Games Like Creeper World IXE

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: Wargame 13.7%, Tower Defense 13%, RTS 12.5%, Real Time Tactics 12.3%, Grand Strategy 11.7% ★

Why You'll Like It: The direct successor to the series, offering the most polished 3D take on the fluid-based tactical combat found in IXE.

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

Why You'll Like It: A fan-favorite entry in the series that perfectly captures the core loop of fighting back against an unstoppable, encroaching liquid threat.

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: RTS 29%, Tower Defense 27.7%, War 17.2%, Sandbox 13.7%, Strategy 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features a similar focus on managing fluid-like alien swarms while balancing base expansion and tactical defense.

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: RTS 32.6%, Space 22.5%, Strategy 15.2%, Tower Defense 11%, Simulation 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Developed by the same creator as Creeper World, this game applies similar physics-based fluid mechanics to space-based fleet combat.

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 36.4%, RTS 34.2%, Strategy 13.2%, Sci-fi 5.7%, Tactical 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical RTS where you must clear out massive, ever-growing alien infestations using limited squads and structures.

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 40%, Strategy 36.5%, Simulation 23.5%

Why You'll Like It: An essential classic in the series that introduced the gravity-defying, 2D-verticality mechanics of the Creeper.

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: RTS 47.2%, Tower Defense 37.3%, Strategy 11.8%, Tactical 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive survival RTS where you must build and defend a base against massive, encroaching swarms of enemies.

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 54.4%, Strategy 28.9%, Simulation 16.7%

Why You'll Like It: The original title that established the core mechanics of fighting an unstoppable, fluid-based enemy.

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

Why similar: Tower Defense 46.2%, RTS 20%, Sandbox 17.4%, Strategy 9.9%, Pixel Graphics 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines tower defense with complex logistics and base building, requiring you to defend against waves of enemies while managing supply chains.

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: RTS 25.9%, Tower Defense 23.9%, War 19.6%, Level Editor 12.2%, Tactical 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: An RTS that pits your base against thousands of enemies, emphasizing physics-based destruction and defensive fortifications.

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: RTS 38.4%, Tower Defense 38%, Strategy 8.4%, Sci-fi 7.7%, Pixel Graphics 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A unique tower defense game where you must build structures to stop an encroaching, terraforming alien substance.

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: RTS 40.4%, Tower Defense 39.2%, Tactical 11.3%, Strategy 9%

Why You'll Like It: A survival RTS that tasks you with defending your kingdom against massive, procedurally generated swarms of nightmares.

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: Tower Defense 41.5%, Space 19.9%, Tactical 11.2%, Sci-fi 9.6%, Strategy 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi tower defense game that emphasizes tactical positioning and managing limited resources against relentless waves.

Defend against waves of alien monsters in this unique roguelike action miner. Dig for resources, collect useful gadgets, and upgrade equipment to increase odds of survival – just hurry back before your dome is destroyed!

Why similar: Tower Defense 30.4%, Space 19.8%, Physics 15.4%, Tactical 9.8%, Sci-fi 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelike survival game that forces you to balance mining for resources with defending your dome against waves of enemies.

Prepare to take off, soldier! The galaxy needs your strategy! Prove your RTS expertise, explore an entire galaxy and defend it from a threatening invasion.

Why similar: RTS 31.2%, Real Time Tactics 26.4%, Space 15.9%, Tactical 8.2%, Sci-fi 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced RTS that blends tactical hero units with tower defense elements in a sci-fi setting.

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 42.1%, Physics 16.5%, Real Time Tactics 12%, Strategy 8.7%, Simulation 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A deep tower defense game that utilizes physics-based traps to manage large waves of enemies.

MILLIONS OF ALIENS WILL DIE!Radiant Defense is a tower defense game set in a vibrant universe invaded by countless alien hordes.Build your space fortress any way you wish, set up wide variety of weapons and traps and let the invasions begin!

Why similar: Tower Defense 26.4%, Wargame 17.3%, Real Time Tactics 16.8%, Space 14.5%, Strategy 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A classic tower defense game with a clean, sci-fi aesthetic and a focus on pathing and turret placement.

