- #1 Hexguardian
97% matchMostly Positive79% of 695 reviews2024
Dev: Split Second GamesPub: Yogscast Games
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Hexguardian is a roguelite, tower defense game where you build your own maps with hexagonal tiles! Build and upgrade towers, recruit armies, learn spells, construct wonders and place hexagonal tiles to create a path to enhance your defenses. With plenty of game modes and talents to unlock!
Why similar: Tower Defense 22.8%, Hex Grid 19% ★, Procedural Generation 14.8%, RTS 14.7%, Roguelike 12.9%
- #2 Rogue Tower
96% matchVery Positive83% of 5,896 reviews2022
Dev: Die of Death Games
Windows
Median: 10.7 hrsMean: 20.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 46.3%, Roguelike 19.5%, Procedural Generation 14.7%, Base Building 12%, Strategy 7.5%
- #3 Tower Dominion
96% matchVery Positive86% of 5,160 reviews2025
Dev: Parallel 45 Games
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 21.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 24.9%, Base Building 14.3%, RTS 13.6%, Procedural Generation 12.3%, Roguelike 12.1%
- #4 Stellar Initiative
95% matchMostly Positive76% of 404 reviews2024
Dev: Five Head Games
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Stellar Initiative is a roguelike tower defense game where you land on the planet and use your orbit ship to deliver buildings and support you with fire. Complete missions, install new upgrades, discover powerful artifacts, and find the best strategy!
Why similar: Tower Defense 33.4%, Roguelike 17.9%, Base Building 15.6%, Procedural Generation 13%, Sci-fi 11.3%
- #5 Gods Of Defense
94% matchMostly Positive70% of 50 reviews2023
Dev: Blue Math
Windows
Tower Defense Rogue-like. Defend a temple on a procedural map with variety of towers. Craft your strategy through Boon and Curse cards. With every run earn faith to upgrade the weapons. Many progression paths keep you engaged and entertained without getting stuck.
Why similar: Tower Defense 35.7%, Procedural Generation 23.4%, Roguelike 22.2%, Base Building 8.2%, Strategy 6.6%
- #6 Crystal Guardians TD
94% matchVery Positive88% of 115 reviews2024
Dev: Green Pine Studios
Windows
Crystal Guardians is a tower defense game with rogue-like elements. Fight of waves and defend the world crystal. Gear up your towers with a powerful combination of items for your strategy. In an ever expanding map, find hidden powers and conquer the enemies.
Why similar: Tower Defense 29.1%, Roguelike 15.8%, Procedural Generation 15.5%, Perma Death 14.2%, Base Building 10.9%
- #7 Tower Factory
93% matchVery Positive89% of 1,226 reviews2024
Dev: Gius Caminiti
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Tower Factory is a tower defense and automation game with roguelite elements. Optimize resource production using conveyor systems while defending against monster waves. Can you find and destroy the enemy tower before it's too late?
Why similar: Tower Defense 22.6%, RTS 15.5%, Automation 14.3%, Base Building 13.6%, Procedural Generation 12.7%
- #8 Repel The Rifts
92% matchVery Positive85% of 351 reviews2025
Dev: RefinedBearGamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Linux
Repel the Rifts is a roguelite tower defense game where you lead a commander through an alien world, uncovering new terrain each wave, drafting powerful upgrades, and constructing defenses to hold back the chaos.
Why similar: Tower Defense 41.8%, Roguelike 22.4%, Sci-fi 15%, Tactical 12.9%, Strategy 5.7%
- #9 Axon TD: Uprising - Tower Defense
91% matchVery Positive86% of 758 reviews2024
Dev: Element Studios
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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 25.1%, Real Time Tactics 19.6%, RTS 14.2%, Roguelike 11.4%, PvE 10.5%
- #10 Rogue Station
91% matchMostly Positive77% of 231 reviews2023
Dev: Quint Studio
Windows
This "space station builder simulation roguelite" puts you in charge of a space station. Fight off enemy ships, fleets and rival stations to dominate your corner of space. Build and upgrade your station, hire and manage your crew. Survive as long as you can.
