- #1 Bug Bait
97% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Chimera Unchained
Windows · Linux
Defend your base against relentless hordes of bugs in this single-player survival tower defense game. Strategically build and upgrade your defenses, manage vital resources, and adapt to ever-evolving threats. Can you outsmart the infestation and survive the chaos?
Why similar: Tower Defense 30.2%, Resource Management 12.3%, Survival 10.5%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%, Base Building 10%
- #2 Taur
96% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,078 reviews2020
Dev: Echo Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 32%, RTS 13.8%, Base Building 13.5%, Strategy 9%, Destruction 7.1%
- #3 Zombie Apocalypse - The Last Fortress
96% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2023
Dev: Guilherme Palacios Fraga Uema
Windows
Defend your base against hordes of zombies while using a variety of weapons, vehicles, explosives, soldiers and turrets in this survival tower defense game. Will you be able to create your own strategy and survive for 30 days?
Why similar: Tower Defense 21.6%, Zombies 16.3%, Post-apocalyptic 15.6%, War 9.4%, Survival 8.7%
- #4 Atahion - Tower Defense
95% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: EhtChaos
Windows
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 28.6%, RTS 25.8%, Base Building 15.7%, Strategy 8%, Pixel Graphics 5.6%
- #5 Stellar Infestation
94% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: YogurtGames
Windows
Dig minerals, manufacture ammunition, and build defense towers to fend off swarms of insects. A tower defense game with light production line elements.
Why similar: Tower Defense 25.9%, RTS 20.9%, Strategy 12.6%, Resource Management 11.8%, Base Building 11.5%
- #6 MarZ: Tactical Base Defense
94% matchMostly Positive78% of 885 reviews2019
Dev: Giant Grey
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Build your defense base to fight back the undead hordes of Mars and secure the future of the red planet. MarZ is a game of strategy and tactical defense where you must carefully manage your crew and resources as you try to uncover the terrible secrets of the undead.
Why similar: Tower Defense 25.3%, RTS 20.4%, Zombies 14.4%, Base Building 10.4%, Tactical 9.2%
- #7 Zombie Apocalypse - The Last Defense
93% matchPositive83% of 18 reviews2022
Dev: Guilherme Palacios Fraga Uema
Windows
Create your own strategies, tactics and manage your resources in this survival tower defense game. Buy weapons, vehicles, explosives, soldiers, turrets and battle against huge waves of zombies. Can you survive for 25 days?
Why similar: Tower Defense 22%, Zombies 16.1%, Post-apocalyptic 15.2%, War 9.7%, Survival 8.5%
- #8 Grim Nights
92% matchVery Positive88% of 1,530 reviews2018
Dev: Edym Pixels
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 24.5%, RTS 18.3%, Base Building 15.7%, Zombies 13.7%, Survival 10%
- #9 W.A.R.D.
91% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Seventh Realm
Windows
Assume control of an evil intergalactic megacorporation in this sci-fi tower defense. Build a mining infrastructure on alien moons and exoplanets, exploit their precious resources, and defend your operation against defiant natives.
Why similar: Tower Defense 19.5%, RTS 16.4%, Base Building 10.7%, War 10.3%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #10 Zombo Buster Advance
91% matchVery Positive83% of 242 reviews2020
Dev: FIREBEAST
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Zombo Buster Advance is a tower defense game taking place inside buildings with interchangeable elevators. Deploy, swap and shoot like a boss!
Why similar: Tower Defense 24.9%, RTS 20.6%, Zombies 17.7%, Strategy 8.1%, Survival 6.9%
- #11 Rotten Tide
90% matchMixed55% of 11 reviews2021
Dev: HYPER GATE
Windows
Rotten Tide is a horizontal 2D tower defense game where players must protect the world from the attacks of all kinds of monsters who are threatening the humans in big cities all around the world.
Why similar: Tower Defense 23.3%, RTS 17.8%, Zombies 17.4%, Base Building 13.9%, Strategy 7.9%
- #12 Total Tower Engine
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RubyRTS
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 29.2%, RTS 27.3%, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 13.5%, Strategy 7.4%
- #13 After Long Night
88% matchMostly Positive79% of 434 reviews2025
Dev: 疯狗工作室Pub: OKJOY
Windows
After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.
