- #1 Monsters Hate Only the Princess
97% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: H3
Windows
To the monsters, you don’t even exist. Their eyes are fixed only on the Princess. Protect her no matter what! Even when you feel like running away from her yourself.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 17.5%, Bullet Hell 16.7%, Base Building 16%, Tower Defense 15.6%, Survival 10.1%
- #2 Acid Planet
96% matchVery Positive80% of 70 reviews2024
Dev: Adam Travers
Windows
Acid Planet is a caustic blend of horde-survival, tower-defense and strategy. Build, fight and evolve to survive against rampaging swarms of monsters and fearsome Kaiju.
Why similar: Tower Defense 18.4%, Base Building 14.7%, Action Roguelike 12.4%, Bullet Hell 11.2%, Top-Down Shooter 11.2%
- #3 Last Lawn Standing
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gravel Roads Studio
Windows
Use flower pot towers and barricades to shape deadly mazes and killboxes for invading creatures of darkness. Control a lawn gnome, level up endlessly, upgrade gear, craft new builds, protect sacred altars, and survive infinite randomized nights.
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.2%, Action Roguelike 16.8%, Bullet Hell 15.7%, Base Building 14.6%, Roguelite 7.7%
- #4 Gold and Bricks
95% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: kurigamedev
Windows · Linux
Gold and Bricks is a small game that mixes elements of city builder, roguelite, strategy and tower defense. Plan the layout, manage your economy and invest your gold in defensive towers to protect yourself from the hordes of enemies invading your village.
Why similar: Tower Defense 20.2%, Base Building 18%, Bullet Hell 15.5%, Action Roguelike 15.4%, City Builder 6.7%
- #5 Monsters are Coming!
94% matchVery Positive81% of 2,670 reviews2025
Dev: LudogramPub: Raw Fury
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Beware, Monsters are Coming! In this Tower-Survivor rogue-lite, you protect an ever-moving city from unrelenting hordes. Gather resources, fortify defences, and survive for as long as you can. Will you reach the Ark?
Why similar: Tower Defense 16.7%, Base Building 13.7%, Bullet Hell 12.2%, Action Roguelike 11.6%, Survival 9.6%
- #6 Galaxy Critter Co.
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Rat2 Studio
Windows
Galaxy Critter Co. is a cute chaotic roguelike where tower defense meets top-down shooting: build by day, fight by night, and craft broken synergies to survive the Swarm.
Why similar: Tower Defense 21.5%, Top-Down Shooter 16.6%, Action Roguelike 15.9%, Base Building 15.4%, Building 8.4%
- #7 Space Bross
93% matchPositive88% of 32 reviews2026
Dev: Lavega Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your chicken has been kidnapped, and that’s all it takes to send a retired astronaut into full galactic mayhem. Space Bross is a hand-drawn 2.5D tower defense & action roguelite where you’ll build bases, fend off alien hordes, and blast your way across planets to bring your feathery friend back.
Why similar: Tower Defense 15.6%, Base Building 12.7%, Top-Down Shooter 12.7%, Bullet Hell 11.5%, Survival 11.2%
- #8 Dead Pulse
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Aroko Game Studio
Windows
Outnumbered but not out. Build your base, set deadly traps, unleash powerful weapons, and fight through endless waves of the infected in this action roguelike shooter. Every choice matters. How long can you survive?
Why similar: Tower Defense 19%, Top-Down Shooter 14.7%, Bullet Hell 13.9%, Action Roguelike 13.9%, Base Building 13.1%
- #9 ASHER Descent
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sigma Fox Studios
Windows
Go down. Get stronger. Come back alive. Mine the mountain. Defend your shuttle. Adapt or get overrun.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 20.1%, Tower Defense 15.7%, Bullet Hell 15.5%, Survival 13.7%, Top-Down Shooter 9%
- #10 Dark Age Asunder
91% matchPositive81% of 21 reviews2025
Dev: Plutonium Powered
Windows · Linux
Defend against relentless monsters, rebuild your home, and unlock powerful abilities in 'Dark Age Asunder.' Your journey to restore peace begins now—will you rise or fall to the darkness?
