- #1 TD Fade to Dark
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Firedev Studio SRLPub: S.C. 16 BIT NIGHTS S.R.L.
Windows
A dark Tower Defense and Survival hybrid where your only currency is time, and how you choose to use. Step into the dark forest, build your defenses during the day, explore, and during the night make every second count before the monsters find you.
Why similar: Tower Defense 32.1%, Base Building 19.4%, Minimalist 14.1%, Building 11.8%, Survival 9.5%
- #2 Bandit the game
96% matchMostly Positive74% of 47 reviews2019
Dev: Adrian Ubiorski
Windows
Bandit the game is an open-world RPG with unique quests, character development, intense combat and interesting exploration. With optional elements: tower defense, city/base building and gang management.
Why similar: Tower Defense 24.2%, Base Building 18.7%, Survival 12.8%, Sandbox 12%, Crafting 9.5%
- #3 Constructopia
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Snail Tooth Studio
Windows
Constructopia is a survival tower-defense game where you can design, build and craft your towers! Gather resources by hand or build systems aimed at automating your production! Build and maintain bases, design defense contraptions and use them to aid you in your adventure against the trolls!
Why similar: Tower Defense 23.7%, Base Building 16.9%, Sandbox 12.3%, Crafting 11.5%, Survival 10.6%
- #4 Emberhaven
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: The Third Variable Co., Ltd.Pub: Jexar Games Co., Ltd.
Windows
Survive in a procedurally generated fantasy world overrun by creeping corruption. Build impenetrable strongholds, tend your farms, forge deadly weapons, and fend off hordes of mutated abominations to defend your last sanctuary.
Why similar: Tower Defense 17.8%, Base Building 17.1%, Sandbox 12.1%, Survival 11.4%, Crafting 10.5%
- #5 King Alone
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: root gang
Windows · Mac · Linux
KING ALONE is a Survivors-like, Skill & Equipment building game with Online activities. Perfect your King’s build and find a way to cut through thousands of enemies in a single run. As King, your abilities and decisions are crucial – but it’s your skill that will carry you furthest.
Why similar: Tower Defense 30.6%, Base Building 19.4%, Minimalist 13.2%, Survival 11%, Building 10.2%
- #6 ReTower: Custom Defense
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Baturalp ÖZMEN
Windows
A modular tower defense strategy game where you design, build, and upgrade fully customizable towers to survive relentless enemy waves.
Why similar: Tower Defense 36.3%, Base Building 20.5%, Sandbox 16.8%, Building 12.5%, Strategy 9.6%
- #7 Doomed Night: Build Base & Explore
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Steppe Wind
Windows
Build your kingdom, expand borders, and face darkness. By day, gather strength, build defenses, and explore the land. By night, lead your army in tower defense, fight monsters with your troops, defend your people, and survive waves spilling from portals threatening all.
Why similar: Tower Defense 34.4%, Minimalist 14.7%, Survival 12.1%, Base Building 11.7%, Strategy 10.7%
- #8 NodeLord
92% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2024
Dev: HowDeerYou
Windows
Automate a settlement of alcoholic dwarves, build towers, craft ammunition, and fend off those stupid trolls!
Why similar: Tower Defense 25.2%, Base Building 18.3%, Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 10.9%, Survival 7.7%
- #9 Project Tomorrow
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Advance Nine
Windows
A base-building survival game with terraforming and crafting. Earth lies poisoned and abandoned ten thousand years after invasion. Awaken from stasis, defend your fragile foothold, and restore a dead world so humanity can live here again.
Why similar: Tower Defense 27.1%, Base Building 22.9%, Survival 13.8%, Crafting 12.5%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #10 Elevation Tower Defense
91% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Aaron Anderson
Windows
Take the high ground with Elevation Tower Defense - a fully 3D TD experience letting you experience the battle from all angles. Build and upgrade towers - fight off waves of enemies - watch out for environmental impacts!
