- #1 Rogue Tower
97% matchVery Positive83% of 5,919 reviews2022
Dev: Die of Death Games
Windows
Median: 10.7 hrsMean: 20.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Rogue Tower is a tower defense game with roguelike elements and a continuously expanding path which you can influence. Unlock, build, upgrade, expand, defend.
Why similar: Tower Defense 46.4%, Roguelike 20%, Procedural Generation 14%, Strategy 9.8%, Base Building 4.8%
- #2 Tower Dominion
96% matchVery Positive86% of 5,489 reviews2025
Dev: Parallel 45 Games
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 22.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 36.8%, Roguelike 17.9%, Procedural Generation 16.9%, Base Building 8.4%, Strategy 8.4%
- #3 Crystal Guardians TD
96% matchVery Positive88% of 116 reviews2024
Dev: Green Pine Studios
Windows
Crystal Guardians is a tower defense game with rogue-like elements. Fight of waves and defend the world crystal. Gear up your towers with a powerful combination of items for your strategy. In an ever expanding map, find hidden powers and conquer the enemies.
Why similar: Tower Defense 32.6%, Roguelike 18%, Procedural Generation 16.4%, Voxel 13.3% ★, Strategy 7.7%
- #4 Mineral Defense
95% matchVery Positive90% of 253 reviews2024
Dev: Corestone Games
Windows · Linux
Mineral Defense combines tower defense with roguelite elements and procedural generation. Build paths, unlock upgrades, and unleash powerful synergies to conquer evolving challenges in an ever-expanding world.
Why similar: Tower Defense 34.2%, Roguelike 19.6%, Procedural Generation 18.4%, Strategy 9.1%, Base Building 8.3%
- #5 Crystal Guardians Prologue
94% matchVery Positive94% of 77 reviews2024
Dev: Green Pine Studios
Windows
Crystal Guardians prologue (small slice of the full game) is a tower defense game with rogue-like elements. Fight off waves and defend the base crystal. Gear up your towers with a powerful combination of items for your personal strategy. In a procedural map, find hidden powers and conquer the enemy.
Why similar: Tower Defense 36.1%, Procedural Generation 21.4%, Roguelike 20.7%, Strategy 8.8%, Base Building 7.5%
- #6 Isle of Arrows
94% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,101 reviews2022
Dev: Gridpop
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Isle of Arrows is a Puzzle Tower Defense game in which you build a fortress in the sky. Place towers, expand the isle, and build your own paths. Can you find the perfect spot for each tile to beat the RNG and defend against waves of invaders?
Why similar: Tower Defense 39.9%, Roguelike 22%, Procedural Generation 19.9%, Strategy 9.2%, Top-Down 4.6%
- #7 Block Tower TD
93% matchVery Positive86% of 97 reviews2023
Dev: MyDreamForever
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Block Tower TD is a roguelike tower defense strategy game with interesting innovations. Build a world out of blocks, choose random upgrades to make every run unique.
Why similar: Tower Defense 37.4%, Roguelike 21.5%, Procedural Generation 16.4%, Strategy 10.5%, Base Building 5.8%
- #8 Shapebreaker - Tower Defense Deckbuilder
92% matchVery Positive80% of 65 reviews2023
Dev: Alexander Van den Bulck
Windows
A fusion of tower defense games and roguelike deckbuilders. Use your cards to build towers and to upgrade them in unique ways. Gain rewards to customize your deck, defense and playstyle. Break the shapes before they break you!
Why similar: Tower Defense 42.1%, Procedural Generation 19.8%, Roguelike 19.2%, Strategy 10.4%, Top-Down 5.2%
- #9 Nordhold
91% matchVery Positive87% of 3,330 reviews2025
Dev: StunForgePub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Enemies are coming! Every decision matters: build your city, grow the economy, and prepare for enemy waves. Strengthen your defenses, adapt your strategy, and unleash your hero’s full potential. This unique Tower Defense will test your skills – are you worthy to claim a place at Valhalla?