Why similar: Base Building 26.9%, Tower Defense 24.2%, Action Roguelike 19.8%, Survival 7.6%, Building 6.7%
- #11 Vampirio
90% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: Cell1 (division of Outfit7 Limited)Pub: Outfit7 Neo Limited
Windows
Vampirio is a day/night roguelike where you build your village by day and defend it by night. Upgrade heroes, and fight monsters, undead, and dragons with run-changing skills as you push through missions and bosses.
Why similar: Tower Defense 25.1%, Bullet Hell 19.5%, Action Roguelike 19.4%, Base Building 16.8%, Roguelike 6.6%
- #12 Bug Bait
89% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Chimera Unchained
Windows · Linux
Defend your base against relentless hordes of bugs in this single-player survival tower defense game. Strategically build and upgrade your defenses, manage vital resources, and adapt to ever-evolving threats. Can you outsmart the infestation and survive the chaos?
Why similar: Tower Defense 32.1%, Survival 15.8%, Resource Management 15.6%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 8.1%
- #13 Halftime Builders
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bigboot Studios
Windows · Linux
Halftime Builders is a game that mixes Tower Defense, Horde Survivor, RTS and Roguelike elements. Pick your defenses, build them up, collect scrap, level up and kill an endless amounts of mobs. Once you die use your hard earned gold to improve your chances and start again!
Why similar: Tower Defense 22.9%, Base Building 19.9%, Action Roguelike 17.1%, Survival 8.6%, Building 7.7%
- #14 The Gate Must Stand
87% matchMostly Positive79% of 174 reviews2026
Dev: Senmu StudioPub: Gamersky Games
Windows
Fend off brutal waves of demonic hordes in this epic fantasy tower defense survivors like! Hack and slash among the action or zoom to strategically control the battlefield. You are the city’s last line of defense, build your base, defend the gate!
Why similar: Tower Defense 19.1%, Bullet Hell 14.6%, Action Roguelike 14.6%, Base Building 14.3%, Roguelite 6.6%
- #15 Hammer Knight
88% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: MiniWeekend
Windows
In Hammer Knight, you'll face an army of machines powered by ancient technology, relying solely on your architectural skills and the engineering hammer in your hands to combat the onslaught of machines.
Why similar: Tower Defense 22%, Base Building 17.4%, Bullet Hell 15.8%, Action Roguelike 15.2%, Resource Management 11.9%
- #16 WarShape
86% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: João Capobianco
Windows
WarShape is a "Top Down Shooter" where you face growing hordes of enemies. As you progress, the weapons and defenses of everyone in the arena evolve, starting from primitive equipment to technological weapons. Build, find weapons, recruit allies and buy upgrades to survive the attacks.
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.9%, Top-Down Shooter 24.2%, Bullet Hell 19.4%, Survival 9.3%, Building 8.3%
- #17 Appliance Gone Wild
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Inworld Studio
Windows
Elon Musk said that intelligence would be quite interested in preserving itself. Abandoned AI appliances, designed to die, turn against their creators to protect their own existence, even now erasing humanity’s path to digital immortality. But for two elderly people, this is their only hope.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 24.4%, Action Roguelike 23.5%, Bullet Hell 19.9%, Base Building 12.9%, Roguelike 7.1%
- #18 SHOOPER NOVA
84% matchVery Positive85% of 641 reviews2025
Dev: JamesikaPub: Gamersky Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Craft Your Ultimate Circular Fortress! Dive into SHOOPER NOVA, where you choose props and components to build a unique fortress. Unlock combos to shape your strategy and battle style. Become an unstoppable barrage machine and obliterate waves of enemies from all directions!
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.2%, Bullet Hell 17.5%, Action Roguelike 14%, Roguelite 9.9%, Top-Down Shooter 9%
- #19 Arcane Overdrive
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nords
Windows
Arcane Overdrive, is a survivor-like game where you combine different vehicle parts to create your own gameplay and movement style.
Why similar: Vehicular Combat 26.3%, Action Roguelike 20%, Bullet Hell 18.6%, Top-Down Shooter 13%, Roguelite 8%
- #20 For The Witch
84% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: ShenQing
Windows
For The Witch is a cute fantasy top-down bullet heaven defense game. Protect a sleeping witch from swarms of mosquitoes, fight through nightly waves, collect mechanic-changing items, and build around powerful awakened effects to survive.
