Games Like DARK FACETS

Defend your captain using units to fight off invading frogs. Level up your units to unlock their new abilities, purchase upgrades, and gain special abilities to win battles against the invaders.

Why similar: RTS 31%, Tower Defense 28.1%, Side Scroller 17.2%, War 6.4%, Strategy 5.8%

Sheep are a valuable resource, protect your sheep! Hire soldiers and build barricades on the enemy's path! Explode bombs and set traps!

Why similar: Tower Defense 27%, RTS 25.6%, Side Scroller 18.3%, Strategy 12.2%, Base Building 7.6%

Tired of playing the hero? Take up the mantle of a dreaded Dark Lord instead! Lords of Nether is a Dungeon Management game, a hybrid of RTS and God Game genres in which you build deadly dungeons and control armies of fiendish creatures to conquer the world of Man.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 49.1% ★, RTS 21.7%, Base Building 13%, Dark Fantasy 6.7%, Strategy 6.7%

Take on thousands of robots in a massive, 25-hour macro-focused RTS campaign. Reclaim territory, harvest resources, and upgrade your army to crush the machine stronghold. But beware: the harder you push, the harder they push back.

Why similar: RTS 35.8%, Tower Defense 29.2%, Base Building 13.3%, Strategy 13.2%, Resource Management 7.3%

Everybody wants to rule the world! Achieve global power with EVIL GENIUS, the one and only complete world domination simulator. All the everyday tasks of the deliciously wicked mastermind are available to experience and master from building your ultra-secret base to developing spectacular super-weapons to carry out your nefarious master...

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 60.9% ★, Base Building 20.3%, RTS 9.8%, Strategy 8.4%, Singleplayer 0.7%

A boy's village was burned. His people were killed. Years later, he returns — with an army of monsters. But the king he hunts is nothing like his father. He is just. He is loved. He will not fall without a fight. Two campaigns. One tragedy.

Why similar: Tower Defense 30.1%, RTS 20.3%, Dark Fantasy 10%, Strategy 9.7%, War 7.8%

Seven Nights of the Black Tide is a dark fantasy strategy game about survival and defense. Gather resources, assign survivors, repair walls, build defenses, and prepare by day. When night falls, hold back the Black Tide and protect your last stronghold through seven deadly nights.

Why similar: Tower Defense 26.6%, RTS 25.7%, Base Building 14.7%, Strategy 10.6%, Resource Management 6.1%

A satirical spy-fi lair builder where YOU are the criminal mastermind! Construct your base, train your minions, defend your operations from the Forces of Justice, and achieve global domination!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 62.2% ★, Base Building 19.8%, Strategy 9.4%, RTS 5.2%, Resource Management 2.9%

Build your defense base to repel alien invaders. Atahion is a strategy and tactical defense game in which you have to extract resources, build defense towers and use bonuses to complete the mission.

Why similar: Tower Defense 33.2%, RTS 30.1%, Base Building 16.8%, Strategy 8%, Pixel Graphics 5.7%

You are an Osteurgo, a lesser necromancer risen from the ashes of the Dark Lord. Raise your empire among desolate mountains, subjugate savage tribes, and spread corruption. Build, conquer, withstand enemy hordes, and claim the empty throne of evil.

Why similar: Tower Defense 31.6%, Side Scroller 17.7%, Dark Fantasy 10.8%, Strategy 9%, Lore-Rich 7.7%

Tired of RNG and card draws? Experience a "Plan first, pay later" economy where construction scales with your income in real time. As the map grows massive, only careful planning. Not a lucky roll, will keep you alive.

Why similar: Tower Defense 34%, RTS 32%, Base Building 16.9%, Resource Management 8.3%, Strategy 7.4%

Von Neumann Project is a space based RTS where you build, mine, and expand across the universe in an attempt to find your creator's equals. Play across 4 different sectors with 28 handcrafted missions, with each sector introducing unique enemies, buildings, and missions.

Why similar: Tower Defense 34.4%, RTS 31.1%, Base Building 12.6%, Strategy 11%, 2D 3.6%

Endless Conflict! You will take on the role of different commanders, traversing various environments such as forests, volcanoes, and deserts. Use resources wisely, gather allies, upgrade technology, defeat endless waves of enemies, and destroy enemy defenses.

