Games Like Hold the Dawn

The Zombocalypse is upon us. Build up and defend your settlement from the Zombie hordes until help arrives.

Why similar: Tower Defense 25.1%, Zombies 17.6%, Base Building 17.3%, City Builder 13.9%, Strategy 11.5%

Circuit Defense is a grid-based tower defense game. Build power lines, connect functional modules, and energize your turrets to create a high-efficiency network. Master your layout and optimize module synergies to survive the relentless enemy swarm.

Why similar: Base Building 26.4%, Tower Defense 25.1%, Strategy 11.9%, Building 10.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 7%

When Weird Hill begins to fall, a strange school club becomes the town’s last line of defense. Build towers, manage resources, trade with survivors, command unusual heroes, and protect the heart of the town from escalating zombie waves.

Why similar: Tower Defense 26.9%, Zombies 20.8%, Base Building 15.4%, City Builder 13.1%, Strategy 9.2%

"Scrap Bulwark Guide" is a tower defense game blending exploration and RPG mechanics. As a survivor in a post-apocalyptic city, you must recruit others, scavenge building materials from ruins, build street barricades, and fend off nightly zombie hordes to ultimately lead your group to safety.

Why similar: Tower Defense 27.6%, Zombies 22.7%, Base Building 21%, Building 11.6%, Strategy 11%

《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%, Base Building 24.2%, Strategy 17.8%, Building 12.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 5.1%

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 29.5%, Base Building 24.7%, Strategy 11.5%, Building 11%, Zombies 9.5%

YORG.io is a game with an original twist on supply chains and zombies. Your goal is to build a base which survives the night which is when zombies attack. Build and upgrade defensive towers to protect your base and try to survive as long as possible.

Why similar: Tower Defense 41.3%, Zombies 22.8%, Strategy 20.2%, Base Building 15.7%

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 34.8%, Base Building 17.9%, Strategy 15.3%, Building 11.5%, City Builder 10.6%

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 29.7%, Tower Defense 28.7%, City Builder 17.3%, Strategy 13.5%, Building 6.8%

Death Falls is a zombie tower defense game with you on the front line. By day, build towers and fences, scavenge weapons and recruit survivors. By night, fight beside your defenses as the horde closes in. Survive each stop, fix up your RV and drive on.

Why similar: Tower Defense 35.9%, Zombies 20.2%, Base Building 19.9%, Strategy 12.2%, Building 5.4%

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 33.3%, Base Building 28.7%, Strategy 19%, City Builder 15.9%, 3D 2.7%

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 31.6%, Base Building 27.6%, Strategy 18.3%, Building 11%, Top-Down 4.3%

In a near future, the world has been devastated by a virus turning humanity into zombies. You are Iron Corps, the last defense of civilization traveling the world to find resources, help people and find answers. Will you survive long enough?

Why similar: Tower Defense 30.2%, Zombies 28.8%, Strategy 17.7%, Military 11.3%, Simulation 7.9%

Swarm-scale tower defense: up to 40,000 aliens per siege, thousands on screen, physically crushing into your chokepoints. You are expected to fall — every kill banks credits, even in defeat. Grind the war economy, research deadlier guns, mount them on the ruins, and return to hold the line.

Why similar: Tower Defense 33.2%, Base Building 25.3%, Strategy 15.8%, City Builder 10.3%, Military 9.8%

A classic tower defense game. Build 6 unique towers, upgrade them to level 3, and convert them into support towers. Strategically place towers to redirect enemy paths. Defend against Normal, Fast, Tank enemies and a Boss every 10 waves. 5 difficulty levels, full keyboard controls, save & load.

Why similar: Tower Defense 34.5%, Strategy 21.4%, Base Building 20.9%, Military 19.2%, 3D 3.6%

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 27%, Base Building 22.9%, City Builder 16.7%, Strategy 10.1%, Building 9.9%

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 34.8%, Base Building 29.8%, Strategy 14%, Building 13.2%, Simulation 5.9%

If the world of all video games collapses, who wins the battle between them? Protect your video game assets and destroy them.

Why similar: Tower Defense 39.4%, Zombies 30.4%, Strategy 18.1%, Top-Down 5.8%, Tactical 3.7%

Defend your neighborhood from zombies, build archer, sniper, bomber or electric towers, as the case may be. Strategically place your units, enemies have different abilities, such as agility, shield and amount of life. Each enemy eliminated will give you resources to improve your towers.

