- #1 Thronefall
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 22,563 reviews2024
Dev: GrizzlyGamesPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A minimalist game about building and defending your little kingdom.
Why similar: Tower Defense 44.7%, City Builder 29.9%, Strategy 11.3%, Minimalist 10.5%, Fantasy 2.5%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist tower defense game that strips away complexity to focus on pure tactical positioning and base defense.
- #2 Isle of Arrows
97% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,065 reviews2022
Dev: Gridpop
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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 49%, City Builder 18.7%, Minimalist 12.2%, Strategy 11.7%, Choices Matter 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly mirrors the blend of tower defense, board-game mechanics, and dice-based randomness found in Luckitown.
- #3 Dice Legacy
96% matchMixed68% of 1,050 reviews2021
Dev: DESTINYbit
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Dice Legacy is a dice-based survival city builder set on a mysterious ringworld. Your ship has reached the shore of an uncharted continent. Roll and use your dice to gather resources, expand and defend your settlement, survive the winter and interact with the strange inhabitants of this eerie world.
Why similar: City Builder 54.9%, Resource Management 25.4%, Strategy 17%, Indie 2.7%
Why You'll Like It: It features a unique city-building experience where dice are used as your primary resource for managing your population and structures.
- #4 Dicey Dungeons
95% matchVery Positive89% of 11,511 reviews2019
Dev: Terry Cavanagh
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Become a giant walking dice, explore dungeons and defy Lady Luck in this dice powered roguelike! Now featuring "Reunion", a free DLC with six brand-new episodes!
Why similar: Strategy 43.8%, Cartoon 43.6%, Indie 8.7%, Singleplayer 3.9%
Why You'll Like It: This roguelike shares the charming cartoon aesthetic and central dice-rolling combat mechanics that define the Luckitown experience.
- #5 Stacklands
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 29,013 reviews2022
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Stacklands is a village builder where you stack cards to collect food, build structures, and fight creatures. 🃏 For example, dragging a Villager card on top of a Berry Bush card will spawn Berry cards which the villagers can eat to survive. 🃏 Play your cards right and expand your village!
Why similar: City Builder 56.7%, Strategy 18.7%, Simulation 13%, 2D 5.5%, Fantasy 2.3%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, card-based city builder that shares the same satisfying, bite-sized resource management loop.
- #6 Cardboard Town
94% matchVery Positive81% of 2,136 reviews2023
Dev: Stratera GamesPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Cardboard Town is a city-building card game. Manage your resources, obtain upgrades, draw your cards and thrive! Random events, quest cards, and game modes make each run different.
Why similar: City Builder 32%, Turn-Based Strategy 21.5%, Resource Management 20.1%, Simulation 10.2%, Strategy 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: This city builder incorporates card-based mechanics to influence your town's growth, echoing the strategic decision-making in Luckitown.
- #7 Dicefolk
93% matchVery Positive90% of 990 reviews2024
Dev: LEAP Game StudiosPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Wield magical dice and build a team of powerful Chimeras to stop a mysterious evil in this tactical roguelite adventure. As a Chimera Summoner, recruit and create your perfect team of mythical beasts and command them to victory using unique dice mechanics.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 58.5%, Strategy 23.5%, Fantasy 8.8%, 2D 6.9%, Singleplayer 2.3%
Why You'll Like It: This title centers on turn-based combat where dice rolls dictate your tactical options, offering a similar strategic depth.
- #8 Hexguardian
92% matchMostly Positive80% of 685 reviews2024
Dev: Split Second GamesPub: Yogscast Games
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 48.9%, City Builder 25.3%, Strategy 12.6%, Resource Management 6.3%, Fantasy 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: This roguelite tower defense game uses hexagonal grids and strategic placement to create a challenging defensive experience.
- #9 Dice Kingdoms
91% matchVery Positive84% of 672 reviews2024
Dev: Fivemid Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Compete against friends in games filled with unpredictable twists and turns. Roll the dice to gather resources and test your adaptability. Lead your kingdom to success through military power, religious knowledge, or architectural ingenuity.
