- #1 iBomber Defense
97% matchMostly Positive74% of 245 reviews2011
Dev: Cobra Mobile
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 54%
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 50.2%, Strategy 38%, Indie 11.8%
- #2 Harvest: Massive Encounter
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 162 reviews2009
Dev: Oxeye Game Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Harvest: Massive Encounter is an award-winning real-time strategy game with battles of epic proportions and a unique style of resource management and exploration. Build power plants, mineral harvesters and defense towers and make sure they have sufficient energy to fend off endless hordes of evil aliens.
Why similar: Tower Defense 46%, Strategy 40.1%, Indie 13.8%
- #3 Cubemen
96% matchMostly Positive71% of 511 reviews2012
Dev: 3 SprocketsPub: 3 Sprockets
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 35%
Just Updated! Version 1.1 now has 6 New online Mayhem levels, Character Customization, 35 Defense levels, 25 Skirmish levels, and more!
Why similar: Tower Defense 49.8%, Strategy 37%, Indie 13.3%
- #4 Ninja Cats vs Samurai Dogs
95% matchMixed61% of 38 reviews2014
Dev: Eutechnyx
Windows
TIGA award nominated Ninja Cats vs Samurai Dogs combines the addictiveness of a tower defence game with the depth and tactical variety of a Real Time Strategy title. Choose your side in a fast paced and frenetic battle for canine or feline supremacy!Leading an army of Ninja Cats or Samurai Dogs has never felt so compelling!
Why similar: Strategy 49.7%, Tower Defense 35%, Indie 15.3%
- #5 War in a Box: Paper Tanks
94% matchMostly Positive71% of 208 reviews2014
Dev: DQ Team
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 43%
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 49.7%, Strategy 37.6%, Indie 12.7%
- #6 Gratuitous Tank Battles
93% matchMixed52% of 104 reviews2012
Dev: Positech Games
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 35%
Set in an alternate history timeline where World War I never ends, you are the commander of allied forces fighting right up to the year 2114.
Why similar: Strategy 43%, Tower Defense 42.2%, Indie 14.7%
- #7 Selknam Defense
92% matchMixed42% of 57 reviews2014
Windows · Mac
Median: 30 minMean: 1.7 hrs≥1hr: 33%
Selknam Defense is more than an exceptional strategy game. It’s a gateway to the past that puts a nation’s destiny into your control. Do you have the skills to alter history and save the Selknam?
Why similar: Tower Defense 45.3%, Strategy 40.2%, Indie 14.5%
- #8 Sentinel
91% matchMixed65% of 95 reviews2014
Dev: Matthew Brown
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18 minMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 29%
Sentinel is an interactive audio tower defense game. It mixes strategic gameplay with a dynamic music system.
Why similar: Strategy 44.5%, Tower Defense 37%, Indie 18.5%
- #9 Fieldrunners
91% matchMixed66% of 344 reviews2012
Dev: Subatomic Studios LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 54 minMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Fieldrunners is now available on Steam! Download it now to play the hit tower defense game critics and fans have been raving about. Descend into the world of Fieldrunners, the most anticipated and visually stunning game in tower defense history!
Why similar: Tower Defense 59.4%, Strategy 30%, Indie 10.6%
- #10 Great Big War Game
90% matchVery Positive93% of 74 reviews2012
Dev: Rubicon Development
Windows
Join 2.5 million gamers in this award-winning, BAFTA-Nominated turn-based strategy game.
Why similar: Strategy 75%, Indie 25%
- #11 Defense Zone
89% matchVery Positive83% of 83 reviews2014
Dev: Artem Kotov
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 47.8%, Strategy 39.2%, Indie 13%
- #12 Archon Classic
88% matchVery Positive81% of 192 reviews2010
Dev: React Games
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 27%
Inspired by chess, but adding combat that YOU control, Archon was the original Battle Chess. You must try to outmaneuver your opponent using teams of fantasy creatures or monsters in this epic struggle of Light and Dark.
Why similar: Strategy 76%, Indie 24%
- #13 APOX
89% matchMostly Negative29% of 180 reviews2011
Dev: BlueGiant Interactive
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 40%
A Real-Time Strategy game with First-Person Shooter tactics.
Why similar: Strategy 77.1%, Indie 22.9%
- #14 Stop Santa - Tower Defense
86% matchMixed68% of 47 reviews2017
Dev: Taco Truck Games
Windows
Take the War on Christmas all the way to the North Pole! Santa has gone crazy and enlisted an army of evil elves, zombie Santas, and sadistic penguins. It's now up to you and the remaining elves to Stop Santa in this holiday themed tower defense game!
Why similar: Strategy 46.2%, Tower Defense 36.6%, Indie 17.3%
- #15 Rush for Glory
86% matchMixed61% of 149 reviews2014
Dev: Parseh Game StudioPub: KATNAPPE SP. Z O. O.