Why similar: Tower Defense 20.6%, Top-Down Shooter 19.6%, Action Roguelike 19.2%, Bullet Hell 18.5%, Roguelite 7.6%
- #21 Swarm Fortress
83% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Dys
Windows
Build walls, turrets and summon allies to survive hordes of enemies in this top-down sandbox base builder.
Why similar: Tower Defense 22.4%, Base Building 18.3%, Top-Down Shooter 17.6%, Bullet Hell 14.6%, Sandbox 8%
- #22 Metal War
82% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2023
Dev: ZihanSong
Windows
This is a fast-paced top-down shooting and tower defense game. You need to customize and upgrade your chariot, build defensive structures to protect your base, explore the world and destroy all enemies! Don't forget to come back and defend when the enemy attacks! Can you make it to the end?
Why similar: Tower Defense 21.8%, Base Building 19.1%, Top-Down Shooter 18.1%, Survival 14.2%, Strategy 5.4%
- #23 The Last Drop
81% matchMixed64% of 58 reviews2024
Dev: Bonobos Games
Windows
The Last Drop is a pixel art top-down shooter where you control the last water droplet on Earth. Battle waves of enemies with unique weapons, customize the map, and compete on the online leaderboard.
Why similar: Tower Defense 18.4%, Top-Down Shooter 17.2%, Survival 17%, Action Roguelike 15.2%, Base Building 12.3%
- #24 Overdrive Breakout
79% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: AWeekGame
Windows
Control a rusted mech in a fast-paced top-down survival action game. Enter unknown areas, dodge enemy swarms, choose random weapons, skill upgrades, and passive modules, defeat bosses, unlock maps, and break through on the edge of overload.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 22.7%, Top-Down Shooter 19.5%, Bullet Hell 18.6%, Survival 11.3%, Roguelite 9.8%
- #25 MAKINE
81% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: The Feature Creep
Windows
A tactical top-down action roguelike where you pilot a customizable vehicle through intense bullet-hell combat while managing power/heat systems and collecting game-changing relics.
Why similar: Vehicular Combat 23.6%, Top-Down Shooter 16%, Action Roguelike 14.3%, Bullet Hell 12.7%, Resource Management 12.2%
- #26 Project: Vaccine A
82% matchVery Positive90% of 51 reviews2021
Dev: Birb Games
Windows
Firewall, vaccine, cleaner... Place various blocks to protect your CPU! Vaccine A is a sandbox defense game, filled with parody of various programs.
Why similar: Tower Defense 31.3%, Base Building 24.3%, Top-Down Shooter 18%, Sandbox 9.7%, Building 7.6%
- #27 Fort Laboratory
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sofa-Games
Windows
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 29%, Base Building 28.3%, Bullet Hell 16.9%, Strategy 9.9%, Roguelike 7.7%
- #28 Tower Arena Survive
79% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: RawDex
Windows
Tower Arena Survive (TAS) is a dynamic mix of roguelike and tower defense, where your castle becomes an impregnable fortress. Use 80+ weapons and 88 upgrades to balance income, damage, and defense against up to 7 foes. Buy monsters to disrupt enemy waves and change the tide of battle!
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.4%, Bullet Hell 23.4%, Base Building 14.6%, Roguelite 9.3%, Strategy 7.2%
- #29 Divine Orbit
78% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Jason BannPub: VibeAxis
Windows
Defend the core from cosmic annihilation. Build massive orbital megastructures, summon heavy gunships, or physically grab meteors and crush alien swarms with your bare mouse. Deep progression, 4 game modes, and absolute chaos.
Why similar: Base Building 17.6%, Action Roguelike 14.2%, Tower Defense 13.7%, Top-Down Shooter 12.5%, Resource Management 11.4%
- #30 Survivor TD : Favor of the Gods
78% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Cartable Studio
Windows
A tactical defense game where you build the battlefield itself. Lure enemies through your maze using traps, towers, and godly powers.