Why similar: RTS 18.9%, Zombies 14%, Base Building 12.2%, Tower Defense 11.7%, Post-apocalyptic 9.5%
- #14 CastleOn Scriptum
89% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Lord Castleon
Windows · Linux
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: Tower Defense 26.2%, RTS 20.9%, Base Building 15.9%, Survival 9.5%, Strategy 8.7%
- #15 Scrap Bulwark Guide
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CrazyDream Game
Windows
"Scrap Bulwark Guide" is a tower defense game blending exploration and RPG mechanics. As a survivor in a post-apocalyptic city, you must recruit others, scavenge building materials from ruins, build street barricades, and fend off nightly zombie hordes to ultimately lead your group to safety.
Why similar: Tower Defense 25.6%, Zombies 18.4%, Post-apocalyptic 15.2%, Base Building 14.1%, Survival 8.5%
- #16 Thukothea Defender
87% match6 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2021
Dev: DjokaGames
Windows · Linux
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 37.1%, RTS 15.2%, Strategy 10.3%, Base Building 9.5%, War 7.4%
- #17 Operation: Surface Takeover
86% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Alex CorneilliePub: Rabid Trolls Studios
Windows
A pixelated 2.5D RTS meets tower defense as you battle mutated ants in a short campaign. Build walls, place turrets, and hold the line to reclaim Earth's surface in this tactical fight for survival where placement of everything matters.
Why similar: RTS 21.8%, Tower Defense 21%, Post-apocalyptic 8.6%, Top-Down 8%, Strategy 7.3%
- #18 Antpocalypse
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Yammy Productions
Windows · Mac
Many ants have become infected by the cordyceps fungus and are attacking their queens! Place ants (towers) along the paths of zombie ants and hopefully save every queen! Features: - Bespoke 2D art and animation - Multiple biomes - Original music - Satisfying ant deaths - Charming environments
Why similar: Tower Defense 35.3%, RTS 18.7%, Top-Down 13.2%, Zombies 10.8%, Strategy 7.4%
- #19 They Are Billions
84% matchVery Positive85% of 50,609 reviews2019
Dev: Numantian Games
Windows
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 56.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Base Building 20.5%, RTS 19.7%, Tower Defense 16.2%, Zombies 15.7%, Survival 8.6%
- #20 Protolife
84% matchVery Positive86% of 465 reviews2018
Dev: Volcanic Giraffe
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 27.7%, RTS 26.9%, Base Building 17.4%, Strategy 7.8%, Top-Down 7.2%
- #21 Chromosome Evil
82% matchVery Positive83% of 348 reviews2022
Dev: S.C. 16 BIT NIGHTS S.R.L.
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Dive deep into this Lovecraft-inspired RTS survival. Assemble your team using different classes, skills, and weaponry. It's up to your squad to survive the onslaught of nightmares that are surely coming your way. Will you find the source of the darkness?
Why similar: RTS 18%, War 15.1%, Zombies 13.5%, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #22 Warpips
82% matchVery Positive87% of 5,047 reviews2022
Dev: Skirmish Mode GamesPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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: Tower Defense 22.8%, RTS 22.6%, War 14.7%, Resource Management 9.8%, Base Building 9.2%
- #23 Endless Horde
83% matchMixed66% of 196 reviews2017
Dev: Ominous Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
The horde is here to eat your brain and murder every single one of your scientists. Gather your forces, this is the last stand before we lose the facility! Place guards, close doors, and position traps. Survive as long as you can!
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.2%, RTS 15.2%, Zombies 13.5%, Destruction 10.8%, War 10.6%
- #24 Vermin Control
81% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: L.L.B.
Windows
In Vermin Control, you will enter a thrilling sci-fi tower defense world filled with strategic combat and high tension. Operate a versatile unit capable of both melee combat and construction, deploy and manage 9 unique devices, and protect key facilities from relentless vermin assaults.
Why similar: Tower Defense 24.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.4%, RTS 13.1%, Resource Management 10.5%, Strategy 8.2%
- #25 Dying Breed
79% matchMostly Positive73% of 206 reviews2025
Dev: SarnayerPub: MicroProse Software
Windows · Mac
Golden-age RTS classic. Fast-paced action & strategic decision-making, battling evil arch-enemies, zombies, and retro-futuristic technologies. All to a '90s electro-metal soundtrack and FMV live-action cut scenes.
Why similar: RTS 22%, Base Building 14.2%, War 13.3%, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Zombies 13%
- #26 THE LAST DEFENSE!