Defend galaxy against Alien invasion in the RTS offline game with roguelike fun

Why similar: Wargame 23.1%, Real Time Tactics 19.8%, Tower Defense 19.1%, RTS 19.1%, Space 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: An action-RTS with roguelike elements that emphasizes swarm management and tactical combat against alien threats.

Taur is an action-strategy sci-fi game. Control the Prime Cannon and unlock all of its powerful weapons and abilities. Build turrets, droids, aircraft and more as you fight to protect the homeworld of the Tauron droids against a relentless invasion. Will your Taur stand against the Imperion warmachine?

Why similar: Tower Defense 37.2%, RTS 16.6%, Real Time Tactics 12.6%, War 8.3%, Strategy 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: An action-oriented tower defense game that allows for massive scale and base building against robotic armies.

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: Grand Strategy 20.5% ★, RTS 14.8%, Tower Defense 14.4%, Real Time Tactics 13.2%, War 10%

Why You'll Like It: A grand-scale space RTS that emphasizes asymmetric warfare and strategic planning against a superior AI force.

Build. Automate. Defend.

Why similar: Tower Defense 46.9%, Sandbox 26.4%, Strategy 10.4%, Colorful 7.2%, 2D 5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on resource management and tower defense against an expanding threat, requiring constant adaptation and expansion.

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 54%, Strategy 27.2%, Simulation 12.4%, 2D 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A strategic base management game that focuses on artillery warfare and tactical decision-making.

An RTS classic reborn with a twist. Time is of the essence, Commander! Capture the flags, conquer the territories, and eliminate the enemy fort. And finally, nuke them all! This old-school sci-fi Indie real time strategy game, crafted by devoted team, revives the genre's enduring allure.

Why similar: RTS 21.2%, Wargame 20.3%, Real Time Tactics 17.2%, Tower Defense 16.1%, Sandbox 10%

Why You'll Like It: An action-RTS that emphasizes large-scale tactical destruction and managing massive waves of units.

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 26.8%, Real Time Tactics 25.9%, War 14.2%, Level Editor 9.4%, Tactical 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A tower defense game designed to handle massive, large-scale enemy waves, similar to the scale of Creeper World.

8-Bit Invaders! is a fast-paced, retro Real-Time Strategy game for the PC. Control the military might of the Galactic Marine Corps or Invade with the devastating power of the Cranioids! Mine, Build, and Fight your way to victory! Conquering the Multiverse was never so easy.

Why similar: RTS 44.5%, War 18.1%, Strategy 13.4%, Simulation 8.5%, Pixel Graphics 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, retro-styled RTS that focuses on quick base building and large-scale army combat.

ReEarth is an exciting TD & (RTS) indie game. Here, you will play as humanity's last hope. You will fend off the oncoming swarms by continuously building your base and dispatching various types of units. Prepare for the challenge and save the future of humanity!

Why similar: RTS 20.8%, Wargame 18.8%, Tower Defense 18.3%, Real Time Tactics 17.2%, Space 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines RTS and tower defense elements in a survival-focused setting where you must reclaim a hostile planet.

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 43.1%, Real Time Tactics 24.6%, Strategy 9.1%, Sci-fi 8.8%, Tactical 6.8%

Extremely Realistic Siege Warfare Simulator is a physics-based tactical strategy game where you must lead a military force in a fantasy medieval world. Build an army. Construct siege equipment. Experience epic battles. Lead your people to victory!!

Why similar: RTS 21.2%, Wargame 21.2%, War 17.8%, Sandbox 12%, Physics 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based RTS that focuses on siege mechanics and the tactical use of terrain and structures.

Take command in the ultimate starship simulator: Star Command Galaxies. Become a Captain, recruit your crew, customize and upgrade your starship, battle alien vessels, teleport to away missions and repel boarding invaders in this real-time strategy simulation adventure from indie studio Warballoon.

Why similar: RTS 29.7%, Real Time Tactics 23.5%, Space 13%, Tactical 7.1%, Sci-fi 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: An isometric RTS that features base management, exploration, and tactical combat in space.

