Games Like Creeper World 2: Anniversary Edition

Creeper World 3 is what happens when cellular automata takes over a strategy simulation. Instead of discrete units that attack your base, a fluid-like substance spreads over the terraformable terrain. Your base, your weapons, your strategy... you must adapt them all.

Why similar: Tower Defense 39.6%, Strategy 26.7%, Real-Time with Pause 22.2% ★, Simulation 6.2%, Indie 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: This direct sequel refines the core fluid-combat mechanics and terrain-manipulation systems that made the second entry a classic.

The unstoppable fluid enemy has returned and destroyed every world in its path! Defend against Creeper as it floods across the 3D terrain in this real time strategy game where the enemy is a fluid.

Why similar: Tower Defense 38.3%, Strategy 37.8%, Simulation 23.9%

Why You'll Like It: It brings the series into a 3D environment while maintaining the signature challenge of fighting a creeping, liquid-like enemy.

Imagine an enemy that is everywhere and moves like a giant, organic mass across the map. Imagine your base and your people surrounded by a blanket of crushing destruction from all directions. Your only hope, well what hope? Then you take the high ground and pound this enemy into oblivion.

Why similar: Strategy 44.2%, Simulation 23.5%, Tower Defense 17.9%, Indie 14.3%

Why You'll Like It: The original game that started the series, offering a pure experience of the tower-defense and RTS hybrid gameplay.

The unstoppable alien force known as The Creeper has returned, devouring thousands of worlds in its path, and yours is next. Battle against the Creeper fluid in a groundbreaking pixel-level simulation to prove that humanity will rule the galaxy forever!

Why similar: Tower Defense 40%, Strategy 36.5%, Simulation 23.5%

Why You'll Like It: The latest iteration in the series, providing new tactical challenges and modern quality-of-life improvements for fans of the franchise.

Build and design your own fleets and stand opposed to the Particulate in this physics/strategy/RTS/fleet hybrid. Build partially destructible and self repairing ships that interact with enemies less controlled by some scripted logic and more driven by a real time massive physics particle simulation.

Why similar: Strategy 36.6%, Real-Time with Pause 25% ★, Simulation 21.4%, Indie 11.3%, Tower Defense 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Created by the same developer, this game applies similar flow-based mechanics to space combat and fleet management.

The most devious and acclaimed artificial intelligence in strategy gaming is better than ever. A grand strategy/RTS hybrid that reverses many conventions of both genres. Take territory without attracting attention, build your empire with care, and adapt to an ever-evolving galactic battleground.

Why similar: Tower Defense 39.3%, Strategy 34.8%, Simulation 25.9%

Why You'll Like It: A grand-strategy RTS that focuses on fighting a superior, omnipresent AI enemy, mirroring the feeling of being the underdog against a massive threat.

Become a dungeon lord to defend your dungeons with the deadliest of traps and insidious contraptions against greedy adventurers and wannabe heroes.

Why similar: Strategy 53.1%, Tower Defense 29.7%, Indie 17.2%

Why You'll Like It: A highly polished tower-defense game that rewards clever trap placement and terrain utilization to stop waves of enemies.

Command your own fortress in FTL-like real-time battles! Crush the enemy fortress with unrelenting bombardment or seize it with carefully executed invasion.

Why similar: Strategy 47.5%, Tower Defense 20.2%, Simulation 19.9%, Indie 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on tactical base-building and artillery management, emphasizing the same methodical approach to combat found in Creeper World.

The epic tower defense dark fantasy journey continues! Create powerful gems with various abilities and take on the battle against an endlessly flowing army of monsters, and face the growing darkness as you fight your way back towards the Spiritforge.

Why similar: Strategy 46.6%, Tower Defense 45.2%, Indie 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This deep tower-defense game offers complex upgrade systems and strategic depth that will appeal to fans of the Creeper World progression style.

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

Why similar: Strategy 47.3%, Tower Defense 47.2%, Indie 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: It masterfully blends tower defense with resource logistics and conveyor-belt automation, requiring constant expansion to survive against waves of enemies.

Build. Automate. Defend.

Why similar: Strategy 50.8%, Tower Defense 49.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a spreading, resource-hungry enemy that forces you to build and expand your defenses across a map in a way very similar to the Creeper World series.

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: Strategy 51.5%, Tower Defense 48.5%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a minimalist, highly strategic tower-defense experience with deep research trees and infinite scaling difficulty.

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: Strategy 44.7%, Tower Defense 30.2%, Real-Time with Pause 23.4% ★, Indie 1.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the feeling of being overwhelmed by a massive, encroaching force that requires careful base building and defensive planning.

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 53.4%, Strategy 38%, Indie 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Another entry in the GemCraft series that offers extensive tactical variety through its unique gem-combining and trap-building mechanics.

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: Strategy 47.4%, Tower Defense 36.9%, Indie 15.7%

Why You'll Like It: An early classic of the genre that tasks you with building defenses to gather resources while surviving waves of alien attacks.

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: Real-Time with Pause 42.6% ★, Strategy 21.7%, Tower Defense 19.2%, Simulation 16.4%

Why You'll Like It: You must build and defend a fortress against thousands of enemies at once, emphasizing the same 'hold the line' tension found in the seed game.

