- #1 Rise of the Cones: Planetary Defense
97% matchPositive83% of 41 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 26.4%, RTS 20.6%, Base Building 17.6%, Sci-fi 9.2%, Strategy 7.9%
- #2 TechGuardian: Territory Defense
96% matchMixed66% of 29 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: Tower Defense 21.6%, RTS 21.6%, Base Building 12.8%, Futuristic 9.8%, Sci-fi 8.9%
- #3 Stellar Infestation
96% match7 user reviews86% of 7 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 26.6%, RTS 21.3%, Base Building 13.4%, Strategy 10.7%, Sci-fi 10.6%
- #4 Taur
95% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,108 reviews2020
Dev: Echo Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 6.9 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 34.3%, Base Building 16.3%, RTS 14.5%, Strategy 7.9%, Sci-fi 7.3%
- #5 Automatrons - Tower Defense
94% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: Cold Mass Digital Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Join our machine legion to conquer the world.
Why similar: Tower Defense 21.5%, RTS 19.5%, Wargame 14.2%, Futuristic 11.3%, War 9.4%
- #6 Void TD
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: kalopsys
Windows · Linux
Build powerful defenses, collect loot, combine effects, and survive evolving waves from the void in a tower defense game driven by ARPG-inspired buildcrafting and persistent progression.
Why similar: RTS 21.9%, Tower Defense 20.9%, Wargame 14.8%, War 10.5%, Futuristic 10%
- #7 The Extinction Directive
93% 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 26.1%, Tower Defense 24%, Wargame 16.1%, Strategy 10.2%, Futuristic 9.1%
- #8 IDUN Prologue - Frontline Survival
92% matchVery Positive88% of 86 reviews2025
Dev: IDUN InteractivePub: Surefire.Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 21.5%, RTS 17.2%, Wargame 13.8%, Base Building 12.4%, Sci-fi 8.7%
- #9 Zero Boundary Line
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 枕头人
Windows
This indie sci-fi TD has easy controls. Play as a futuristic commander defending humanity from mutants across diverse maps. Beat levels to unlock units: defenders, melee fighters, crowd controllers. Buy unique shop units, mix ability units for powerful custom defense lines.
Why similar: RTS 29.9%, Tower Defense 27.1%, Strategy 12%, Futuristic 10.4%, Casual 7.6%
- #10 IDUN - Frontline Survival
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 718 reviews2025
Dev: IDUN InteractivePub: Surefire.Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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: Tower Defense 17.4%, Wargame 17.4%, RTS 17%, Base Building 12.8%, Space 9.1%
- #11 Von Neumann Project
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: TimesIllusionGames
Windows
Von Neumann Project is about a self replicating probe as it charts the galaxies, peacefully of course. Mine, build, expand, and explore in this sci-fi RTS. Remember to have as little impact on your surroundings as possible and protect yourself at all costs.
Why similar: Tower Defense 33.1%, RTS 29.6%, Base Building 14.9%, Space 8.4%, Strategy 6.8%
- #12 Space Tower Defense
88% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: KKDM
Windows
A strategic space tower-defense game. Enemies detect, warn, and try to bypass defenses, forcing you to adapt. Combine diverse towers and face unique maps for varied battles. With tense sci-fi atmosphere, it delivers a fresh experience beyond traditional tower defense.
Why similar: RTS 25.5%, Tower Defense 24.2%, Space 11.5%, War 10.9%, Wargame 8%
- #13 Element
89% matchMixed68% of 50 reviews2018
Dev: Flightless
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Element is a realtime strategy space game for people who don't have time to play realtime strategy space games. Generate energy, mine element, build attack and defence units, and destroy the enemy while maintaining a balance between earth, air and water.
Why similar: RTS 22.2%, Base Building 12.8%, Wargame 12.6%, Space 11.4%, War 11%
- #14 Protolife
87% matchVery Positive86% of 470 reviews2018
Dev: Volcanic Giraffe
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 7.9 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 29.2%, RTS 28.2%, Base Building 21%, Sci-fi 10.1%, Strategy 6.8%
- #15 Celestial Sentinel
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 野象游戏工作室 Elephas Game Studio
Windows
This is Xhono overwatch space station. Enemy forces are attacking. All kinds of turrets, space station supports and plugins at your disposal. Please use your resources wisely, build your defense, face against all kinds of enemies, and explore the unknown secrets of Xhono.
Why similar: RTS 26.8%, Tower Defense 24.6%, Strategy 10.1%, Space 9.4%, Futuristic 7.5%
- #16 Hyperwar
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Andreas Steinhorst
Windows
Hyperwar is an RTS game with many classic elements such as base building, research, unit production and resource gathering, but it also contains new approaches and ideas. Paired with modern graphics and a freely moving camera, this game is a completely new experience in the genre.