Why similar: Base Building 17.8%, Real Time Tactics 17.5%, Perma Death 15.4%, Roguelike 10.5%, Action Roguelike 10.4%
- #11 Guardians of Holme
90% matchMostly Positive76% of 165 reviews2023
Dev: MossTech StudioPub: indienova
Windows · Mac · Linux
Guardians of Holme is a tower defense game with deckbuilding and roguelite elements. Players must use the terrain to their advantage and formulate defensive tactics by strategically placing powerful traps to repel endless waves of enemies.
Why similar: Tower Defense 37.2%, RTS 20.5%, Real Time Tactics 18.7%, Strategy 11.9%, Tactical 5.5%
- #12 Xeno Command
89% matchVery Positive82% of 56 reviews2022
Dev: ChillyRoomPub: ChillyRoom
Windows
Defend galaxy against Alien invasion in the RTS offline game with roguelike fun
Why similar: Tower Defense 22.7%, Real Time Tactics 20.2%, RTS 15.1%, Base Building 12.2%, Roguelike 11.5%
- #13 Dungeon of the ENDLESS™
89% matchVery Positive85% of 14,023 reviews2014
Dev: AMPLITUDE Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Dungeon of the ENDLESS™ is a Rogue-Like Dungeon-Defense game, in which the player and their team of heroes must protect the generator of their crashed ship while exploring an ever-expanding dungeon, all while facing waves of monsters and special events as they try to find their way out...
Why similar: Tower Defense 30.3%, Roguelike 24.1%, Perma Death 14.4%, Procedural Generation 12.2%, Sci-fi 9.4%
- #14 Rogue Command
86% matchVery Positive90% of 926 reviews2026
Dev: feneq
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 69%
True RTS gameplay reinforced with roguelite build crafting. Control units with bullet-time precision. Call down bases and raise armies. Drafted from a different arsenal every run. Weave builds that break the game. Or the game breaks you.
Why similar: RTS 15.8%, Perma Death 15.4%, Base Building 14.4%, Roguelike 12.5%, Military 11.5%
- #15 Rogue Hex
87% matchVery Positive87% of 272 reviews2025
Dev: Topstitch Games
Windows · Mac
Play your cards right to conquer the world in the Roguelite 4x. Explore mysterious lands, survive against the barbarian horde, and grow your stone age empire into the stars!
Why similar: Hex Grid 42.6% ★, Roguelike 34.6%, Strategy 12.3%, Exploration 10.5%
- #16 Towerful Defense: A Rogue TD
88% matchMostly Positive74% of 237 reviews2024
Dev: Mini Fun Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 68%
A roguelike tower defense where you control a single tower to fight against hordes of aliens coming from all directions. Pick your tower, equip up to 4 skills, and choose from a variety of traits and unique effect items to craft powerful builds that lead you to victory.
Why similar: Tower Defense 45.8%, Action Roguelike 21.7%, Roguelike 15.2%, Strategy 8.3%, Top-Down 6.4%
- #17 Gnomes
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 1,764 reviews2025
Dev: DYSTOPIAN
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Gnomes is a turn-based tower defense with deep roguelike progression, set in ever-expanding, procedurally generated biomes. Build, farm and defend your village as you push deeper into goblin-infested territory. Unlock powerful upgrades and craft your environment to survive the endless goblin horde
Why similar: Tower Defense 36.2%, Procedural Generation 22.5%, Roguelike 18.5%, Base Building 17.6%, Strategy 5.2%
- #18 Protolife
86% matchVery Positive86% of 470 reviews2018
Dev: Volcanic Giraffe
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Protolife is an unique tower-based strategy game which gives you a direct control over the builder robot in a struggle against the hungry proto-life organism.
Why similar: Tower Defense 33.4%, RTS 22.6%, Base Building 21.4%, Sci-fi 11.2%, Strategy 6.3%
- #19 Chrysalis
84% matchVery Positive85% of 120 reviews2024
Dev: Metamorph Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Defend your Chrysalis from growing hordes of monsters in this hybrid game that combines elements of tower defense, survival, and roguelike RPGs. Explore procedurally generated levels, possess and control animals, and grow deadly gardens. How far can you get before the next wave of monsters?
Why similar: Tower Defense 28.3%, Procedural Generation 18%, Roguelike 15.8%, Base Building 14.7%, Action Roguelike 9.6%
- #20 Expand & Exterminate: Terrytorial Disputes - Endless Base Defense
85% matchVery Positive81% of 58 reviews2023
Dev: Terryble Interactive
Windows
The best elements of Real-Time Strategy (RTS) and Tower Defense genres combined into a new Base Defense game. Defend against countless waves of enemies while you expand your base, gather resources, and research technologies to defeat the ever strengthening enemy units.
