- #1 The Riftbreaker
97% matchVery Positive90% of 23,181 reviews2021
Dev: EXOR Studios
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.
Why similar: Base Building 24.4%, Tower Defense 23%, RTS 15.6%, Crafting 11%, Survival 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: Combines base building, survival, and action-RPG combat in a sci-fi setting that mirrors the resource-gathering loop of the seed game.
- #2 SENTRY
96% matchVery Positive83% of 853 reviews2024
Dev: Fireblade Software
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 70%
SENTRY is an action-defense first person shooter where you defend your spaceship against invading aliens. Plot an escape route through hostile space and battle the enemy across your vessel with the support of traps, turrets and environmental destruction.
Why similar: Tower Defense 31.6%, FPS 18.9%, Survival 12.5%, Sci-fi 11.9%, Strategy 8%
Why You'll Like It: A direct hybrid of FPS and tower defense that tasks you with defending a spaceship from alien boarders using traps and weaponry.
- #3 Executive Assault 2
96% matchVery Positive83% of 1,726 reviews2023
Dev: Hesketh Studios Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
The RTS/FPS phenomenon has moved into space! Build your base on an asteroid, command fleets of starships for epic battles, pilot fighters, mine and trade resources, assemble robots to defend or assault other stations. Take sole command or share the glory as you fight for control of the quadrant.
Why similar: RTS 22.7%, Robots 18.3%, Base Building 18%, FPS 11.4%, Co-op 8%
Why You'll Like It: Allows players to switch between an RTS commander view and a first-person shooter perspective to manage and defend their base.
- #4 Sanctum 2
95% matchVery Positive90% of 14,356 reviews2013
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Sanctum 2 is the sequel to the world’s first Tower Defense/FPS hybrid game. Pick from four unique character classes and embark on a mission to protect the oxygen-producing Cores from hordes of deadly aliens who are threatened by their existence.
Why similar: Tower Defense 43.8%, FPS 19.1%, Co-op 15.7%, Sci-fi 6.2%, Strategy 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: A classic pioneer of the FPS-tower defense hybrid genre that requires strategic trap placement alongside active combat.
- #5 Mindustry
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 25,660 reviews2019
Dev: AnukenDev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
Why similar: Automation 22.2%, Tower Defense 21.2%, Base Building 19.4%, Resource Management 14.4%, RTS 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Integrates tower defense with deep automation and resource management, perfect for those who enjoy the logistical side of base building.
- #6 X-Morph: Defense
94% matchVery Positive92% of 4,073 reviews2017
Dev: EXOR Studios
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 45.3%, Co-op 16.8%, Sci-fi 11.9%, Shooter 10.4%, Strategy 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Blends top-down shooter action with tower defense mechanics, forcing players to adapt their base layout in real-time.
- #7 Orcs Must Die! 3
93% matchVery Positive86% of 14,664 reviews2021
Dev: Robot Entertainment
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Slice, burn, toss, zap, grind and gib massive hordes of repugnant orcs in this long-awaited successor to the award-winning Orcs Must Die! series.
Why similar: Tower Defense 53.6%, Co-op 27.3%, Strategy 9.1%, 3D 5.7%, Action 3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the action-tower defense loop, requiring players to actively participate in combat while managing complex trap layouts.
- #8 Mechabellum
92% matchVery Positive84% of 18,295 reviews2024
Dev: Game RiverPub: Dreamhaven
Windows · Mac
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 53.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Command massive armies in this epic mech auto-battler. Draft your troops, customize your units, master your formations, and crush enemies in spectacular 3D battles. All strategy, no clickfest. Outsmart opponents in 1v1, 2v2, free-for-all, or Survival Mode.
Why similar: Robots 43.1%, RTS 23.6%, Co-op 14.8%, Strategy 8.7%, 3D 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: A tactical auto-battler that emphasizes robot warfare and strategic unit placement, capturing the mechanical aesthetic of the seed game.
- #9 The Front
91% matchMixed68% of 10,753 reviews2025
Dev: Samar Studio
Windows
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 44.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.
Why similar: Tower Defense 21.6%, Base Building 19.8%, Crafting 13.8%, Co-op 11.8%, Survival 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that leans heavily into base building and defensive fortifications against hostile forces.
