Games Like Nuclear Tides

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 49.6%, Strategy 15%, Base Building 10.2%, Minimalist 9.5%, Procedural Generation 7.6%

Cube Guardian: Tower Defender is a rogue-like tower defense game on a procedurally generated, cube-based battlefield. Protect the Nexus by strategically placing resource buildings as enemy waves intensify every 10 seconds. Earn XP to unlock upgrades and beat your high score!

Why similar: Tower Defense 39.8%, Strategy 24.7%, Roguelite 15.4%, Minimalist 12.7%, Procedural Generation 6.7%

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 52%, Strategy 18.1%, Minimalist 10.9%, Roguelite 9.7%, Base Building 8%

Archipelago is a roguelike tower defense game about defending randomly generated islands. Setup your defenses, manage your income, and find powerful charms to repel the enemy. Archipelago introduces tension and strategy to the tower defense genre.

Why similar: Tower Defense 46.1%, Roguelite 18.2%, Strategy 15%, Base Building 11.7%, Procedural Generation 8.5%

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

Why similar: Tower Defense 47%, Strategy 19.7%, Roguelite 17.3%, Base Building 15%, Singleplayer 1%

A roguelite incremental tower defense where expansion is survival. Execute Command Cards from your expanding deck, build towers, and create land tile by tile to defend the last Node in your dimensional bubble. Grow strong enough to find your kin in the void… and merge into higher dimensions.

Why similar: Tower Defense 36.9%, Strategy 15.5%, Minimalist 14.9%, Base Building 14.2%, Roguelite 9.8%

Save the king from hordes of angry orcs, elves, and various other fantasy races in this castle-building tower defense game. Build a maze of walls using tetromino-shaped pieces and fortify it with loyal soldiers, powerful mages, and defensive siege weapons. Can your fortress withstand the onslaught?

Why similar: Tower Defense 47.2%, Strategy 17.6%, Base Building 17.4%, Roguelite 17.1%, Singleplayer 0.8%

'Galaxy Defense War' is a roguelike tower defense game where you need to select suitable galactic principles from randomly dropped heroes and equipment to form a combat-ready team to resist alien invaders.

Why similar: Tower Defense 41.2%, Strategy 21.1%, Roguelite 19.1%, Base Building 17.8%, Singleplayer 0.9%

Build and defend your burgeoning settlement in this town-building tower-defence hybrid. Guide your people as they unlock the secrets of the arcane and protect their new home from the otherworldly beings that surround it.

Why similar: Tower Defense 40.2%, Strategy 39.5%, Base Building 20.3%

The only tower defense game in the world that is played in the terminal. I didn't make this game because it was a good idea, I made it because I thought it was cool.

Why similar: Tower Defense 53%, Strategy 26.7%, Minimalist 19.2%, Singleplayer 1.1%

A tower defense adventure with endless strategy. Experience procedurally generated maps, unique foes, and a comprehensive tower upgrades system, as you progress through the waves. See how long you can hold down the homebase in this dynamic and replayable game!

Why similar: Tower Defense 44.4%, Strategy 20.5%, Roguelite 14.2%, Procedural Generation 10.8%, Base Building 9.6%

A multi-race tower defense game where each faction offers a distinct playstyle with 40 unique heroes. Recruit and fuse soldiers into legendary warriors, master diverse race mechanics, and defend the World Tree against the darkness.

Why similar: Tower Defense 53%, Strategy 26.7%, Minimalist 19.2%, Singleplayer 1%

Crystal Guardians prologue (small slice of the full game) is a tower defense game with rogue-like elements. Fight off waves and defend the base crystal. Gear up your towers with a powerful combination of items for your personal strategy. In a procedural map, find hidden powers and conquer the enemy.

Why similar: Tower Defense 36.5%, Base Building 15.1%, Roguelite 14%, Strategy 12.9%, Procedural Generation 11.1%

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 39.6%, Strategy 38.9%, Base Building 20%, Singleplayer 1.5%

In this 2D tower defense game, strategically place turrets using cards to defend against waves of enemies. Customize with accessories for unique abilities and global bonuses. Unlock new turrets and ornaments as you progress, each introducing new mechanics, not just stats.

Why similar: Tower Defense 43.8%, Strategy 20.5%, Minimalist 16.5%, Base Building 10.6%, Post-apocalyptic 7%

Defeat hordes of imps in the very first Tower Defence game about the order of monks! All this to defend humankind from hordes of demons!

Why similar: Tower Defense 65.2%, Strategy 34.8%

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 42.8%, Base Building 21.6%, Strategy 17.7%, Roguelite 17.1%, Singleplayer 0.7%

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

Why similar: Tower Defense 38%, Roguelite 14.4%, Base Building 14.2%, Strategy 13.6%, Procedural Generation 11.2%

A grid-based Roguelike Tower Defense where the board fights back. Survive the swarm, expand the terrain, and draft powerful rewards. Build the perfect defense, but beware: the grid flips, forcing you to fight on two fronts. Will you master the twist or be consumed by the abyss?