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 29.7 hrs≥1hr: 34%
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 55.4%, Strategy 44.6%
- #16 Tryst
87% matchMostly Negative25% of 63 reviews2012
Dev: BlueGiant Interactive
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 30%
Tryst is a competitive Real Time Strategy Game that provides a unique, fast paced spin to the established strategy model.
Why similar: Strategy 74.5%, Indie 25.5%
- #17 Unstoppable Gorg
85% matchMostly Positive79% of 307 reviews2012
Dev: Futuremark
Windows · Mac
Median: 36 minMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Defend the solar system from fearsome aliens by sending satellites into orbit in revolutionary tower defense action!
Why similar: Tower Defense 62.5%, Strategy 29.7%, Indie 7.8%
- #18 Alien Robot Monsters
82% matchVery Positive85% of 124 reviews2015
Dev: Kraftix Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Epic sci-fi tower defense action with 16-bit era look and feel, pitching your colonists against an almost endless horde of hostile alien robots who strongly oppose your attempts of colonizing their planet! Deluxe version includes the soundtrack!
Why similar: Strategy 46.8%, Tower Defense 36.5%, Indie 16.7%
- #19 Kingdom Elemental
83% matchMixed55% of 33 reviews2014
Dev: Scott ThuneliusPub: Chronic Logic
Windows
Kingdom Elemental takes core game play elements from real-time strategy, tactics, and role-playing games and combines them into a game that is easy to pick up and play. It is designed to be lighthearted and humorous with fun, re-playable game play. Try out the Destiny Mode and challenge levels for more variety.
Why similar: Strategy 72.8%, Indie 27.2%
- #20 Sentinel 3: Homeworld
82% matchMostly Positive80% of 149 reviews2014
Dev: Origin8Pub: Strategy First
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 62%, Strategy 29.5%, Indie 8.4%
- #21 Project Hastur
79% matchPositive89% of 18 reviews2019
Dev: Polymorphic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Defend humanity against the ever changing threat of the alien Proteans. Project Hastur combines elements of 3D tower defense and real-time strategy with models of biological evolution to create a uniquely challenging experience.
Why similar: Strategy 53.3%, Tower Defense 26.8%, Indie 19.9%
- #22 Defense Zone 2
80% matchVery Positive85% of 162 reviews2014
Dev: Artem Kotov
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 53.4%, Strategy 35%, Indie 11.6%
- #23 Lethal Laser
79% matchPositive82% of 38 reviews2017
Dev: DigiFeather
Windows · Mac
《Lethal Laser》 is a directional laser based tower defense game. No bullet/arrow shooting nor warrior producing, just pure laser. Laser reflection, split, color separation, color combine, play it with strategy you never seen in TD games.
Why similar: Strategy 51.9%, Tower Defense 28.7%, Indie 19.4%
- #24 Defense of the Fantasy Robots
78% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: Tulaboev Ikhvolbek
Windows
Defense of the Fantasy Robots is a Tower-Defense game that focuses on tactical and strategical depth.
Why similar: Strategy 54.3%, Tower Defense 25.4%, Indie 20.3%
- #25 Isomer
81% matchVery Negative17% of 74 reviews2014
Dev: Ionising Software
Windows
Isomer is an isometric strategy game inspired by classic turn based games from the 90s and many other more recent survival titles. It's open ended, sandbox and each world is procedurally generated leading to an almost unlimited number of different worlds to explore, mine, loot and conquer.
Why similar: Strategy 75%, Indie 25%
- #26 Rabbit Island
78% matchMixed67% of 42 reviews2016
Dev: Serhii Vitukhin
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 98%
We invite you to join a trip to little islands of jolly forms. We will be thankful to you, the great strategist, if you help us to get rid of gluttonous rabbits.
Why similar: Strategy 51.4%, Tower Defense 30%, Indie 18.7%
- #27 Fat Chicken
77% matchMixed70% of 46 reviews2014
Dev: Mighty Rabbit StudiosPub: Relevant Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Fat Chicken is a REVERSE TOWER DEFENSE game where you fatten up farm animals for slaughter by pumping them full of hormones, overfeeding them and basting them with antibiotics to keep them alive so they're worth more when you turn 'em into tasty, tasty packaged meat...it's what's for dinner!
Why similar: Strategy 50.1%, Tower Defense 31.9%, Indie 18%
- #28 Bots Rush
76% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2018
Dev: Ponomarev Denis
Windows
Bots Rush is a unique mix of Tower Defense and logistic puzzle. You will find a set of interesting and complicated game levels, original enemies. Your task is simply to build a network of roads to deliver resources to factories and ammo to towers. Sounds easy, right? Lets check this out.
