Games Like Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal

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 57.5%, RTS 16.5%, Strategy 9%, Level Editor 5.9%, Sci-fi 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: The direct sequel that brings the fluid-based combat into a fully 3D environment.

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: Real-Time with Pause 23.5% ★, Strategy 21.6%, Tower Defense 21%, RTS 18.6%, Sci-fi 5%

Why You'll Like It: Developed by the same team, this game applies similar fluid-like mechanics to space-based fleet combat.

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: Tower Defense 44.4%, Real-Time with Pause 23.5% ★, RTS 13.8%, Strategy 6.6%, Base Building 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Features a similar 'creeping' enemy mechanic that requires constant base expansion and defensive adaptation.

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

Why similar: Tower Defense 65.2%, Strategy 10.3%, Base Building 9.1%, RTS 8.4%, Resource Management 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: A deep hybrid of tower defense and automation that requires building complex supply chains to power your defenses.

Deceptively simple... amazingly deep. Creeper World 2 thrusts you into the 14th millennium fighting and enemy that flows and oozes through the terrain. Employ advanced weapons,gravity manipulating repulsors, wormhole like rifts, and your own wit against this never yielding enemy.

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: An essential entry in the series that explores the core mechanics in a 2D, gravity-focused environment.

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 56.1%, RTS 16.8%, Strategy 9.2%, Base Building 6.6%, Sci-fi 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A grid-based strategy game where you must build structures to defend against a rapidly spreading, organic threat.

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: Tower Defense 64.3%, Strategy 25.2%, Simulation 5.2%, Indie 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: The original title that established the unique fluid-simulation combat style of the series.

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: Tower Defense 54.9%, RTS 15.4%, Strategy 14.7%, Sci-fi 4.5%, Real-Time with Pause 4.2% ★

Why You'll Like It: An RTS-tower defense hybrid where you must push back against an ever-expanding, swarming alien biomass.

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 76.4%, Strategy 15.6%, Sci-fi 4%, Indie 3.3%, Singleplayer 0.8%

Why You'll Like It: An early RTS-tower defense hybrid that emphasizes resource gathering to fuel your defensive structures against waves of enemies.

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: Tower Defense 47%, RTS 17.7%, Base Building 11.1%, Strategy 11%, Real-Time with Pause 9.2% ★

Why You'll Like It: Combines intense base-building with massive, swarming enemy waves that require strategic wall placement and resource management.

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 59.4%, RTS 19.2%, Strategy 8.6%, Level Editor 4.3%, Sci-fi 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: The latest iteration that introduces new tactical layers to the classic Creeper World formula.

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 85%, Strategy 7.9%, Sci-fi 3.9%, Addictive 1.2% ★, Indie 1.2%

Why You'll Like It: A gold-standard tower defense game that focuses on pathing and strategic tower placement.

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

Why similar: Tower Defense 78.1%, Strategy 10.2%, Sci-fi 4.1%, RTS 3.4%, Indie 2%

Why You'll Like It: A classic tower defense game that emphasizes base building and resource management against relentless alien swarms.

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 86.7%, Strategy 9.8%, Indie 1.4%, Top-Down 1%, Singleplayer 0.9%

Why You'll Like It: Offers deep, complex tower defense mechanics centered around a highly customizable gem-based upgrade system.

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 72.7%, Strategy 10.2%, Base Building 5.9%, Level Editor 2.3%, Simulation 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: Blends colony simulation with tower defense, requiring you to manage resources while surviving nightly monster attacks.

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 83.3%, Strategy 11.9%, Base Building 4%, Singleplayer 0.8%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelike tower defense game that forces you to adapt your defensive layout as the map expands procedurally.

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 74.4%, Strategy 12.4%, Top-Down 3.6%, Resource Management 3.3%, Indie 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based tower defense game where environmental traps are just as important as your towers.

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 59.5%, RTS 18.1%, Strategy 8.3%, Sci-fi 6.9%, Real-Time 3.9% ★

Why You'll Like It: A grand-scale strategy game that captures the feeling of fighting against an overwhelming, intelligent enemy force.

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: Tower Defense 37.3%, Real-Time with Pause 21% ★, RTS 12%, Base Building 9.1%, Strategy 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based RTS where you must defend your castle against thousands of enemies using elaborate wall systems.

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: Tower Defense 61%, Strategy 22.7%, Base Building 6.8%, Indie 3.8%, Simulation 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: A fortress-management game that focuses on artillery combat and strategic targeting of enemy structures.