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: Strategy 43.4%, Tower Defense 41.3%, Indie 15.3%

Why You'll Like It: The predecessor to the second game, it offers a focused and challenging tower-defense experience centered on environmental traps.

Set in an alternate history timeline where World War I never ends, you are the commander of allied forces fighting right up to the year 2114.

Why similar: Strategy 37.9%, Tower Defense 25.2%, Simulation 24.5%, Indie 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game allows you to design your own defensive units and place them strategically to stop waves of incoming tanks.

Anomaly 2 is a sequel to the critically acclaimed Anomaly Warzone Earth. Maintaining the core elements of the original, Anomaly 2 adds plenty of new features: unit morphing, over million tactical combinations, post-apo world and tower defense vs tower offense multiplayer mode.

Why similar: Strategy 56.8%, Tower Defense 28.8%, Indie 14.4%

Why You'll Like It: A unique reverse tower-defense game where you manage a convoy of units through enemy-infested territory, requiring constant tactical adjustments.

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: Strategy 51.8%, Tower Defense 48.2%

Why You'll Like It: This survival RTS pits you against massive swarms of enemies, requiring careful base management and defensive wall placement.

Why be good when you can be... bad? Cursed Treasure 2 is an addictive tower-defense game that puts the power of darkness at your fingertips. Build towers of powerful orcs, demons, and undead, and master powerful spells, to protect your precious hoard from all manner of no-good do-gooders.

Why similar: Strategy 37.2%, Tower Defense 33.3%, Real-Time with Pause 17.3% ★, Indie 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: A charming but challenging tower-defense game that requires careful management of limited resources and terrain advantages.

A quick-to-learn but challenging real-time strategy game where you spawn an army of space-bugs that control themselves.

Why similar: Strategy 69.9%, Simulation 30.1%

Why You'll Like It: A unique RTS-TD hybrid that focuses on managing a hive and spawning units to counter an enemy swarm in a lane-based format.

Unique fusion of a top-down shooter and tower defense strategy. You are the invader! Use destructive weapons or lead your enemies into a maze of towers. Strategize in the build mode by carefully selecting various types of alien towers or throw yourself right into the heat of the battle.

Why similar: Tower Defense 46.1%, Strategy 41.2%, Indie 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: This title blends tower defense with top-down shooting, requiring you to manipulate the environment to create paths for your enemies.

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 61.1%, Tower Defense 27.3%, Indie 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced RTS that focuses on capturing points and managing unit flow, offering a more arcade-like take on the genre.

Rogue Tower is a tower defense game with roguelike elements and a continuously expanding path which you can influence. Unlock, build, upgrade, expand, defend.

Why similar: Tower Defense 52.6%, Strategy 47.4%

Why You'll Like It: A tower-defense game with procedural map generation that forces you to adapt your defensive strategy to the terrain layout.

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 49.2%, Tower Defense 32%, Indie 18.8%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist RTS-TD hybrid that focuses on unit placement and tactical movement to defend your base.

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: Tower Defense 50.4%, Strategy 49.6%

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 74.4%, Indie 25.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on building defensive structures and managing resources to survive against waves of attackers in a 2D space.

A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.

Why similar: Tower Defense 38.8%, Strategy 34.4%, Simulation 18.9%, Indie 7.8%

Great strategy is timeless. Build, adapt, and defend across dynamic maps, solo or online - every session brings new strategies, new solutions, and new surprises. Now is the perfect time to enter the grid.

Why similar: Strategy 46%, Tower Defense 41.9%, Indie 12%

Command a team of 5 elite soldiers against an alien horde of 100,000. Surrounded on all sides, you must outmaneuver and outsmart the enemy.

Why similar: Strategy 50.6%, Tower Defense 29.9%, Indie 10.4%, Real-Time with Pause 9.1% ★

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: Strategy 46.6%, Tower Defense 38.5%, Indie 14.8%

Why You'll Like It: A straightforward and challenging tower-defense game that emphasizes efficient turret placement to stop incoming enemy waves.

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 47.2%, Tower Defense 41.8%, Indie 11%

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 58%, Strategy 34.1%, Indie 7.9%

{{An RTS inspired by the classics of the past!}} Making up for it's subpar retro graphics with fun gameplay and modern multi-threaded tech enabling huge battles to run smooth... Featuring singleplayer challenges, skirmish, sandbox, 10-player multiplayer & workshop modding.

Why similar: Strategy 51.2%, Real-Time with Pause 31.5% ★, Indie 9.1%, Tower Defense 8.1%

Keep your dragon and city of Woodwarf safe with the help of your dwarven army. Upgrade your home and environment while you fight epic battles underground! Use special abilities and items and overcome waves of enemies.

Why similar: Strategy 47.8%, Tower Defense 21.4%, Indie 18.2%, Simulation 12.7%

Experience the celebrated strategy gameplay of Eufloria HD. Conquer asteroids in space and use their resources to grow floral creatures that do your bidding. Expand your empire and fight against several teams of AI opponents that all vie for the same resources and can offer fierce opposition.