Why similar: Tower Defense 35%, Roguelike 18.6%, Procedural Generation 12.3%, Strategy 9.2%, Base Building 8.2%
- #10 Aurora Defense
90% matchMixed62% of 100 reviews2025
Dev: Moka Games
Windows
A unique roguelike deckbuilder + base-building tower defense game. Build powerful defenses in the last bastion of light, fend off relentless waves of darkness, and protect the final goddess!
Why similar: Tower Defense 43.5%, Roguelike 31.3%, Base Building 11.9%, Strategy 11.7%, Singleplayer 1.7%
- #11 Everwarder
89% matchVery Positive88% of 84 reviews2025
Dev: qLatePub: indie.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Everwarder is a refreshing take on the tower defense genre, blending roguelite mechanics with a time-based survival concept. Fight against the encroaching darkness and fend off emerging enemies. Collect artifacts, buy upgrades, discover ancient structures, unlock new units and more!
Why similar: Tower Defense 36.7%, Procedural Generation 22%, Roguelike 18.2%, Strategy 9.3%, Building 6.5%
- #12 Tower Factory
89% matchVery Positive89% of 1,247 reviews2024
Dev: Gius Caminiti
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Tower Factory is a tower defense and automation game with roguelite elements. Optimize resource production using conveyor systems while defending against monster waves. Can you find and destroy the enemy tower before it's too late?
Why similar: Tower Defense 29.2%, Roguelike 15.8%, Procedural Generation 15.6%, Action RTS 14.8% ★, Strategy 7.6%
- #13 Rogue Realm: Guardian Grids
88% matchMostly Positive74% of 108 reviews2026
Dev: YogurtGames
Windows
Rogue Realm: Guardian Grids is a medieval fantasy blend of tower defense and roguelike progression. Build defenses on a grid, manage resources, and survive ever-evolving enemies.
Why similar: Tower Defense 58.6%, Strategy 13.2%, Roguelike 11.7%, Base Building 6.7%, Resource Management 4.4%
- #14 Stellar Initiative
86% matchMostly Positive76% of 412 reviews2024
Dev: Five Head Games
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Stellar Initiative is a roguelike tower defense game where you land on the planet and use your orbit ship to deliver buildings and support you with fire. Complete missions, install new upgrades, discover powerful artifacts, and find the best strategy!
Why similar: Tower Defense 41.7%, Roguelike 22.6%, Procedural Generation 15.3%, Strategy 9.7%, Base Building 7.9%
- #15 This Isn't Just Tower Defense
86% matchMixed62% of 126 reviews2025
Dev: Pri Games
Windows
Defend your base with placeable towers that can be upgraded endlessly. Automate your production and make sure there's enough power to keep everything running.
Why similar: Tower Defense 49.5%, Voxel 24.4% ★, Strategy 9.6%, Top-Down 5.2%, Resource Management 5%
- #16 Hexguardian
85% matchMostly Positive80% of 700 reviews2024
Dev: Split Second GamesPub: Yogscast Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Hexguardian is a roguelite, tower defense game where you build your own maps with hexagonal tiles! Build and upgrade towers, recruit armies, learn spells, construct wonders and place hexagonal tiles to create a path to enhance your defenses. With plenty of game modes and talents to unlock!
Why similar: Tower Defense 37.3%, Procedural Generation 23%, Roguelike 21.6%, Strategy 9.4%, 3D 3.4%
- #17 Dead Ground
87% matchMixed61% of 115 reviews2018
Dev: DIG Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 6 minMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 30%
Tower defense reimagined! Dead Ground is a procedurally generated tower defense game with rogue-like elements. Each playthrough will offer randomly generated guns, skills and augments. You'll have to travel, collect scrap, water, manage your inventory and upgrade your base to survive!