- #10 Taur
91% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,078 reviews2020
Dev: Echo Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Taur is an action-strategy sci-fi game. Control the Prime Cannon and unlock all of its powerful weapons and abilities. Build turrets, droids, aircraft and more as you fight to protect the homeworld of the Tauron droids against a relentless invasion. Will your Taur stand against the Imperion warmachine?
Why similar: Tower Defense 30.7%, Robots 16.2%, Base Building 15.9%, RTS 11.1%, Automation 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A tower defense game where you control a powerful weaponized platform to defend against waves of robotic invaders.
- #11 7 Days to Die
89% matchVery Positive87% of 396,805 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 16.8 hrsMean: 107.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
Why similar: Base Building 18.6%, Tower Defense 18.1%, Post-apocalyptic 16.7%, Survival 16.2%, Open World 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a robust mix of FPS combat and base building, specifically centered around surviving massive waves of enemies.
- #12 FOUNDRY
90% matchVery Positive81% of 3,508 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 45.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
Why similar: Robots 21.6%, Automation 17.3%, Base Building 13.3%, Resource Management 10.5%, Co-op 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person factory-building game that emphasizes large-scale construction and resource management in a voxel world.
- #13 Desynced
89% matchVery Positive81% of 1,825 reviews2026
Dev: Stage Games Inc.Pub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
Why similar: Automation 22.2%, Base Building 17%, RTS 16.3%, Resource Management 11.6%, Survival 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A strategy game that uses automation and programming to manage base defense and resource logistics in a sci-fi environment.
- #14 Space Engineers
88% matchVery Positive89% of 133,238 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 95.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
Why similar: Base Building 29.4%, Co-op 21.1%, Open World 17%, Survival 16.2%, Strategy 9%
Why You'll Like It: Provides unparalleled freedom in building complex, functional bases and ships that can be used for survival and defense.
- #15 Deep Rock Galactic
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 372,881 reviews2020
Dev: Ghost Ship GamesPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 14.2 hrsMean: 75.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Deep Rock Galactic is a 1-4 player co-op FPS featuring dwarven space miners, procedurally-generated destructible environments, and endless hordes of alien monsters. Explore cave systems, mine for minerals, and work together to survive!
Why similar: Looter Shooter 27.5% ★, Co-op 22.9%, FPS 18.3%, Shooter 10.3%, Sci-fi 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: Features intense co-op FPS combat with objective-based defense elements that require teamwork and resource management.
- #16 Executive Assault
86% matchVery Positive85% of 1,455 reviews2015
Dev: Hesketh Studios Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Executive Assault is an indie real-time strategy/first-person shooter where you can not only build your base and create armies, but also take control of your units and fight as one of them.
Why similar: RTS 23%, Robots 19.9%, FPS 13.5%, Base Building 12.6%, Strategy 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: The predecessor to the sequel, offering the same core RTS-FPS hybrid mechanics in a space-themed setting.
- #17 Axon TD: Uprising - Tower Defense
84% matchVery Positive87% of 722 reviews2024
Dev: Element Studios
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Axon TD lets you expand the map boundaries themselves. A huge arsenal of towers and a wide variety of enemies clash in a battlefield that grows to your whims. Engage in single, cooperative, and roguelite gameplay.
Why similar: Tower Defense 28.6%, Robots 20.5%, RTS 19.8%, Co-op 10.2%, Sci-fi 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A modern tower defense game with deep strategy and roguelite elements that challenge your defensive planning.
- #18 FortressCraft Evolved!
86% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,055 reviews2015
Dev: ProjectorGamesPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
Why similar: Automation 32.3%, Base Building 15.7%, Crafting 15.5%, Survival 10.3%, Open World 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on massive-scale automation and tower defense, requiring players to build complex systems to protect their base.
- #19 Natural Selection 2
85% matchVery Positive85% of 13,305 reviews2012
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A fast paced multiplayer shooter that pits aliens against humans in a strategic and action-packed struggle for survival!
Why similar: FPS 29%, RTS 25.6%, Sci-fi 13.2%, Strategy 12.2%, Co-op 9%
Why You'll Like It: A unique multiplayer experience that pits an RTS commander against an FPS team, perfectly capturing the hybrid genre feel.
