- #1 Fortifend
97% matchPositive88% of 41 reviews2026
Dev: Side Crumb
Windows
Fortifend is a fantasy city builder with a mix of resource management and strategic tower defense. As Lord Mayor, build your settlement into a fortified city capable of fending off waves of demonic invaders. Guard the gates!
Why similar: Base Building 23.6%, Tower Defense 23.4%, City Builder 17%, Strategy 10.9%, Resource Management 7.8%
- #2 Survive In Strange World
96% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: E-Snail Studio
Windows
Action adventure strategy game with tower defense, in a fantasy world, use your own combat skills, weapons, and the power of your partners to survive. Face the ultimate fate with your unique combat style.
Why similar: Tower Defense 22.8%, City Builder 18.2%, Survival 11.2%, Resource Management 11.1%, Tactical 7.6%
- #3 Doomed Night: Build Base & Explore
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Steppe Wind
Windows
Build your kingdom, expand borders, and face darkness. By day, gather strength, build defenses, and explore the land. By night, lead your army in tower defense, fight monsters with your troops, defend your people, and survive waves spilling from portals threatening all.
Why similar: Tower Defense 27.8%, City Builder 17.9%, Strategy 11.7%, Base Building 11.5%, Survival 10.4%
- #4 Bug Bait
95% 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 32.3%, Base Building 14.4%, Survival 13.5%, Resource Management 12.5%, Strategy 11.1%
- #5 Kingdom: Classic
94% matchVery Positive91% of 22,754 reviews2015
Dev: NoioPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.
Why similar: Base Building 19%, Tower Defense 14%, Building 11.7%, City Builder 11.5%, Strategy 11.5%
- #6 Mawang: Dark Lord Defense
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SANDY FLOOR
Windows · Mac
Mawang: Dark Lord Defense is a real-time tactical tower defense game. As Princess Lua, defend the demon realm against the hero alliance. Build unique towers, manage unit morale, and use tactical pauses to repel invasions. Your strategy decides the demon realm's fate.
Why similar: Tower Defense 20.9%, Base Building 18.2%, City Builder 14.2%, Building 11.6%, Resource Management 9%
- #7 Magic Crystal TD
93% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: 踏雪泥工作室
Windows
Magic Crystal TD mixes tower defense with resource management. Build roads to resource points, send familiars to haul red, yellow, blue crystals, refine advanced ones, and swap them on Magic Crystal Bases for varied defenses. Face shifting nature, wield Blessings, destroy nests to win!
Why similar: Tower Defense 34.7%, Strategy 15.8%, Resource Management 15.1%, Base Building 14.1%, Building 10.2%
- #8 Islets Defense
91% matchVery Positive93% of 197 reviews2025
Dev: MiniGoofPub: Nuntius Games
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Islets Defense is a turn-based tower defense game in which you build a small village to gather resources and defend your castle. Carefully plan your actions, as each move brings the enemy waves closer! Strategize building placements and play your cards wisely, as timing and order are key.
Why similar: Tower Defense 23.7%, Base Building 19.6%, City Builder 17.7%, Building 12.1%, Resource Management 10.9%
- #9 NecroCity: Prologue
92% matchPositive86% of 43 reviews2023
Dev: Shift GamesPub: Gameparic
Windows
NecroCity: Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full version of the game. Take on the role of the young Prince of Undead, trying to prove himself in the world of the Undead Kingdom. Push back the hordes of monsters and build your fortress! 🔥
Why similar: Tower Defense 22.8%, Base Building 19%, City Builder 18%, Building 13.4%, Strategy 9.4%
- #10 Beyond The Walls
91% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2024
Dev: Pear vs Apple
Windows
Immerse yourself in a 3D tower defense game set in a medieval realm. Build towers with unique effects and strategically manage your town to amass resources. Master the elements and devise cunning strategies to triumph in this captivating fusion of defense and city management.
Why similar: Tower Defense 21.7%, Base Building 18.6%, City Builder 14.9%, Survival 10.9%, Building 10.8%
- #11 clickyland
90% matchVery Positive85% of 660 reviews2024
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 64%
clickyland is a tower defense village builder where clicks are your main resource. Use clicks to harvest resources, fight enemies and manage your village, but use them wisely as you only get 20 clicks every day! Can you reach day 100?
Why similar: Tower Defense 30.5%, Base Building 25.7%, City Builder 17.6%, Strategy 17.2%, Survival 8.3%
- #12 Astra Sentinel
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Somnambulist Games
Windows
Astra Sentinel is a wave-based survival RTS where endless alien hordes relentlessly assault your planets. Build defenses, colonize planets and manage resources under constant pressure. Will you be able to recover the control of the galaxy?