Why similar: Tower Defense 75.8%, Strategy 10.5%, Procedural Generation 10.3%, Indie 2.6%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #18 Tower Tactics: Liberation
84% matchVery Positive88% of 1,252 reviews2023
Dev: asraworks
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 16.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
We fused deck-building roguelikes and tower defenses in a way never seen before - deploy your towers, collect valuable trinkets and cast powerful spells to defend yourself against the Salkoth!
Why similar: Tower Defense 43%, Roguelike 22.1%, Procedural Generation 14.3%, Strategy 8.5%, Top-Down 4.9%
- #19 Axom: Conquest
83% matchMostly Positive80% of 54 reviews2026
Dev: Hairy Penguin
Windows
Build and defend your fortress while expanding out in this hold-out tower defense roguelite. Battle across a procedural alien homeworld, fight back corrupted terrain, discover hundreds of structures and upgrades as physics-driven swarms threaten to wipe out humanity.
Why similar: Tower Defense 33.9%, Roguelike 19.3%, Procedural Generation 19%, Base Building 8.7%, Strategy 8.4%
- #20 Digs TD
84% matchMixed69% of 106 reviews2023
Dev: Digs Team
Windows · Mac
Take on the ultimate tower defense challenge in Digs, a roguelike game where you shape the battlefield, mine resources, and strategize against a variety of enemies. Manage your actions, customize your arsenal with upgrade cards, and explore diverse levels. Can you dig in and emerge victorious?
Why similar: Tower Defense 40.3%, Procedural Generation 21.2%, Roguelike 18.4%, Strategy 10.1%, Building 5.5%
- #21 Sushi Cat - Tower Defense
82% matchVery Positive86% of 51 reviews2026
Dev: OverPowered TeamPub: Armor Games Studios
Windows
Battle back waves of rogue sushi in this cute-but-chaotic roguelite tower defense! Build, upgrade, and reshape the battlefield each run.
Why similar: Tower Defense 35.3%, Roguelike 20%, Procedural Generation 16.3%, Strategy 9.5%, Base Building 8.1%
- #22 Tangy TD
80% matchVery Positive90% of 1,510 reviews2026
Dev: Cakez
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Strategic tower defense where you play a witch, place class-based towers, equip them with items that grant powerful abilities, combine them, create unique builds & deal ridiculous amounts of damage! Customize your builds with a deep stat system and giant skill tree!
Why similar: Tower Defense 55.1%, Roguelike 27.8%, Strategy 13.1%, Singleplayer 2.5%, Indie 1.5%
- #23 Refactor
82% matchVery Positive84% of 469 reviews2022
Dev: GAGAPub: LightOn Game
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 36.0 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Refactor is a hard-core tower defense game that combines modular building, route planning, and element composition.
Why similar: Tower Defense 39%, Voxel 18.7% ★, Roguelike 14.3%, Strategy 9%, Building 6.9%
- #24 Towerful Defense: A Rogue TD
81% matchMostly Positive74% of 240 reviews2024
Dev: Mini Fun Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 70%
A roguelike tower defense where you control a single tower to fight against hordes of aliens coming from all directions. Pick your tower, equip up to 4 skills, and choose from a variety of traits and unique effect items to craft powerful builds that lead you to victory.
Why similar: Tower Defense 60.1%, Roguelike 20.3%, Strategy 14.1%, Top-Down 5.6%
- #25 Last Stand: Defense
81% matchVery Positive84% of 130 reviews2025
Dev: ZiiTech Games
Windows · Mac
"Last Stand:Defense" is a tower defense-themed Rogue-like game. Players need to defend against waves of enemies by building bases, matching talents, and performing delicate operations during battles. Remember, every choice you make will affect the final outcome of the battle!
Why similar: Tower Defense 62.9%, Strategy 17.3%, Building 11.5%, 3D 5.6%, Singleplayer 2.7%
- #26 Chrysalis
79% matchVery Positive85% of 120 reviews2024
Dev: Metamorph Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Defend your Chrysalis from growing hordes of monsters in this hybrid game that combines elements of tower defense, survival, and roguelike RPGs. Explore procedurally generated levels, possess and control animals, and grow deadly gardens. How far can you get before the next wave of monsters?
