Games Like Heart Of Machine

Tower Defense with resource- and base management! Waves of enemy robots with special abilities, shield and armor! Mining, refining and production for building and repairing! Environmental hazards and the best: the Orbital strike!

Why similar: Tower Defense 25.8%, Base Building 12.1%, Robots 9.7%, Strategy 9.4%, Real Time Tactics 8.3%

Defend the clearance shelf. When the lights go out, the seasonal war begins. Lead your unsold Easter stock against waves of full-price enemies — before morning reveals the secret.

Why similar: Tower Defense 32%, Strategy 17.1%, Real Time Tactics 13.5%, Base Building 11.1%, Building 9%

Find the best combinations of projectiles and components to create the ultimate weapon. Mutate and upgrade your components to create stronger weapons. Fight wave after wave of monsters to reach the top.

Why similar: Tower Defense 33.9%, Strategy 18.5%, Roguelite 14%, Sci-fi 6.5%, Futuristic 5.7%

In Radical Tower Defense, harness shifting core chips to forge a unique steel defense. Each choice reshapes your combat style. Unlock architectures, explore chip synergies, ignite tactical reactions. Don’t just defend—become a blade to break formations, strike the heartland, crush the enemy lair!

Why similar: Tower Defense 35.2%, Real Time Tactics 18.2%, Base Building 17.3%, Strategy 15.8%, Resource Management 7%

An incremental idle tower defense roguelite spanning 10 maps and 2 planets. Build defenses and production buildings to gather resources. Buy stat upgrades, upgrade equipment and unlock new buildings and turrets. Trade resources and employ mercenaries to maximize profit.

Why similar: Tower Defense 31.9%, Strategy 17%, Roguelite 15.5%, Base Building 11.9%, Casual 6.4%

'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 32.7%, Roguelite 19%, Base Building 17.3%, Strategy 14.9%, Building 9.9%

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 35.5%, Base Building 17.9%, Building 13.4%, Strategy 9.7%, Top-Down 7.5%

Defend your Core in an endless tower defense where every decision matters. Build too slow and you’re overrun. Build too fast and chaos breaks your defenses.

Why similar: Tower Defense 30.4%, Roguelite 18%, Strategy 12.8%, Base Building 12.8%, Roguelike 9%

Build, gamble, and most of all survive in this roguelike tower defense where everything is a tile. Use the slot shop to draft towers and physical upgrade tiles to buff your grid. With hundreds of unique synergies, will you hit the jackpot or let the enemies break your base? Play the odds today!

Why similar: Tower Defense 31.2%, Real Time Tactics 18.1%, Base Building 12.6%, Strategy 12.1%, Roguelike 9%

Fort Laboratory is a 2D tower defense game with elements of roguelike gameplay. Players must build bases, weapons, and factories to defend against hordes of enemies. Collect a variety of items and structures to create a unique defense system and protect the core of the base until the attack is over.

Why similar: Tower Defense 31.5%, Base Building 24.4%, Strategy 14.3%, Roguelike 10%, Roguelite 9.7%

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 31.5%, Roguelite 18.7%, Base Building 16.9%, Strategy 14.8%, Resource Management 8.2%

Geometry Defense is a fast-paced geometric shooter where every level brings a new choice. Choose from random upgrade gates, combine powerful abilities, and evolve your strategy as enemies grow stronger. Experience simple controls, endless combinations, and satisfying progression.

Why similar: Tower Defense 30.9%, Real Time Tactics 17.9%, Roguelite 13.6%, Strategy 11.4%, Base Building 10.1%

The core gameplay of Cubic Defender is strategy planning and resource management, with the aim of deploying heroes and defensive towers to eliminate invading enemies.

Why similar: Tower Defense 31.8%, Real Time Tactics 16.8%, Base Building 14.9%, Strategy 13.9%, Roguelite 12.6%

A Roguelike Tower Defense in space with missions to conquer. Can you hold against the spreading alien bosses? Build and upgrade towers against the corruption. Choose your technologies and warpspeed your way to victory.

Why similar: Tower Defense 27.2%, Real Time Tactics 17.1%, Roguelite 12.7%, Strategy 10.6%, Building 10.4%

"Slime Warfare" is a rogue tower defense game with a variety of gameplay and placement.Slimes are weak monsters and always bullied by humans. Players will play the role of the Slime Queen to build structures to defend against adventurers' attacks and strengthen themselves.