81% match9 user reviews67% of 9 reviews2021
Dev: Neem Game Studios
Windows
A classic tower defense game with ordinary graphics didn't fascinate you? Well, let's give a try and see how long you can defend! Show your commanding skills and prove no enemy can break your defense! Be a hero and save humanity with the LAST DEFENSE!
Why similar: Tower Defense 22.9%, Post-apocalyptic 11.5%, War 10.1%, Military 9.7%, Top-Down 8.8%
- #27 Infested Planet
80% matchVery Positive94% of 3,014 reviews2014
Dev: Rocket Bear Games
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 31%, RTS 28.1%, Strategy 14.3%, Top-Down 12.1%, Tactical 5.8%
- #28 Plasma Dome
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Yoberu
Windows
Plasma Dome is a tactical tower defense with roguelite progression and no predefined paths. Defend your city from an aerial assault of geometric entities from another dimension.
Why similar: Tower Defense 32.9%, RTS 29.2%, Base Building 12.2%, Strategy 11.8%, Futuristic 6%
- #29 This Is Not A Dungeon
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Paper Kite Games
Windows
TINAD is a unique tower defense game where you defend your retirement home from overeager heroes. Play as the dungeon itself. Deploy traps, summon minions, and prove you’re just trying to enjoy your golden years in peace against heroes who can’t read the sign and assume every dungeon is evil.
Why similar: Tower Defense 28.8%, Base Building 18.7%, Resource Management 12%, Top-Down 11.6%, Strategy 9.5%
- #30 Cataclismo
76% matchVery Positive89% of 4,077 reviews2025
Dev: Digital SunPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.
Why similar: RTS 15.2%, Tower Defense 15%, Zombies 11.7%, Post-apocalyptic 11%, Base Building 10.6%
- #31 Undead Defense TD
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sugradh_Dev
Windows
Zombies are coming! Build your defenses and expand your settlement to create a safe space for humanity. Use turrets, walls and light towers to keep the darkness safe. Expand your settlement to find abandoned settlements and additional resources.
Why similar: Tower Defense 20.8%, RTS 19.5%, Zombies 14.4%, Base Building 8.7%, Post-apocalyptic 8%
- #32 Milky Way TD SURVIVORS AUTOBATTLER RTS
77% matchPositive87% of 23 reviews2024
Dev: MyDreamForever
Windows
Milky Way is a unique mix of Tower Defense, RTS, Auto-Battler and Survivors. Build your base, choose random upgrades and use powerful skills to survive against hordes of enemies.
Why similar: Tower Defense 24.8%, RTS 24.5%, Base Building 15.8%, Resource Management 11.9%, Survival 8.2%
- #33 Planet X3 (DOS)
77% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: 8-Bit Productions, LLCPub: NMSE & Co LLC
Windows · Mac
Planet X3 is a new retro real-time strategy game for DOS. You are up against the Protoids. You need to mine resources, build infrastructure and build offensive units to defeat them. All while protecting your bases. Relive the VGA, AdLib and keyboard controls experience of early 90s PC gaming.
Why similar: RTS 30.9%, Base Building 17.2%, Strategy 15.1%, Resource Management 14.7%, Futuristic 8.8%
- #34 Terra Forma: Tower Combat
76% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Fat Pigeon Studio
Windows
Terra Forma is a pixelated 2D tower defense, inspired by Flash-age classics. Build a dozen unique towers and create even more fusions by combining shock, ice, fire, and iron. Prove your command prowess one final time, and defend mankind's final hope.
Why similar: Tower Defense 36.5%, Strategy 13.5%, Top-Down 11.9%, War 8.4%, Futuristic 7.5%
- #35 TechGuardian: Territory Defense
75% matchMixed70% of 26 reviews2025
Dev: Apex HorizonPub: Liquid Meow
Windows
This is a sci-fi strategy game featuring a Defense Mode focused on tower defense and an Attack Mode focused on combat. The game includes over 30 different buildings and units, all of which can be upgraded through entry editing to enhance their performance and firepower.
Why similar: RTS 22.1%, Tower Defense 22%, Base Building 11.4%, Resource Management 10.1%, War 8.9%
- #36 Arrival of Beasts
75% matchPositive96% of 52 reviews2023
Dev: FreeTimeDevelopment
Windows
Discover one of the hardest tower defense games with strategic elements, individual gameplay and challenging mechanics. Play together with your friends in co-op mode, create a team and compete with other players in the online ranking.
