60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Action, Singleplayer, Tower Defense, Strategy.
Gather resources, fortify your village, recruit your warband, and defend against waves of monsters. With the clock ticking, every decision counts – strategize quickly and act swiftly to ensure the survival of your village. Play solo or team up with a friend in local co-op mode.
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Help Frank travel through history in this unique approach to the tower defense genre. Enter a bizarre daydream world in co-op or solo mode. Gather resources, build defense towers, and manage your minions. Take up the challenge and defeat the incoming enemies!
Haamupeli: Wrath of the Iku-Turso
Haamupeli: Wrath of the Iku-Turso is a fantasy-themed action RPG adventure game about vanquishing an ancient threat. Recruit allies, find powerful items, develop your character and interact with the game world and its inhabitants to archieve your goals.
Help Frank travel through history in this unique approach to the tower defense genre. Enter a bizarre daydream world in co-op or solo mode. Gather resources, build defense towers, and manage your minions. Take up the challenge and defeat the incoming enemies!
Why similar: Split Screen 28.3% ★, Tower Defense 24.2%, Local Co-Op 16.7%, Hack and Slash 12.3%, Co-op 11.7%
Haamupeli: Wrath of the Iku-Turso is a fantasy-themed action RPG adventure game about vanquishing an ancient threat. Recruit allies, find powerful items, develop your character and interact with the game world and its inhabitants to archieve your goals.
Why similar: Split Screen 20% ★, Hack and Slash 16.3%, Local Co-Op 14.1%, Action RPG 13.3%, Top-Down 8.3%
Legendary Hoplite: Arachne’s Trial is a combination of Tower Defense and Action RPG. Upgrade your army, get the best gear, and craft unique strategies across 10 levels. Face Arachne, and seamlessly transfer progress to the main game.
Why similar: Action RTS 26.8% ★, Tower Defense 22%, Hack and Slash 15.5%, Action RPG 12.9%, RPG 6.8%
Legendary Hoplite: Ajax's Trial is the prologue version of Legendary Hoplite, a game that combines Tower Defense and Action RPG genres. In this game, you'll need to build fortifications, upgrade your army, and create your own unique strategy to fight off hordes of monsters across 7 levels.
Why similar: Action RTS 26.5% ★, Tower Defense 22.6%, Hack and Slash 15.8%, Action RPG 13.2%, RPG 6.5%
Do you have what it takes to survive the Realms of Ancient War?Take control of a fearsome Warrior, a powerful Wizard or a Rogue, and plunge into a grand quest full of action!Key Features:The explosive Hack’n’Slash (action/role-playing game) R.A.
Why similar: Hack and Slash 24.6%, Local Co-Op 19.3%, RPG 16.2%, Action RPG 12.9%, Co-op 10.3%
DARKSIDERS: GENESIS gives players their first look at the world of DARKSIDERS before the events of the original game. Furthermore, it introduces the fourth and last horseman STRIFE, as well as Co-op gameplay for the first time in the history of the franchise.
Why similar: Local Co-Op 24.4%, Hack and Slash 22.8%, Co-op 19.5%, Split Screen 8.7% ★, Action RPG 7.5%
Tower Defense meets magical action. Fire cat cannons. Build, repair, and upgrade your defenses. Master multiple mage classes. Mage Fort puts the focus on co-op action with a heavy defensive theme!
Why similar: Tower Defense 36.7%, Local Co-Op 30.5%, Co-op 13.4%, Action 5.6%, Strategy 5.4%
Amidst the Wokou raids along the southeast coast of China during the Ming Dynasty (1552–1565), lead your troops, fortify your line, and repel the brutal invaders in this heroic tower defense game. Defend the common people and secure the shore!
Why similar: Action RTS 48% ★, Tower Defense 27%, Strategy 11.4%, Top-Down 10.1%, Combat 3.2%
Master legendary heroes in intense top-down combat while commanding strategic tower defenses. Control your champion directly, build and upgrade persistent towers that provide covering fire, then face powerful bosses and massive hordes. Use magic to empower your strategy and turn the tide of battle.