Why similar: Tower Defense 22.9%, Real Time Tactics 15.9%, Base Building 14.4%, Roguelite 12.2%, Building 8.8%

Your Dungeon, Built by You [CreateDun]A new kind of roguelike tower defense where you reshape routes with walls.Place allies, collect relics, and complete your build.From path design to combat, the dungeon you create becomes your strategy.

Why similar: Tower Defense 38.7%, Strategy 16.9%, Roguelite 15.3%, Roguelike 10.8%, Building 7.4%

A tower defense game.In the wave after wave of enemy attacks like a tide, constantly configure defense tower ties, player talents, props and equipment, build a powerful defense position, and eliminate the enemy before they fill the map!

Why similar: Tower Defense 29.5%, Base Building 15.2%, Roguelite 13.9%, Building 11.9%, Strategy 10.9%

On an alien world, you must defend yourself in this unique base-building tower-defense game. Build a base by placing blocks, turrets and traps in order to survive the hoards of aliens.

Why similar: Tower Defense 30.4%, Base Building 18.5%, Real Time Tactics 12.2%, Strategy 11.9%, Building 6.6%

| 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 29%, Base Building 13.8%, Real Time Tactics 12.8%, Roguelite 12.3%, Building 9.8%

This is a tower defense building game. The game controls the movement of the protagonist through the arrow keys on the keyboard or the left mouse button, and interacts with characters and objects in the scene through the space bar.

Why similar: Tower Defense 37%, Real Time Tactics 21%, Base Building 17.9%, Strategy 8.6%, Building 6.3%

Build various towers to resist the large number of monsters coming from the wormhole, by extending their walking routes.

Why similar: Tower Defense 32.2%, Real Time Tactics 19.8%, Base Building 17.2%, Building 12.6%, Strategy 11.2%

Form your own genre with skills in different elements, use building rewards to build your own unique maze in randomly generated levels, and fight to survive waves of monsters to win

Why similar: Tower Defense 31.2%, Real Time Tactics 13.6%, Roguelite 12.8%, Base Building 12.2%, Strategy 9.5%

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 35.5%, Base Building 18.3%, Strategy 15.3%, Roguelike 10%, Building 9.1%

Gattai TD is a roguelike, mazing tower defense in which you merge towers and gain ancient wonders to hold back waves of cursed keepsakes.

Why similar: Tower Defense 39.3%, Base Building 16.9%, Strategy 12.3%, Roguelite 8.3%, Roguelike 8%

Defend tiny planets by rotating them under enemy attacks. Build towers, smash meteors, unlock new mechanics, and grow stronger after every defeat. A cozy roguelite tower defense focused on fun, experimentation, and satisfying progression.

Why similar: Tower Defense 39.5%, Roguelite 18.2%, Base Building 15.5%, Strategy 14.7%, Casual 7.9%

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 45.3%, Strategy 12.3%, Base Building 11.5%, Roguelike 11.1%, Roguelite 8.7%

Build and upgrade towers with unique abilities to stop waves of enemies. With the advanced augment system, every 3 rounds you can boost your defenses and create strategies that fit your playstyle.

Why similar: Tower Defense 35.4%, Strategy 19.3%, Building 10.7%, Real Time Tactics 9.6%, Base Building 8.9%

A new charm of traditional tower defense.Hordes of unknown aliens have descended upon Earth. On dynamic scene maps, you need cleverly build defense towers to construct their path of advance, combine with controllable targeting strategies, and stop the aliens' assault.

Why similar: Tower Defense 42.9%, Base Building 16.6%, Strategy 13.3%, Real Time Tactics 12.7%, Sci-fi 8.3%

数以亿计的妖怪遍布整个世界各地。人类需要一个英雄要去弄明白妖怪的来源。去打败妖怪。为人类生存而努力下去。

Why similar: Tower Defense 37.6%, Real Time Tactics 22.3%, Strategy 22.2%, Roguelite 16.3%, Singleplayer 0.9%

Stop an endless hoard of crystal-type enemies, with different attributes, from reaching the portal to earth! You can build your own labyrinths, unlock new turrets, upgrade them, unlock abilities, and also gather permanent bonuses.