Why similar: Tower Defense 34.9%, Zombies 23.9%, Strategy 21.5%, Base Building 19.3%, Singleplayer 0.4%

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 35.6%, Base Building 25.5%, Strategy 16.8%, Building 8.5%, Isometric 7%

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 26.3%, Base Building 22.4%, City Builder 17.3%, Building 11.1%, Strategy 10.9%

Rotten Tide is a horizontal 2D tower defense game where players must protect the world from the attacks of all kinds of monsters who are threatening the humans in big cities all around the world.

Why similar: Tower Defense 27.2%, Zombies 23.3%, Base Building 22.3%, Strategy 11.2%, Military 7.5%

A sci-fi low-poly tower defense game. Design your defense against waves of aliens using a wide arsenal of different towers.

Why similar: Tower Defense 31.5%, Base Building 21.8%, Strategy 14.5%, Military 11.2%, Isometric 9.6%

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 24.1%, Base Building 23.7%, City Builder 13.3%, Strategy 10.7%, Building 9.3%

Zomboard is a post-apocalyptic colony sim and base defense game. Start with a few survivors, build your settlement, and fortify defenses to survive overwhelming zombie hordes.

Why similar: Base Building 25.4%, Tower Defense 25.4%, Zombies 19.3%, Strategy 13.2%, Building 7.9%

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 37.7%, Base Building 26.3%, Building 13.3%, Strategy 11.3%, Top-Down 7.2%

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 33.3%, City Builder 15.1%, Strategy 14.9%, Building 12.8%, Base Building 12.2%

The gate is open, but it doesn't go across — it goes below. And something is coming up. As the ruler of a pixel realm, you will command the clash of strategies, dive deep into attack and defense, and experience the purest form of the tower defense world.

Why similar: Base Building 28.9%, Tower Defense 27%, Strategy 19.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.3%

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 33.8%, City Builder 17.3%, Base Building 17%, Strategy 15.5%, Simulation 6.2%

The final part of the Cybernetica trilogy. The action takes place in the center of a small town. Cybernetica is a tower defense game. The player's task is to destroy enemies with the help of buildings before they cross the base. With the help of 7 towers you need to cope with 85 waves of enemies.

Why similar: Tower Defense 33%, Strategy 31.5%, Base Building 28.3%, Top-Down 6.6%, Singleplayer 0.6%

Command your own fortress in FTL-like real-time battles! Crush the enemy fortress with unrelenting bombardment or seize it with carefully executed invasion.

Why similar: Tower Defense 34.8%, Base Building 28.3%, Strategy 27.4%, Simulation 9%, Singleplayer 0.5%

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 30.8%, Base Building 22%, Zombies 14.2%, Strategy 12.4%, Building 11.7%

Top down, action packed, multiplayer, zombie shooter. Build your base with friends and see how long you can survive the endless horde of zombies. Level up with friends, or alone, how you die is up to you.

Why similar: Zombies 24.2%, Base Building 23.7%, Tower Defense 22.2%, Online Co-Op 15%, Isometric 4.9%

Build your fortress and hold the line against a massive goblin horde. Combine archers, artillery, and arcane magic, unlock powerful upgrades, and adapt as your walls crumble. GOBILLIONS is a tower defense game where every breach can become your last stand.

Why similar: Tower Defense 39.5%, Base Building 20.4%, Strategy 18.9%, Isometric 11.4%, Top-Down 5.9%

Your village must survive for 13 days! Gather resources, expand, explore the underground for riches, and train soldiers to defend against hordes of the undead.

Why similar: Tower Defense 30%, Base Building 26.7%, Zombies 19.5%, Strategy 11.9%, Building 8.4%

Defend your base solo or with friends against endless waves of foes using your weapons and turrets. Are you up for the challenge?

Why similar: Tower Defense 32.5%, Base Building 24.6%, Zombies 15%, Strategy 12.8%, Isometric 5.5%

Build by day. Survive by night. Each day, use a limited number of actions to expand your city, manage resources, reinforce defenses, and prepare for what’s coming. Each night, unleash the power of your towers against the ever-growing zombie hordes.

Why similar: Tower Defense 32.6%, Base Building 24.5%, Zombies 21.6%, Strategy 10.1%, Building 7.2%

We Are The Wall is a city-builder / RTS where you lead a hardy dwarf settlement fighting to protect their mountain home. Train armies, gather vital resources, explore the surrounding lands, and defend the Heart of the Mountain at all costs. We Are The Wall!

Why similar: Base Building 30.6%, Tower Defense 19%, City Builder 18.8%, Strategy 14.5%, Simulation 7.7%

Zombie Tower Defense: Join the ongoing war, in an open world, against the undead zombie horde. Choose between multiple powerful heroes all with unique epic gear and skills! With the wide variety of towers you can create your own perfect strategy.