Why similar: Action RTS 28.8% ★, Tower Defense 20.9%, Hack and Slash 14.9%, Action RPG 12.3%, Top-Down 9%
Jungle Resistance is an isometric Tower Defense game with Kingdom Rush Upgrade Style, with branching Tower Types. This will give a new Vibe and Mechanic to the Tower Defense game.
Why similar: Action RTS 40.9% ★, Tower Defense 29%, Strategy 13.7%, Top-Down 11%, Fantasy 4.9%
The King's dimensional orb has malfunctioned, bringing hordes of monsters into the Kingdom. Defend your safeground against the monsters by gathering resources, building defenses, upgrading your arsenal, and surviving long enough to find the source of monsters and destroy it.
Why similar: Split Screen 24.5% ★, Tower Defense 19.8%, Hack and Slash 15.6%, Local Co-Op 13.5%, Co-op 13.4%
Take on wild beasts, ruthless soldiers, and ancient gods in this 2D Action-Platformer inspired by Tower-Defense combat.
Why similar: Tower Defense 33.1%, Local Co-Op 21.6%, Co-op 12.6%, Split Screen 12% ★, Strategy 8.1%
Hold the line or everything falls. Wavecrashers is a 3-player co-op strategy game where heroes defend against relentless waves of enemies. Build powerful synergies, push your limits, and survive the chaos. Play solo with bots or team up with friends. Every run is a fight to endure the storm.
Why similar: Action RTS 27.3% ★, Tower Defense 24.8%, Co-op 15.1%, Action RPG 10.1%, Strategy 6.5%
Action tower defense with physics & couch co-op: carry your turrets, hurl objects, and survive swarm attacks.
Why similar: Split Screen 24.2% ★, Tower Defense 21.5%, Local Co-Op 19%, Hack and Slash 11.1%, Top-Down 9.2%
A COMMUNITY CREATED Hack'n Slash RPG where players can team up and tackle exciting adventures made by other community members in our in-game Adventure Construction Kit - It's DIABLO meets LITTLE BIG PLANET!
Why similar: Hack and Slash 21.7%, Local Co-Op 18.5%, Split Screen 16.9% ★, Co-op 16.9%, RPG 11.5%
Zofia is a first person RPG. Branded as a heretic and an outcast, you manage to escape the northern empire and take up work as a Seeker. Make your character with a light character creator. Utilize surface-based magic, grapplehooks, and a variety of weapons to stop a corruption called the blight.
Why similar: Split Screen 26.9% ★, Local Co-Op 15%, Co-op 11.4%, Hack and Slash 10.9%, Action RPG 9.7%
Join the Calorie Defenders, brave veggies defending inside the body against the Candy Army using tower defense combat and Metroidvania-style exploration. Strategically place defenses to defeat enemies and unlock new powers. For fans of action defense games like Orcs Must Die and Dungeon Defenders.
Why similar: Split Screen 23.6% ★, Tower Defense 22.6%, Local Co-Op 16.4%, Co-op 13.9%, Co-op Campaign 7.5% ★
This is a roguelike tower defense action strategy game where you must protect Unity-chan as she is forced to march toward “initialization.” Players use weapons and skills to fend off the hordes targeting Unity-chan as she charges forward on her own.
Why similar: Action RTS 39.4% ★, Tower Defense 34.4%, Strategy 12.8%, Top-Down 8.7%, 3D 2.4%
Pixel Defender is a 2D tower defense game with retro pixel aesthetics and direct character control.
Why similar: Action RTS 40.8% ★, Tower Defense 31.1%, Strategy 14.5%, RPG 4.3%, Fantasy 3.8%
Domain Defense focuses on what makes Tower Defense Great! Unique towers, distinct enemies, and up to four players in versus or cooperative modes.
Why similar: Tower Defense 27.5%, Split Screen 26.4% ★, Local Co-Op 19%, Strategy 14.5%, Co-op 12.7%
Built from our imagination for my six-year-old daughter, this bootstrapped solo-dev project — Olivia’s World: Crystal Keep — is a story-driven tower defense RPG. Build spires, survive escalating waves, fight in real-time, and uncover a hidden mystery.
