Games Like Oh My Gore!

War for the Overworld is an unholy union of Dungeon Management and Strategy that rewards all those villainous thoughts you’ve been having. Craft your own perilous dungeon and defend it against pesky heroes who keep exploring it and taking your stuff.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 71.7% ★, Strategy 18.6%, Fantasy 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This is the spiritual successor to classic dungeon-management games, allowing you to build a base and command minions to defeat heroes.

Dungeon Warfare is a challenging tower defense strategy game where you become a dungeon lord to defend your dungeons with deadliest of traps and insidious contraptions against greedy adventurers and wanna-be heroes.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 36.2% ★, Gore 24.3%, Tower Defense 19.9%, Strategy 10.2%, Fantasy 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers the most satisfying tower-defense mechanics for those who enjoy trapping and destroying waves of heroes.

At last, the Dungeon Lord has successfully united the forces of evil and established his dark empire. Time for the next step in his most diabolical quest: expansion!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 60.9% ★, Strategy 17.6%, Dark Humor 13.6%, Comedy 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A premier villain-protagonist strategy game that perfectly balances dungeon building with real-time tactical combat against the forces of good.

The Absolute Evil and its trusted *cough* servant, the Dark Elf Thalya, return in Dungeons 4 after the events of its fabulous predecessor to bring about their triumph over the forces of good once more.

Why similar: Dark Humor 40.3%, Strategy 39.7%, Fantasy 20%

Why You'll Like It: The latest entry in the series refines the dungeon-building and RTS mechanics, keeping the dark humor and villainous perspective intact.

Become a dungeon lord to defend your dungeons with the deadliest of traps and insidious contraptions against greedy adventurers and wannabe heroes.

Why similar: Tower Defense 45.4%, Strategy 39.4%, Indie 15.2%

Why You'll Like It: An expanded sequel that adds more traps, skills, and strategic depth to the core reverse tower-defense loop.

Iratus: Lord of the Dead is a turn-based tactical roguelike RPG set in a dark fantasy universe. Lead an army of undead to help an angry necromancer in his quest to reach the surface world and bring death to the mortal realms!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 53.1% ★, Strategy 20.1%, Gore 10.7%, Indie 7.7%, Violent 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: You play as a necromancer building an undead army to escape your prison, featuring dark fantasy themes and strategic turn-based combat.

Go back to the awesome glory days of Real-Time Strategy games. Crush Your Enemies has everything you love of the genre: Planning, choosing different types of units, managing resources, taking enemy territory and outwitting your opponent with the ingenious formations of your men.

Why similar: Strategy 59.2%, Indie 24.8%, Comedy 16%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced RTS that captures the same comedic, villainous tone while focusing on brutal tactical combat.

Prepare yourself for the most thrilling night of your life! Something strange has happened and people everywhere are turning into blood thirsty walking corpses. But guess who’s the brains behind this hungry undead army? YOU! So spread this pandemic and wipe humanity off the planet.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 33.7% ★, Gore 33%, Strategy 22.8%, Indie 7.7%, Comedy 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: A reverse strategy game where you control a zombie outbreak, forcing you to think like the villain to overcome human defenses.

A campy, crazy pixelart zombie apocalypse arcade sim where you're the bad guy. Drop your virus and spread it across the globe while you unlock a whole horde of bizarre undead to do your bidding.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 51% ★, Strategy 20.4%, Dark Humor 12%, Indie 9.8%, Comedy 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A chaotic simulation where you manage a zombie plague, focusing on spreading destruction and dark, comedic humor.

KeeperRL is a retro dungeon simulator with roguelike and RPG elements. Take the role of an evil keeper and build a formidable dungeon. Recruit sinister minions, equip and train them to explore the world and fight the forces of good.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 81.6% ★, Strategy 18.4%

Why You'll Like It: A deep dungeon-building simulation that lets you play as a dark lord managing a fortress and commanding minions in a roguelike world.