Why similar: Tower Defense 49.9%, Strategy 24.9%, Roguelite 16.7%, Procedural Generation 7.6%, Singleplayer 0.8%

ThrowDown is a familiar yet unique tower defense game with randomly generated maps, reactive mobs, and is designed for replayability.

Why similar: Tower Defense 44%, Strategy 27.9%, Minimalist 18.7%, Procedural Generation 8.5%, Singleplayer 0.9%

Custom craft over 2,000 unique towers in this minimalist tower defense. Pick 1-of-3 augments between each wave to fit your preferred playstyle, unlock upgrades between levels, and add bonus challenges to increase your high score.

Why similar: Tower Defense 51.8%, Roguelite 19.8%, Strategy 16.9%, Minimalist 11%, Singleplayer 0.6%

Defend against waves of enemies with a strategic mix of spellcasting and tower defense. Explore new spells, towers, and artifacts in each run and discover your own playstyle in this rougelike Tower Defense game.

Why similar: Tower Defense 35.3%, Base Building 18.4%, Minimalist 16.2%, Strategy 15.5%, Procedural Generation 9.3%

Overheat is a factory-rouge-like game. Build factory pipelines and defenses, with a variety of unique plugins, carefully deploy buildings to avoid overheating and face a series of enemy attacks!

Why similar: Tower Defense 45.7%, Strategy 29%, Base Building 12.9%, Post-apocalyptic 11.6%, Singleplayer 0.8%

Defend a displaced royal keep in a roguelite tower-defense strategy game. Build, scout, gather resources, and send units down the path to destroy enemy towers, outposts, and bases across unstable timelines as each run escalates.

Why similar: Tower Defense 40.7%, Strategy 21.5%, Roguelite 19.3%, Base Building 17.9%, Singleplayer 0.6%

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

Why similar: Tower Defense 47.2%, Strategy 23.7%, Base Building 18.9%, Minimalist 10.3%

Prepare to defend your village in Champi, a captivating Tower-Defense where your mission is to repel a invasion of mutated mushrooms.

Why similar: Tower Defense 49.3%, Strategy 31.6%, Roguelite 17.3%, Singleplayer 1.8%

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 43.1%, Strategy 35%, Base Building 20.6%, Singleplayer 1.3%

Find Relics with eldritch abilities. Summon dreadful Defenders with unique traits, control the path by placing them, and combine their Benedictions to create otherworldly synergies!

Why similar: Tower Defense 51.6%, Roguelite 19.8%, Strategy 17.2%, Procedural Generation 10.4%, Singleplayer 1.1%

Build the path. Defend the Core. Combine towers, cards, and artifacts into broken synergies in an endless tower defense roguelike.

Why similar: Tower Defense 40%, Roguelite 18.9%, Strategy 18.9%, Base Building 13.7%, Procedural Generation 7.9%

Defend your base against increasingly dangerous enemy waves each night in this minimalist survival strategy. Mine resources, build and repair defenses, and upgrade your structures, tools, and abilities to survive in this harsh world.

Why similar: Tower Defense 37.4%, Strategy 20.3%, Base Building 19%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%, Minimalist 7.2%

iBomber Defense combines classic tower defense gameplay with intense action and strategy. Keep enemies at bay all over the world using a variety of weapons and tactics, from rattling Machine guns, explosive cannons and awesome anti-aircraft artillery!

Why similar: Tower Defense 72.4%, Strategy 27.6%

Stunning detail of levels, in-depth gameplay, finely tuned balance of all levels and turrets. During the game you will hold your defense with your turrets against the massive hordes of enemies.

Why similar: Tower Defense 70.8%, Strategy 29.2%

Build your towers of paper before they get out of the box and make a big mess in the room. Manage the turrets, upgrade and be careful where you put them... every decision can be fatal! Watch out for the air units, they have a different route!

Why similar: Tower Defense 72.4%, Strategy 27.6%

Stunning detail of levels, in-depth gameplay, finely tuned balance of all levels and turrets. The new, engaging levels are even more stunning and impressive.

Why similar: Tower Defense 75.2%, Strategy 24.8%

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 45.5%, Strategy 22%, Base Building 19.2%, Procedural Generation 6.7%, Roguelite 6%

Rush for Glory is featuring challenging and rewarding Tower Defense battles, in which players are defending their base against an alien invasion. By strategically building towers and upgrading them, the player can keep his base safely and further progress through the extensive singleplayer campaign.

Why similar: Tower Defense 71.2%, Strategy 28.8%

FPS Tower Defense where you fight hordes of blocks. Use differnet weapons, turrets and traps to build a strong defense and stop the enemy.

Why similar: Tower Defense 54.7%, Strategy 25.9%, Minimalist 18.3%, Singleplayer 1.1%

Machines vs. Monsters is a roguelite tower defense. Land on a hostile planet, build mazes of industrial firepower, and hold your Command Center against escalating native waves. Lose, learn, upgrade the fleet, redeploy. Batavia's survey says the site is viable. The site disagrees.