Why similar: RTS 31.9%, Tower Defense 28.8%, Side Scroller 19.3%, Strategy 13.3%, Combat 3.4%

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 45.6%, RTS 41.8%, Strategy 11.3%, Action 0.9%, Indie 0.4%

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 31.3%, RTS 30.6%, Base Building 18.3%, Strategy 7.6%, Pixel Graphics 6.2%

Build your dungeon, command demons, set traps, and slay invading adventurers with powerful spells.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 44.3% ★, Tower Defense 20.6%, RTS 19.2%, Base Building 7.8%, Strategy 5%

A Dungeon Builder, Autobattler and Deckbuilder in one. They call themselves “heroes”. You call them gold suppliers. Dig your domain, build deadly traps, place guards and play powerful cards as ever-stronger “heroes” invade your dungeon. Take their gold and build the World Domination Machine.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 50.7% ★, Tower Defense 26.7%, Base Building 13.7%, Strategy 5.2%, Pixel Graphics 1.5%

Your village must survive for 13 days! Gather resources, expand, explore the underground for riches, and train soldiers to defend against hordes of the undead.

Why similar: Tower Defense 29%, RTS 21.8%, Side Scroller 17.9%, Base Building 17.3%, Strategy 8.2%

Lost the boat, the fishing grounds, even the name "Fisher King". All that's left is one old hook. So he went after the most valuable catch in the sea: the princess of the fish. Now the whole ocean is coming to take her back. A massive-horde roguelike tower defense!!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 45.9% ★, Tower Defense 28.6%, Base Building 11.3%, Strategy 7%, Pixel Graphics 3.5%

A real-time strategy simulation set in a medieval fantasy world where you can summon warriors and heroes to fight. 2D side-scrolling pixel game

Why similar: Side Scroller 26.7%, RTS 22.7%, Tower Defense 20.6%, Strategy 11%, Pixel Graphics 7.7%

Fluffy Horde is a 2D side-scrolling hybrid between real-time strategy and tower defense. The game revolves around a magical hyper-breeding bunny horde created by a misunderstood Shaman wanderer!

Why similar: Tower Defense 44.6%, Side Scroller 30.6%, Strategy 10.7%, 2D 5.2%, Action 4.5%

A strategic tower-defense where you control powerfull drones. Unlock new tower and use specific technologies to defend your base on Thukothea!

Why similar: Tower Defense 44.2%, RTS 18.3%, Strategy 10.5%, Base Building 10.5%, War 6%

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: Villain Protagonist 48.8% ★, Tower Defense 26.2%, Strategy 6.4%, Resource Management 5.7%, Pixel Graphics 4.8%

Survive a galaxy at war. MEGABOT's machine armada is exterminating all organic life — build and defend station networks, ally with the Mycelari faction and the rebels and fight physics-driven battles where momentum and gravity kill as surely as weapons. A punishing roguelike RTS in a living galaxy.

Why similar: RTS 26.1%, Tower Defense 23.8%, Base Building 14.5%, Lore-Rich 11.4%, Choices Matter 6.7%

Be your own landlord in the town of New Blossom. Buy and fix homes & apartments, fix issues that arise, run businesses and play mini-games. It's all up to you which order you do it in. Just remember to own the town and run it in the way you see fit in the end.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 90.7% ★, Strategy 8%, Indie 1.4%

Crimson Quest lets players control a single character that acts as a production base. Players can create units and towers, explore the field, and experience real-time roguelike progression with action elements, offering a unique twist on traditional RTS gameplay.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 45.6% ★, RTS 28.9%, Strategy 6.5%, Pixel Graphics 4.6%, Story Rich 4.5%

Survive Tortuga City as a wanted turtle. Defend yourself against the police, build a rebellion, endure dynamic weather, and find an escape route within 50 days before the police deploy their secret weapon.

Why similar: Tower Defense 30%, RTS 27.7%, Side Scroller 20.4%, Strategy 8.2%, Pixel Graphics 5.7%

Command an army of monsters in a reverse tower defense strategy game. Build your waves, combine unit synergies, breach human fortresses, conquer new lands, and grow your power across a dark fantasy world.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 49% ★, Tower Defense 23.7%, War 8.1%, Dark Fantasy 7.9%, Strategy 5.9%

The Dungeon Lord is back – and this time he’s serious! In Dungeons 2, fulfil the Dungeon Lord’s insatiable quest for vengeance by recruiting fearsome new monsters from all corners of the underworld in order to undertake his evil bidding.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 52.5% ★, RTS 24.4%, Strategy 12.2%, Base Building 6.2%, Tower Defense 4.2%

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: RTS 27.4%, Tower Defense 27.3%, War 12%, Base Building 10%, Strategy 7.2%

Build a castle and defend it from your enemies! Construct towers, place traps, train and command units in this historical, manuscript-themed mix of Tower Defense and classical Real Time Strategy.