Space Run is a «real-time spaceship construction strategy game». Space Run takes the well-known Tower Defense-style gameplay and twists it, challenging you to manage and protect a spaceship and its cargo against the hazards of deep space!

Why similar: Tower Defense 82.5%, Strategy 11.3%, Sci-fi 4.2%, Indie 1.6%, Singleplayer 0.4%

Why You'll Like It: A unique take on tower defense where you must build and manage defenses on a moving spaceship.

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 69%, Level Editor 12.9%, Strategy 11.6%, Top-Down 3.9%, Singleplayer 1.7%

Why You'll Like It: A highly technical tower defense game with deep research trees and infinite scaling potential.

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: Tower Defense 56.8%, RTS 16.5%, Strategy 9.9%, Sci-fi 7.2%, Base Building 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A polished sequel that refines the classic tower defense experience with modern visuals and tactical depth.

The zombie apocalypse is upon us and it's up to you to evacuate everyone before they fall prey to the undead. Conduct massive rescue operations with a helping hand from snipers, artillery crews, orbital bombardments, and more.

Why similar: Tower Defense 64.1%, RTS 18.4%, Strategy 10.3%, Top-Down 3.1%, Indie 1.7%

Why You'll Like It: A real-time tactics game that tasks you with managing evacuations while fighting off massive zombie swarms.

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 74%, Strategy 21%, Indie 4.3%, 2D 0.4%, Pixel Graphics 0.4%

Why You'll Like It: Expands on the original with more trap types and complex level designs for physics-based defense.

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 80.1%, Strategy 9.1%, Sci-fi 5.6%, Indie 1.6%, Singleplayer 1.4%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled tower defense game that focuses on isometric pathing and strategic tower placement.

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 77.6%, Strategy 9.4%, Base Building 6.7%, Simulation 2.6%, Survival 1.6%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling base-building game that emphasizes defensive expansion against nightly waves of enemies.

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 86.4%, Strategy 9.6%, Sci-fi 2.3%, Indie 1.7%

Why You'll Like It: A classic sci-fi tower defense game that features a commander unit to provide active support on the field.

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 77.4%, Strategy 11.9%, Simulation 3.2%, Level Editor 3.1%, Indie 1.3%

Sanctum 2 is the sequel to the world’s first Tower Defense/FPS hybrid game. Pick from four unique character classes and embark on a mission to protect the oxygen-producing Cores from hordes of deadly aliens who are threatened by their existence.

Why similar: Tower Defense 86.5%, Strategy 7.8%, Sci-fi 3.8%, Indie 1.1%, Singleplayer 0.4%

Why You'll Like It: A unique hybrid that combines first-person shooter mechanics with traditional tower defense strategy.

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: Tower Defense 65.4%, Strategy 11.6%, Real-Time with Pause 8.6% ★, RTS 6.9%, Indie 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced tower defense game that rewards strategic tower placement and the use of powerful spells.

Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

Why similar: Base Building 37.8%, Strategy 27%, Resource Management 14.4%, Survival 4.6%, Simulation 4.4%

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 76.4%, Strategy 11.9%, Sci-fi 8.2%, Singleplayer 1.8%, Survival 1.6%

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: Tower Defense 48.3%, Strategy 25%, Survival 5.5%, Simulation 5%, Sandbox 4.4%

FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.

Why similar: Tower Defense 42.1%, Strategy 18.2%, Base Building 13.2%, Sci-fi 8.3%, Simulation 5.2%

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: Tower Defense 72.8%, Strategy 14.2%, Sci-fi 6.1%, Simulation 3.8%, Indie 3.1%

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 37.2%, Base Building 26.1%, Resource Management 10.8%, Simulation 10.8%, Survival 6.1%

Terrorhedron is the 3D, cooperative tower defense game for the PC. Unmatched challenge and complexity is introduced to the genre through 3 dimensional gameplay, micro-strategy through programmable turrets and 'edge of seat' gameplay is extended to multiplayer with up to 8 players online co-op.

Why similar: Tower Defense 88.5%, Strategy 9%, Indie 2.5%

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 50.7%, Strategy 23.3%, RTS 11.2%, Sci-fi 4.9%, Simulation 4.7%

Defend, Attack, Survive! Build up your base and defeat the zombies with this unique combination of tower defense, base building and supply chain management. Now with multiplayer, mods and loads of new content!