Machiavillain is an evil mansion management and strategy game, inspired by Dungeon Keeper, Prison Architect and all the horror movie clichés! Build your own manor, raise your monsters, set up your traps, and exterminate your victims. But to gain reputation you'll have to slay by the horror movie rules!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 62.6% ★, Strategy 25.9%, Indie 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A management simulation where you build a haunted mansion and play as a monster trying to lure and eliminate victims.

Ruinarch is an evil god simulator and sandbox game where you mess with people’s lives for hilarious results! Make them vampires, werewolves or bard haters and cackle as the drama unfolds. Once you’re done, unleash a malicious buffet of spells and custom plagues to wipe them out and start anew!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 70% ★, Dark Humor 16.8%, Strategy 13.2%

Why You'll Like It: A god-game that puts you in the role of a villainous architect, focusing on causing chaos and manipulating the lives of your subjects.

Build your dungeon, command demons, set traps, and slay invading adventurers with powerful spells.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 58.3% ★, Tower Defense 27.6%, Strategy 14.2%

Why You'll Like It: A real-time tactics game that puts you in charge of a dungeon, focusing on strategic placement and defense against intruders.

A satirical spy-fi lair builder where YOU are the criminal mastermind! Construct your base, train your minions, defend your operations from the Forces of Justice, and achieve global domination!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 69.2% ★, Strategy 22.1%, Violent 8%, Comedy 0.7%

Why You'll Like It: A base-building strategy game where you play as a supervillain constructing a lair and training minions to take over the world.

Be My Horde is a roguelite survivor where your minions fight for you. Become a formidable necromancer and turn your enemies into a resource! Raise fallen foes, build massive undead hordes, enhance your skills with devoured souls, and conquer the world – you’re the villain in this story.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 80.4% ★, Indie 11.3%, Fantasy 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: An action-roguelite where you play as a necromancer raising an ever-growing army to crush the living.

Become the villain and raise an army of undead in this real-time reverse tower defense strategy game. Send waves of monsters to battle and aid them with your evil magic until they break your enemies’ defenses. It’s time for you to rule over the continent with an iron fist as its Dark Lord!

Why similar: Tower Defense 49%, Strategy 28%, Fantasy 13.6%, Indie 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical strategy game focused on managing large forces, which mirrors the minion-commanding aspect of the seed game.

Take command of HEROCORP™ and launch a Preemptive Defence Campaign™ against parallel dimensions in OTTTD, the most outrageous Tower Defence title around.

Why similar: Gore 39%, Tower Defense 24.4%, Violent 18.1%, Strategy 12.8%, Indie 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A tower-defense game that leans heavily into over-the-top gore and strategic combat against waves of enemies.

Build your own dungeon and attract heroes from all over the realm! Grow your business by exploiting every facet of your visitors' dungeon exploration experience. Will you be able to keep your evil dungeon business going?

Why similar: Tower Defense 41.9%, Dark Humor 23.4%, Strategy 21.9%, Fantasy 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: A management simulation that flips the script by having you build a dungeon specifically to challenge and profit from heroes.

Start your own cult in a land of false prophets, venturing out into diverse and mysterious regions to build a loyal community of woodland Followers and spread your Word to become the one true cult.

Why similar: Dark Humor 53%, Strategy 28.2%, Fantasy 18.7%

Why You'll Like It: While more action-oriented, it perfectly captures the dark humor and villainous management of a cult leader building their own domain.

Why be good when you can be... bad? Cursed Treasure 2 is an addictive tower-defense game that puts the power of darkness at your fingertips. Build towers of powerful orcs, demons, and undead, and master powerful spells, to protect your precious hoard from all manner of no-good do-gooders.

Why similar: Tower Defense 54.1%, Strategy 29.8%, Indie 12.1%, Fantasy 4%

Why You'll Like It: A classic reverse tower-defense game where you must protect your gems from waves of greedy heroes using dark magic towers.

Conquer and destroy the dirty Humans by sending swarms of bugs to crush their home worlds. Evolve your Buggos into stronger, faster, more murderous creatures that can rip the Human defenses to shreds! No one can stop your evolutionary powers. You are the evil Buggo Hivemind!!!