Why similar: Tower Defense 30.7%, Roguelite 14.6%, Base Building 14.1%, Strategy 9.8%, Building 8.1%

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 32.9%, Base Building 21.3%, Real Time Tactics 16.2%, Strategy 12.1%, Resource Management 7.8%

Collect resources and establish a defense line before dark And then Facing countless enemies

Why similar: Tower Defense 32%, Real Time Tactics 17.1%, Base Building 14.3%, Strategy 9.9%, Top-Down 6%

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 30.4%, Base Building 18.8%, Roguelite 14%, Building 11.9%, Strategy 9.8%

Build your towers, plan your efforts, watch out for changing paths and strike back against the alien invaders in this challenging tower defense game!

Why similar: Tower Defense 27.8%, Real Time Tactics 16%, Base Building 11.3%, Robots 9.7%, Strategy 8.7%

Create strategies, evolve and defende the castle!

Why similar: Tower Defense 33.8%, Real Time Tactics 18.9%, Strategy 18.3%, Roguelite 16.5%, Top-Down 5%

Layered Loop is a minimalist tower defense game built on stacking & evolution. Towers auto-level to boost damage/production, evolve via devouring key structures for new abilities or stat boosts. Stack towers with full effects retained, unlock global buffs at 5 layers.

Why similar: Tower Defense 29.6%, Real Time Tactics 20.1%, Roguelite 17.6%, Roguelike 9.2%, Strategy 8.3%

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 31.9%, Base Building 19.3%, Roguelite 15.8%, Building 12.7%, Strategy 11.4%

A planetary tower defense where enemies attack across land, air, and space. Build layered defenses, manage resources, and survive an escalating alien invasion.

Why similar: Tower Defense 36%, Real Time Tactics 15.7%, Base Building 15.4%, Strategy 11.3%, Building 5.5%

Hold the line in a neon sci-fi siege. Deploy and upgrade 14 distinct towers, expose every enemy's weakness, and survive 50 escalating waves and relentless boss assaults. Every threat has a counter — find it before your base falls.

Why similar: Tower Defense 43%, Real Time Tactics 22%, Strategy 19.3%, Sci-fi 7%, Top-Down 4.8%

Defend against the ongoing lizard problem in this dynamic tower defense where procedural, level-deforming earthquakes expand the available play area each wave. React to nature's forces and adapt to the changing terrain in order to survive.

Why similar: Tower Defense 29.5%, Real Time Tactics 15.4%, Roguelite 14.7%, Strategy 10.3%, Base Building 9.3%

Build by day. Survive by night. A focused medieval tower defense where every decision is permanent.

Why similar: Tower Defense 33.8%, Base Building 18.1%, Strategy 14.7%, Real Time Tactics 13.7%, Resource Management 7.5%

Rogue Door Defense is a tower defense mazing game with rogue-lite elements. Choose a door, defeat the enemies behind it and claim your unique reward. Build and upgrade different towers. Design your own maze to defend your lives against the attacking waves of monsters and powerful bosses.

Why similar: Tower Defense 30.9%, Strategy 16%, Real Time Tactics 13.6%, Roguelite 12.1%, Roguelike 8.7%

You're the Tower Marshal at the Elderglen kingdom, and you have a terrible job. Your king really likes to send letters to neighbours. Ones that make them offended enough to send armies at your castle. They're already on the way, so get back to work!

Why similar: Tower Defense 31.9%, Roguelite 18%, Base Building 15.4%, Roguelike 10%, Strategy 9.5%

The hungry Gooper swarm threatens intergalactic peace. Stop them! Build towers around planets and take control over their orbits. Spin them with all you’ve attached! Collect new towers, powers and upgrades to beat the onslaught of goopers and save the galaxy in this colorful Tower Defense Roguelite!

Why similar: Tower Defense 31.6%, Real Time Tactics 16.7%, Roguelite 11.2%, Roguelike 10%, Strategy 9.5%

The Runics is a tower defense game with auto chess, Rougelite and incremental flavors. Deploy "Runics" as defenders, best infinite enemies, gathering resources to upgrade your base and gigantic technology tree.

Why similar: Tower Defense 39.8%, Strategy 22.7%, Roguelite 19.2%, Top-Down 8.1%, Combat 5.8%

Defend attacks from enemies from all directions within a limited time. Only by making full use of the differences in each tower and choosing appropriate random rewards can you survive.