Why similar: RTS 26.9%, Wargame 20%, Base Building 15.2%, Futuristic 11.8%, Strategy 7.1%
- #17 Atahion - Tower Defense
85% 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 32.3%, RTS 29%, Base Building 20.2%, Sci-fi 10.1%, Strategy 7.5%
- #18 Molten Armor
84% matchMixed62% of 61 reviews2017
Dev: Brutal Muse
Windows
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 24.1%, RTS 22.9%, Wargame 15.4%, Futuristic 10.4%, War 8.4%
- #19 Wonder Defense: Chapter Earth
84% matchMixed69% of 13 reviews2021
Dev: Arif AkcaPub: aaalmost
Windows · Mac
Wonder Defense: Chapter Earth is a strategy game based on Earth and Aliens in which you act as a General to accomplish survive and move to Mars.
Why similar: RTS 20.5%, Tower Defense 19.7%, Base Building 16.8%, Wargame 13.9%, Futuristic 9.7%
- #20 银河战争一(Galactic Wars One)
83% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: hidden dragon独游
Windows
A tower defense strategy science fiction game, in the future era, when aliens invade the solar system, players need to build various turrets to resist alien attacks and guard the Milky Way and solar system.
Why similar: Tower Defense 34.9%, Strategy 11.3%, Space 10.3%, War 9.6%, Base Building 8.9%
- #21 JKRobots
82% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: JKRobots
Windows
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 36.9%, Tower Defense 30.5%, Base Building 17.1%, Strategy 13.2%, Singleplayer 2.3%
- #22 Cosmic Robots
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Aniode Pub: Aniode
Windows · Mac
Defend your planet from waves of robot invaders! Build powerful turrets, upgrade your defenses, and command robot units to fight drones, tanks, and massive bosses. Then send your own forces to attack the enemy planet in this action-packed sci-fi tower defense game.
Why similar: Tower Defense 27.9%, RTS 24%, Base Building 10.1%, Space 9.6%, Sci-fi 8.9%
- #23 Defense Builder
81% matchMostly Positive70% of 47 reviews2025
Dev: Aries
Windows
Defense Builder is a sci-fi tower defense game. Players can build various defense towers to resist enemy attacks. There are as many as 36 types of available units, and it features a highly free economic system and defense system.
Why similar: Tower Defense 32.3%, Wargame 19.6%, War 16.8%, Strategy 13.4%, Sci-fi 12.8%
- #24 WarOS
81% matchPositive81% of 46 reviews2025
Dev: The7 Studio
Windows
Step into the world of galactic combat in "WarOS", a Chinese sci-fi game! It creates its own structure, integrating the core gameplay of RTS with the details, plot and growth system of RPG, simplifying complex micro-manipulation, and making the game experience both fun and exhilarating.
Why similar: RTS 21.1%, Wargame 15.5%, Base Building 14.8%, Space 11.1%, War 10.3%
- #25 2089 - Space Divided
80% matchPositive83% of 40 reviews2024
Dev: CoastGames GmbH
Windows
2089 - Space Divided is a classic science fiction real-time strategy game in which you collect resources, build up your base, train troops and destroy your opponents with tactical skill.
Why similar: Tower Defense 18.2%, RTS 18.1%, Wargame 14.5%, Base Building 12.7%, War 9.1%
- #26 Fleet Craft
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Aries
Windows
"Fleet Craft" is a real-time strategy game with a science fiction theme. Players can build land fleets composed of large tanks, robots and other units. You can customize the weapons on the unit to achieve different functions.
Why similar: RTS 35.8%, Wargame 17%, Strategy 14.8%, Sci-fi 14%, War 11.1%
- #27 Within the Range
79% matchMixed56% of 242 reviews2021
Dev: Aries
Windows
This game is no longer updated, do not buy!! RTS with physical details. Formulate strategies based on terrain and unit characteristics
Why similar: RTS 33.5%, Wargame 27%, War 11.7%, Strategy 11%, Sci-fi 10.5%
- #28 Zeta Leporis RTS
78% matchPositive86% of 22 reviews2024
Dev: Jason Gieske
Windows
A sci-fi real-time strategy game. An existential war among asteroids in classic RTS style. Build and defend, produce and upgrade, attack and annihilate!
Why similar: RTS 25.7%, Space 15%, Base Building 14.6%, War 11.8%, Sci-fi 9%
- #29 World Order
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TGR Studios
Windows
World order is revolutionary sci-fi real-time strategy, the main feature of which are modular units
Why similar: RTS 25.7%, Wargame 19.3%, Futuristic 10.9%, War 10.1%, Space 9.8%
- #30 Soil
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nuclear Fallow
Windows
Soil is a slow-paced space RTS game where you mine resources, build ships and fight your enemies. Campaign features persistent fleet, research, and optional mission objectives that can affect rest of the missions.