Why similar: Tower Defense 35.5%, Strategy 15.2%, Minimalist 13.7%, Base Building 11.9%, Building 9.4%
- #11 Start Over
90% matchMixed61% of 379 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Embark on an unpredictable survival journey in Start Over. Solo, co-op, online, explore diverse landscapes, craft through 4 tech tiers, encounter wildlife, and trade or raid for resources. Choose your path, defend against waves, and shape your destiny in a dynamic world. Are you ready to Start Over?
Why similar: Tower Defense 24.6%, Base Building 19.6%, Survival 13.2%, Sandbox 12.9%, Crafting 12.8%
- #12 Candy Factory TD
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tbjbu2 Originals
Windows
Build a candy factory to defend against waves of candy creatures! A first-person tower defense factory building automation game. Manage productions, build candy turrets, expand the island, and beat the waves!
Why similar: Tower Defense 25.2%, Base Building 18.6%, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 9.9%, Sandbox 9%
- #13 ArcaneOutpost
88% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: VortexRingGame
Windows
A strategy game that combines MOBA and Tower Defence, You would control guardians with different skills,building your outpost to fend off enemy attacks.
Why similar: Tower Defense 34.9%, Base Building 24.5%, Strategy 14.8%, Building 11.8%, Survival 8.2%
- #14 Stonetowers
89% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2018
Dev: Gareloch Games
Windows
Build and defend your burgeoning settlement in this town-building tower-defence hybrid. Guide your people as they unlock the secrets of the arcane and protect their new home from the otherworldly beings that surround it.
Why similar: Tower Defense 35.7%, Strategy 25%, Base Building 24.7%, Survival 14.6%
- #15 Toast Defense
87% matchVery Positive84% of 224 reviews2020
Dev: Egghead Interactive LLC.
Windows
Ducks are after your toast! Setup various water guns in this fun tower defense game to shoo away the ducks so they don't steal your precious toast. You choose how many flocks of ducks come for your toast each wave, the greater the risk the greater the reward!
Why similar: Tower Defense 40.8%, Sandbox 24.2%, Survival 17.6%, Strategy 14.5%, Action 2.3%
- #16 The Islands
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Trash Studios
Windows
An open-world survival game. Use your environment to craft items and structures. Physics based with weather and day/night. More than 50 different animals. Combat and non-combat activities fishing.
Why similar: Tower Defense 25.4%, Base Building 22.4%, Survival 15.5%, Crafting 14.5%, Strategy 7%
- #17 Nightfall Waves
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Torched Hill
Windows
Explore islands, gather resources, unlock upgrades and strengthen your defenses by day. When night falls, survive against relentless waves of shadow creatures.
Why similar: Tower Defense 32.3%, Base Building 21.8%, Minimalist 12%, Strategy 9.5%, Survival 8.3%
- #18 Outpost
85% matchVery Positive87% of 795 reviews2020
Dev: Open Mid Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 52%
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 28.8%, Base Building 16.8%, Survival 13.5%, Sandbox 10.1%, Building 9.8%
- #19 Dig or Die
84% matchVery Positive90% of 4,284 reviews2018
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.
Why similar: Survival 17%, Sandbox 16.8%, Tower Defense 16.1%, Crafting 13.9%, Open World Survival Craft 11.7% ★
- #20 Maze and Fairy tale
83% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2026
Dev: HJ Game StudioPub: Wise Games
Windows
This is a 2.5D style game combining Survival, Maze Exploration, and Tower Defense gameplay. During the day, you need to enter the maze to collect supplies necessary for survival. At night, you must return to the main base and build defense towers to fend off invading monsters.
Why similar: Tower Defense 24.5%, Base Building 17.3%, Sandbox 13.1%, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 9.4%
- #21 Son of Aral
84% matchPositive91% of 34 reviews2020
Dev: Miradil
Windows · Mac
An experimental game that combines sandbox survival and tower defence. Expand your island from scratch and build it any way you want, also defend the enemies from destroying island's core.At last escape from this fake world!
Why similar: Tower Defense 33.4%, Sandbox 15.3%, Strategy 14.2%, Building 12.6%, Base Building 9.7%
- #22 Crystal Tower Defense
82% matchMixed69% of 35 reviews2023
Dev: Hot Roof Studios
Windows
Stop an endless hoard of crystal-type enemies, with different attributes, from reaching the portal to earth! You can build your own labyrinths, unlock new turrets, upgrade them, unlock abilities, and also gather permanent bonuses.