Why similar: Strategy 41.4%, Gore 39.2%, Violent 19.4%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy and base-building game where you lead an insectoid swarm to conquer and expand, fitting the villainous expansion theme.

You’ve tossed, burned and sliced them by the thousands – now orcs must die more than ever before! Grab a friend and slay orcs in untold numbers in this sequel to the 2011 AIAS Strategy Game of the Year from Robot Entertainment.

Why similar: Tower Defense 63.4%, Strategy 18.7%, Comedy 6.6%, Fantasy 6.1%, Indie 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: An action-packed tower-defense game that features heavy gore, humor, and the satisfaction of setting up elaborate traps.

Get ready for an epic journey to defend your kingdom against hordes of orcs, trolls, evil wizards and other nasty fiends using a vast arsenal of towers and spells at your command!Fight on forests, mountains and wastelands, customizing your defensive strategy with different tower upgrades and specializations!

Why similar: Tower Defense 61.7%, Strategy 21.4%, Fantasy 8.1%, Indie 5.3%, Comedy 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for tower defense, offering highly polished strategic gameplay that fans of the genre will appreciate.

Bad guys have all the fun. Discover your dark side as you build an evil underground kingdom and defend it against the forces of good.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 57.4% ★, Strategy 42.6%

Why You'll Like It: The foundational classic that established the genre of playing as the dungeon-dwelling villain.

The horde is here to eat your brain and murder every single one of your scientists. Gather your forces, this is the last stand before we lose the facility! Place guards, close doors, and position traps. Survive as long as you can!

Why similar: Tower Defense 29.1%, Gore 28.7%, Violent 13.3%, Dark Humor 10.4%, Strategy 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused tower-defense game that emphasizes holding off massive waves of enemies with limited resources.

The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.

Why similar: Tower Defense 68.8%, Strategy 31.2%

Why You'll Like It: A deeply strategic tower-defense game that offers immense replayability through its complex upgrade systems.

Build and manage a medieval graveyard while facing ethical dilemmas and making questionable decisions. Welcome to Graveyard Keeper, the most inaccurate medieval cemetery sim of the year.

Why similar: Gore 34%, Dark Humor 26.6%, Indie 13.9%, Violent 9.8%, Fantasy 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A morbid management sim that shares the dark, comedic tone and the focus on managing death and the afterlife.

It's payback time! Lead your mighty dark army and make the Kingdom tremble with every step. Build powerful towers, choose your arsenal for destruction, and find the deadliest combination - train legendary heroes and lead them to victory!

Why similar: Tower Defense 60.5%, Strategy 29%, Fantasy 10.5%

BE THE VILLAIN and slay any hero who dares enter your dark domain! Deck out your castle with traps and minions as the ultimate diabolical dungeon keeper in this strategy / TD puzzler. Includes the original Castle Doombad game, rebuilt and remastered, plus brand new content.

Why similar: Tower Defense 54%, Strategy 31.7%, Fantasy 14.4%

Entertain the god-like Bella’s thirst for blood in this absurd bite-sized roguelike terror defense game.

Why similar: Tower Defense 51.3%, Gore 28.5%, Strategy 20.2%

Forge invincible defenses with lethal traps and devious machines, and crush relentless waves of adventurers in the ultimate tower defense showdown!

Why similar: Tower Defense 47.3%, Strategy 22.8%, Villain Protagonist 21.2% ★, Indie 4.9%, Fantasy 3.8%

Command your troops through an epic (mis)adventure as you defend exotic lands from dragons, man-eating plants, and ghastly denizens of the underworld -all with flashy new towers, levels, heroes, and more goodies to help you crush your foes in this Fantasy Action Tower Defense game!

Why similar: Tower Defense 57.7%, Strategy 25.3%, Fantasy 10.2%, Indie 6.8%

Claim and defend the Tomb of Tyrants against greedy adventurers by matching tiles to build a deadly dungeon full of traps, minions, and more!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 37.6% ★, Strategy 20.4%, Tower Defense 16.3%, Indie 9.4%, Dark Humor 9.1%

Command an army of specters, unleash terror on the town of Gravenville, and solve puzzles to unlock mysteries in this strategic adventure game of resource management and supernatural mayhem.