Why similar: Tower Defense 32.3%, Action Roguelike 21.9%, Survival 9.8%, Strategy 8.6%, Bullet Hell 8.5%
- #31 Tiny Chaos
77% matchVery Positive81% of 53 reviews2024
Dev: KatrGames
Windows
Step into a pandemonium world in Tiny Chaos, a bullet heaven survival game that will test your wits, reflexes, and endurance. Face relentless hordes of enemies, explore vibrant stages, and unlock the full potential of your characters in this chaotic journey to survive against all odds.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 20.8%, Action Roguelike 20.1%, Bullet Hell 19.8%, Survival 11%, Roguelike 7.8%
- #32 Geometric Link
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Paul TöpferPub: Brainscale
Windows
Tower Defense mixed with Roguelike! Build overpowered Towers to beat masses of enemies. Unlock up to 5 different characters, more than 25 Towers and conquer epic boss battles to prove your strategic prowess in this endless battle for survival!
Why similar: Tower Defense 22.2%, Bullet Hell 15.8%, Action Roguelike 15.3%, Top-Down Shooter 14.2%, Survival 12.9%
- #33 Catch it
76% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: CCLXGAMES
Windows
"Dusk to Dawn, Strategy Drawn" In this blighted realm, daylight grants but fleeting respite— While darkness unleashes the reaper's carnival. As the Last Nightwatch, you must wield more than steel: To orchestrate the symphony of survival.
Why similar: Base Building 26.5%, Tower Defense 19.4%, Action Roguelike 16.5%, Survival 15.4%, Building 13.9%
- #34 SaintGuard Survivors
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SaintGuard Survivors
Windows
In this top-down survival roguelite, protect defenseless saints from relentless demonic hordes. Build powerful loadouts, unlock new warriors, weapons, and mounts. Will you be able to protect while surviving?
Why similar: Bullet Hell 24.6%, Action Roguelike 17%, Top-Down Shooter 16.2%, Survival 15.9%, Roguelite 10.1%
- #35 Stranded Survivors
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Loboz
Windows · Mac · Linux
Survive swarms of monsters, rescue stranded animals, and build a base where they can be safe in this unique bullet heaven. Turn your rescues into upgrades and build a safe town to create new weapons and recruit powerful heroes that unlock new ways to survive til dawn.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 17%, Bullet Hell 16.8%, Base Building 16.3%, Top-Down Shooter 15.3%, Survival 13.5%
- #36 Crystal Storm
76% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: LukifahPub: Tekuani Games
Windows
Defend your castle, mine for minerals, and level up your wizarding powers in this thrilling action-roguelike game. Grab your wand and prepare to fight off magical foes in this epic battle for survival!
Why similar: Tower Defense 19.5%, Base Building 16.1%, Survival 12.2%, Resource Management 10.9%, Action Roguelike 10.5%
- #37 Siegecaster
74% matchMostly Positive72% of 43 reviews2025
Dev: Half Human GamesPub: Boss Corridor
Windows · Mac
An active skill-based siege defense game. Prepare your aim and quickly assess the coming onslaught. Survive a large-scale assault on your home as you build outward to strengthen your arsenal. Engage epic hordes. Encircle powerful upgrade runes. Enhance your weapons. Siege the day.
Why similar: Tower Defense 21.1%, Base Building 17.8%, Bullet Hell 15.4%, Action Roguelike 14.3%, Building 8.8%
- #38 Riot Ride
74% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2024
Dev: Suronix
Windows
Riot Ride is a car-combat roguelike where you play as a car in retro and Tron-like vibes. Speed, drift, and pull off the craziest maneuvers while crushing challenging enemies and bosses with endless synergies of weapons and items.
Why similar: Vehicular Combat 28.3%, Action Roguelike 16.6%, Bullet Hell 16.2%, Top-Down Shooter 15.7%, Survival 12%
- #39 Cozy Against Humanity
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: INDIE-SQUID
Windows
Cozy Against Humanity is a roguelike tower defense game where the coziest things imaginable turn against you. Adapt, resist, and survive the soft apocalypse.
Why similar: Tower Defense 30%, Top-Down Shooter 19.8%, Action Roguelike 19%, Survival 8.7%, Strategy 7%
- #40 Reptile Island
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BasicMan Studio
Windows
Can you survive on this island swarming with reptiles? Let me tell you: YOU WILL DIE. But it’s not about dying. It’s about how long you can fight before the end, what structures you build and defend, and how long you can withstand the relentless waves of enemies. Good luck.