Why similar: Action RTS 35.4% ★, Tower Defense 24.6%, Action RPG 12.4%, Top-Down 8.6%, Strategy 6.8%
The top of strategy battle game! Build villages and train units to defeat ghouls
Why similar: Action RTS 38.8% ★, Tower Defense 27.5%, RPG 13%, Top-Down 10.5%, Action 5.8%
The roads are under siege. Command a knight, wizard, and druid to stop waves of monsters in this fantasy strategy defense game. Save gold between missions, plan your defenses carefully, and survive 8 escalating levels where enemies grow stronger and attack from multiple paths.
Why similar: Action RTS 51.2% ★, Tower Defense 29.1%, Strategy 12%, Fantasy 5.5%, 3D 1.8%
Fast-paced isometric action game with melee, firearms, and puzzles. Battle alone or in local co-op, collect relics, and blast your way through a cursed dungeon.
Why similar: Hack and Slash 20%, Local Co-Op 17.8%, Action RPG 16.6%, Co-op 12.5%, Top-Down 10.1%
A survival RTS game where you defend your village against relentless waves of Norse mythological creatures. Build defenses, train warriors, and gather resources to survive as long as possible. If your Town Hall falls, it's game over. How long will you last?
Why similar: Action RTS 41% ★, Tower Defense 25.9%, Top-Down 9.4%, Strategy 7.7%, Mythology 5.5%
A lighthearted tower defense game where everyday people fight back against hustle culture. Place and upgrade offbeat heroes like pillow-throwing grannies and wheelchair slingshot kids to stop workers zombified by an energy drink corp. Use philosophy and paint to remind humanity how to enjoy life.
Why similar: Action RTS 46.2% ★, Tower Defense 38.5%, Strategy 14.8%, Singleplayer 0.4%
When you cut ties to the past, new bonds form. Build relationships with other Yarnys in local co-op or as a single player, fostering friendship and support as you journey together.
Why similar: Split Screen 32.3% ★, Co-op 30.6%, Local Co-Op 30%, Multiplayer 3.5%, Action 1.9%
Hero Siege is a fast paced Pixel Art ARPG featuring an expansive roster of unique classes, deep build experimentation, and a player driven economy.
Why similar: Hack and Slash 23.4%, Action RPG 19.3%, Local Co-Op 19.2%, Co-op 13.9%, Top-Down 8.9%
What are friends for if not to defend each other from mutant plants that want to hurt you? Build your enemies, destroy your defenses and restore chaos in the garden! ... Wait, it was the other way around.
Why similar: Split Screen 28.6% ★, Local Co-Op 23.6%, Tower Defense 21.6%, Co-op 15.6%, Strategy 5.6%
Assemble your army, build your village, manage your villagers, and survive the night's monster attacks until dawn.
Why similar: Action RTS 48% ★, Tower Defense 29.9%, Strategy 8.3%, Top-Down 4%, Fantasy 3.7%
Skeleton Scramble Deluxe is a fast-paced, head-to-head real-time strategy game. Play as a necromancer, summon an army of relentless skeleton warriors, and frantically build a gauntlet of turrets to hold off your opponent's forces.
Why similar: Action RTS 43% ★, Tower Defense 26.9%, Top-Down 9.6%, Strategy 8.1%, Mythology 7.2%
Operation Sheep Defense is a fast paced tower defense game. Featuring dynamic levels and intelligent enemy behavior. Shape the enemy path or defend maze-like levels. Levels are short and intense.
Why similar: Tower Defense 50.8%, Local Co-Op 25.7%, Strategy 13.3%, Top-Down 9.6%, Singleplayer 0.7%
No lanes. No safe paths. Build fast or fall. Fight and adapt in real time as enemies attack from every direction. Control your hero, place towers on the fly, and shape the battlefield in this intense 1–4 player tower defense.
Why similar: Tower Defense 28.7%, Local Co-Op 15.3%, Hack and Slash 13.9%, Strategy 12.2%, Top-Down 9.3%
You play in a SciFi environment with LowPoly graphics, engaging in Tower Defense. Manage resources! Each round introduces more enemies that you must defeat. Build resource ships in the factory and simultaneously construct towers on the platforms to fend off the adversaries.