Why similar: Dark Humor 39.9%, Tower Defense 31.9%, Strategy 28.2%

Quite a different zombie game - this time YOU are the zombie! Command your infested comrades, fight your way to freedom and let the zombie kind dominate the world! Oh, and you're able to create your own scenarios!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 74.8% ★, Strategy 17.4%, Indie 7.8%

CREEPS CRUMBLE. HEROES RISE. Command a team of renegade heroes and impale, slash, tear and burn through legions of undead hell-bent on world domination. Your mission: to defeat the world’s most powerful vampire, Count Necrosis.

Why similar: Tower Defense 66.4%, Strategy 20.6%, Indie 9.1%, Fantasy 4%

Defend your dungeon against a bunch of impolite humans in this humorous tower/lane defense game. Summon monsters, change tactics on the fly & skip funny dialogue to defeat waves and waves of the most generic heroes mankind has ever seen!

Why similar: Tower Defense 44.9%, Strategy 22.4%, Dark Humor 20.5%, Fantasy 6.6%, Comedy 5.6%

Unique fusion of a top-down shooter and tower defense strategy. You are the invader! Use destructive weapons or lead your enemies into a maze of towers. Strategize in the build mode by carefully selecting various types of alien towers or throw yourself right into the heat of the battle.

Why similar: Tower Defense 50.1%, Strategy 21.9%, Villain Protagonist 19.8% ★, Indie 8.3%

They are coming! Ravenous, insatiable, and absolutely unstoppable zombies, a Wunderwaffe that went horribly wrong. It’s up to you to usher in the age of the zombie, by munching on every brain in sight! Build up a horde, dodge enemy weapons, and gnaw a mark on human history!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 44.6% ★, Gore 43.6%, Strategy 10.9%, Story Rich 0.9%

Become a Ghost Keeper and lead your fearsome minions against the living. Use diverse scare tactics, manage demonic creatures and harness dozens of skills. Oh, and don’t let the Brotherhood catch you! The ultimate scaring experience begins…

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 64% ★, Dark Humor 19.1%, Strategy 16.9%

A dungeon crawl where YOU are the dungeon! Lead your minions in tactical turn-based combat against the pesky heroes, and unlock a variety of evil Powers. With a dynamic campaign system and a branching storyline, "Reverse Crawl" lets you experience an RPG from a whole new angle!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 70% ★, Strategy 16.8%, Fantasy 10.6%, Indie 2.6%

Command your elven army and defend mystical lands from sea serpents, evil sorcerers, and wave after wave of gnoll tribesman, all with the help of brand-spankin’ new towers, heroes, and spells to fend off every last baddie.

Why similar: Tower Defense 57.2%, Strategy 24.8%, Fantasy 10.5%, Indie 7.5%

Zombies! The world was overtaken by the forces of Evil worse than ones from the ♂deep dark fantasies♂. But Putin is here to save the day and kisk some ♂***♂. Region by region, you must fight the ♂Slaves♂ of evil with Billy, Obama and your own army of defenders by your side. Primo Victoria!

Why similar: Tower Defense 30.6%, Strategy 25.9%, Comedy 18.8%, Indie 12.8%, Story Rich 11.9%

Become a necromancer and raise the dead - Undead Horde is a necromantic action game with elements from RPG, strategy and hack'n'slash. Maraud through the lands of the living, raze their villages and steal their treasures. Ultimately you'll take over the whole kingdom of the living!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 77.2% ★, Dark Humor 8.6%, Fantasy 7.2%, Indie 6.9%

Strategic tower defense where you play a witch, place class-based towers, equip them with items that grant powerful abilities, combine them, create unique builds & deal ridiculous amounts of damage! Customize your builds with a deep stat system and giant skill tree!