Why similar: Tower Defense 21.5%, Action Roguelike 18.4%, Bullet Hell 14.9%, RPG 10.8%, Base Building 9.4%
- #41 Rune Craft
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Too Arm
Windows
A horde-survival roguelite built around a rune-grid weapon system. Collect weapons, gems, and 100+ runes to reshape projectile behavior, elemental reactions, and weapon evolutions, forging a different screen-clearing build every run.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 28%, Bullet Hell 25.2%, Survival 19%, Strategy 11.3%, Roguelite 9.6%
- #42 Land of the Survivors
72% matchPositive81% of 16 reviews2024
Dev: ZHANGFANPub: TBD
Windows · Mac · Linux
Roguelike-style survival game, enhance your character through upgrades. Survive as long as possible and fight against thousands of zombies.
Why similar: Vehicular Combat 26%, Tower Defense 16.8%, Bullet Hell 14%, Top-Down Shooter 13.8%, Action Roguelike 11.2%
- #43 BrainRot Defender
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SK Studio
Windows
Defend your Lifenode from waves of Scrollers, Trolls, and Doomscrollers in this chaotic 2D arena shooter. Upgrade, survive, and beat the algorithm.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 21.6%, Top-Down Shooter 21.4%, Bullet Hell 20.2%, Tower Defense 18.6%, Roguelite 7.5%
- #44 Lumencraft
72% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,280 reviews2023
Dev: 2Dynamic GamesPub: Star Drifters
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Lumencraft is a unique combination of a top-down, rogue-like shooter and base building with tower defense elements. Dig and light up dark halls of a fully destructible environment on procedurally generated maps and campaign levels to find precious Lumen - humanity's only chance for survival.
Why similar: Tower Defense 19.7%, Base Building 16.6%, Top-Down Shooter 15.7%, Action Roguelike 13.6%, Survival 11.4%
- #45 NightfallZ
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Caiz
Windows
This is a top-down survival and building game where you scavenge for resources and construct a base to defend against zombie attacks when nightfall. Warning! The wilderness at night is extremely dangerous; please stay inside your base.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 21%, Base Building 18.4%, Tower Defense 17.3%, Survival 16.3%, Building 14.6%
- #46 Project Tomorrow
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Advance Nine
Windows
A base-building survival game with terraforming and crafting. Earth lies poisoned and abandoned ten thousand years after invasion. Awaken from stasis, defend your fragile foothold, and restore a dead world so humanity can live here again.
Why similar: Tower Defense 24.7%, Base Building 23.8%, Survival 15.9%, Resource Management 8.2%, Sandbox 7.4%
- #47 Hold It In
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Timothy Graham
Windows · Mac · Linux
This game is a brutally hardcore sci-fi tower defense, featuring BBS-era and ASCII graphics. You are a commander who must use everything at your disposal to stop the AI horde from opening the rift, and unleashing a cosmic horror upon the earth.
Why similar: Tower Defense 41.7%, Action Roguelike 15.6%, Base Building 9.9%, Strategy 9.8%, Survival 8.6%
- #48 Gun Runners
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tiger Drop Games Ltd
Windows
Blast your way through ever increasing hordes of space bandits and alien creatures in this action roguelite. Level up your character and obtain powerful upgrade items with a variety of effects. Procedurally generated enemy waves and item choices prevent any two runs from playing out the same way.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 24.8%, Top-Down Shooter 24.2%, Bullet Hell 22.9%, Survival 16.4%, RPG 5.6%
- #49 Okay, Panic
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: GotANormalJob
Windows
A top-down space survival roguelite. Harvest crystallized spacetime, build your arsenal from 40+ absurdly named weapons, and hold off increasingly hostile void entities until the universe runs out of things to throw at you. It usually doesn't.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 22.2%, Action Roguelike 21.7%, Bullet Hell 20.4%, Vehicular Combat 17.3%, Roguelite 8.5%
- #50 Ash & Adam's Existential Treads
66% matchVery Positive93% of 355 reviews2026
Dev: Ash & Adam's Games
Windows · Mac
A mini action city-builder in a post-post-apocalyptic world. Grow your settlement. Fend off waves of enemies. Restore nature.