Why similar: Tower Defense 36%, Procedural Generation 21.8%, Roguelike 20.5%, Strategy 7.8%, Base Building 7.6%
- #27 Transport Legion
78% matchVery Positive86% of 99 reviews2025
Dev: 喜人一个
Windows · Linux
A unique roguelike card-based tower defense game. Strategically place cards, manage resource transport, balance production with combat, and craft distinctive decks to claim victory.
Why similar: Tower Defense 56.3%, Strategy 26.7%, Building 6.4%, Management 6%, Resource Management 3.6%
- #28 Axon TD: Uprising - Tower Defense
77% matchVery Positive86% of 790 reviews2024
Dev: Element Studios
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Axon TD lets you expand the map boundaries themselves. A huge arsenal of towers and a wide variety of enemies clash in a battlefield that grows to your whims. Engage in single, cooperative, and roguelite gameplay.
Why similar: Tower Defense 52.1%, Roguelike 24.2%, Strategy 12%, Building 6.2%, 3D 2.4%
- #29 Towerful Defense: Prologue
78% matchVery Positive88% of 75 reviews2024
Dev: Mini Fun Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A tower defense action roguelike where you control a single tower to fight against hordes of aliens coming from all directions. Pick your tower, equip up to 4 skills, and choose from a variety of traits and items to craft powerful builds that lead you to victory.
Why similar: Tower Defense 51.8%, Action RTS 26.1% ★, Strategy 13.5%, Top-Down 6.7%, Singleplayer 1.8%
- #30 Core Defense
79% matchMostly Positive79% of 368 reviews2020
Dev: ehmprahPub: Sonderland
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 62%
A roguelike tower defense game with a dash of deckbuilding. Choose a reward, improve your build, survive the next wave, repeat. Highly replayable, difficult, and addictive. You'll want just one more wave, just one more run!
Why similar: Tower Defense 48.8%, Roguelike 20.6%, Procedural Generation 16.3%, Strategy 8.8%, Top-Down 2.7%
- #31 Emberward
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,818 reviews2024
Dev: Refic Games
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 26.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Build twisting mazes with tetromino blocks and deploy unique towers in this strategic roguelite tower defense adventure!
Why similar: Tower Defense 33.8%, Roguelike 16.1%, Procedural Generation 14.9%, Strategy 8.5%, Base Building 7.9%
- #32 The Territory of Egg
76% matchVery Positive95% of 59 reviews2023
Dev: ZGameStudioPub: Hawthorn Games
Windows
The Territory of Egg is a unique twist on tower defense game. You need to build defense lines with egg warriors to protect the Holy Egg, the core of all eggs. Remember to upgrade your Tech Tree with the resources you've collected and unlock more skills to fight against the evil monsters.
Why similar: Tower Defense 36%, Procedural Generation 20.3%, Roguelike 18%, Strategy 9.1%, Building 5.1%
- #33 City Defense Z
75% matchMostly Positive76% of 322 reviews2025
Dev: Good Mood Games
Windows · Linux
City Defense Z combines base-building and base defense in a roguelite progression loop. Build by day, defend by night, and face a growing zombie threat. Every defeat unlocks permanent upgrades, helping you rebuild smarter and push further each time. See how many days you can last.
Why similar: Tower Defense 36.3%, Roguelike 24.1%, Base Building 9.8%, Strategy 9.4%, Management 6.7%
- #34 Kingdoms vs Zombies
74% matchVery Positive86% of 50 reviews2026
Dev: MyDreamForeverPub: Andgo Games
Windows
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 42%, Strategy 20.3%, Roguelike 18.6%, Base Building 13.4%, Indie 3.4%
- #35 Gods vs Horrors
75% matchMostly Positive77% of 279 reviews2025
Dev: Oriol Cosp Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A drafting roguelike focused on synergies and scaling, with short enjoyable runs. Recruit Gods from different mythologies, buff and upgrade them, arrange them in perfect formation, and fight cosmic Horrors in no-RNG autobattler combat to defend the Earth!