Why similar: Tower Defense 48%, Strategy 22.4%, Roguelite 17.6%, Procedural Generation 11.4%, Singleplayer 0.6%

A Tower Defense game made in the best tradition with 35 unique towers, 70 upgrades and 8 biomes. A 20 level campaign and 2 challenge levels for now, with more to come! Made by an indie developper.

Why similar: Tower Defense 52.3%, Strategy 45.9%, Singleplayer 1.8%

Fend off endless hordes of enemies in this roguelite tower defense. Build your own path to maximize carnage. Unleash devastating hero abilities to turn the tide of battle. Upgrade your arsenal with dozens of new towers and heroes to keep your castle from oblivion. Survive and become dauntless.

Why similar: Tower Defense 51.2%, Strategy 24.9%, Roguelite 17.1%, Procedural Generation 5.6%, Singleplayer 1.2%

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

Why similar: Tower Defense 48.8%, Strategy 31.3%, Roguelite 18.8%, Singleplayer 1.1%

Commander is a war strategy tower defense game. You will play the role of a commander, constantly recruit soldiers to improve the defensive strength, match the appropriate lineup, and finally defeat the enemy.

Why similar: Tower Defense 49.7%, Strategy 31.7%, Roguelite 16.8%, Singleplayer 1.8%

Defense Golem is a tower defense game that supports random evolution.

Why similar: Tower Defense 62.8%, Roguelite 23.9%, Strategy 11.8%, Singleplayer 1.6%

Horizon Ring is an incremental tower-defense game built around flexible loadouts and distinct playstyles. Balance immediate defense against long-term growth, specialize in active clicking, passive income, towers, or fortifications, and unlock new maps and challenges in endless waves.

Why similar: Tower Defense 43.5%, Base Building 20%, Strategy 19.1%, Minimalist 16.7%, Singleplayer 0.7%

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

Why similar: Tower Defense 50.7%, Base Building 17.8%, Strategy 17.8%, Roguelite 8.5%, Procedural Generation 4.3%

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 41.6%, Base Building 26.3%, Strategy 21.2%, Roguelite 10.2%, Singleplayer 0.7%

Go on a journey through more then 30 levels traveling from prehistoric caves all the way to futuristic lunar bases. Along the way; upgrade, level up, and unlock cosmetics for your Hero. Adapt your strategy to whatever the level requires with more than 100 defense variations & Slay epic bosses!

Why similar: Tower Defense 44.5%, Strategy 26.9%, Roguelite 17.3%, Base Building 10.6%, Singleplayer 0.6%

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

Why similar: Tower Defense 43.4%, Strategy 26%, Roguelite 16.8%, Base Building 13.2%, Singleplayer 0.7%

Hold The Door is a 2d pixel-art tower defense game where you influence the monsters paths by placing your towers strategically. With procedurally generated levels & waves, it's guaranteed to always provide a new experience every time you play.

Why similar: Tower Defense 48.8%, Base Building 21.3%, Strategy 16.8%, Procedural Generation 11.9%, Singleplayer 1.3%

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 59.5%, Strategy 21.3%, Base Building 18.2%, Singleplayer 1.1%

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 45.6%, Strategy 20.9%, Roguelite 13.7%, Base Building 12.3%, Procedural Generation 6.5%

Tower defence meets roguelite on a moving fortress. Craft towers from blueprints, stack powerful augments, and fight through escalating biomes in Solheim, a dark fantasy TD unlike any other.

Why similar: Tower Defense 38.9%, Strategy 18.9%, Roguelite 18.2%, Base Building 15.1%, Procedural Generation 8.9%

A horde defense roguelite where thirty thousand enemies flood at once. Build towers, place guns, survive endless waves. The pressure never stops and keeps escalating. Every run is different, every decision matters. How long can you last?

Why similar: Tower Defense 64.9%, Strategy 33.1%, Singleplayer 2%

During the day, he personally drove the war vehicle to attack the enemy. At night, he extracted oil to sell and use the money to build defense towers, working together to protect the base.

Why similar: Tower Defense 38.1%, Strategy 23.3%, Minimalist 16.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%, Base Building 10%

Defense Technica is the next evolution in hardcore tower defense strategy games. Protect the core from an onslaught of unrelenting biomechanical terrors with a powerful range of tower defense units – each with their own upgradable features and methods of attacks.

Why similar: Tower Defense 81.7%, Strategy 18.3%

The biggest installment of the award winning Sentinel sci-fi tower defense series now on PC!Take the fight to the alien homeworld and unleash a massive arsenal of weaponry. Get up close and personal on the battlefield in your power armor to execute devastating attacks and support your defenses! * An epic campaign across 20 levels.

Why similar: Tower Defense 80.7%, Strategy 19.3%

Darkness rules the land. Defend your holy tree. Plant trees to defeat the ghost army. Explore and collect resources in a randomly generated forest world. Upgrade your technology tree. You are the light in the darkness.

Why similar: Tower Defense 46%, Minimalist 20.1%, Strategy 19.5%, Roguelite 8%, Base Building 5.7%