- #20 Northend Tower Defense
83% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,398 reviews2024
Dev: Northend Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Jump into a realtime strategy, action filled battlefield, deploy relentless soldiers, unlock powerful troops and vehicles, upgrade your army, decimate the enemy. If that's not enough, jump into a chaotic Zombie mode, with traps, fun upgrades, and a new gameplay!
Why similar: Tower Defense 36.9%, Military 24.3%, Base Building 21.7%, Strategy 9.1%, 3D 4.9%
Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused tower defense game that incorporates auto-battler elements for managing defensive units.
- #21 Satisfactory
80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 265,414 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 31.8 hrsMean: 108.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Why similar: Automation 25.8%, Base Building 21.7%, Resource Management 11.6%, Crafting 11.1%, Co-op 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: While less combat-focused, it offers the most satisfying base-building and automation experience for players who enjoy the logistical side of Outpost.
- #22 McDROID
84% matchMostly Positive73% of 215 reviews2014
Dev: Elefantopia
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Farm, Build, Defend, in the Galaxy's only Arcade-Tower-Defense.
Why similar: Robots 26.1%, Tower Defense 20.1%, Base Building 16.1%, RTS 12.8%, Shooter 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: A quirky tower defense game that involves managing robots and base defenses in a vibrant, sci-fi environment.
- #23 Machine Mind
81% matchMostly Positive73% of 374 reviews2026
Dev: Chudo-Yudo GamesPub: Targem Games
Windows · Mac
Machine Mind is an action game in a post-apocalyptic setting with elements of survival and RTS. You will fight, craft modules, build your transport, develop and protect your base. You can control other vehicles to automate operations. Discover all the secrets of the destroyed world!
Why similar: Tower Defense 21%, Base Building 17.9%, Resource Management 13.4%, Post-apocalyptic 13.3%, Crafting 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: An isometric game that blends base building and tower defense with RPG elements for a unique tactical experience.
- #24 No Creeps Were Harmed TD
81% matchVery Positive89% of 482 reviews2024
Dev: MinMax Games Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Employ lethal turrets, traps, and gadgets to defend against an onslaught of evolving creeps! Step into a twisted, hyper 3D, mind bending realm. Upgrade and adapt your defenses. Become a master maze crafter. Collect bizarre artifacts. Rush creeps for lucrative rewards, and succumb to greed!
Why similar: Tower Defense 29.5%, Automation 22.6%, Post-apocalyptic 11.5%, Sci-fi 10.3%, Survival 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A 3D tower defense game that emphasizes strategic pathing and defensive structure placement.
- #25 Out of Ammo
82% matchVery Positive84% of 740 reviews2016
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Out of Ammo is an intense VR Tower Defense / FPS hybrid strategy game that will have you constructing defenses, calling in artillery, issuing orders, and taking direct control of your soldiers in order to survive a relentless enemy onslaught.
Why similar: Tower Defense 19.9%, Base Building 15.4%, Military 14.9%, FPS 12.3%, Co-op 11%
Why You'll Like It: A VR-focused strategy game that puts you in command of defensive units and structures in a real-time combat scenario.
- #26 Infection Free Zone
79% matchVery Positive80% of 17,172 reviews2024
Dev: Jutsu GamesPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!
Why similar: Base Building 30.8%, Post-apocalyptic 27%, RTS 18.7%, Survival 10.3%, Strategy 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A base-building game that tasks you with fortifying real-world locations against waves of infected survivors.
- #27 Siege of Centauri
82% matchMixed66% of 448 reviews2019
Dev: Stardock Entertainment
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Defend against thousands of enemies in this explosive tower defense game. Deploy upgradable towers and unleash powerful orbital abilities as you try to protect Earth's first colony world from destruction.
Why similar: Tower Defense 28.3%, Robots 26.1%, Base Building 20.3%, Sci-fi 9.1%, 3D 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: A pure tower defense experience that focuses on massive-scale battles against thousands of enemies.
- #28 Factorio
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 227,071 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.8 hrsMean: 188.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Why similar: Automation 31.6%, Base Building 22.2%, Resource Management 15.6%, Crafting 9.5%, Survival 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive automation game where base defense against alien swarms is a core component of the gameplay loop.