Why similar: Tower Defense 26.8%, Real Time Tactics 16.4%, Roguelite 12.5%, Strategy 10.4%, Roguelike 8.9%

《方圆战争》是一款轻度Rouge塔防游戏，在白天发展经济，建造防线。在夜晚面对敌人的进攻。

Why similar: Tower Defense 40.1%, Strategy 15.9%, Base Building 14.1%, Roguelike 12%, Casual 5.9%

Orcdom is a minimalist tower defense game with full freedom in tower placement. Defend your crystal from waves of orcs attacking from all directions. Plan your layout, time your spells, and unlock new strategy modes in this fast-paced tactical challenge!

Why similar: Tower Defense 29.4%, Real Time Tactics 17.5%, Base Building 14.4%, Building 9.5%, Strategy 9.4%

Minos is a maze-building roguelite where you, the fabled Minotaur, must defend your sanctuary from bloodthirsty adventurers. Design and re-design deadly labyrinths, set traps, and turn every brave fool into your next victim.

Why similar: Tower Defense 28.3%, Base Building 17.2%, Real Time Tactics 13.5%, Roguelite 12.7%, Strategy 10.8%

Build and upgrade towers, defend your fortress from the growing onslaught. With each wave, the challenges become more difficult, but a smart strategy and the right decisions will help you endure and prevail!

Why similar: Tower Defense 36%, Strategy 14.9%, Building 14.1%, Real Time Tactics 13.7%, Base Building 12%

Classic Tower Defense meets space exploration. Build turrets on mining platforms, harvest enemies to build more defenses, and mine Dark Energy to travel the stars. As a sentient AI, you must upgrade your tech, scan planets, and find a new home for humanity before Earth fades away.

Why similar: Tower Defense 30.5%, Real Time Tactics 22.4%, Strategy 13.5%, Base Building 13%, Building 5.9%

HEX Defense is a tower-based strategy game set in a hexagonal world where you have to fight enemy forces by combining simple blocks into complex tower patterns.

Why similar: Tower Defense 30.8%, Real Time Tactics 17.3%, Strategy 16.5%, Base Building 11.1%, Robots 7.9%

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 41.8%, Base Building 17.3%, Strategy 12.9%, Real Time Tactics 9.1%, Robots 6.5%

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

Why similar: Tower Defense 45.1%, Real Time Tactics 16.7%, Strategy 13.9%, Base Building 11.5%, Sci-fi 3.2%

0 World TD is a 2d tower defence game with deep combat system, highly adjustable difficulty settings and many more features!

Why similar: Tower Defense 36.4%, Base Building 21.5%, Real Time Tactics 17.6%, Strategy 15.2%, Sci-fi 3.8%

Solder diodes, capacitors and other electronic components to defend your motherboard from waves of evil viruses!

Why similar: Tower Defense 44.3%, Strategy 19.7%, Base Building 15.3%, Real Time Tactics 13.4%, Casual 5%

A space automation game with rogue lite elements. Take the role of a rogue defense drone building up a mining and defense industry in the far reaches of space.

Why similar: Tower Defense 28.5%, Base Building 20.9%, Strategy 18.5%, Roguelite 8.5%, Building 8.3%

Defend your base from all directions in this no-path tower defense. Build, upgrade, and adapt to unpredictable enemy waves, survive unique boss fights and unleash the Quantum Decimator when things get overwhelming.

Why similar: Tower Defense 28.2%, Base Building 18.2%, Real Time Tactics 14.2%, Roguelite 10.8%, Strategy 10.2%

Players resist enemy invasion by building production bases, constructing conveyor belts, upgrading carriers, and strengthening weapons.

Why similar: Tower Defense 34.3%, Strategy 18.8%, Real Time Tactics 17.5%, Base Building 11.6%, Futuristic 5.6%

Race-based tower defense. Build your army, defend your king, and send waves at your rivals. Up to 8-player FFA, 2v2 & 4v4 teams, and singleplayer. Crossplay on Windows, Linux, macOS & Steam Deck.

Why similar: Tower Defense 33.8%, Real Time Tactics 18.5%, Strategy 14.2%, Base Building 13%, Resource Management 6.1%