Why similar: RTS 27.1%, Tower Defense 24.8%, Side Scroller 19.2%, Base Building 14.6%, Strategy 5.3%

Amarta: Kingdom of Shadows is a Kingdom-like game based on the Indonesian Wayang story of Babad Wanamarta, where players build a new nation and kingdom from a forbidden forest. This harmonious kingdom is ruled by the wise leaders, the Pandawa Lima.

Why similar: Tower Defense 31.1%, Side Scroller 27.9%, Base Building 18.4%, Strategy 9%, Lore-Rich 5.3%

A satirical tower defense roguelite with chaotic real-time combat. Play as a dungeon boss defending your home from hordes of vicious heroes. Place deadly traps, expand your dungeon, grow stronger, and smash the invaders yourself - all to get back to your well-deserved nap!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 52.4% ★, Tower Defense 25.4%, Base Building 11.3%, Strategy 4.9%, Resource Management 4.7%

Dear Magical Girls is a story-driven defense game about an overworked magical girl protecting the Mana Stone that keeps the city running. Move the vertices to reshape your magical field. Unlock modules and enchants, and build your own strategy to survive against waves of monsters.

Why similar: RTS 31.3%, Tower Defense 30.5%, Strategy 12.5%, Dark Fantasy 6.5%, Magic 6%

This is a 2D defense game that depicts the near future that may arise from climate change. Unlike the defense game, which is automatically attacked by traditional turrets, it is an attractive game that requires you to defeat the enemy by operating the turret directly with limited power.

Why similar: Tower Defense 37.1%, RTS 33.1%, Strategy 8.2%, Pixel Graphics 5.8%, War 4.9%

The Ark left. You stayed behind. In 2156, abandoned by the elite in the sealed dead city of Yunchuan, you face waves of Assimilated. Scavenge scrap, build nano-defense towers, and survive the night. Uncover the shocking conspiracy and prove that those who were cast aside are, in fact, the last hope.

Why similar: RTS 34.1%, Tower Defense 30.8%, Strategy 14.2%, Base Building 12.2%, Story Rich 7.6%

Ancient portals have been lying dormant, waiting for daring adventurers to travel between worlds. Your task is to lead an expedition through one of these portals, research and build defenses around it, and protect it from hostile guardian life forms.

Why similar: Tower Defense 34.7%, RTS 32.5%, Base Building 10.7%, Strategy 9.9%, Magic 7.6%

Survive the onslaught, then capture your attackers to automate your base and forge devastating spells.

Why similar: Tower Defense 29.7%, Side Scroller 17.6%, Base Building 12.6%, Dark Fantasy 10.4%, Magic 9.4%

An RTS and tower defense hybrid about holding a border. Draw the roads, raise the wall, spread your sensors, and hold one sector of a small country through seven days of rockets, tunnels and drones. Or go offensive: hunt down the launch sites and end the war early. Every campaign is a different war.

Why similar: RTS 33.8%, Tower Defense 29.1%, Base Building 17.1%, Strategy 9.5%, War 6.4%

Apocalypseed is a 2D real-time strategy game where you are the invasion. Devour humans to harvest flesh, build and strengthen an army of alien plants, and evolve your creatures into new forms with unique abilities. Crush the human resistance as it deploys increasingly dangerous threats to stop you.

Why similar: RTS 30.6%, Tower Defense 21.6%, Side Scroller 16.7%, Strategy 8.7%, Resource Management 5.5%

Towers of Thana is an action & strategy game where you invoke magic and summon towers to defend mythologies against a dark corruption. Travel to their homelands and rally legendary gods and creatures to your cause against Ogur, a God turned evil, and his corruption.

Why similar: Tower Defense 30.6%, RTS 30.4%, Magic 9.8%, Choices Matter 9.1%, Strategy 8.5%

How evil can you get? Discover how corruptible you are in Overlord, the twisted fantasy action adventure where you can be evil (or really evil). In the game's seriously warped fantasy world, players will become the Overlord and get first-hand experience of how absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 65.9% ★, RTS 12%, Dark Fantasy 11%, Strategy 4%, Action 3.4%

Hive Defender is an co-op and PvE focused RTS which aims to hit that "easy to pick up, impossible to master" sweet spot, where the game is made to be enjoyable at all skill levels by offering accessible, but rewarding depth of gameplay.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 45.7% ★, RTS 24.6%, Tower Defense 23%, Strategy 4.3%, Action 2%

Fight directly as a Commander in a 2D side-scrolling action-RTS while Flux and Forge build systems that keep working—and Shade infiltrates and disrupts the enemy. Gather physical Nuts and master three asymmetric machine species.

Why similar: Tower Defense 25.2%, RTS 24.9%, Side Scroller 21.9%, Lore-Rich 15.1%, Strategy 6.2%

The game has a main gameplay based on sidescrolling strategy set in a sci-fi world. The goal of our protagonists is to restart life on the planet after an extinction.