Why similar: Tower Defense 62.5%, Strategy 31%, Indie 6.5%

Defend your ancestral castle – show the invader who the master is! Build towers, save money, train your spells, and your enemy will be vanquished.

Why similar: Tower Defense 36%, Gore 29.6%, Strategy 22.1%, Fantasy 7%, Indie 5.3%

The rats told me to make this game. Run and gun alongside your troops in the Great Rat War against the vile TechnoRat armies. Recruit units, build structures, collect gear and upgrade your weapons to turn the tide of battle in your favor. The TechnoRat is all consuming!

Why similar: Tower Defense 54.1%, Dark Humor 23.2%, Strategy 22.6%

In this indie strategy game, command your mighty legions of hellish creatures! Fight your way through the real world and seek vengeance for those who have wronged you!

Why similar: Strategy 59.2%, Indie 30.1%, Fantasy 10.7%

Raw, aggressive hunger - there's nothing like being a Zombie when you want to do some damage! Now you can control your own horde of zombies! Mayhem has never tasted so good . . .

Why similar: Strategy 72.1%, Indie 27.9%

How evil can you get? Discover how corruptible you are in Overlord, the twisted fantasy action adventure where you can be evil (or really evil). In the game's seriously warped fantasy world, players will become the Overlord and get first-hand experience of how absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 65.1% ★, Dark Humor 9.7%, Strategy 8.4%, Fantasy 8.1%, Comedy 6.3%

Defend your Castle against the relentless army of crayon invaders! Those crafty barbarian hordes have amassed their forces once again to challenge your domain. Will you and your court rise to the challenge, or stand aside as they raze your Castle to the ground?

Why similar: Gore 32.1%, Strategy 22.9%, Tower Defense 20.8%, Indie 10.1%, Comedy 7.2%

Sea Salt is a dark fantasy reverse horror action-strategy game where you play as the nightmarish force of Dagon by controlling and growing a horde of minions.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 37.9% ★, Gore 27.2%, Strategy 16.5%, Violent 10.4%, Indie 7.9%

Why be good when you can be... bad? Cursed Treasure 2 is a classic tower-defense game, remastered and carefully re-balanced. Build towers of powerful orcs, demons, and undead, and master powerful spells, to protect your precious hoard from all manner of no-good do-gooders.

Why similar: Tower Defense 56%, Strategy 17.8%, Fantasy 14%, Comedy 12.2%

Build a colony of ruthless capitalist Dwarves in a strange fantasy land.

Why similar: Gore 43.9%, Strategy 24.9%, Violent 20.8%, Indie 10.3%

Take on Galactoil, a comically dysfunctional intergalactic energy corporation, and its larger-than-life employees in a tactical-stealth game that fuses satisfying strategic gameplay and dark comedy in a quirky single-player story.

Why similar: Strategy 27.5%, Dark Humor 20%, Villain Protagonist 15.9% ★, Gore 14.1%, Indie 11.2%

GROSS is a unique twist on the classic tower defense genre. After building your defenses, you will jump into the action to take on enemies head-on. Make sure to collect as much cash as possible to upgrade your defenses and stay ahead of the game. Can you outlast the waves of enemies?

Why similar: Gore 44.1%, Tower Defense 28.3%, Strategy 14%, Dark Humor 13.6%

Humanity is enslaved by an AI… which is awesome, because we’re on the right side of the conflict. Exploit puny humans to extract power and build your own empire!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 27.4% ★, Dark Humor 24.9%, Strategy 23.6%, Violent 14.4%, Indie 9.7%

A necromancer simulator. Assemble the dead using different body parts while upgrading your tower, combine the abilities of the different fantastic races to fight your way through the hordes of enemies and overrun the ’chosen ones’. To tell the truth, the dead are pretty, uhm, dumb.

Why similar: Tower Defense 65.4%, Strategy 34.6%

Praise Dead is a roguelike auto-battler where you create zombies from the parts of dead villagers and monsters. Use your zombies to defeat waves of demons, and to harvest resources to improve and upgrade your village.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 54.9% ★, Strategy 21.9%, Dark Humor 13.9%, Indie 9.4%