Why similar: City Builder 49%, Turn-Based Strategy 32.9%, Strategy 14.7%, Minimalist 2.3%, Indie 0.9%
Why You'll Like It: A competitive city-builder where dice rolls determine your economic and military outcomes, emphasizing luck and strategy.
- #10 Rogue Tower
91% matchVery Positive82% of 5,842 reviews2022
Dev: Die of Death Games
Windows
Median: 10.7 hrsMean: 20.2 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 72.7%, Strategy 15.9%, Minimalist 8.5%, Fantasy 2.2%, Singleplayer 0.7%
Why You'll Like It: A classic tower defense experience with procedural generation that provides the same replayability found in roguelike strategy games.
- #11 Circadian Dice
90% matchVery Positive95% of 594 reviews2022
Dev: Shuffle Up Games
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Circadian Dice is a game inspired by single-player deck-building games, but instead of upgrading a deck, you build up a set of dice! Use 10 different heroes and 60 game-warping relics to take on 13 hand-crafted scenarios, in runs that take 10-30 minutes. Lots of secrets and unlocks to discover!
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 32.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 30.2%, Strategy 26.2%, Fantasy 5.4%, 2D 3.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses heavily on dice-based combat and tactical planning within a roguelike structure.
- #12 Lucky Mayor
89% matchMostly Positive78% of 102 reviews2023
Dev: MadGoat Game Studio
Windows · Mac
This is a Rogue Deck-building game where you play as a mayor, recruit various citizens to earn coins, meet their needs, and submit enough coins by the deadline to complete challenges.
Why similar: Strategy 53.6%, Cartoon 18.9%, Simulation 17.6%, 2D 5%, Indie 3.5%
Why You'll Like It: A luck-based city management game that captures the whimsical and unpredictable nature of Luckitown.
- #13 ValeGuard
89% 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 46.9%, City Builder 33.2%, Strategy 12.1%, Fantasy 4.4%, Indie 2.3%
Why You'll Like It: A turn-based tower defense game that emphasizes base-building and strategic defense against waves of enemies.
- #14 Block Tower TD
88% matchVery Positive82% of 76 reviews2023
Dev: MyDreamForever
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 39.5%, City Builder 31.3%, Strategy 11.4%, Minimalist 9.6%, Fantasy 4.7%
Why You'll Like It: A tower defense game that incorporates roguelike elements and grid-based building for a strategic challenge.
- #15 clickyland
86% matchVery Positive85% of 605 reviews2024
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 65%
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 49.4%, City Builder 29.5%, Strategy 20.3%, Singleplayer 0.8%
Why You'll Like It: A tower defense game that incorporates city-building elements and a unique visual style.
- #16 Mob Factory
86% matchMostly Positive72% of 474 reviews2023
Dev: LiterallyEveryone Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Mob factory is an tower defense and automation game for the lazy adventurer. Smelt down enemy loot into turrets & factories to automate an ever expanding dungeon from the comfort of your tower.
Why similar: Tower Defense 46.2%, Resource Management 24.7%, Simulation 13.1%, Strategy 9.4%, Fantasy 4.2%
Why You'll Like It: A unique blend of automation and tower defense that requires careful resource management and base layout planning.
- #17 Gnomes
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,634 reviews2025
Dev: DYSTOPIAN
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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 55.3%, City Builder 32.9%, Strategy 10.8%, Singleplayer 1%
Why You'll Like It: A procedural tower defense game that emphasizes farming and base-building to survive against waves of enemies.
- #18 LuckLand
85% matchVery Positive95% of 456 reviews2023
Dev: e-Jade
Windows
LuckLand is a strategy casual game that combines elements such as card building and Roguelike. To achieve ultimate victory, all you need to do is rotate the chessboard. This game does not include any real world currency gambling or micro trading.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 36.1%, Strategy 18.8%, Simulation 17.2%, Choices Matter 8.9%, Fantasy 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: This roguelite focuses on luck-based mechanics and strategic planning to overcome increasingly difficult challenges.