Why similar: Side Scroller 29.5%, RTS 25.3%, Base Building 24.7%, Strategy 14.4%, 2D 3.4%

Rise of the Cones is a tower defense game where a relentless army of cones is marching toward your base. They will not stop. Build towers, shape them with branching upgrades, and figure out how to hold the line.

Why similar: Tower Defense 35.4%, RTS 27.9%, Base Building 19%, Strategy 11%, Dark 4.4%

Embark on an adventure as a villain who just wants to follow the script ... Die in the end for the Hero of History. Use your telekinetic powers to control elements of the scenario and defeat unworthy enemies. Do you think you can do it?

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 64.9% ★, Side Scroller 24.6%, Pixel Graphics 5.4%, 2D 3.9%, Singleplayer 0.6%

In this party-based strategy defence game you will visit distant planets, build small camps and battle fierce monsters. Can you survive by learning and exploiting their weaknesses or is your party doomed to never return home?

Why similar: Tower Defense 29.2%, Side Scroller 22.4%, Base Building 16.3%, RTS 14.6%, Resource Management 7.5%

Listeria Wars is a real-time tactical game. You defend against the pathogenic microbes, attacking an infected organism. A key feature of the game is the parallel viewing experience. In addition to the game process, you can view the life of the human whose body has become the pathogenic battlefield.

Why similar: Tower Defense 29.2%, RTS 29%, Side Scroller 21.3%, Strategy 8%, Pixel Graphics 4.9%

Overlord II, sequel to the critically acclaimed cult hit, sees the return of the chaotic Minions and their new Dark Master. Bigger, badder and more beautifully destructive, Overlord 2 has a Glorious Empire to smash, a massive Netherworld to revive, Minion mounts to mobilize, a trio of mistresses to woo, War Machines to crush opposition...

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 71.9% ★, Dark Fantasy 8.8%, Magic 6.5%, RTS 5.7%, Strategy 4%

Petty Kings is a pixel art survival RTS about reclaiming your stolen kingdom. Rebuild your settlement, defend against night raids, raise your army, and destroy enemy outposts to take back your rightful throne.

Why similar: RTS 31.2%, Tower Defense 28.5%, Base Building 16.8%, Resource Management 6%, Pixel Graphics 5.6%

Little Kingdom RTS is an indie real-time strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Gather resources, build settlements, raise walls, and grow your small kingdom. Command an army of knights, archers, and mages to fight off rival kingdoms, orcs, and undead.

Why similar: RTS 25.6%, Tower Defense 25.2%, Base Building 15.8%, War 10.3%, Strategy 6.8%

Kingdoms vs Zombies is a blend of strategy, tower defense, and roguelike gameplay, where you must defend your kingdom against endless hordes of the undead.

Why similar: Tower Defense 31.5%, Base Building 22.6%, RTS 18.5%, Strategy 15.1%, Action 5.8%

Defend the Nexus, run after run. Build under population limits, balance gold and mana, draft augments as you level, and spend gems on a permanent power-up tree in this pixel-art tower defense roguelite.

Why similar: Tower Defense 34.1%, RTS 19.4%, Base Building 13%, Strategy 10.6%, Magic 8.2%

Phoenix Hope is a pixel art 2D real-time, side-view strategy game in which you must develop your colony during the day and repel waves of monsters at night.

Why similar: Tower Defense 24.6%, RTS 20.8%, Base Building 16.5%, Side Scroller 15.6%, Strategy 8.4%

Service Equals Survival is an incremental real-time strategy and tower defence game, where you are a commander tasked with eliminating as many bugs as possible. Featuring limb-damage on bugs, turrets, airstrikes, and barbed wire.

Why similar: Tower Defense 36.9%, RTS 33.2%, War 13.7%, Strategy 8.7%, Action 3.8%

A single-player tower defense game across the vast Ming frontier. Serve as a garrison commander, earn military promotions and take charge of greater forces. Build your defenses and withstand massed Later Jin Eight Banner assaults in one continuous world.

Why similar: Tower Defense 33.9%, RTS 30.7%, Base Building 17.5%, Strategy 8.4%, War 5.7%

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 43.9%, RTS 18.5%, Base Building 16.6%, Strategy 10.3%, War 5.9%

You are The Dark Lord! Raise an evil army, and crush the race of men. An action-strategy hybrid RTS, blending tower defence, base building and direct control of your Dark Lord avatar, currently in early development.

Why similar: Tower Defense 28.4%, RTS 26.5%, Base Building 13%, Strategy 9.3%, Dark Fantasy 4.8%