Why similar: Strategy 46.8%, Tower Defense 36.5%, Indie 16.7%
- #29 Dungeon Warfare 2
73% matchVery Positive90% of 1,140 reviews2018
Dev: Valsar
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Become a dungeon lord to defend your dungeons with the deadliest of traps and insidious contraptions against greedy adventurers and wannabe heroes.
Why similar: Strategy 46.2%, Tower Defense 38.7%, Indie 15.2%
- #30 War Heroes: Invasion
75% matchMixed58% of 38 reviews2018
Dev: Hammerson Games
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Mighty towers, powerful explosions, epic battles - all these and much more awaits you in this one of the best Tower Defense games. Evil tanks, warplanes, mortar men and machine-gunners are ready to attack the land of civilians. Take the challenge and commence the battle!
Why similar: Strategy 52.6%, Tower Defense 27.8%, Indie 19.7%
- #31 Fantasy Realm TD
74% match6 user reviews33% of 6 reviews2019
Dev: Gyro-Games Inc.
Windows
Try tower defense with many towers & defense strategies! TD game from TD players
Why similar: Strategy 57.7%, Indie 21.9%, Tower Defense 20.4%
- #32 M.A.C.E. Tower Defense
75% matchMostly Positive70% of 61 reviews2017
Dev: EntwicklerX
Windows
M.A.C.E. Tower Defense is a classic tower defense game with unique towers and enemies and an ingame shop system for getting better towers, upgrade existing towers and buy special items.
Why similar: Strategy 47.3%, Tower Defense 36%, Indie 16.6%
- #33 Mosby's Confederacy
76% matchMixed64% of 39 reviews2008
Dev: Tilted Mill Entertainment, Inc.
Windows
As John Singleton Mosby, one of the Civil War's most interesting and dynamic leaders, you are charged, not with leading vast armies into battle, but with commanding small bands of skirmishers, scouts, and guerilla fighters on opportunistic missions to scout, ambush, steal supplies, and harass a larger and better-armed force of Union soldi
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #34 Crumbled World
74% match8 user reviews50% of 8 reviews2016
Dev: Clone Corps
Windows · Linux
Crumbled World is a tower defense game where you're tasked to create a maze of defensive structures with the purpose to defend the world crystal. The world crystal is what keeps the world from further collapsing into darkness and without it no hope exists.
Why similar: Strategy 43.3%, Tower Defense 40.6%, Indie 16.2%
- #35 Planet Modular TD
72% matchMixed60% of 10 reviews2019
Dev: Gyro-Games Inc.
Windows
Tower defense offline game with many defense strategies. Gem of TD games
Why similar: Strategy 59.9%, Indie 22.8%, Tower Defense 17.3%
- #36 Space Adventure TD
73% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2019
Dev: Raphael B.
Windows
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: Strategy 58.9%, Tower Defense 33.7%, Indie 7.3%
- #37 HarmonyTD
72% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2018
Dev: FunArouGames
Windows
Harmony TD is a competitive multiplayer 3D Tower Defense game. You control a builder and you have to defend the city against waves of bad mana minions. Are you ready ?
Why similar: Strategy 49.2%, Tower Defense 32.5%, Indie 18.4%
- #38 Cubemen 2
73% matchMixed68% of 231 reviews2013
Dev: 3 Sprockets
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Cubemen 2 is a fast paced, action packed, original 3D Strategy game where you use your little Cubemen units to defend and attack enemies in a range of awesome game modes including CTF, Skirmish, Territory and more.
Why similar: Strategy 42.4%, Tower Defense 40.8%, Indie 16.8%
- #39 Oasis Defense
70% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2020
Dev: ZGameStudio
Windows
Oasis Defense is a minimalist tower defense game with free and changeable strategies. You will plant trees to fight against the ghost army and protect your oasis. Here, every game is a journey to choose the path of evolution.
Why similar: Strategy 60.3%, Indie 22.6%, Tower Defense 17.1%
- #40 One Troll Army
70% matchVery Positive86% of 1,487 reviews2016
Dev: FlyAnvilPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Play as a giant troll in One Troll Army - a defense game about building forts, upgrading your troll, and fighting off waves of enemies. Play Against The Twitch Chat!
Why similar: Strategy 69.6%, Tower Defense 24.3%, Indie 6%
- #41 Particula
71% matchMixed70% of 2,734 reviews2015
Dev: Microblast GamesPub: SA Industry
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Destroy negativity, clear your mind! Particula brings you a new perspective in gaming, helping you to concentrate and relax. A three players co-op tower defense experience with a relaxing soundtrack, smooth visuals and gameplay.