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 20.7% ★, Base Building 20.5%, City Builder 11.2%, Tower Defense 9.6%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #13 Squars: Incremental Defense
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Countryside Studio
Windows · Linux
Survive endless waves of dark entities, use your clicks as a resource, and grow stronger with every run. Find and upgrade powerful modules and unlock new technologies in this incremental clicker defense game. Also - Everything is square.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 24.3% ★, Tower Defense 21.6%, Base Building 16.6%, Building 10.4%, Resource Management 8.2%
- #14 Project Tomorrow
88% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Advance Nine
Windows
A base-building survival game with terraforming and crafting. Earth lies poisoned and abandoned ten thousand years after invasion. Awaken from stasis, defend your fragile foothold, and restore a dead world so humanity can live here again.
Why similar: Base Building 24%, Tower Defense 23.4%, Survival 12.7%, City Builder 10.9%, Building 7.7%
- #15 ArcaneOutpost
87% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: VortexRingGame
Windows
A strategy game that combines MOBA and Tower Defence, You would control guardians with different skills,building your outpost to fend off enemy attacks.
Why similar: Tower Defense 29.5%, Base Building 25.2%, Strategy 17%, Building 14.2%, Survival 7.4%
- #16 Break The Line
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Break Point Studio
Windows
| Rogue elements + Free Layout + BattleMastery + Turn-based March | What kind of different experience will it bring ? Will you be able to hold on to a tower caught in a tidal wave of enemy attacks ? May be this is the answer you're looking for.
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.7%, City Builder 17.7%, Base Building 17.2%, Building 11.7%, Survival 9.2%
- #17 Creeping Dusk
86% matchMixed67% of 97 reviews2024
Dev: PolyShroom
Windows · Linux
Creeping Dusk is a tower defense game. Build a town around an abandoned gold mine and defend against monsters that swarm the area. Fortify your defenses, and prepare for the increasingly challenging nights. Will you be able to protect your town from the encroaching darkness?
Why similar: Tower Defense 28.4%, Base Building 23.3%, Building 14.6%, Resource Management 11.2%, Strategy 11%
- #18 Dwarven Deeps
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Masalis
Windows
Gather gold, build defenses and reclaim the old dwarven kingdom of your ancestors. Rebuild the old halls, unlock ancient technologies and fend off enemies as the noise of your new kingdom attracts enemies. Dwarven Deeps is a solo or coop micro-strategy tower defense game in a low-poly dwarven realm.
Why similar: Tower Defense 23.2%, City Builder 16.3%, Base Building 15.8%, Building 12.2%, Survival 8.3%
- #19 Civitatem
85% matchMixed63% of 134 reviews2022
Dev: LW Games
Windows
Civitatem is a medieval city builder where you help your villagers raise a new settlement in dangerous lands by making use of their skills and available world resources.
Why similar: City Builder 24.2%, Base Building 17.3%, Strategy 13.9%, Real-Time with Pause 12.3% ★, Resource Management 9.5%
- #20 TOWERTOWER
83% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 反省文工房
Windows
Stack. Mislead. Wipe them out. A punishing tower defense about building a fortress out of stacked blocks. Every tower is a weapon, a wall, and a piece of terrain that leads enemies astray. Let 50 through and it is over.
Why similar: Tower Defense 32.3%, Base Building 27.1%, Building 16.9%, Strategy 12.9%, Resource Management 6.1%
- #21 Parabellum: Siege Of Legends
82% match8 user reviews38% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Studio Baikin
Windows
An epic war and strategy game set in the medieval universe.
Why similar: Tower Defense 28%, Base Building 17.1%, Strategy 16.2%, Building 15.8%, Survival 11.7%
- #22 Zombies Per Minute
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Enzed Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Zombies Per Minute is a factory-building roguelite where everything you build is measured by one thing: how many zombies you can kill per minute. Yes, really. Use your imagination to grow your factory, make decisive choices each wave and progress from one outpost to the other. Until Earth is saved.
Why similar: Tower Defense 22.1%, Base Building 21.2%, City Builder 14.7%, Building 11.7%, Strategy 9.7%
- #23 Freaking Meatbags
84% matchVery Positive86% of 174 reviews2015
Dev: Wild FactorPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 37%
Land on a planet, pick up some rocks, leave before the solar system explodes. Oh, and don't die in the nightly robot attacks! Freaking Meatbags is a humorous real-time strategy game that's all about building a base, mixing meatbag DNA, then convincing those dolts to help you gather resources.