- #29 StarRupture
77% matchVery Positive81% of 10,861 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
Why similar: Automation 22.1%, Base Building 17.6%, Co-op 12.1%, Crafting 10.8%, Open World 9.7%
- #30 Outworld Station
77% matchVery Positive90% of 506 reviews2025
Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.
Why similar: Automation 23.9%, Base Building 17.7%, RTS 13.4%, Co-op 11.8%, Crafting 9.6%
- #31 Tower Dominion
76% matchVery Positive86% of 4,827 reviews2025
Dev: Parallel 45 Games
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 21.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Build and design the terrain while defending your stronghold against alien invasion in this unique Roguelike tower defense. Choose from 30 heroes, survive enemy waves, and upgrade a variety of destructive towers to hold the line!
Why similar: Tower Defense 25.9%, Base Building 18.1%, RTS 17.1%, Resource Management 12.2%, Military 10.8%
- #32 IDUN - Frontline Survival
76% matchMostly Positive79% of 671 reviews2025
Dev: IDUN InteractivePub: Surefire.Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A defense RTS where you can move turrets at will. Extract resources, upgrade technology, and defend against enemy swarms in a gripping space campaign. Hold the line, set up your turrets, and brace for screen-filling hordes!
Why similar: Tower Defense 21%, RTS 17.3%, Base Building 16.7%, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 9.2%
- #33 DOTFI
79% matchMixed57% of 51 reviews2020
Dev: Open World Interactive
Windows
Do you have what it takes to defend what is yours? This is not a typical tower defense game where the troops do all the work. This is a hybrid FPS/TPS tower defense game which you take over the control to defend your island.
Why similar: Tower Defense 19.6%, Robots 18.7%, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 8.1%, FPS 8%
Why You'll Like It: An action-oriented strategy game that focuses on tank combat and defensive positioning.
- #34 Armed to the Gears
78% matchMixed63% of 212 reviews2020
Dev: Deonn Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Control a fully armed Mech and fight through cyberpunk cities, military bases and industrial ruins. Capture and defend territories, build turrets and structures, and wage war against powerful enemies!
Why similar: Tower Defense 21.7%, RTS 18.3%, Robots 17.3%, Base Building 13.5%, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down shooter that integrates tower defense mechanics to protect your base from mechanical threats.
- #35 The Riftbreaker: Prologue
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 4,121 reviews2020
Dev: EXOR Studios
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 47%
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Why similar: Base Building 25.3%, Tower Defense 23.1%, Survival 12.9%, Crafting 12.3%, RTS 11.6%
- #36 XERA: Survival
74% matchMixed66% of 7,888 reviews2021
Dev: Spotted Kiwi Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 24.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Action-focused, open world survival shooter, PvPvE against fellow mercenaries and lethal XOIDS. Raid for resources alone or with team-mates, build and defend your base, stash your gear and survive against the odds. You are the hunters. You are the hunted. And the robots never sleep…
Why similar: Robots 19.5%, Base Building 15.8%, Looter Shooter 15.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Crafting 9.3%
- #37 Outpost
74% matchVery Positive87% of 780 reviews2020
Dev: Open Mid Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Outpost brings the perfect mix between survival and roguelite gameplay. Start the game in a randomly generated environment and try to adapt, and make it through as many nights as possible. How long can you survive?
Why similar: Tower Defense 29.9%, Base Building 19.4%, Survival 13.1%, Open World 11.8%, Crafting 10.3%
- #38 Forever Skies
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,284 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.
Why similar: Base Building 17.3%, Co-op 13%, Post-apocalyptic 12.9%, Crafting 11.4%, Resource Management 10.6%
- #39 Outpost
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 189 reviews2023
Dev: BananaDogGames
Windows
this is a tower defence game,we need upgrade our weapons to fight waves of enemies,robots can mining diamonds,and we need spent those in many aspect,features of this game: 1 return back before dager comes,2tempory upgrade are important but permanent upgrade are better
Why similar: Tower Defense 58.5%, Base Building 23.1%, Resource Management 16.5%, Singleplayer 1.9%
- #40 Last Outpost
72% matchMostly Positive78% of 78 reviews2025
Dev: Troyd Games
Windows
Last Outpost is a minimalist Base Building & Strategy game where you build and defend your outpost in zombie apocalypse. Choose your vehicle and loadout before embarking on your adventure. Use your abilities and control your units to eliminate all threats. Will you manage to defend your outpost?