- #19 Dice & Fold
82% matchVery Positive84% of 3,657 reviews2024
Dev: Tinymice EntertainmentPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A turn-based dungeon crawler where your only way of attacking the enemy is by rolling dice. Roll dice to damage enemy cards to FOLD. Inspired by classic Solitaire, in a top-down table and enemies made out of cards, try to beat the dungeon with 35 unique classes. Build your deck, kill monsters.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 50.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 26.7%, Strategy 22.8%
Why You'll Like It: A roguelike that uses dice as the primary tool for combat and interaction, mirroring the core loop of Luckitown.
- #20 Dorfromantik
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 29,027 reviews2022
Dev: Toukana Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Dorfromantik is a peaceful building strategy and puzzle game where you create a beautiful and ever-growing village landscape by placing tiles. Explore a variety of colorful biomes, discover and unlock new tiles and complete quests to fill your world with life!
Why similar: City Builder 27%, Turn-Based Strategy 20.3%, Resource Management 16.5%, Minimalist 8.9%, Strategy 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: While more relaxed, its minimalist tile-based city-building mechanics offer a similar satisfying loop of expansion and planning.
- #21 Fantasy Town Regional Manager
84% matchVery Positive80% of 91 reviews2021
Dev: Caps Collective
Windows · Mac · Linux
Run a fantasy town for adventurers. Save it from monsters. Save it from itself. Watch it crumble to dust. Do it all again.
Why similar: City Builder 42.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 31.5%, Strategy 11.3%, Simulation 6.8%, Fantasy 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: A city-builder with roguelite elements that requires strategic management of town resources and development.
- #22 Legacy of Defense
81% matchMostly Positive78% of 407 reviews2025
Dev: Enter the Game Studios
Windows
Become the hero who protects the fantasy world and stop the monster invasion! 'Legacy of Defense' combines defense with deck-building. Build your deck, use powerful skills, gain experience, upgrade, clear stages, and defeat the final boss. Ready to test your strategy and luck?
Why similar: Tower Defense 60.8%, Strategy 14.5%, Simulation 13.2%, Fantasy 5.2%, 2D 3.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game blends tower defense with deckbuilding mechanics, requiring careful planning and strategic card usage.
- #23 Ezaron Defense
83% matchVery Positive81% of 105 reviews2021
Dev: RVL Games
Windows
A classic 3D Tower Defense fantasy game, made by a very small and dedicated team.
Why similar: Tower Defense 61.2%, City Builder 18.4%, Strategy 16.1%, Fantasy 3.6%, Singleplayer 0.7%
Why You'll Like It: A straightforward tower defense game that provides a classic strategic experience for fans of the genre.
- #24 Transport Legion
80% matchVery Positive88% of 89 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 40.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 27.5%, Strategy 20%, Resource Management 8.8%, 2D 3.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game combines card-based strategy with tower defense elements to create a unique tactical experience.
- #25 Tower Wizard
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 7,855 reviews2025
Dev: Barribob
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Help a wizard build and upgrade a wizard tower in this incremental game! Use the tower to study magic, summon spirits, create buildings, and influence the world.
Why similar: Resource Management 46%, Strategy 22%, Simulation 11.7%, Fantasy 10.7%, 2D 6.9%
- #26 Wildfrost
79% matchVery Positive83% of 8,624 reviews2023
Dev: Deadpan GamesPub: Chucklefish
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 45%, Turn-Based Tactics 26.5%, Strategy 18.1%, Fantasy 8.2%, Singleplayer 2.2%
Why You'll Like It: A card-based strategy game that utilizes dice and luck-based mechanics to determine the outcome of battles.
- #27 Super Auto Pets
79% matchVery Positive90% of 35,668 reviews2021
Dev: Team Wood Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Build the strongest team of pets and tussle with your friends!