Why similar: Strategy 78.9%, Indie 21.1%

Circle Empires is a fresh take on the RTS genre, featuring a fast-paced approach to conquering the world.

Why similar: Strategy 76.2%, Indie 23.8%

Lead an armored squad through the perils of this reversed tower defense action-strategy game!

Why similar: Strategy 60.1%, Tower Defense 27.6%, Indie 12.3%

Defense Task Force Featuring Large Scale Procedurally Generated Tower Defense Battles with FPS Quality Visuals and Infinite Waves. 10 tower types, with different attacks , 3 levels plus boosts. 25 Enemy alien species: Regulars, Swarmers, Racers, Cloakers, Healers, Boss Units and Spawners.

Why similar: Strategy 35.3%, Tower Defense 28.6%, Simulation 24.1%, Indie 12.1%

Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.

Why similar: Strategy 47.9%, Simulation 24.4%, Tower Defense 14.7%, Indie 13%

"You are outgunned. You are massively outnumbered. You must win." These are your orders. Humanity has already fought its war against the machines -- and lost. AI death squads stand watch over every planet and every wormhole, the few remaining human settlements are held captive in orbiting bubbles, and the AIs have turned their...

Why similar: Strategy 74%, Real-Time with Pause 9.1% ★, Tower Defense 6.4%, Indie 6.1%, Simulation 4.3%

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: Tower Defense 52.3%, Strategy 37.4%, Indie 10.3%

Get ready for an epic journey to defend your kingdom against hordes of orcs, trolls, evil wizards and other nasty fiends using a vast arsenal of towers and spells at your command!Fight on forests, mountains and wastelands, customizing your defensive strategy with different tower upgrades and specializations!

Why similar: Tower Defense 54.2%, Strategy 38.1%, Indie 7.7%

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

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 40.8% ★, Tower Defense 29.8%, Strategy 29.4%

Deep Among the Swarm is a challenging survival RTS roguelite about surviving against thousands of enemies. Drill ever deeper underground while fighting the endless onslaught of the Swarm. Can you save humanity?

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 36.3% ★, Strategy 21.8%, Tower Defense 20.5%, Simulation 16.1%, Indie 5.3%

Become THE Trap Master - play your deck of lethal traps to mow down waves of bizarre creatures and protect your altars! Craft a unique deck of traps and powers, discover treasure of surprise effects, and guard a different base each time until you are ready for the unforgiving boss.

Why similar: Strategy 41.5%, Tower Defense 38.3%, Indie 20.1%

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 50.6%, Tower Defense 49.4%

Command your troops through an epic (mis)adventure as you defend exotic lands from dragons, man-eating plants, and ghastly denizens of the underworld -all with flashy new towers, levels, heroes, and more goodies to help you crush your foes in this Fantasy Action Tower Defense game!

Why similar: Tower Defense 48%, Strategy 42.7%, Indie 9.4%

Forge invincible defenses with lethal traps and devious machines, and crush relentless waves of adventurers in the ultimate tower defense showdown!

Why similar: Tower Defense 35.6%, Strategy 34.5%, Simulation 23.9%, Indie 6%

An intense real-time strategy game set in a dark fantasy world of Orcs, Elves and Dragons. Kingdom Wars 2 combines the best of Zombie survival and crafting with complex fast-paced city building. Fight massive siege battles that turn beautiful landscapes into gory blood-soaked battlefields.

Why similar: Strategy 62.7%, Simulation 37.3%

Distant Worlds is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game. Experience the full depth and detail of turn-based strategy, but with the simplicity and ease of real-time, and on the scale of a massively-multiplayer online game.

Why similar: Strategy 50.1%, Real-Time with Pause 25.3% ★, Simulation 21.8%, Indie 2.8%

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: Strategy 43.9%, Tower Defense 42.4%, Indie 13.7%

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 45.6%, Tower Defense 40.8%, Indie 13.6%

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: Real-Time with Pause 41.5% ★, Strategy 24.7%, Tower Defense 18.2%, Simulation 15.7%

Get ready for the ULTIMATE tower defense onslaught. Build, deploy, research and upgrade your defenses in this epic, old school RTS inspired sci-fi adventure.

Why similar: Strategy 51.8%, Tower Defense 48.2%

Get ready to DEFEND THE WORLD! The biggest sequel in tower defense history is finally here: Fieldrunners 2 has arrived! From Subatomic Studios, creators of the award winning classic strategy game comes an all new adventure that was years in the making.

Why similar: Tower Defense 60.5%, Strategy 39.5%

Mine. Maze. Merge. Survive. Dig for powerful gems, merge them into game-breaking towers, stack buffs, and pick roguelike perks to build wild synergies. Do not let enemies drag your miner to the lava!

Why similar: Strategy 43.6%, Tower Defense 41.8%, Indie 14.6%

Control Craft 2 is a real time strategy game where you will have to act quickly against attackers who want to invade our planet! Wave after wave, your soldiers will overthrow the enemy colonies and will occupy enemy bases one after another.

Why similar: Strategy 100%

Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.

Why similar: Strategy 57.4%, Simulation 42.6%