Why similar: Tower Defense 34%, RTS 25.8%, Base Building 24.4%, Strategy 8.3%, 3D 5.9%
- #41 Starship Troopers: Extermination
71% matchMostly Positive80% of 32,811 reviews2024
Dev: Offworld
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 17.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Starship Troopers: Extermination is a 16-player co-op FPS that puts you on the far-off frontlines of an all-out battle against the Bugs! Squad up, grab your rifle, and do your part as an elite Deep Space Vanguard Trooper to take back planets from the Arachnid threat!
Why similar: Base Building 23.4%, FPS 20%, Co-op 18.5%, Sci-fi 13.6%, Shooter 11.3%
- #42 Outpost Zero
75% matchMixed49% of 846 reviews2019
Dev: Symmetric GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Outpost Zero blends the genres of Multiplayer Base Building Survival and Simulation games in a Sci-Fi universe. On a lawless alien world, robotic scouts are tasked with building an Outpost for human colonists. Command AI minions, colonize the planet, and survive the perils of Gaiya.
Why similar: Base Building 28.2%, Survival 24.6%, Open World 18.2%, Crafting 15.4%, Sci-fi 6.9%
- #43 Mob Factory
72% 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: Automation 23.9%, Tower Defense 19.5%, Base Building 14.8%, Resource Management 12.8%, RTS 8.3%
- #44 Colony Siege
73% matchVery Positive93% of 257 reviews2020
Dev: Finifugal Games
Windows
Colony Siege combines the best of RTS and tower defense, including base building, mazing, and unit physics. Defend Earth's remaining colonies using an arsenal of deadly weapons to torch, slice, throw, and impale swarms of alien invaders.
Why similar: Tower Defense 28.4%, Strategy 19.3%, RTS 17.2%, Co-op 12.1%, Base Building 9.7%
- #45 World Crafter TD
73% matchMixed46% of 556 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 29%
A highly addictive survival crafting tower defense game! Gather, craft, build turrets, shoot guns, and expand the land to defend against waves of enemies in World Crafter TD!
Why similar: Tower Defense 20.2%, Automation 19.7%, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 13.1%, Crafting 11.3%
- #46 Granvir
70% matchVery Positive90% of 541 reviews2025
Dev: Airborne GamesPub: GIGATANK 3000
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Granvir is a 3rd person action roguelite mech-builder with co-op multiplayer. Scavenge the battlefield for parts to replace and upgrade your Granvir and weaponry. PIlot your Granvir and manage your campaign between battles to find the best equipment and stay supplied while fighting a guerilla war.
Why similar: Robots 31.7%, Looter Shooter 28% ★, Military 18.7%, Sci-fi 7.5%, Shooter 6.4%
- #47 M.A.S.S. Builder
69% matchVery Positive86% of 4,025 reviews2025
Dev: Vermillion DigitalPub: Sekai Project
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Commander, customize and build your Mechanical Assault Skeleton Suit (M.A.S.S.) and lead the fight against an alien invasion bent on exterminating the human race. The fate of humanity is in your hands.
Why similar: Robots 49.9%, Post-apocalyptic 19.2%, Sci-fi 13.4%, Shooter 11.6%, Action 3.4%
- #48 Block Fortress 2
70% matchVery Positive82% of 260 reviews2025
Dev: Foursaken Media
Windows · Mac
Choose a planet, build your fortress, and prepare for war. Arm yourself with powerful weapons, deploy troops, and defend your stronghold against relentless attacks. In this action-packed block-builder, survival is earned, and only the strongest will remain.
Why similar: Base Building 27.8%, Tower Defense 27.2%, FPS 19.2%, Shooter 9.5%, 3D 5.2%
- #49 Cluckmech Oasis
69% matchVery Positive88% of 3,463 reviews2024
Dev: BlackLightPub: Mammorize
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Cluckmech Oasis, a top-down shooting Roguelike tower defense game. Play as the Warcluck and lead your team of animal heroes in a fight for survival. Collect, build and upgrade defenses, and engage in intense battle against waves of plant enemies.