Why similar: Tower Defense 65.3%, RTS 15.9%, Strategy 13.6%, Indie 2.5%, Resource Management 2%

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

Why similar: Tower Defense 61.4%, Strategy 21.2%, RTS 6.7%, Sci-fi 5.9%, Indie 2.7%

Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.

Why similar: Strategy 58.3%, Sci-fi 20.1%, Indie 10.1%, Simulation 4.6%, Singleplayer 3.9%

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 62.2%, RTS 25%, Indie 10.5%, Singleplayer 2.2%

A spaceship building and universe-exploration game. Collect resources, expand and grow your fleet, and conquer your personal galaxy. Stellar ambience by Peaks.

Why similar: Strategy 48.9%, Sci-fi 16.5%, Indie 9%, Top-Down 8.9%, Sandbox 6.6%

Fight for control of a frontier world. Gather resources, build your base, and command your forces in battle. Survive long enough to unleash your ultimate weapon - THE EPIC.

Why similar: RTS 46.9%, Strategy 27.7%, Sci-fi 14.4%, Base Building 8.4%, Singleplayer 1.7%

Hydraulic Empire is a Tower Defense game with RPG elements focusing on strategy, interactions between mobs, and persistent upgrades. Hydraulic empire is a must have for any true Tower Defense fan, and for those that are not it is a gateway into the tower defense genre.

Why similar: Tower Defense 79.4%, Strategy 13.6%, Simulation 3.3%, Indie 3%, Singleplayer 0.7%

Mob factory is an tower defense and automation game for the lazy adventurer. Smelt down enemy loot into turrets & factories to automate an ever expanding dungeon from the comfort of your tower.

Why similar: Tower Defense 63.8%, RTS 10%, Strategy 8.5%, Base Building 7.4%, Resource Management 3.5%

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 61.8%, RTS 15%, Strategy 9.6%, Base Building 6.6%, Sci-fi 3.6%

The White Laboratory is a sandbox style physics-based tower defense and RTS game in which you modularly build and command robotic structures. Use them to defend against or conquer other disobedient mechanical blocks on a facility floating in the atmosphere of a remote gas planet.

Why similar: Tower Defense 50.2%, Real-Time with Pause 17.3% ★, Strategy 15.4%, RTS 9.1%, Sci-fi 3.8%

Executive Assault is an indie real-time strategy/first-person shooter where you can not only build your base and create armies, but also take control of your units and fight as one of them.

Why similar: RTS 43.5%, Strategy 28.1%, Base Building 9.9%, Sci-fi 9.4%, Real-Time 4.7% ★

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 89%, Strategy 6.9%, Indie 1.7%, Base Building 1.6%, Singleplayer 0.5%

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

Why similar: RTS 43.1%, Strategy 40.8%, Indie 8.1%, Real-Time 6.2% ★, Singleplayer 1.4%

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 81.3%, Strategy 15.6%, Indie 3.1%

Cube Chaos is a complex strategy roguelike about placing units to create giant armies, factories, combos, or self replicating murder crabs, overwhelming and outsmarting your opponents. Build and adapt new strategies each run using a ludicrous variety of units, perks and more.

Why similar: RTS 39.6%, Tower Defense 28.6%, Strategy 13.7%, Base Building 9.7%, Resource Management 4.5%

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 89%, Strategy 9.3%, Indie 1.8%

"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 39%, RTS 21.9%, Tower Defense 21.4%, Real-Time with Pause 7.7% ★, Sci-fi 6.2%

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 72.4%, Strategy 14.1%, Sci-fi 5.8%, Indie 3.2%, Resource Management 1.9%

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: Tower Defense 64%, Strategy 10.4%, Level Editor 7.7%, Base Building 7%, Sci-fi 6.3%

Lead your hive to victory in 'Buggos', an RTS Auto Battler! Customize your swarm with 120+ evolutions and conquer humanity. Strategy meets bug chaos!

Why similar: RTS 30.7%, Strategy 24%, Base Building 15.2%, Level Editor 6.7%, Simulation 6.7%

Lumencraft is a unique combination of a top-down, rogue-like shooter and base building with tower defense elements. Dig and light up dark halls of a fully destructible environment on procedurally generated maps and campaign levels to find precious Lumen - humanity's only chance for survival.

Why similar: Tower Defense 71.2%, Strategy 12.5%, Base Building 9%, Indie 2.6%, Survival 2.2%