Why similar: RTS 35.7%, Space 16.2%, Strategy 14.8%, War 13.2%, Sci-fi 12.7%
- #31 Thukothea Defender
77% 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 42%, RTS 17.1%, Base Building 12.3%, Strategy 9.6%, War 7%
- #32 Industrial Annihilation
76% matchMostly Negative30% of 448 reviews2024
Dev: Galactic Annihilation
Windows
The next major game in the Planetary Annihilation universe, Industrial Annihilation combines the iconic real-time strategy of the beloved Annihilation games with deep factory-building to deliver a blend of genres unlike any you’ve experienced before.
Why similar: RTS 30.7%, Wargame 20.5%, Base Building 12.4%, Futuristic 12.3%, Strategy 11.1%
- #33 ShellMobile: Titan Rampart
73% matchVery Positive98% of 206 reviews2025
Dev: 红景天娱乐
Windows
On the cosmic frontier, humanity has fought alien species for a century. As traditional defenses fall to new-gen alien mechs, tech giant ShellMobile—human-centered at its core—kindles new hope via breakthroughs in extraterrestrial titanium ore research.
Why similar: Wargame 23.3%, RTS 23.2%, Base Building 19.1%, Strategy 8.2%, Sci-fi 7.6%
- #34 Save and Conquer : 8 Years
75% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2022
Dev: Moglax Studios
Windows
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 34.6%, RTS 30.5%, Wargame 15.8%, Strategy 7.4%, War 5.6%
- #35 Project VTS
74% 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 36.8%, Base Building 21.3%, Futuristic 14.2%, Sci-fi 8.1%, War 7.7%
- #36 Sector War
73% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Neki4 Electronics
Windows
Embark on an epic space strategy adventure!
Why similar: Tower Defense 33.1%, Wargame 22.2%, Strategy 13.5%, Futuristic 11.2%, Space 9%
- #37 Service Equals Survival
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Leave No Trace Studios
Windows
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 33.9%, RTS 30.1%, War 15.5%, Wargame 11.6%, Strategy 7.6%
- #38 Phantom Signal — Sci-Fi Strategy Game
74% matchVery Positive85% of 156 reviews2018
Dev: Veslo Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Phantom Signal is a real-time sci-fi strategy game with unusual mechanics. Explore mysterious star systems and reveal the secret of the phantom signal.
Why similar: Tower Defense 33.1%, Space 19.4%, Strategy 15.1%, RTS 13.3%, Sci-fi 12.3%
- #39 Close the Sky
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Iron Trident Games
Windows
A real-time war of air defence and industry. Build the economy, bury it, and layer SAMs over what you cannot hide. Read a fading intel picture of the enemy base and aim every missile yourself. Break their will to fight before they break yours.
Why similar: RTS 27.4%, Tower Defense 23%, Wargame 16.9%, Base Building 15.8%, War 9.7%
- #40 Ad Astra: Sci-Fi Tower Defense
72% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Azure Moon Games Ltd.
Windows
Lose yourself in an indie solo-dev. treasure that harkens back to arcade classics! All while thumping along to killer retro-inspired beats by Ovani sound. Embark on an epic tower defense adventure against awe-inspiring machine monstrosities, made by a devoted gamer for devoted gamers.
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.9%, RTS 26.3%, Base Building 18.9%, Sci-fi 9.7%, Futuristic 7.3%
- #41 CARNAGE OFFERING Tower Defense
71% matchVery Positive91% of 347 reviews2023
Dev: FuturtechPub: Nova's Army
Windows
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 46.6%, RTS 42.2%, Strategy 11.2%
- #42 Galaxy Commanders
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MagmaByte
Windows
ASSEMBLE AND COMMAND YOUR SPACE FLEET TO VICTORY
Why similar: RTS 26.1%, Space 17.8%, Tower Defense 10.9%, War 9.8%, Strategy 9.2%
- #43 Total Tower Engine
71% 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 35%, RTS 32.6%, Base Building 21.5%, Strategy 7.4%, 3D 2.8%
- #44 clickyland
69% matchVery Positive85% of 650 reviews2024
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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 35.2%, Base Building 25.1%, RTS 20%, Strategy 13.5%, 3D 4.8%
- #45 Halo Wars: Definitive Edition
70% matchVery Positive91% of 9,507 reviews2017
Dev: Ensemble StudiosPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Halo Wars: Definitive Edition is an enhanced version of the real-time strategy classic, Halo Wars, updated to run natively on PC. Halo Wars: Definitive Edition includes improved graphics, new achievements and all of the DLC created for the landmark real-time strategy game.