Why similar: Tower Defense 32.1%, Real-Time with Pause 15.3% ★, Strategy 15.3%, Base Building 10.8%, Survival 7.3%
- #24 Busy Cowboy
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Town Mayor Studio
Windows
《Busy Cowboy》 is a strategic construction-based 2.5D shooting game that supports multiplayer online play.
Why similar: Tower Defense 27.7%, Base Building 21.7%, 2.5D 15.4%, Building 9.8%, Survival 7.8%
- #25 A Psychopomp Besieged
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Violet Memoire Software
Windows
A strategic wave defence game about guiding and protecting souls on their journey through the underworld. Conjure and enchant magical towers to repel invaders that bleed into the worlds between life and the beyond.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 25.4% ★, Tower Defense 21.5%, Base Building 14.2%, Survival 10.8%, Strategy 10.6%
- #26 Crowded Blue Dot
81% matchMixed59% of 53 reviews2020
Dev: cys20 studio
Windows · Linux
Crowded Blue Dot is a game about producing various items to make people happy and growing a city from a small village to a metropolis.
Why similar: Base Building 22%, City Builder 21.5%, Real-Time with Pause 13.6% ★, Resource Management 12.7%, Building 10.7%
- #27 Ruins of Majika
79% matchMixed67% of 15 reviews2024
Dev: Ariel EstipularPub: Gears2Game
Windows
Strategically build impenetrable towers & defenses, to endure the endless foes that emerge in the shroud of night. Each passing day is an opportunity to grow stronger. so take what you need from the environment. Gather, Craft, Survive, Defend, Thrive!
Why similar: Tower Defense 29.7%, Base Building 24.6%, Survival 13.3%, Building 10.9%, Strategy 10.2%
- #28 Fog Keeper
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: FatBird Game
Windows
"Fog Keeper" is a tower-defense survival game. You will establish defenses on a fog-shrouded alien world, gather resources, research technologies, hold the Energy Tower against the monster hordes that surge in every night, and uncover the true secrets hidden within.
Why similar: Tower Defense 30.5%, Base Building 22%, Strategy 18.1%, Survival 13.7%, Building 8.3%
- #29 Reforge Front
78% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Four Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Defend the furnace from waves of goblins by building and upgrading in an FPS tower defense.
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.7%, Base Building 22.1%, Building 11.8%, Survival 9.7%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #30 Lanternia
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Skill Potion
Windows
Lanternia is a survival RTS with roguelite and deckbuilding elements. Build, defend, and expand the village in a dark wood, illuminated only with lanterns.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 20.2% ★, Base Building 19.3%, Tower Defense 17.9%, City Builder 14.3%, Survival 10.6%
- #31 Stonetowers
79% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2018
Dev: Gareloch Games
Windows
Build and defend your burgeoning settlement in this town-building tower-defence hybrid. Guide your people as they unlock the secrets of the arcane and protect their new home from the otherworldly beings that surround it.
Why similar: Tower Defense 31%, Strategy 29.4%, Base Building 26.1%, Survival 13.5%
- #32 Ash & Adam's Existential Treads
74% matchVery Positive93% of 393 reviews2026
Dev: Ash & Adam's Games
Windows · Mac
A mini action city-builder in a post-post-apocalyptic world. Grow your settlement. Fend off waves of enemies. Restore nature.
Why similar: Tower Defense 24.9%, City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 18.2%, Building 9.6%, Strategy 9.5%
- #33 Beacon of Havoc
77% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: Majao Games
Windows
Post-apocalyptic city builder, where you Build, Defend, and Thrive in a desolate landscape overrun by enemy attacks. Manage resources, production and manufacturing to expand your settlement.
Why similar: Tower Defense 27.9%, City Builder 24.8%, Building 15.6%, Base Building 11.2%, Resource Management 10.9%
- #34 Airborne Kingdom
76% matchVery Positive87% of 2,406 reviews2022
Dev: The Wandering Band LLC
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The sky city builder awaits. Create your own flying kingdom and lead it on a quest across an expansive world. Explore the varied landscape, build up a floating metropolis, aid struggling people below, uncover lost secrets and, ultimately, bring back the Airborne Kingdom legend.
Why similar: Base Building 21.8%, City Builder 19.8%, Real-Time with Pause 17.2% ★, Building 13.1%, Resource Management 9.9%
- #35 Last Fuse
76% 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 21.2%, Base Building 18.3%, City Builder 15.9%, Resource Management 10.4%, Survival 10.1%
- #36 Homelander’s Valor
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 2D Axis
Windows
Become a hero of Eastern legend. Explore ancient secrets, plan your defenses, combine tower types and modifiers, and build an indestructible fortress in a tower-defence game with survival elements.