Why similar: Tower Defense 48.7%, Shooter 15%, Strategy 13.1%, Survival 10.5%, Sci-fi 7%
- #50 Project Astra Dominium
70% matchVery Positive90% of 88 reviews2024
Dev: Snob Entertainment UG
Windows · Mac · Linux
Project Astra Dominium is a Tower Defense game with Basebuilding and Automation elements. Build up your base to become a supply hub for Earth's desperately needed materials, gather resources while defending against an unknown alien threat and improve your tower's and AI capabilities.
Why similar: Automation 22.7%, Tower Defense 21.2%, Base Building 16.8%, Crafting 11.8%, Resource Management 11.1%
- #51 Tempest Rising
67% matchVery Positive88% of 10,866 reviews2025
Dev: Slipgate Ironworks™Pub: 3D Realms
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Command distinct factions in a desperate struggle for power and resources in Tempest Rising - a classic RTS set on Earth after a nuclear war.
Why similar: RTS 55.6%, Base Building 18.2%, Strategy 16.1%, Military 5%, 3D 2.5%
- #52 Vectorio
69% matchVery Positive81% of 388 reviews2023
Dev: BN Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build. Automate. Defend.
Why similar: Automation 23.4%, Tower Defense 21.9%, Base Building 18.7%, Resource Management 14%, Survival 7.4%
- #53 Age of Darkness: Final Stand
67% matchMostly Positive75% of 10,403 reviews2025
Dev: PlaySide
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Age of Darkness: Final Stand is a dark fantasy survival RTS where you must illuminate, build and defend humanity’s last bastion against hordes of Nightmares. Set in the remnants of a kingdom consumed by a deadly fog, you decide. Will you hide in the light? Or take back your world.
Why similar: Tower Defense 22.4%, RTS 18.7%, Base Building 18%, Resource Management 11%, Co-op 10.1%
- #54 IRON GUARD
68% matchVery Positive95% of 148 reviews2021
Dev: Xlab Digital
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A sci-fi roomscale VR Tower Defense game. Strategize to destroy waves of rogue robots and assist the powerful turrets with a handheld drone. Build and collect resources and help evacuate your crew from the alien planet.
Why similar: Robots 26.1%, Tower Defense 20.5%, RTS 17%, Military 11.5%, Sci-fi 8.1%
- #55 World Crafter TD: Prologue
67% matchMostly Positive75% of 99 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 53%
A highly addictive survival crafting tower defense game! Gather, craft, build turrets, shoot guns, and expand the land to defend against waves of enemies! The prologue for the full game, World Crafter TD!
Why similar: Tower Defense 20.2%, Automation 19.6%, Base Building 16%, Resource Management 13.3%, Crafting 11.4%
- #56 Band of Defenders
71% matchMixed50% of 396 reviews2018
Dev: Alda Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
A Co-Op FPS game with base building in a post-apocalyptic world. Craft weapons, build barricades and automated turrets, unlock new gear and items for visual customization and kill all savages and mutants trying to destroy the remnants of human civilization.
Why similar: Tower Defense 21.2%, Base Building 17.6%, FPS 14%, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, Military 13.1%
- #57 The Crust
66% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,397 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 22.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Why similar: Automation 24.9%, Base Building 20.1%, Resource Management 15%, RTS 10.5%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%
- #58 Rogue Command
66% matchVery Positive92% of 546 reviews2024
Dev: feneq
Windows
Classic RTS gameplay fused with a modern roguelite. Shape your build each run by assembling an evolving arsenal of powerful units and facilities. Harvest resources, build out your base. Raise your army and call down orbital strikes to overcome the forces threatening your survival.
Why similar: RTS 21.8%, Base Building 20%, Military 19.7%, Resource Management 16.3%, Sci-fi 10.6%
- #59 Illuminaria
68% matchVery Positive83% of 76 reviews2022
Dev: Selva Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Command a swarm of intelligent robots in their quest to save the world. Mine resources, manage, and defend multiple bases. Go on expeditions, fight in auto-battles, research new technologies, and create your army of golems to bring back the light.
Why similar: Robots 20.6%, Tower Defense 17.6%, Base Building 17.1%, Automation 16.9%, Resource Management 12.9%
- #60 Dyson Sphere Program
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 90,027 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 75.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
Why similar: Automation 33.2%, Base Building 24%, Resource Management 14.8%, Open World 10.2%, Sci-fi 8%