Why similar: Roguelike 43%, Procedural Generation 37.1%, Strategy 18.6%, Singleplayer 1.3%
- #36 Guardians of Holme
76% matchMostly Positive76% of 165 reviews2023
Dev: MossTech StudioPub: indienova
Windows · Mac · Linux
Guardians of Holme is a tower defense game with deckbuilding and roguelite elements. Players must use the terrain to their advantage and formulate defensive tactics by strategically placing powerful traps to repel endless waves of enemies.
Why similar: Tower Defense 68.3%, Strategy 28.2%, Indie 2.2%, Singleplayer 1.3%
- #37 Sporadic Spire
77% matchVery Positive86% of 69 reviews2020
Dev: Contamination Studios
Windows
Defeat hordes of enemies in this aesthetic tower defense game. The random terrain generation provides a beautiful environment and a unique experience every time you play.
Why similar: Tower Defense 44.3%, Voxel 22.7% ★, Strategy 13.1%, Procedural Generation 7%, Top-Down 5.9%
- #38 Gnomes
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 1,808 reviews2025
Dev: DYSTOPIAN
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Gnomes is a turn-based tower defense with deep roguelike progression, set in ever-expanding, procedurally generated biomes. Build, farm and defend your village as you push deeper into goblin-infested territory. Unlock powerful upgrades and craft your environment to survive the endless goblin horde
Why similar: Tower Defense 39.6%, Procedural Generation 23.3%, Roguelike 20.6%, Base Building 7.7%, Strategy 7.4%
- #39 TDS - Tower Defense Strategy
72% matchVery Positive81% of 370 reviews2025
Dev: Blockage
Windows · Mac · Linux
TOWER ▪ DEFENSE ▪ STRATEGY. Control Vessels. Utilize their uniquely deep set of towers. Create an everchanging defense. Play with friends. Protect your Basin at all costs. An absolute Tower Defense, Real-Time Strategy Hybrid
Why similar: Tower Defense 47.1%, Action RTS 23.4% ★, Base Building 7.5%, Building 7.5%, Strategy 5.6%
- #40 Cartridge Defense
73% matchVery Positive92% of 100 reviews2022
Dev: Out Gaming
Windows
Cartridge Defense is a tower defense game with over 300 distinct collectible cards that you will use to create your own decks to defend against robots in the cyberpunk inspired future. Play cards (cartridges) to spawn towers, upgrades, special abilities and more in a campaign or rogue-like mode.
Why similar: Tower Defense 68.1%, Strategy 15.1%, Top-Down 11%, Singleplayer 2.9%, Indie 2.9%
- #41 Siegebreaker
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 98 reviews2024
Dev: Immortal ForgePub: indie.io
Windows
Conquer the realm in this strategic tower defense game. Build unique towers, unlock powerful upgrades, and master new tactics to overpower your enemies and vanquish the fallen gods.
Why similar: Tower Defense 55.8%, Strategy 15.2%, Top-Down 9%, Resource Management 9%, Building 8.5%
- #42 God Of Weapons
70% matchVery Positive84% of 5,225 reviews2023
Dev: Imagine Games
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Embark on a thrilling journey in God of Weapons, an action roguelike where you must ascend the tower of Zhor to reclaim the last light for the world. To survive the monster onslaught on each tower's level, you'll need to obtain and carefully organize weapons and accessories in your inventory.
Why similar: Procedural Generation 86.1%, 3D 8.5%, Singleplayer 5.4%
- #43 Grow Defense
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 610 reviews2021
Dev: SoftCowGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 80.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Upgrade your Castle and Unlock new tiers of Skills and Weapons to Defend vs Monsters and Bosses across VARIOUS ZONES! Find Rare ITEMS dropped from monsters and bosses and upgrade them to their full potential! Defeat RAID Mega-Bosses to find LEGENDARY items!