Why similar: Strategy 62.2%, Minimalist 24.9%, 2D 12.9%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist strategy game that relies on auto-battling and team composition, appealing to fans of Luckitown's strategic depth.
- #28 Islets Defense
78% matchVery Positive95% of 167 reviews2025
Dev: MiniGoofPub: Nuntius Games
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 29.4%, City Builder 22.8%, Resource Management 15.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.1%, Strategy 8%
- #29 Demon Castle Story
77% matchMostly Positive78% of 142 reviews2026
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Demon Castle Building Dungeon Management Simulation
Why similar: Tower Defense 36%, City Builder 26.3%, Simulation 16.7%, Strategy 15.4%, 2D 2.6%
- #30 Luck be a Landlord
76% matchVery Positive93% of 11,345 reviews2023
Dev: TrampolineTales
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Luck be a Landlord is a roguelike deckbuilder about using a slot machine to earn rent money and defeat capitalism. This game does not contain any real-world currency gambling or microtransactions.
Why similar: Resource Management 39.7%, Strategy 27%, Simulation 23.7%, 2D 5.2%, Indie 2.7%
- #31 Dwarf Tower
81% matchMostly Positive71% of 281 reviews2014
Dev: iosoftware
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Dwarf Tower is a turn-based tactics game of tower building and spellcasting. Each turn you develop your tower by placing blocks, constructing rooms, and play various spells. Your tower can have Libraries (store spells), Crystals (generate mana), Dwarf Dwellings (give you dwarves to repair the tower) and some other rooms.
Why similar: Strategy 33.9%, Tower Defense 32.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 27.4%, Indie 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: A classic indie tower defense game that focuses on building and defending a base with limited resources.
- #32 Mythic Battlegrounds: Demonic Siege
77% matchMostly Positive76% of 80 reviews2025
Dev: DochiGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
A turn-based strategy game where your tactical decisions are key to surviving relentless waves of enemy attacks. While battles unfold automatically, your choices before the clash, such as resource management, unit training, and skill selection, are critical to securing victory.
Why similar: Tower Defense 30.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 23.9%, Resource Management 18.2%, Strategy 12%, Fantasy 5.1%
- #33 BoardLand
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 919 reviews2024
Dev: High FishPub: Jungle Game Lab
Windows
BoardLand is a turn-based strategy board game where you use the numbers rolled by dice to grow your own board and battle monsters.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 47.9%, Strategy 25%, Turn-Based Tactics 19.1%, Fantasy 4.4%, Choices Matter 3.2%
- #34 Emberward
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,607 reviews2024
Dev: Refic Games
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 25.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Build twisting mazes with tetromino blocks and deploy unique towers in this strategic roguelite tower defense adventure!
Why similar: Tower Defense 60.4%, Resource Management 16.2%, Strategy 15.8%, Fantasy 4.1%, Indie 2.4%
- #35 Kingdom's Deck
76% matchMostly Positive76% of 453 reviews2025
Dev: Ivan AcoPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Build by day, defend by night! Kingdom's Deck is a card-based city builder where you build and protect your Kingdom from the enemy siege. Build your deck, deploy your cards wisely, defend your walls, manage your resources, and respond to various events that will shape your Kingdom!
Why similar: Tower Defense 25.8%, City Builder 25.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.7%, Resource Management 12.6%, Simulation 7.6%
- #36 Nordhold
74% matchVery Positive88% of 3,019 reviews2025
Dev: StunForgePub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 33.9%, City Builder 22.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.1%, Resource Management 9.8%, Strategy 9.2%
- #37 Tower Tactics: Liberation
75% matchVery Positive88% of 1,229 reviews2023
Dev: asraworks
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 17.2 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 66.9%, Strategy 13.6%, Minimalist 12.1%, 2D 4.5%, Indie 1.6%
- #38 Super Fantasy Kingdom
72% matchVery Positive88% of 5,123 reviews2025
Dev: Super Fantasy GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Rebuild your kingdom and explore a vibrant fantasy world in this roguelite city builder. Defeat hordes of monsters with a unique team of defenders as you harvest, build, mine, cook, brew, and grow. But if your defenses should fail, be prepared to watch it all burn!