Why similar: Tower Defense 29%, City Builder 21.1%, Strategy 16.5%, Building 15.2%, Base Building 13.6%
- #37 NuTREEnts
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Goose Machine
Windows
NuTREEnts is a strategic tower defense roguelike about growing and expanding your forest. Plant saplings, fend off bugs, and explore a desolate planet while you grow a mighty colony of trees!
Why similar: Tower Defense 31.2%, City Builder 19.2%, Base Building 15.3%, Strategy 14.2%, Resource Management 10%
- #38 Age of Damnation
74% match6 user reviews33% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: WukaStudio
Windows
Age of Damnation — a fantasy medieval strategy with a top-down view. By day, you explore the forest and build your settlement. By night, you defend against waves of monsters born from damnation mist. Gather resources, develop your settlement, research technologies, build defenses, destroy monsters.
Why similar: Base Building 28.4%, Strategy 18.1%, Tower Defense 16.2%, City Builder 13.7%, Survival 12.9%
- #39 Yavalanche
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Decent Salad Games
Windows
Yavalanche is a tower defense game in which you take control of a courageous yeti that lives on top of the mountain to repel waves of the sinister goblins coming to get you. Place your pins, strategize your attacks, upgrade your fortifications, and send those pesky green goblins down!
Why similar: Tower Defense 43.6%, Base Building 22.1%, Strategy 15%, Building 12.5%, Cartoony 6.1%
- #40 Queen's Revenge
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: WizradHatDice
Windows
Queen’s Revenge is a fast-paced tower defense game where you play as a fallen queen, betrayed and cast into darkness. Build defenses by day, fight relentless foes at night, and reclaim your throne. Every action counts—plan, battle, survive!
Why similar: Tower Defense 34.6%, Base Building 17.3%, Building 15.7%, Strategy 15.1%, City Builder 12.7%
- #41 StarryNight
73% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: TJF4
Windows
《星夜迷城》是一款轻松休闲的的策略,建设,塔防类型的小游戏。玩家需要在有限的时间内生存发展,并且抵御敌人的进攻,合理的利用资源,将会是成功的关键。
Why similar: Tower Defense 30.4%, Base Building 24%, Strategy 17.9%, Building 17%, Resource Management 9.9%
- #42 FrontierLord
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: WallYardPub: WallYard Studio
Windows
FrontierLord is a pixel strategy game to build and guard frontier forts. As lord, build villages, collect wood and ore for production. Place siege gear and wall traps, train troops to repel raiders. Balance building and defense, craft your fort and create your frontier legend.
Why similar: Tower Defense 31.3%, City Builder 17.2%, Building 16.6%, Strategy 13.9%, Base Building 11.2%
- #43 East Defense
72% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: A Devs
Windows
East DefenseYour duty is to protect the castle by strategically building & upgrading towers to stop monsters from coming their way!
Why similar: Tower Defense 32.6%, Base Building 21.2%, Strategy 15.2%, Building 10.9%, Tactical 9.5%
- #44 Runehold
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ByteSide Studio
Windows
Build up defenses, recruit helpers, gather items and defend the stronghold against an ever increasing number and difficulty of enemies who come at night.
Why similar: Tower Defense 25.8%, Base Building 24.7%, Survival 12.3%, Strategy 11.8%, 2.5D 10.9%
- #45 Deep Among the Swarm
71% matchVery Positive87% of 141 reviews2024
Dev: Pebble Mountain Games
Windows
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 20.6% ★, Tower Defense 19.8%, Base Building 18.6%, Survival 10.4%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #46 Roma Eterna Sons of Mars
71% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Vesta Games
Windows
Gather your legions, build defenses, and conquer territory for ROME! Explore a doomed world, research new technologies, and uncover the legacy of Mars. "Roma Eterna: Sons of Mars" is a strategy and tower defense game. ROME WILL NEVER FALL!
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.2%, City Builder 21.5%, Building 12.1%, Base Building 11.2%, Strategy 10.8%
- #47 Seven Nights of the Black Tide
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: YuanMu
Windows
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%, Base Building 21.4%, Strategy 14.8%, City Builder 14.5%, Resource Management 10.9%
- #48 Crystal Siege
70% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: The Broken Dimension
Windows
Build Towers, Defend the Crystal and Survive the night. Crystal Siege is Tower Defense inspired in Kingdom 2 Crowns and Terraria's events. Explore by day, prepare your defenses, and face relentless waves of enemies by night.