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.6%, RTS 17.5%, PvE 12.6%, Procedural Generation 12.2%, Base Building 11.6%
- #21 Hexagonal Tower
84% matchMixed52% of 54 reviews2022
Dev: Z.F. Gams
Windows
[Hexagonal Tower] is a tower defense game with cards and roguelike random elements. Try to deploy your turrets and various reinforcement components in the dungeon to form a unique and powerful defense. Darkness is coming. Guard the last fortress of mankind with your wisdom!
Why similar: Tower Defense 60.2%, Hex Grid 24.8% ★, Strategy 15%
- #22 Last Stand: Defense
81% matchVery Positive84% of 130 reviews2025
Dev: ZiiTech Games
Windows · Mac
"Last Stand:Defense" is a tower defense-themed Rogue-like game. Players need to defend against waves of enemies by building bases, matching talents, and performing delicate operations during battles. Remember, every choice you make will affect the final outcome of the battle!
Why similar: Tower Defense 46.8%, RTS 32.1%, Strategy 10%, Tactical 6.6%, Sci-fi 4.5%
- #23 Mineral Defense
81% matchVery Positive90% of 245 reviews2024
Dev: Corestone Games
Windows · Linux
Mineral Defense combines tower defense with roguelite elements and procedural generation. Build paths, unlock upgrades, and unleash powerful synergies to conquer evolving challenges in an ever-expanding world.
Why similar: Tower Defense 31.5%, Base Building 19%, Procedural Generation 17.9%, Roguelike 17.6%, Sci-fi 7.6%
- #24 Defend the Rook
82% matchMostly Positive77% of 244 reviews2021
Dev: One Up PlusPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 54%
A roguelike tactics board combat combined with tower defense elements. Defeat the invading hordes to stay alive and save the land! Enjoy more tactics than a normal TD game, combined with the added challenge of building towers and fighting off waves of enemies!
Why similar: Tower Defense 27.5%, Perma Death 21.5%, Base Building 17.7%, Roguelike 15.6%, Tactical 9.5%
- #25 From Glory To Goo
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,706 reviews2024
Dev: Stratagem Blue
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 17.6 hrs≥1hr: 70%
From Glory To Goo is a Sci-Fi survival RTS set on an alien world. Serve as humanity's bulwark by establishing a colony and supporting your colonists still in orbit. But beware, for The Goo, a relentless and shape-shifting force approaches from all sides, even above and below.
Why similar: Tower Defense 32.4%, Base Building 23.2%, RTS 22.9%, Procedural Generation 15.9%, Strategy 5.6%
- #26 Nordhold
79% matchVery Positive87% of 3,259 reviews2025
Dev: StunForgePub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Enemies are coming! Every decision matters: build your city, grow the economy, and prepare for enemy waves. Strengthen your defenses, adapt your strategy, and unleash your hero’s full potential. This unique Tower Defense will test your skills – are you worthy to claim a place at Valhalla?
Why similar: Tower Defense 28.8%, Base Building 16.7%, Roguelike 15%, RTS 10.8%, Procedural Generation 10.7%
- #27 Siege of Centauri
82% matchMixed66% of 450 reviews2019
Dev: Stardock Entertainment
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 43%
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 27.3%, Real Time Tactics 22.7%, Base Building 16.2%, PvE 12.8%, Sci-fi 8.5%
- #28 The Gate Must Stand
78% matchMostly Positive79% of 174 reviews2026
Dev: Senmu StudioPub: Gamersky Games
Windows
Fend off brutal waves of demonic hordes in this epic fantasy tower defense survivors like! Hack and slash among the action or zoom to strategically control the battlefield. You are the city’s last line of defense, build your base, defend the gate!
Why similar: Tower Defense 22%, Real Time Tactics 19.1%, RTS 14.5%, Base Building 13.4%, Roguelike 11.7%
- #29 No Creeps Were Harmed TD
78% matchVery Positive89% of 492 reviews2024
Dev: MinMax Games Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 38.2%, Real Time Tactics 18.6%, Automation 16.4%, Sci-fi 13%, Tactical 6.9%
- #30 Codex of Victory
80% matchMixed69% of 398 reviews2017
Dev: Ino-Co PlusPub: AKPublish pty ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 96%
In this sci-fi turn-based strategy with real-time base-building elements, you’ll be defending human territories against the transhuman Augments. Expand your HQ, and manufacture and upgrade an army of advanced drones to wage interplanetary war for Humanity!