Why similar: Tower Defense 60.6%, Strategy 18.7%, Fantasy 9.3%, 2D 6.4%, Indie 3.2%
- #39 DICEOMANCER
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 5,441 reviews2024
Dev: 超厚皮猪猪 Ultra Piggy StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
DICEOMANCER is a roguelike deck-building game. Though you long for a peaceful life, you're forced to embark on an adventure. In this world of swords, magic, and guns, make good use of your dice and deck to find a way back to tranquility! What can the dice be used for? To change... anything.
Why similar: Strategy 89.6%, Indie 6.4%, Singleplayer 4%
- #40 Kingdom Two Crowns
73% matchVery Positive90% of 37,612 reviews2018
Dev: Stumpy🐙SquidPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.
Why similar: Tower Defense 42.3%, City Builder 27.1%, Minimalist 10.4%, Strategy 7.8%, Simulation 7.6%
- #41 Dice People
72% matchVery Positive92% of 571 reviews2025
Dev: Mateusk2m
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 2.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Dice People is an incremental game about rolling dice, creating a mass of units, smashing enemies, and gathering resources to get upgrades in a big skilltree.
Why similar: Strategy 52.1%, Minimalist 33.3%, 2D 14.6%
- #42 Incredicer
70% matchVery Positive86% of 2,070 reviews2025
Dev: pochi
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Incredicer is a short, incremental dice game where you roll dice, earn money, upgrade and buy helper hands to automate and increase your income.
Why similar: Resource Management 46.9%, Strategy 23.6%, Simulation 19.9%, Indie 4.7%, 2D 4.1%
- #43 Civitatem
73% matchMixed63% of 133 reviews2022
Dev: LW Games
Windows
Civitatem is a medieval city builder where you help your villagers raise a new settlement in dangerous lands by making use of their skills and available world resources.
Why similar: City Builder 42.6%, Resource Management 17.8%, Strategy 17.3%, Simulation 16.2%, Indie 3%
- #44 RLLL: Tower of Choices
69% matchVery Positive80% of 65 reviews2026
Dev: Team5D
Windows
RLLL: Tower of Choices blends party-based RPG, deck-building, and roguelite elements. Roll dice to move, make choices that matter, and build your perfect party through class advancement and companion recruitment. Discover powerful synergies between artifacts and skills with each new run.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 49.1%, Strategy 26%, Fantasy 12.7%, 2D 7.2%, Choices Matter 5.1%
- #45 Refence
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 140 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 66%, Strategy 16.5%, Fantasy 7.6%, 2D 6.1%, Indie 2.4%
- #46 Lairchitect
73% matchMixed61% of 61 reviews2020
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Lairchitect is a reverse dungeon crawler! Build your own lair and protect your precious soul core from heroes that try to raid your dungeon. Distracting heroes and using the right minions to defeat them is key in winning the game.
Why similar: Tower Defense 38.7%, Strategy 25%, Simulation 16.1%, Resource Management 11.1%, Fantasy 4%
- #47 These Doomed Isles
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 221 reviews2024
Dev: Triplevision Games LimitedPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Harvest cards to raise land from the sea, build settlements and rain fire upon invaders in this survival city-builder with roguelike deckbuilding mechanics. Choose from 4 gods with unique cards, playstyles and abilities to lead their civilisations to victory in strategic run-based gameplay!
Why similar: Tower Defense 25.6%, City Builder 21.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.6%, Resource Management 12.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.5%
- #48 Crafting Town
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 55 reviews2022
Dev: Musa GUNGOR
Windows
Crafting Town Is : A Crafting game with Simulation&Building where you can Craft and Develop your Village, Source Management and Quests.