Why similar: RTS 42.2%, Base Building 24.6%, War 11.5%, Strategy 11.1%, Sci-fi 8.4%
- #46 Mine Defender
70% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Rust Power
Windows
Fight with AI-controlled drones, explore the mine and extract resources, upgrade your base and plan your defense. Protect your mine
Why similar: Tower Defense 31%, Base Building 22.3%, Wargame 18.9%, Strategy 12.8%, Futuristic 10.3%
- #47 A Byte War
68% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2026
Dev: STELLAR
Windows · Linux
A Byte War is a real time strategy game where you lead a race of block-based machines against a machine threat from another dimension. Construct buildings from blocks arranged in various patterns and leverage your machines to convert the world around you.
Why similar: RTS 24.1%, Base Building 17.5%, Wargame 15.4%, Tower Defense 8.6%, Sci-fi 8.5%
- #48 Creeper World 4
69% matchVery Positive95% of 4,716 reviews2020
Dev: Knuckle Cracker
Windows
Median: 12.3 hrsMean: 30.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
The unstoppable fluid enemy has returned and destroyed every world in its path! Defend against Creeper as it floods across the 3D terrain in this real time strategy game where the enemy is a fluid.
Why similar: Tower Defense 22.7%, RTS 20.6%, Wargame 16.6%, Space 12.1%, War 11.5%
- #49 Stickman World Battle
69% match8 user reviews13% of 8 reviews2024
Dev: Sergey MezhakovPub: Sergey Mezhakov
Windows
Stickman World Battle - new exciting and thrilling real-time strategy with famous stickman heroes!
Why similar: Tower Defense 28.7%, RTS 27.1%, Wargame 19.3%, Strategy 12.1%, War 8.6%
- #50 TowerDefenceDesigner
70% matchNo user reviews2024
Dev: 蓝色章鱼
Windows
A self-built level tower defense game where you compete with friends and online players to see whose creativity is more popular. You control the game content, design the difficulty level, come create your own tower defense game!
Why similar: Tower Defense 22.9%, RTS 17.9%, Base Building 17.3%, Space 12.5%, War 11.9%
- #51 Mechanocide: Fortress Omega
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Parsons Goldman Jones and Co
Windows
On a forgotten world, confront a malevolent machine intelligence. Extract minerals, build factories, power up the railguns, and arm the missile batteries. Defend the Fortress Omega against the alloyed nightmare.
Why similar: Tower Defense 29.8%, Base Building 25%, Wargame 12.4%, RTS 9.8%, Strategy 6.8%
- #52 Warpips
67% matchVery Positive87% of 5,177 reviews2022
Dev: Skirmish Mode GamesPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 65%
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 26.6%, RTS 26.4%, War 14.4%, Base Building 12%, Wargame 10.8%
- #53 Holdline: Last Gate
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Out of Spite Games
Windows
Holdline: Last Gate is a third-person tower-defense survival game. Harvest resources, craft and place towers, and hold the gate across a chain of diverse alien maps as the wave fights you on every front at once.
Why similar: Tower Defense 36.5%, Base Building 25%, Strategy 10.6%, Sci-fi 8.6%, Futuristic 5.7%
- #54 Astro Industry Wars
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Abundant Pine Games
Windows
Astro Industry Wars is a lighthearted, futuristic real time strategy game with base building, economic production chains, colorful worlds, and lots of vehicles.
Why similar: RTS 35.7%, Base Building 25.5%, Futuristic 16%, Sci-fi 10.3%, Strategy 5.5%
- #55 Electromaze Tower Defense
68% matchMostly Positive71% of 42 reviews2018
Dev: Baronnerie Games
Windows
Electromaze Defense is a classic tower defense game where you create your own maze. With a wide variety of maps, towers and upgrades, Electromaze Defense will keep you hooked for hours on end! Can you build the perfect maze?
Why similar: Tower Defense 29%, Base Building 21.6%, Space 12.3%, Futuristic 11.3%, Sci-fi 9.1%
- #56 Our War: The Strongest Shield
66% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Chengdu Old Man
Windows
A grand and intense tower defense science fiction game, where you only need to purchase once to enjoy all the content of the game.
Why similar: RTS 26%, Tower Defense 25.2%, Wargame 18.5%, War 8.7%, Strategy 7.4%
- #57 Pawar
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: A.Ready.Gaming
Windows
Rougelike, Rougelike, or Rougelike, please, have some different rougelike. Tower defense, rougelike, fusion, enhancement, upgrade, and quality improvement, providing a different gaming experience. Come and give it a try~
Why similar: Tower Defense 29.5%, RTS 25.4%, Wargame 16.2%, Futuristic 7.9%, Strategy 7.6%