81.9%, Strategy 13.8%, Indie 2.3%, Singleplayer 2%
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 74.6%, Strategy 25.4%
Command a swarm of intelligent robots in their quest to save the world. Mine resources, manage, and defend multiple bases. Go on expeditions, fight in auto-battles, research new technologies, and create your army of golems to bring back the light.
Why similar: Mining 39.1% ★, Tower Defense 28.5%, Building 17.7%, Strategy 10%, 2D 2.2%
Enemies from this world and the dark one fight together in an “Unholy Alliance” to destroy your Extractors. Get ready to face and defeat enemy hordes using a vast arsenal of towers and special powers at your command in a unique tower defense game that will push your tactical skills to the limit!
Why similar: Tower Defense 53.7%, Strategy 20.7%, Building 11.9%, 2D 7%, Indie 3.8%