Command an ancient starship and fight your way to the heart of a dying Empire. Fend off attacks from demented cultists, craven space pirates, and xenophobic Imperial soldiers. Discover powerful artifacts and use them to build your ship into a fearsome war engine.

Why similar: Space 44%, Strategy 13.7%, Sci-fi 12%, Tactical 11.6%, Pixel Graphics 7%

Wage war across entire solar systems with massive armies at your command. Annihilate enemy forces with world-shattering TITAN-class units, and demolish planets with massive super weapons!

Why similar: RTS 27.8%, Real Time Tactics 18.8%, Grand Strategy 17.4% ★, War 13.7%, Space 10.3%

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: RTS 37.1%, Tower Defense 37.1%, Tactical 9.2%, Strategy 8.2%, 2D 4.6%

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: Grand Strategy 26% ★, RTS 23.7%, Wargame 23.4%, Strategy 7.5%, Simulation 5.8%

Take control of a fleet commander returned from exile, rise through the ranks of the United Space Federation forces and join an epic war across the stars.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 21.1% ★, Wargame 20.5%, RTS 17.7%, War 14.4%, Space 12%

Why You'll Like It: A space-based RTS that focuses on fleet management and strategic control of sectors.

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 70.1%, Strategy 13.4%, Sci-fi 10.7%, Action 5.7%

Design and simulate the starships of your dreams! Command your ship or fleet in epic battles and manage your crew while exploring a dangerous galaxy. Play alone or with friends, test your ships in online PvP, and let your imagination reach for the stars!

Why similar: Space 39.4%, Sci-fi 20.4%, Strategy 13.3%, Pixel Graphics 9.4%, Simulation 9.3%

"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: RTS 27.4%, Strategy 19.7%, Grand Strategy 18.3% ★, Space 16.2%, Tower Defense 8%

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

Why similar: Tower Defense 61.7%, Strategy 10.9%, RTS 9%, Sci-fi 6.1%, Pixel Graphics 3.7%

Real-time strategy battles in amazing sci-fi worlds! Command brave soldiers, mighty mechas and powerful aliens to face the greatest challenges in hostile alien worlds. The galaxy needs you!

Why similar: RTS 43.7%, Space 14.7%, War 11.6%, Strategy 9.4%, Sci-fi 9%

Destroy endless waves of alien ships that have all but wiped out humanity in this long form, unfolding, sci-fi idle game. Customize your ship with different weapons and defenses to defeat specific enemy types and utilize a ton of different systems to increase your overall power.

Why similar: Space 56.2%, Simulation 20.2%, Sci-fi 15.1%, 2D 8.4%

An alien invasion has fractured humanity into seven ideological factions each with a unique vision for the future. Lead your chosen faction to take control of Earth’s nations, expand across the Solar System, and battle enemy fleets in tactical combat.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 28% ★, RTS 20.1%, War 19.3%, Sandbox 13.9%, Tactical 7.7%

The replicator robots are back! It's 2528. The machines are increasingly infecting the planets with genetically modified monsters. Challenge them and try to stop the onslaught. Upgrade buildings and heroes, mine resources, discover technology and fight to save humanity!

Why similar: Tower Defense 47.1%, RTS 41.1%, Strategy 10.5%, Action 1.4%

A defense RTS where you can move turrets at will. Extract resources, upgrade technology, and defend against enemy swarms in a gripping space campaign. Hold the line, set up your turrets, and brace for screen-filling hordes!

Why similar: Wargame 26.1%, RTS 18.8%, Tower Defense 18.4%, War 12.6%, Space 10.6%

Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.

Why similar: Sandbox 36.8%, Tower Defense 29.7%, Physics 11.8%, Strategy 7.3%, 2D 6.7%

Lead the Mobile Infantry in this RTS game set in the Starship Troopers film universe. Balance your army composition with a diverse set of unit types, overcome line-of-sight and line-of-fire challenges through tactical positioning, and use special abilities to smash the Arachnid hordes!