Why similar: Tower Defense 50.5%, Zombies 32.4%, Strategy 11.7%, Top-Down 5.4%

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: Base Building 32.3%, Tower Defense 30.1%, Strategy 20.4%, Zombies 16.6%, Singleplayer 0.6%

Zombies are coming! Build your defenses and expand your settlement to create a safe space for humanity. Use turrets, walls and light towers to keep the darkness safe. Expand your settlement to find abandoned settlements and additional resources.

Why similar: Tower Defense 24.1%, Zombies 19.2%, Base Building 13.9%, City Builder 13.5%, Military 8.6%

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 48%, Base Building 24.9%, Strategy 16.7%, Building 9.9%, Singleplayer 0.4%

They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?

Why similar: Base Building 34%, Zombies 21.4%, Tower Defense 19.6%, Strategy 9.5%, City Builder 8.5%

WPG Ravelin is a single‑player first‑person tower‑defense shooter. Build fortifications, deploy turrets, fight against hordes of enemies and defend your camp.

Why similar: Tower Defense 36.9%, Base Building 24.7%, Building 12.3%, Strategy 11.3%, Military 6.1%

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 36.1%, Strategy 21.1%, Base Building 17.3%, Building 9.5%, Top-Down 6.8%

Deep Base is a world were you place towers to defend against waves of enemies.

Why similar: Tower Defense 32.7%, Military 19.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 16.5%, Strategy 13.1%, Top-Down 6.6%

Build, defend, adapt… or just watch your base burn. Not My Base! is a Tower Defense game where you build up your defenses and fight through various levels. Strengthen your fortifications, choose your upgrades, and craft new strategies to withstand the chaos and havoc unleashed by angry armies.

Why similar: Tower Defense 34.1%, Base Building 26.4%, Strategy 16%, Isometric 7.4%, City Builder 5.5%

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 32.5%, Zombies 22.7%, Strategy 18.4%, Base Building 17.5%, Building 8.7%

After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.

Why similar: Base Building 20.8%, Zombies 19.9%, Tower Defense 14.4%, City Builder 12%, Strategy 8.7%

Your main task in NecroCity is to push back the hordes of monsters and build your fortress! Defend your undead outposts from the persistent forces of the so-called “good”! Take on the role of the young Prince of Undead, trying to prove himself in the world of the Undead Kingdom. 👹

Why similar: Base Building 24.2%, City Builder 18%, Zombies 13.2%, Building 11.2%, Strategy 10.9%

A roguelite tower defense game where you protect your body from invading germs. Draft turret cards, build strong defenses, and supply them with blood to protect your heart. Fight through 10 organs and evolve your immune system between runs.

Why similar: Tower Defense 37.1%, Base Building 17%, Strategy 16.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 15%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.9%

A tower defense game meets top-down shooter. Build a maze of walls and elemental towers by day. Defend yourself by night. Dash, build, and blast your way until dawn. Play solo or in online co-op.

Why similar: Tower Defense 40.2%, Base Building 29.7%, Online Co-Op 15.2%, Strategy 14.5%, Singleplayer 0.4%

A modular tower defense strategy game where you design, build, and upgrade fully customizable towers to survive relentless enemy waves.

Why similar: Tower Defense 37.6%, Base Building 26.4%, Strategy 13.6%, Building 13.3%, Tactical 4.1%

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 32.8%, City Builder 19.8%, Strategy 18.8%, Base Building 15.7%, Building 12.4%

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 40.3%, Base Building 15.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.2%, Strategy 12.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.8%

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 35.4%, City Builder 19%, Strategy 15.1%, Base Building 15%, Building 9.3%

Build a towering 3D fortress and hold the line. Stack floors, raise walls, and place turrets by altitude to survive escalating swarms of ground and flying machines closing on your core — then watch one collapsing tower take everything with it. A lean, neon, code-built base-defense roguelite.

Why similar: Tower Defense 33.3%, Base Building 24.4%, Building 12.1%, Military 10.7%, Simulation 6.8%

Catnip Wars is a 1–4 player co-op tower defense. Play as scrappy Catbots defending your catnip farm from monster waves — build and power turrets, raise walls, harvest resources, man the BFG, revive fallen friends, and climb the tech tree. Play solo or online with friends. Achievements/Leaderboard

Why similar: Tower Defense 33.8%, Base Building 21.8%, Strategy 16.9%, Zombies 14.4%, Building 5.8%