Why similar: Tower Defense 79.4%, Strategy 13%, Indie 4.5%, 3D 1.8%, Singleplayer 1.4%
- #44 Loopstructor
71% matchVery Positive83% of 383 reviews2024
Dev: Pone Games
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
This is a strategy game that combines tower defense with Roguelike. Unlike traditional tower defense game, the towers in the game are vehicles that move along ‘loops’.You need to create defense loop and build battle trains to defend against enemy attacks.
Why similar: Tower Defense 43.5%, Roguelike 25.7%, Strategy 12.1%, Base Building 8.6%, Top-Down 5.6%
- #45 Treasure's Mine!
69% matchPositive100% of 51 reviews2026
Dev: FatFishGame
Windows
Build defenses on randomly generated archipelagos and fend off waves of pirates! Expand land plots, combine defense towers, and collect treasures to strengthen your islands. Guard your treasures and become the wealthiest lord!
Why similar: Tower Defense 42.9%, Roguelike 20.6%, Procedural Generation 14.3%, Strategy 11.8%, Top-Down 4.2%
- #46 Infinitode 2 - Infinite Tower Defense
69% matchVery Positive91% of 4,215 reviews2021
Dev: Prineside
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 45.8 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Infinitode 2 - a strategy in the Tower Defense genre, in which the player will have to build towers to protect his base from endless waves of enemies. The game features huge maps, lots of towers, resource miners, upgrade tree and map editor.
Why similar: Tower Defense 60.2%, Strategy 15.1%, Building 11.3%, Top-Down 10.6%, Singleplayer 2.9%
- #47 Dungeon of the ENDLESS™
70% matchVery Positive85% of 14,039 reviews2014
Dev: AMPLITUDE Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Dungeon of the ENDLESS™ is a Rogue-Like Dungeon-Defense game, in which the player and their team of heroes must protect the generator of their crashed ship while exploring an ever-expanding dungeon, all while facing waves of monsters and special events as they try to find their way out...
Why similar: Tower Defense 37.6%, Roguelike 30.4%, Procedural Generation 14.4%, Strategy 11.5%, Resource Management 3.2%
- #48 Repel The Rifts
67% matchVery Positive85% of 363 reviews2025
Dev: RefinedBearGamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Linux
Repel the Rifts is a roguelite tower defense game where you lead a commander through an alien world, uncovering new terrain each wave, drafting powerful upgrades, and constructing defenses to hold back the chaos.
Why similar: Tower Defense 54.1%, Roguelike 29.5%, Strategy 9.6%, Resource Management 4.4%, Indie 1.2%
- #49 Role of Hex
70% matchMostly Positive70% of 98 reviews2023
Dev: Verde
Windows
Role of Hex is a real-time strategy game where you defend your hexagonal base from the dangers of the universe. Gather upgrades and unlock special buildings to survive this hostile land as endless waves of enemies approach. But be quick, time is ticking and the waves are getting bigger.
Why similar: Tower Defense 35.8%, Procedural Generation 23.3%, Roguelike 22.1%, Base Building 8.2%, Strategy 6.6%
- #50 Survivor Challenge TD
68% matchMostly Positive80% of 60 reviews2025
Dev: SQRT Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Survivor Challenge TD - is a Tower Defense game where you manage a single tower and add upgrades to it. Buy abilities, enhance upgrades, and defeat the boss!
Why similar: Tower Defense 71.8%, Strategy 16.1%, 3D 6.3%, Indie 3%, Singleplayer 2.8%
- #51 ValeGuard
71% matchMixed68% of 174 reviews2018
Dev: Lost Tower Games
Windows
ValeGuard is an RTS, Town-Management hybrid game that combines Turn-Based City-Building with Real-Time Combat. Each day you construct your defenses, train troops, and prepare for attack. When enemies come in the night, you defend with towers, troops, and heroes with powerful abilities.