Why similar: Tower Defense 34.4%, City Builder 16.3%, Strategy 12.4%, Building 9.8%, Survival 7.3%
- #49 Endless Defense
68% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2026
Dev: Yamu Studios
Windows
Endless Defense is a roguelite sci-fi tower defense game where every run becomes a new build. Place turrets, choose traits, draw upgrade cards, use special tiles, and evolve your defense to survive endless waves of enemies, elites, and bosses.
Why similar: Tower Defense 34.4%, Base Building 24.1%, Strategy 16%, Building 11.4%, Tactical 6.1%
- #50 Here Comes The Swarm
67% matchVery Positive86% of 380 reviews2026
Dev: CableHook Games
Windows
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 22.4% ★, Base Building 17.5%, Tower Defense 16.9%, City Builder 11.6%, Survival 10.3%
- #51 Aldmark Calls for Aid
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio Miley
Windows
A medieval kingdom-defence strategy game: find allies and light the beacons to call them to your aid. Explore the map by placing signal fires and choose which troops will answer the call.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 34.5% ★, Strategy 15.3%, Base Building 15.1%, Tower Defense 14.1%, Resource Management 12.4%
- #52 Site61
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tapehead Games
Windows
Site61 is a side-view tower defense game where you build defenses with towers of different shapes, then change how they work through wired module combos. Control a drone, fight alongside your defenses, repel endless monster waves, and adapt to shifting spatial rules and unknown anomalies.
Why similar: Tower Defense 28.8%, Base Building 24.2%, Building 14.6%, Resource Management 11.1%, Strategy 10%
- #53 BARRICADEZ
69% matchVery Positive80% of 144 reviews2021
Dev: Fly Penguin inc.
Windows · Mac
Barricadez is a mix of tower defense and survival game. Take on your care robot and explore the underground, find new blueprints, gather resources and build your defenses and traps to survive through the night against a myriad of zombie-like creatures. Your goal: to defend the defenseless cradle.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 21.5% ★, Tower Defense 20%, Base Building 17.1%, Building 10.5%, Resource Management 9%
- #54 Magic defense
70% match8 user reviews25% of 8 reviews2021
Dev: Phoenixxx Games
Windows
Welcome to the single-player strategy game made in the style of Tower Defense. You will plunge into the magical Middle Ages to build a powerful defense to protect the bag of gold from the raids made by greedy trolls and other magical characters
Why similar: Tower Defense 29.8%, Strategy 16.7%, Base Building 15.7%, Survival 12.9%, Building 11.1%
- #55 Kingdom Two Crowns
68% matchVery Positive90% of 39,881 reviews2018
Dev: Fury StudiosPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 27.1%, Base Building 16.9%, City Builder 16.6%, Building 11.9%, Survival 9.1%
- #56 No Rest Below
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 绿豆沙
Windows
Manage an abandoned underground shelter, assign survivors, balance scarce resources, and prepare defenses against four escalating waves. Your sacrifices shape the ending—and victory unlocks an Endless Cycle with Anomaly Contracts and persistent talents.
Why similar: Base Building 29.2%, Tower Defense 19.7%, Building 15%, Strategy 14.7%, Survival 14%
- #57 The Wild Age
69% matchMixed65% of 295 reviews2020
Dev: McMagic Productions
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 61%
The Wild Age is a micromanagement strategy game with tower defense gameplay mechanics. The game is designed mainly for a peaceful and relaxed gaming experience that offers a break from the busy realities of life.
Why similar: Base Building 23.4%, Tower Defense 23.1%, Survival 14.1%, Building 11.1%, Strategy 10.7%
- #58 The Anchored Hour
65% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Hourwisp Studio
Windows
Defend a displaced royal keep in a roguelite tower-defense strategy game. Build, scout, gather resources, and send units down the path to destroy enemy towers, outposts, and bases across unstable timelines as each run escalates.
Why similar: Tower Defense 31.7%, Base Building 23.1%, Strategy 16.1%, Resource Management 13.7%, Tactical 7.4%
- #59 Horizon 1990
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: S.C. 16 BIT NIGHTS S.R.L.
Windows
Gather exotic resources, build defenses, research new technologies, and explore the mysteries of the void, all while being chased by the darkness from the end of time.
Why similar: Tower Defense 24.3%, Base Building 23.9%, Survival 17.3%, Strategy 15.1%, Building 9.1%
- #60 New Cycle
65% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,884 reviews2024
Dev: Core EngagePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 21.4% ★, Base Building 17.1%, City Builder 17.1%, Building 12.2%, Survival 11.1%