Why similar: Hex Grid 34.4% ★, Base Building 27.8%, Sci-fi 16.7%, Tactical 12%, Strategy 9.1%
- #31 Loopstructor
77% matchVery Positive84% of 378 reviews2024
Dev: Pone Games
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 77%
This is a strategy game that combines tower defense with Roguelike. Unlike traditional tower defense game, the towers in the game are vehicles that move along ‘loops’.You need to create defense loop and build battle trains to defend against enemy attacks.
Why similar: Tower Defense 27.8%, RTS 17%, Roguelike 16.1%, Base Building 13.6%, Automation 12.4%
- #32 Crystal Guardians Prologue
77% matchVery Positive94% of 77 reviews2024
Dev: Green Pine Studios
Windows
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 34.6%, Procedural Generation 21.6%, Roguelike 19.4%, Base Building 17.9%, Strategy 6.5%
- #33 Signal Zone
76% matchMostly Positive80% of 93 reviews2026
Dev: Norafox Studio
Windows
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 44.8%, Base Building 28.6%, Strategy 13%, Procedural Generation 12.2%, 2D 1.4%
- #34 Everwarder
75% matchVery Positive88% of 81 reviews2025
Dev: qLatePub: indie.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Everwarder is a refreshing take on the tower defense genre, blending roguelite mechanics with a time-based survival concept. Fight against the encroaching darkness and fend off emerging enemies. Collect artifacts, buy upgrades, discover ancient structures, unlock new units and more!
Why similar: Tower Defense 31.4%, Procedural Generation 19.9%, Roguelike 15.3%, Sci-fi 9.7%, Tactical 8%
- #35 Minimalist Tower Defense
73% matchVery Positive95% of 1,790 reviews2024
Dev: Happy213
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Collect resources and establish a defense line before dark And then Facing countless enemies
Why similar: Tower Defense 37.4%, Real Time Tactics 26.8%, Base Building 17.4%, Top-Down 8.3%, Strategy 6.9%
- #36 PolyCore Defense
76% matchVery Positive90% of 58 reviews2022
Dev: TorksGame
Windows
PolyCore Defense is a tower defense game where you have to raise your defenses in order to defend your core. Build unique turrets, upgrade them with special effects and use abilities to survive waves of enemies that are trying to destroy your core!
Why similar: Tower Defense 63.4%, Top-Down 12.3%, Strategy 11.9%, Tactical 9.8%, Adventure 2.7%
- #37 Space Cycle
73% matchVery Positive94% of 198 reviews2024
Dev: Some Sugar Studio
Windows
Space resources are the battleground for warring factions. As a Space Defense Officer, protect your faction's assets in a vast, hostile universe. Allocate resources, upgrade defenses, and repel relentless enemy attacks! With over 50 unique units and deep strategy, experience real-time tower defense!
Why similar: Tower Defense 64.3%, Sci-fi 23.1%, Strategy 12.5%
- #38 Isle of Arrows
74% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,093 reviews2022
Dev: Gridpop
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Isle of Arrows is a Puzzle Tower Defense game in which you build a fortress in the sky. Place towers, expand the isle, and build your own paths. Can you find the perfect spot for each tile to beat the RNG and defend against waves of invaders?
Why similar: Tower Defense 41.4%, Roguelike 22.4%, Procedural Generation 21.8%, Strategy 7.4%, Top-Down 7.1%
- #39 2112TD: Tower Defense Survival
74% matchVery Positive87% of 439 reviews2023
Dev: Refinery Games
Windows
Get ready for the ULTIMATE tower defense onslaught. Build, deploy, research and upgrade your defenses in this epic, old school RTS inspired sci-fi adventure.
Why similar: Tower Defense 39.1%, Sci-fi 15%, PvE 14.1%, Tactical 12.1%, Top-Down 8.8%
- #40 Alien Marauder
75% matchMixed63% of 341 reviews2021
Dev: Vexan Studio
Windows
“Alien Marauder” is a real-time strategy game with survival and confrontation theme. In this game, you will be the leader to a treacherous alien planet, build and defend base to survive against the vexan waves. Make the right decision!