Why similar: RTS 37.1%, War 15.7%, Wargame 15.7%, Strategy 10.7%, Tactical 6.9%

Faced with a terrifying Martian invasion, you must lead Earth’s forces in a battle for our planet’s future. Create powerful human-creature super soldiers to fight an alien menace in this turn-based strategy game.

Why similar: Wargame 37%, Level Editor 33.8%, Tactical 15.2%, Strategy 10.4%, Colorful 3.6%

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 72.8%, Strategy 20.1%, Sci-fi 7.2%

Battlevoid: Harbinger is a hard sci-fi space exploration game blending roguelike, turn-based, star map strategy, and real-time space battles. You are a young commander venturing out into enemy territories, to unknown galaxies, never knowing what you will face as you jump out from hyperspace.

Why similar: Space 50.1%, Strategy 18.5%, Simulation 11.5%, Sci-fi 6.5%, Action 5.1%

Defend humanity's last hope, pilot a powerful mech, in Frontlines Crisis! A battlefield swarming with insects makes strategic and combat decisions crucial. Each decision will determine your fate. Defend humanity's last sanctuary, fight fiercely, and uphold human honor with wits and courage!

Why similar: Tower Defense 27.8%, RTS 26.7%, 1980s 14.3%, Space 13.6%, War 5.9%

The RTS/FPS phenomenon has moved into space! Build your base on an asteroid, command fleets of starships for epic battles, pilot fighters, mine and trade resources, assemble robots to defend or assault other stations. Take sole command or share the glory as you fight for control of the quadrant.

Why similar: RTS 37.3%, Space 17%, Real Time Tactics 15.4%, War 15.2%, Strategy 7.3%

Stellar Initiative is a roguelike tower defense game where you land on the planet and use your orbit ship to deliver buildings and support you with fire. Complete missions, install new upgrades, discover powerful artifacts, and find the best strategy!

Why similar: Tower Defense 50.9%, Space 14.4%, Strategy 10.9%, Sci-fi 10.4%, Pixel Graphics 8.2%

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: Wargame 22.8%, RTS 20%, Real Time Tactics 20%, Grand Strategy 19.4% ★, War 11.3%

Molten Armor is an action tower defense game with a non-linear story in sci-fi setting! Command defenses and stop hordes of enemies! Fight on land, sea and in the skies!Decisions taken in the heat of battle will change the course of the war.

Why similar: Tower Defense 20.7%, RTS 20.6%, Wargame 18.7%, Real Time Tactics 17%, War 9.6%

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 65%, Strategy 10%, Sci-fi 8.7%, Pixel Graphics 7.4%, 2D 5%

Step into the arena with IDUN: Prologue, a thrilling slice of our full-length defense RTS where real-time strategy meets rogue-lite chaos. Fight your way through unique mission objectives with overwhelming swarms of enemies.

Why similar: Tower Defense 20.7%, Wargame 18.8%, RTS 17.3%, Real Time Tactics 11.8%, War 10.2%

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 79.8%, Strategy 8.3%, Pixel Graphics 4.8%, Tactical 4.1%, Action 3%

Xenonauts is a strategy game in which you control a multi-national military organisation defending a Cold War-era Earth from alien invasion, using small squads of persistent soldiers to eliminate the extraterrestrials and recover their technology in turn-based ground combat.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 55.8% ★, Tactical 14.3%, Strategy 11.3%, Sci-fi 9.7%, Simulation 7%

Galactic Ruler offers real time strategy game play at both planetary level and in space! Lead your faction in diplomacy or conquest across a procedurally generated galactic map where any system might hold hostile enemies or resource riches. Develop advanced technologies to rule the galaxy!

Why similar: Real Time Tactics 26.3%, Grand Strategy 21.2% ★, RTS 16.9%, Space 13.8%, Wargame 11.6%

Over 1000 unique components allow you to build and command voxel vehicles from the deep ocean to outer space! Forge strategies, allegiances and fleets strong enough to destroy eight deadly factions of the planet and reign supreme. A genre-defying mashup of simulation, building, RTS and RPG.

Why similar: RTS 26.3%, War 19%, Sandbox 17.1%, Space 13.9%, Physics 13.5%