Why similar: Tower Defense 33.6%, Roguelike 16%, Voxel 12.3% ★, Base Building 8.7%, Strategy 8.4%
- #52 Firebase Defence
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 63 reviews2019
Dev: Rasmus Agergaard
Windows
Firebase Defence is a new spin on the traditional tower defence gameplay. You have to defend yourself from the waves upon waves of incoming enemies. You are free to build, place and manage your available resources and units in any way you want. But failing to balance those will result in defeat!
Why similar: Tower Defense 52.2%, Strategy 18.3%, Base Building 10.9%, Top-Down 5.3%, Indie 4.3%
- #53 PolyCore Defense
69% matchVery Positive90% of 58 reviews2022
Dev: TorksGame
Windows
PolyCore Defense is a tower defense game where you have to raise your defenses in order to defend your core. Build unique turrets, upgrade them with special effects and use abilities to survive waves of enemies that are trying to destroy your core!
Why similar: Tower Defense 60.6%, Strategy 14.7%, Top-Down 7.8%, Building 4.9%, 3D 4.8%
- #54 Wireworks
65% matchVery Positive90% of 596 reviews2026
Dev: JJJ
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Design your defenses, build your module board, and manage your wires. Combine signals and create synergies to empower your weapons and survive in this base-defense roguelike auto-battler.
Why similar: Tower Defense 55.5%, Roguelike 23.8%, Strategy 13.6%, Top-Down 3.6%, Singleplayer 1.7%
- #55 Refence
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 142 reviews2025
Dev: Muurou Tech
Windows · Mac · Linux
Refence is a roguelite based idle defense game, where you can choose heroes and their traits, upgrade your castle, and manage resources to fend off enemies from the Demon Realm who are trying to attack your castle.
Why similar: Tower Defense 48.7%, Roguelike 28.8%, Strategy 12.2%, Management 8%, Singleplayer 1.3%
- #56 Ultimate Protector
68% matchVery Positive89% of 63 reviews2022
Dev: Dongguan Liuli Game Technology Co.,Ltd
Windows
Tired of moving around without purposes? Come and protect the goddess with multiple combination of skills and elements. Discover and upgrade your weapon to super, even hyper! Play this game with a joy from both tower defense and rogue!
Why similar: Tower Defense 84.3%, Strategy 11.4%, Indie 2.9%, Singleplayer 1.4%
- #57 Ghosts Keep Out
65% matchMostly Positive77% of 132 reviews2026
Dev: Only Fun Games
Windows
Defend your base in this Roguelite survival shooter TD! Mix random skills + evolve gems to craft your Build. 5-min fast rounds, intense zombie & ghost hordes. Triple progression: Spirits, guns, heroes. Easy to learn, hard to put down. Low barrier, high ceiling. Every run is fresh!
Why similar: Tower Defense 50.1%, Roguelike 27.9%, Strategy 13.4%, Top-Down 6.3%, Singleplayer 2.3%
- #58 Warlords Under Siege
65% matchMostly Positive78% of 478 reviews2025
Dev: RedKar Devs
Windows
Warlords Under Siege is a mix of RTS and Roguelike genre, where you build a small city and defend it against continuous waves of enemies. Improve your assortment of weapons with each playthrough, unlocking new possibilities to beat the ever-increasing threat.
Why similar: Action RTS 36.1% ★, Roguelike 23.5%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 9.5%, Strategy 9.4%
- #59 Galaxy Defense War
63% matchVery Positive97% of 145 reviews2025
Dev: Zero Space
Windows
'Galaxy Defense War' is a roguelike tower defense game where you need to select suitable galactic principles from randomly dropped heroes and equipment to form a combat-ready team to resist alien invaders.
Why similar: Tower Defense 57%, Strategy 20.3%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 7.2%, Singleplayer 1.6%