Why similar: Action RTS 46.7% ★, Tower Defense 33.2%, Strategy 16.1%, 3D 3.7%, Singleplayer 0.4%
Drink potions while you banish ancient spirits and recover your memories of the night before. In this RPG you'll recruit dysfunctional companions, collect strange ingredients, and concoct wicked brews.
Why similar: Local Co-Op 21.2%, Hack and Slash 19.1%, Action RPG 16.2%, Co-op 12.5%, Co-op Campaign 8.8% ★
Starfall Defenders is a classic tower defense game that features unique towers and enemies. It also has an in-game shop system that allows players to purchase better towers, upgrade existing ones, and buy special items like the Atom Bomb, Splash Bomb, and Air Supply.
Why similar: Action RTS 45.2% ★, Tower Defense 31%, Strategy 12.8%, Top-Down 6.6%, Action 3.9%
Embark on the craziest journey of your life in It Takes Two. Invite a friend to join for free with Friend’s Pass and work together across a huge variety of gleefully disruptive gameplay challenges. Winner of GAME OF THE YEAR at the Game Awards 2021.
Why similar: Split Screen 35.7% ★, Co-op 28.9%, Local Co-Op 25%, Co-op Campaign 4.8% ★, Multiplayer 3.6%
Prevent the invasion of the minions that stimulate the desire for challenge and prove that you are a slayer physically and mentally.
Why similar: Action RTS 41.1% ★, Tower Defense 33.4%, Strategy 11%, Hack and Slash 8.5%, Fantasy 3.3%
Download Friend's Pass* and play It Takes Two with a friend for free. Just grab a friend who owns the full game, download Friend's Pass for free, and play together!
Why similar: Split Screen 35.7% ★, Co-op 28.9%, Local Co-Op 25%, Co-op Campaign 4.8% ★, Multiplayer 3.6%
Develop and expand your town as you fend off eerie creatures from the mist. Choose from a variety of buildings and strategies, make tactical decisions, join defensive battles personally, protect your town and fulfill your ultimate goals.
Why similar: Action RTS 33.8% ★, Tower Defense 28.1%, Hack and Slash 13.8%, Strategy 9.7%, Top-Down 6.7%
Penalty is a 2D open-world fantasy RPG where you create your own story. Become a beggar, a king, a god, or live as a worker, merchant, or farmer in harmony with nature. Shape your path, gain unimaginable power, and explore a world full of freedom and adventure.
Why similar: Local Co-Op 20.1%, Hack and Slash 19.6%, Action RPG 16.1%, Co-op 13.6%, RPG 7.4%
Local co-op tower defense game set in a factory with zombies.
Why similar: Tower Defense 40.2%, Local Co-Op 33.9%, Co-op 10.5%, Top-Down 5.8%, Action 5.2%
It’s a defense game where you create your own strategy, grow your units, and defend against enemies.
Why similar: Action RTS 38.3% ★, Tower Defense 26.9%, Hack and Slash 15.6%, Strategy 8.1%, Fantasy 4.9%
Random Realms Hero Under Siege is a fast-paced single player tower defense RTS where every match is a fresh roll of the dice. Build bases from randomized building options, lead a leveling hero and their army, and hold the line against escalating enemy waves.
Why similar: Tower Defense 29.6%, Action RTS 29.5% ★, Top-Down 13.9%, Strategy 9.2%, RPG 6.8%
The classic Gauntlet 4-player co-op action gameplay returns in a completely new experience! Battle the endless hordes of foes as you and your friends fight for treasure and glory via both local and online co-op multiplayer. Invade the Darkness!
Why similar: Local Co-Op 26.7%, Co-op 25%, Hack and Slash 21.2%, Top-Down 7.4%, RPG 6.5%
An epic action RPG with couch co-op. On their path to revenge Enya and Kyra will throw swords, cast spells, vanquish armies and become heroes.
Why similar: Local Co-Op 23.7%, Hack and Slash 19.6%, Split Screen 17.9% ★, Action RPG 16.1%, RPG 6%
Defend Pine Valley against invading enemy armies! Switch between tactical command and third-person combat as you lead your troops through dynamic battles, changing terrain, and fierce weather.