Why similar: Resource Management 49.4%, Simulation 27.7%, Strategy 14.5%, 2D 4.9%, Indie 2.1%
- #49 Town Keeper
68% matchVery Positive96% of 53 reviews2024
Dev: Cuddle Code
Windows · Mac
Build a rabbit town while defending it from the fluffy empire's invasions.
Why similar: City Builder 54.6%, Strategy 18.8%, Resource Management 18.1%, Fantasy 6%, 2D 2.5%
- #50 Dice 'n Goblins
67% matchVery Positive94% of 65 reviews2025
Dev: Tsukumogami Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
Dice 'n Goblins is a turn-based RPG that blends luck and strategy as you battle using dice rolls. Master your skills, chain powerful combos, and overcome the whims of fortune.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 86.5%, Fantasy 11.3%, Singleplayer 2.2%
- #51 Ratropolis
67% matchVery Positive88% of 5,484 reviews2020
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
A fusion of roguelite, tower defense, city-building, and deck-building! We created a new kind of real time strategy game filled with addictive and fast-paced gameplay. Create your deck, defend your city, and build the largest Ratropolis in history!
Why similar: Tower Defense 35.6%, City Builder 19.5%, Strategy 14.6%, Simulation 14.3%, 2D 6.7%
- #52 Relic Guardian - Tower Defense
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 914 reviews2025
Dev: Mystrigger
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 79%
"Relic Guardian" is a fantasy style strategy tower defense game. As the builder on the battlefield, summon a variety of defense towers and spells with reliable hero companions to complete this epic and guarding adventure!
Why similar: Tower Defense 55.7%, Strategy 15.7%, Cartoon 12.9%, Fantasy 7.3%, 2D 5.4%
- #53 Tiny Tactics
68% matchVery Positive84% of 658 reviews2022
Dev: Tiny Forge Gaming
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Tiny Tactics is a Tower Defense game with a heavy focus on mazing, with mechanics inspired by the Auto Chess genre.
Why similar: Tower Defense 65.3%, Strategy 18.2%, Fantasy 7.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 5.4%, Indie 2.4%
- #54 Little Kingdom RTS
67% matchVery Positive86% of 65 reviews2025
Dev: MyDreamForeverPub: Andgo Games
Windows
Little Kingdom RTS is an indie real-time strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Gather resources, build settlements, raise walls, and grow your small kingdom. Command an army of knights, archers, and mages to fight off rival kingdoms, orcs, and undead.
Why similar: Tower Defense 47%, Resource Management 23.3%, Strategy 13.1%, Simulation 12.4%, 2D 2.2%
- #55 Desktop Tourney World
68% matchMixed68% of 149 reviews2024
Dev: One leaf Games
Windows
Desktop Tourney World is a simulation construction, immortal cultivation survival game, you need to collect food, construct buildings, build equipment, and fight with all kinds of monsters.
Why similar: City Builder 30.2%, Simulation 28.6%, Strategy 25.7%, Resource Management 10.4%, 2D 3.3%
- #56 Luck & Loot
65% matchVery Positive91% of 184 reviews2025
Dev: SMARTcreativePub: GrabTheGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Luck & Loot is a dice-building roguelike where you’ll craft and customize powerful dice, collect game-changing relics, and battle corrupted foes in brutal, turn-based combat across procedurally generated dungeons. Victory is earned in this unforgiving fight for survival.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 43.8%, Resource Management 30%, Strategy 18%, 2D 6.6%, Singleplayer 1.5%
- #57 Dungeon Village 2
66% matchVery Positive87% of 653 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Recruit adventurers and monsters to create your own RRG-style town!
Why similar: City Builder 49.3%, Simulation 21.1%, Strategy 19.1%, Fantasy 5.7%, 2D 4.8%
- #58 Loopstructor
66% matchVery Positive84% of 372 reviews2024
Dev: Pone Games
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 56.5%, Strategy 16.1%, Cartoon 11.8%, Minimalist 8.1%, 2D 3.4%