Why similar: Tower Defense 29.3%, RTS 24%, Base Building 13.9%, Strategy 9.5%, Tactical 8.4%
- #37 Galactic Frontiers - Defense Protocol
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: mañana studios
Windows
Stand as humanity's shield against relentless waves of cosmic foes in this gripping sci-fi tower defense game. Employ advanced weaponry and deploy strategic defenses to repel enemy hordes across the galaxy's expanse. Can you withstand the onslaught in Galactic Frontiers?
Why similar: Tower Defense 25.5%, RTS 25.1%, Base Building 16.1%, War 12.2%, Futuristic 8.7%
- #38 Milky Way TD SURVIVORS AUTOBATTLER RTS: Earth
73% matchPositive89% of 35 reviews2024
Dev: MyDreamForever
Windows
Milky Way is a unique mix of Tower Defense, RTS, Auto-Battler and Survivors. Build your base, choose random upgrades and use powerful skills to survive against hordes of enemies.
Why similar: Tower Defense 24.7%, RTS 23.7%, Base Building 15.3%, Resource Management 11.5%, Tactical 8.5%
- #39 Annihilate The Spance
72% matchVery Positive91% of 338 reviews2025
Dev: Skyglow Softworks
Windows
The Spance approaches, a vast and mysterious storm at the edge of humanity. Who shall claim its riches? Brave the perils of the depths in a story-rich singleplayer campaign with numerous distinct factions and bosses. An RTS base builder with huge battles, constant production, and autonomous ships.
Why similar: RTS 24%, Base Building 17.4%, Destruction 14.5%, War 13%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #40 Rise of the Cones: Planetary Defense
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Baris Lab
Windows
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 29.4%, RTS 23.3%, Base Building 17.3%, Strategy 10.8%, Top-Down 7.2%
- #41 Arcade Combat
74% matchNo user reviews2024
Dev: Nine the studio
Windows
If the world of all video games collapses, who wins the battle between them? Protect your video game assets and destroy them.
Why similar: Tower Defense 36.7%, Zombies 24.7%, Strategy 13.9%, Top-Down 11.3%, Tactical 7.4%
- #42 Little Kingdom RTS
71% matchVery Positive86% of 65 reviews2025
Dev: MyDreamForeverPub: Andgo Games
Windows
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 21.4%, Tower Defense 21.2%, Base Building 14.4%, War 12.7%, Resource Management 10%
- #43 Iron Line
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 24 reviews2024
Dev: Team TrainwreckPub: Breda University of Applied Sciences
Windows
Iron Line is a tower defense game where you are one of a few, train conductors capable of traversing on the Iron Line. Will you survive the onslaught, or get an express ticket to the afterlife?
Why similar: Tower Defense 37%, Post-apocalyptic 15.9%, Strategy 13.8%, Top-Down 11.8%, Destruction 10.5%
- #44 From Glory To Goo
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,455 reviews2024
Dev: Stratagem Blue
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 17.8%, Tower Defense 17.7%, Base Building 12.4%, Zombies 10.9%, War 9.9%
- #45 Project 37
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cheese Wheel Industries LLC
Windows
Easy-to-control, action-packed RTS. Project 37 uses a unique lane-based movement system to help automate unit movement. The catch is, you'll need to constantly fight across multiple fronts at the same time.
Why similar: RTS 27.4%, Base Building 16.3%, War 16.2%, Resource Management 10.8%, Military 9.2%
- #46 The Extinction Directive
71% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: CustomBit
Windows
A single-player sci-fi strategy game set in a future where humankind has made the first leap to a distant star system
Why similar: RTS 27%, Tower Defense 24.7%, Strategy 12.7%, War 9.5%, Top-Down 8.1%
- #47 Zombie Warz
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GobiGD
Windows · Mac
Zombie Warz is a strategy survivor RTS with rogue-lite gameplay elements. Play as the king of a kingdom under siege by zombies and survive to discover their origins.
Why similar: Tower Defense 23.9%, RTS 21%, Zombies 14.3%, Base Building 13.1%, Resource Management 9%
- #48 Watchtowers & Weaponry
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Snoware Solutions
Windows
Command your forces to victory in this intense tower defense experience! Strategically deploy your defenses to fortify your position and funnel the enemies through intricate mazes. Carefully allocate your resources and adapt your tactics to counter waves of relentless enemy drones!