Why similar: Tower Defense 19.3%, RTS 17%, Base Building 15.6%, Real Time Tactics 14.8%, Military 12.9%
- #41 Towerful Defense: Prologue
72% matchVery Positive88% of 75 reviews2024
Dev: Mini Fun Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A tower defense action roguelike where you control a single tower to fight against hordes of aliens coming from all directions. Pick your tower, equip up to 4 skills, and choose from a variety of traits and items to craft powerful builds that lead you to victory.
Why similar: Tower Defense 39.6%, RTS 22.3%, Action Roguelike 18.2%, Strategy 8%, Top-Down 7.7%
- #42 Cluckmech Oasis
70% matchVery Positive88% of 3,555 reviews2024
Dev: BlackLightPub: Mammorize
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 36.1%, Roguelike 21.5%, Perma Death 16.4%, Strategy 7.6%, Procedural Generation 6.8%
- #43 Hexworld
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 91 reviews2023
Dev: Volcanic Giraffe
Windows
Hexworld is a tactical auto-battle RTS where you control the traveling kingdom-island, manage your tiles, collect and upgrade buildings, crash into other islands and watch your precious giant golem inevitably fall off the cliff on his way to the front lines.
Why similar: Hex Grid 28.8% ★, RTS 24.6%, Procedural Generation 20.6%, Tactical 9.4%, Strategy 9%
- #44 Orcdom
71% matchVery Positive89% of 72 reviews2025
Dev: GAGAPub: OKJOY
Windows
Orcdom is a minimalist tower defense game with full freedom in tower placement. Defend your crystal from waves of orcs attacking from all directions. Plan your layout, time your spells, and unlock new strategy modes in this fast-paced tactical challenge!
Why similar: Tower Defense 30.8%, Real Time Tactics 24.4%, Base Building 15.6%, RTS 14%, Top-Down 6.7%
- #45 Aurora Defense
72% matchMixed63% of 98 reviews2025
Dev: Moka Games
Windows
A unique roguelike deckbuilder + base-building tower defense game. Build powerful defenses in the last bastion of light, fend off relentless waves of darkness, and protect the final goddess!
Why similar: Tower Defense 30.4%, Roguelike 21.4%, Base Building 20.5%, RTS 18.8%, Strategy 6.3%
- #46 Infinitode 2 - Infinite Tower Defense
70% matchVery Positive91% of 4,163 reviews2021
Dev: Prineside
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 46.1 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Infinitode 2 - a strategy in the Tower Defense genre, in which the player will have to build towers to protect his base from endless waves of enemies. The game features huge maps, lots of towers, resource miners, upgrade tree and map editor.
Why similar: Tower Defense 31.5%, Real Time Tactics 26%, PvE 14.7%, Tactical 10.2%, Top-Down 8.3%
- #47 Taur
71% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,099 reviews2020
Dev: Echo Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 36.4%, Base Building 15.3%, RTS 10.8%, Real Time Tactics 10.5%, Sci-fi 7.5%
- #48 Mechs V Kaijus - Tower Defense
71% matchVery Positive84% of 540 reviews2022
Dev: Doble Punch Games
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Mechs V Kaijus is an addictive hardcore tower defense gameplay. In Mechs V Kaijus you take on the role of Commander of a powerful Mechs squadron. Improve your Mech, strategically place towers and factories on the battlefield. Deploy support units on the battlefield, and save our civilization.
Why similar: Tower Defense 33.5%, Base Building 15.3%, Real Time Tactics 15.2%, Roguelike 12.6%, Tactical 9.5%
- #49 Dome Keeper
68% matchVery Positive92% of 21,626 reviews2022
Dev: BippinbitsPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Defend against waves of alien monsters in this unique roguelike action miner. Dig for resources, collect useful gadgets, and upgrade equipment to increase odds of survival – just hurry back before your dome is destroyed!
Why similar: Tower Defense 25.6%, Roguelike 22.4%, Procedural Generation 17.8%, Sci-fi 12.7%, Tactical 9.5%
- #50 ITER-8
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 184 reviews2026
Dev: fluckyMachinePub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Welcome to the surface, ITER employee #8. Mine the Pillar, upgrade your tools, defend your base, reach the top... or die miserably. Each expendable worker pushes the mission forward - one glorious, replaceable iteration at a time.