Why similar: Action RTS 35.4% ★, Hack and Slash 21.6%, Action RPG 18.3%, Strategy 9.5%, Combat 4.8%
Embrace mind-blowing moments as you’re pulled deep into the many worlds of Split Fiction, a boundary-pushing co-op adventure.
Why similar: Split Screen 40.2% ★, Local Co-Op 23%, Co-op 22.4%, Co-op Campaign 6.6% ★, Fantasy 4.2%
A tower defense game filled with 12 varied levels across 7 biomes and 14 unique monsters with 3 increasingly harder difficulties to challenge even the most experienced of tower defense gamers lurking in their strongholds.
Why similar: Action RTS 44.8% ★, Tower Defense 30.5%, Top-Down 10.9%, Strategy 9.4%, Combat 2.2%
Victor Vran is the isometric action-RPG where your skill is just as essential as your character build and gear. Experience intense combat action: dodge, jump and unleash powerful skills to finish off your enemies!
Why similar: Hack and Slash 28.7%, Action RPG 26.7%, Co-op 15.3%, Local Co-Op 11.3%, RPG 9.2%
Tikiman the Forest Defender is in trouble. Hordes of monsters are sweeping through his realm, hoping to chow down on his offspring – and it’s up to you to defend them. By placing weapon towers at strategic points around the landscape, you can destroy the invaders and save the little ones.
Why similar: Tower Defense 59.6%, Local Co-Op 19.5%, Strategy 12.3%, Co-op 8.5%, Singleplayer 0.2%
Painted Kingdoms is a minimalist strategy game where you paint, build, and defend your Kingdom of paper. Harness the power of paint to protect it from relentless flames and enemy hordes. Will your Painted Kingdom survive the next wave?
Why similar: Action RTS 43.7% ★, Tower Defense 25.3%, Hack and Slash 20%, Strategy 8.2%, Top-Down 1.7%
Oko's Quest is an upcoming local multiplayer action RPG featuring both a co-op story and party mode. Set in a fantasy world, different Okos across dimensions have been involuntarily summoned to a mysterious island. Why were they summoned and how will they return home?
Why similar: Split Screen 26.6% ★, Hack and Slash 18.1%, Local Co-Op 17.5%, Action RPG 13.8%, Top-Down 11.2%
FORCED is a challenging 1-4-player game with co-op at its heart! A mix of tactical arcade action, RPG elements and puzzles will forge you and your friends together. As slaves in the toughest gladiator school of them all, you will face a plethora of unique trials - designed to be your death!
Why similar: Local Co-Op 30.2%, Co-op 18.9%, Hack and Slash 16.9%, RPG 8.1%, Action RPG 7.8%
TORINTO is a run ‘n’ gun game with a medieval twist. Blades take the place of bullets as the heroes traverse side-scrolling stages, from forests and fields to castle walls, quelling the heartless fiends that now roam the land.
Why similar: Action RTS 28% ★, Local Co-Op 25.1%, Hack and Slash 17.3%, Co-op 14.2%, Strategy 6.4%
Deathtrap is a Tower Defense game with strong action-RPG elements, a game of vicious tricks, killing machines, rotating blades and splattering blood.
Why similar: Tower Defense 34.3%, Co-op 15.8%, Hack and Slash 12.4%, Action RPG 11.4%, RPG 7.3%
Build bases, lead an army of robots, and squash brains in this radical hybrid between RTS and third-person shooter. Join a duo of quirky heroes on a mission to save Earth, smash an evil alien corporation, and complete their comic book collection.
Why similar: Action RTS 27.3% ★, Split Screen 25.2% ★, Local Co-Op 17.5%, Co-op 12.3%, Co-op Campaign 7.2% ★
A fast-paced mini-RTS where you spread your color across the map, build towns and defenses, forge (and betray) alliances, and battle up to 8 colonies at once. Expand, fortify, and dominate the grid in chaotic territory-control warfare.
Why similar: Action RTS 40.5% ★, Tower Defense 24.7%, Split Screen 23.3% ★, Strategy 5.4%, Action 2.8%