Why similar: Tower Defense 31.7%, Resource Management 12.7%, War 12.5%, Strategy 12.3%, Tactical 11.9%
- #49 Surging Matrix
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: YX Studio
Windows
Upgrade and evolve, expand your territory, and build mighty defense towers to repel hordes of monsters.
Why similar: Tower Defense 23.7%, RTS 21.6%, Base Building 13.5%, War 12.5%, Top-Down 8.3%
- #50 Don't Mind the Robots
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 2bitleft
Windows
Build deadly mazes and outsmart a rogue AI in this strategic tower defense game. Adapt your defenses, use aiming parameters to your advantage, and activate powerful perks to survive increasingly complex waves of incoming robots.
Why similar: Tower Defense 25%, RTS 22.7%, Base Building 13.8%, Resource Management 10.1%, Survival 9.4%
- #51 Random Core Defense
69% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Danbaba
Windows
"In 'Random Core Defense,' acquire and enhance cores using limited resources to withstand relentless enemy onslaughts. Defeat powerful bosses and test your strategy to survive until the very end!"
Why similar: Tower Defense 31.7%, RTS 26.9%, Strategy 8.7%, Pixel Graphics 6.4%, Top-Down 5.7%
- #52 Zombocalypse Now!
68% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Pixel Drip Games
Windows
The Zombocalypse is upon us. Build up and defend your settlement from the Zombie hordes until help arrives.
Why similar: Tower Defense 27.1%, RTS 17.4%, Zombies 16.6%, Base Building 13.6%, Strategy 10.3%
- #53 Frontier Control : Invasion
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: StarvingFox Studio
Windows
Frontier Control: Invasion is a Real-Time Strategy survival game in which you play the commander of a human space colony under the attack of outer space robots. Build your base, train your colony, and fight herds of enemies and bosses.
Why similar: RTS 21.7%, Tower Defense 18.8%, Base Building 13.8%, Destruction 10%, War 8.6%
- #54 Starship Troopers: Terran Command
67% matchVery Positive87% of 11,704 reviews2022
Dev: The ArtistocratsPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 34%, War 13.5%, Strategy 13%, Military 11.4%, Tactical 9.1%
- #55 Last Fuse
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: YYZ Studio
Windows
A tower defense with a twist - you’re defending a nuclear bomb. It powers your defenses, but the more you use it, the closer you get to meltdown. Manage chaotic engineers, scarce resources and risky upgrades - every decision counts.
Why similar: Tower Defense 21%, RTS 18.9%, Base Building 13.5%, Resource Management 10.9%, Destruction 9.5%
- #56 Defcon Zero: Frontlines of Tomorrow
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TriArts
Windows
Defcon Zero is a classic real-time strategy game set on planet Eros, where you dive into the story of ERA, the last beacon of civilization. Build your base, gather resources, engage your enemies and make strategic choices to prevail in combat. Are you ready to command the frontlines of tomorrow?
Why similar: RTS 24.5%, Base Building 15.3%, Post-apocalyptic 14.7%, War 13.7%, Military 11.2%
- #57 Project VTS
67% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: DT3 Digital
Windows
Project VTS is a real-time TD game. You'll need to build your defence around your base and defend against different enemies from all directions in various terrains of the alien planet.Use your turrets, obstacles, power supply, resource facillities to defend your base.
Why similar: Tower Defense 35%, Base Building 17.7%, Top-Down 14%, Futuristic 10.4%, War 8.7%
- #58 Defensurvivor
66% matchMostly Positive72% of 104 reviews2024
Dev: SignatureGamez
Windows
DEFENSURVIVOR is a strategy game where you build obstacles and place and move units to block zombies. There are various units with unique characteristics and powerful high-level units that can be obtained through combination. Use randomly given units to survive until the end!
Why similar: Tower Defense 25.6%, RTS 23.2%, Base Building 16.6%, Top-Down 9%, Zombies 8.7%
- #59 Dust Front RTS
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: rtsDimon
Windows
Dust Front is a classic RTS with grand strategy elements and a non-linear campaign. Lead strategic maneuvers, overwhelm your enemies with cannon fodder, or stomp them into the stone age with carpet bombing on the lifeless fields of Dust Front.
Why similar: RTS 36.9%, War 21.3%, Base Building 17.2%, Strategy 13.5%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #60 Tower Dominion
64% matchVery Positive86% of 4,827 reviews2025
Dev: Parallel 45 Games
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 21.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 24.8%, RTS 19.5%, Base Building 14.1%, Resource Management 9%, Tactical 8.5%