Why similar: Strategy 57.9%, Tower Defense 32.4%, Indie 9.6%
- #42 Creeper World: Anniversary Edition
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 966 reviews2016
Dev: Knuckle Cracker
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Imagine an enemy that is everywhere and moves like a giant, organic mass across the map. Imagine your base and your people surrounded by a blanket of crushing destruction from all directions. Your only hope, well what hope? Then you take the high ground and pound this enemy into oblivion.
Why similar: Strategy 51.7%, Tower Defense 30.8%, Indie 17.4%
- #43 Defense Zone 3 Ultra HD
69% matchMostly Positive80% of 508 reviews2016
Dev: Artem Kotov
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 31.6 hrs≥1hr: 70%
The sequel to the hit strategy game, with new weapons, landscapes, and options.
Why similar: Strategy 50%, Tower Defense 33.9%, Indie 16.2%
- #44 Artificial Defense
68% matchVery Positive82% of 210 reviews2016
Dev: Thiemo Bolder, ONEMANGAMES
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Artificial Defense is a one man made, real time strategy game combining orbital shooter and tower defense components within an electrifying, virtual reality setting. You are the machine, a mighty computer-system defending its servers against swarms of intruding creeps.
Why similar: Strategy 53.7%, Tower Defense 25.6%, Indie 20.6%
- #45 Commando Jack
71% matchMixed50% of 561 reviews2014
Dev: Colossal GamesPub: KISS ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 94%
A Tower Defence game, that actually allows you to sit inside the turret and come face-to-face with the enemies! Addictive strategy - action game, with loads of shooting and explosions! Nearing 2 MILLION DOWNLOADS!
Why similar: Strategy 51.6%, Tower Defense 34.1%, Indie 14.3%
- #46 Defense Technica
71% matchMostly Negative40% of 188 reviews2013
Dev: Kuno Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 63.1%, Strategy 28.1%, Indie 8.8%
- #47 Spec Defense
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 11 reviews2018
Dev: k.Song Tan
Windows
Classic, maze based tower defense. Pick your towers and strategy, plan your maze and let none gets past!
Why similar: Strategy 49.7%, Tower Defense 31.8%, Indie 18.6%
- #48 Vertex Dispenser
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 36 reviews2011
Dev: Michael Brough
Windows · Mac
Median: 12 minMean: 42 min≥1hr: 17%
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Why similar: Strategy 75.1%, Indie 24.9%
- #49 MyTD 我的塔防
68% matchMixed57% of 68 reviews2017
Dev: DaTigerGame
Windows
[MYTD] is a tower defense strategy game, Unlike traditional tower defense.[MYTD] has added a lot of fresh play.[MYTD] is a pixel tower game strategy placed through games, with endless defense mode, character upgrades, defensive towers skills to choose, turret and changeful, one thousand kinds of style let you challenge without limit, the...
Why similar: Strategy 47%, Tower Defense 35.5%, Indie 17.6%
- #50 Pocket God vs Desert Ashes
69% matchMixed43% of 23 reviews2015
Dev: Nine Tales Digital
Windows · Mac
It's "Clash of the Titans!" Or, rather, "Clash of the Pygmies and Landians!" In cooperation with Bolt Creative, Nine Tales Digital brings you a new spin on their popular Desert Ashes turn-based strategy game, guest starring a powerful Pygmy army defending their territory.
Why similar: Strategy 72.8%, Indie 27.2%
- #51 GAIA 2200
67% matchMixed67% of 36 reviews2017
Dev: QEGAME
Windows
In 2200,the earth has been badly destroyed due to the human beings“GAIA Project ”,the first project which named by all the human beings to protect the earth, has been put on the agenda.Coincidentally, you have been the captain of “GAIA Project ”,now fight with your partners to save the world.
Why similar: Strategy 44.4%, Tower Defense 39.1%, Indie 16.6%
- #52 Tiny Toyfare
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 45 reviews2017
Dev: Super Suite Studios
Windows
Tiny Toyfare is a Tower Defense/FPS hybrid with a focus on strategic calm followed by twitch action. Construct powerful towers, recruit adorable squads and fight off the Dino invasion!
Why similar: Strategy 45.1%, Tower Defense 37.3%, Indie 17.6%
- #53 Tiny Guardians
66% matchMostly Positive80% of 159 reviews2016
Dev: Kurechii
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Prepare to embark on an epic adventure with tiny heroes in this tower defence game with a twist! Summon unique guardians to defend Lunalie against various enemies as she journeys through the wilderness of Prism.
Why similar: Strategy 48.7%, Tower Defense 32.2%, Indie 19.1%
- #54 Omnipresent
68% matchMixed55% of 28 reviews2015
Dev: Starkey Industries
Windows
What would you do if you had the power of a self-aware AI? Take control of S.E.N.T.I.E.N.T and see what choices you would make. Connect to the Internet and hack into corporations, governments, websites and more...
Why similar: Strategy 72.1%, Indie 27.9%