Why similar: Tower Defense 25.1%, Top-Down Shooter 18.3%, Base Building 17%, City Builder 11.6%, Building 7.9%
- #51 ReTower: Custom Defense
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Baturalp ÖZMEN
Windows
A modular tower defense strategy game where you design, build, and upgrade fully customizable towers to survive relentless enemy waves.
Why similar: Tower Defense 33.1%, Base Building 21.1%, Building 13.3%, Sandbox 12.4%, Bullet Hell 11.8%
- #52 MysteryJars
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: EdenArtsStudio
Windows
Team up, scavenge, and defend your base against relentless waves of monsters. Every 10-minute round in MysteryJar is a fight for survival and discovery.
Why similar: Tower Defense 24.7%, Action Roguelike 14.6%, Base Building 14%, Strategy 11.4%, RPG 11.1%
- #53 Deforb
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Halit Yaşar Aydoğdu
Windows
Deforb is a roguelite top-down shooter game where a mad orb defends its tower using up to four melee guns, a long-range gun, and strategically placed turrets. Upgrade your skills and craft powerful builds to survive relentless waves of enemies.
Why similar: Tower Defense 20.8%, Bullet Hell 19.3%, Action Roguelike 18.8%, Top-Down Shooter 15.6%, Roguelite 8.5%
- #54 Wild Seas
69% matchPositive88% of 16 reviews2023
Dev: DuDeekiPub: DuDeeki Studio
Windows
Defend the jewel of evil pirates! Wild Seas is a tower defense game with rogue-like elements, where your positioning can ensure victory
Why similar: Tower Defense 33%, Bullet Hell 22.3%, Action Roguelike 19.6%, Building 9.1%, Strategy 9%
- #55 Undead Apocalypse: The Dawn
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Laszmoe
Windows
Create powerful builds and survive escalating zombie hordes in a fast-paced top-down roguelite where every run plays differently.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 24.6%, Action Roguelike 24.5%, Bullet Hell 24%, Survival 18.9%, Roguelite 4.8%
- #56 Bug Alliance
66% matchNo user reviews100% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: Ent-Re Games
Windows
Bug Alliance is a top-down Action Roguelite where every level-up reshapes your build. Trigger Synergies, conquer 20-wave maps with boss finales, unlock a 13-chapter story on higher difficulties—then dive into Chaos Surge with endless bosses, curses, and risky rewards.
Why similar: Tower Defense 25%, Top-Down Shooter 20.3%, Action Roguelike 18.3%, Bullet Hell 13.3%, Strategy 5.3%
- #57 Soul Stone Defense
68% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: SoloDevTom
Windows
A dark fantasy tower defense and survival game where you build defenses by day and possess your warriors by night to fight off endless waves of monsters.
Why similar: Tower Defense 24.5%, Action Roguelike 16%, Base Building 15.9%, Survival 13.1%, Resource Management 10.9%
- #58 BALL x PIT
63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 25,698 reviews2025
Dev: Kenny Sun and FriendsPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.7 hrsMean: 20.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
BALL x PIT is a brick-breaking, ball-fusing, base-building survival roguelite. Batter hordes of enemies with ricocheting balls and gather the riches of the pit to expand your homestead, generate resources and recruit unique heroes.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 19.9%, Action Roguelike 17.9%, Top-Down Shooter 17.2%, Base Building 12.1%, Roguelite 10.9%
- #59 Last Castle Guardians
68% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Ali A.
Windows
Last Castle Guardians is a minimalist Tower Defense with roguelike elements, bullet hell, and action roguelike, where you must defend the Castle against the hordes of zombies and creatures that seek to destroy it. Buy guardians, choose upgrades, and defend the castle.
Why similar: Tower Defense 31.2%, Action Roguelike 24.3%, Bullet Hell 24.1%, Roguelite 9.4%, Strategy 7.7%
- #60 Project Kepler: Delivery Included!
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Skalkevai
Windows
Survive on a hostile planet by automating a factory, fighting alien waves, and buying random upgrades. Hold out until the cleansing bomb drops! Roguelike strategy with drones & survival.
Why similar: Tower Defense 23.9%, Top-Down Shooter 23.1%, Bullet Hell 22.9%, Roguelite 8.6%, Strategy 7.4%