Why similar: Tower Defense 24.8%, Real Time Tactics 20.8%, Procedural Generation 16.3%, Roguelike 14.9%, Sci-fi 8%
- #51 Wireworks
67% matchVery Positive90% of 446 reviews2026
Dev: JJJ
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Design your defenses, build your module board, and manage your wires. Combine signals and create synergies to empower your weapons and survive in this base-defense roguelike auto-battler.
Why similar: Tower Defense 42.9%, Automation 24.8%, Roguelike 18.1%, Strategy 8.1%, Top-Down 4.2%
- #52 World Crafter TD
70% matchMixed46% of 653 reviews2024
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 31%
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: Open World Survival Craft 35.1% ★, Tower Defense 24.4%, Base Building 15.6%, Automation 13.3%, Exploration 6.3%
- #53 Hexagod
67% matchVery Positive89% of 82 reviews2025
Dev: Aarimous
Windows · Mac · Linux
A satisfying roguelike village builder set in the eye of an apocalyptic storm. Place hexagon tiles, unlock adjacency bonuses, and find powerful relics to create game breaking synergies. Prove you are worthy of becoming the next Hexagod… before the storm destroys it all.
Why similar: Roguelike 43.1%, Base Building 38.3%, Strategy 12.1%, 2D 6.5%
- #54 Block Tower TD
68% matchVery Positive84% of 87 reviews2023
Dev: MyDreamForever
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Block Tower TD is a roguelike tower defense strategy game with interesting innovations. Build a world out of blocks, choose random upgrades to make every run unique.
Why similar: Tower Defense 33.4%, Roguelike 18.8%, Procedural Generation 15.4%, Base Building 12.9%, Tactical 8.9%
- #55 Core Defense
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 367 reviews2020
Dev: ehmprahPub: Sonderland
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 62%
A roguelike tower defense game with a dash of deckbuilding. Choose a reward, improve your build, survive the next wave, repeat. Highly replayable, difficult, and addictive. You'll want just one more wave, just one more run!
Why similar: Tower Defense 44.2%, Roguelike 18.3%, Procedural Generation 15.6%, Strategy 6.1%, Sci-fi 4.9%
- #56 Stellarcraft
65% matchVery Positive91% of 101 reviews2026
Dev: DreamStudios
Windows
Stellarcraft is a sci-fi tower defense adventure: explore alien planets, gather resources, build defenses, and fend off waves of enemies, solo or in 4-player co-op. 🚀
Why similar: Real Time Tactics 27.9%, Base Building 23.2%, RTS 18%, Sci-fi 10.9%, Strategy 7.7%
- #57 ROD: Revolt Of Defense
69% matchMostly Positive80% of 546 reviews2016
Dev: Rock Wale
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Explore a random generated space. Find artifacts and treasure maps. Build and develop your base on a flying platform. Attack or defend against enemies and save the universe!
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #58 Byte Lynx
67% matchVery Positive98% of 88 reviews2022
Dev: Artful Games
Windows
Byte Lynx is a fast-paced RTS with no units. Build defenses, dismantle your enemy, and steal their buildings in this deeply tactical building combat-based strategy game. Expand your arsenal across a series of diverse levels!
Why similar: Tower Defense 20.2%, Base Building 16.4%, RTS 16.2%, Real Time Tactics 13.9%, PvE 8.9%
- #59 Beacon of Neyda
66% matchVery Positive90% of 52 reviews2025
Dev: Ghost Creative Studio
Windows · Linux
In a world where a robot revolution failed, the last humans search for a way to survive and escape. Beacon of Neyda is a side-scrolling action-strategy game where you must survive waves of enemies while creating and upgrading your base as you explore a world in ruins.
Why similar: Tower Defense 40.8%, Procedural Generation 19%, Sci-fi 12.6%, Strategy 10.2%, Exploration 9.8%
- #60 IDUN - Frontline Survival
65% matchMostly Positive79% of 702 reviews2025
Dev: IDUN InteractivePub: Surefire.Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 26.2%, RTS 17.9%, Base Building 17.2%, Procedural Generation 15.1%, Sci-fi 10.1%