Why similar: Tower Defense 33.2%, Base Building 16.9%, Strategy 8.4%, Building 8%, Survival 7.6%
- #23 Symbiosis
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Aberratic
Windows
A solo or coop hero-shooter set in a procedural alien world. Explore, build, evolve, and fight side-by-side against waves of mechanical hybrids. Wishlist now!
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.7%, Base Building 19.6%, Survival 12.4%, Sandbox 11.9%, Crafting 11.9%
- #24 Hold & Advance
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: BaltaZar
Windows
2D action sandbox about exploring an underground world, crafting and tactically defending alien stations. Build turrets, combine modules and repel enemy waves to unlock powerful upgrades that radically change your playstyle.
Why similar: Tower Defense 32.8%, Base Building 19.9%, Sandbox 19.6%, Crafting 15.4%, Strategy 3.9%
- #25 Everlost
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: kub3sqtPub: Orivilon
Windows
Stranded in a world that never stops growing. Gather, craft, build and survive in an infinite procedurally generated wilderness where no two worlds are ever the same.
Why similar: Sandbox 20.8%, Base Building 19.3%, Crafting 17%, Building 15.5%, Survival 15.3%
- #26 Astronaut Assault
79% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: DalyForge Games
Windows · Mac
Dive into Astronaut Assault, a third-person Sci-Fi tower defense game, and battle against relentless enemy waves in diverse arena settings. Arm yourself with an array of turrets, traps, and gadgets to halt, hinder, and outmaneuver your foes.
Why similar: Tower Defense 30.4%, Base Building 17.1%, Sandbox 14.7%, Survival 14%, Building 11.1%
- #27 A Good Day to Pie
78% match7 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: JamSnack
Windows
Action-packed Survival Sandbox game focused on Base Building and Wave Defense. Defend the Pie from the horde of Evil Pie-Stealing Gremlins by exploring the regions, collecting resources, crafting items, and building defenses.
Why similar: Tower Defense 19.9%, Base Building 18.2%, Sandbox 13.2%, Crafting 11.1%, Building 9.7%
- #28 StackFortress
81% matchMixed44% of 16 reviews2018
Dev: Overimagined Games
Windows
A unique tower defense game. Where you design and build your defense block by block. With many component that can be combined for different effect. To survive in a hostile world.
Why similar: Tower Defense 30.8%, Base Building 17%, Strategy 16.7%, Sandbox 14.1%, Survival 11.1%
- #29 Project: Vaccine A
79% matchVery Positive89% of 53 reviews2021
Dev: Birb Games
Windows
Firewall, vaccine, cleaner... Place various blocks to protect your CPU! Vaccine A is a sandbox defense game, filled with parody of various programs.
Why similar: Tower Defense 39.4%, Base Building 27%, Sandbox 15.1%, Building 8.3%, Strategy 7.9%
- #30 IslaNode Rescue Signal
77% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Gor Yeritsyan
Windows
IslaNode Rescue Signal it is a unique survival adventure ,set on deserted island where you have nothing but natural resources. Stranded alone, you’ll need to explore, gather materials, and craft with unique node-based crafting system.
Why similar: Base Building 21.3%, Survival 16%, Sandbox 15.6%, Crafting 15.1%, Building 11.4%
- #31 Holdline: Last Gate
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Out of Spite Games
Windows
Holdline: Last Gate is a third-person tower-defense survival game. Harvest resources, craft and place towers, and hold the gate across a chain of diverse alien maps as the wave fights you on every front at once.
Why similar: Tower Defense 39.6%, Base Building 26.3%, Crafting 16.3%, Strategy 12.4%, Stylized 2.8%
- #32 Colony Defense - Tower Defense
76% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: McPeppergames
Windows
Atmospheric unique minimalist tower base defense game. Highly addictive.
Why similar: Tower Defense 35.3%, Base Building 24.6%, Minimalist 13.9%, Strategy 9.1%, Stylized 6.9%
- #33 Automate Defend Repeat
76% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: BigScorchPub: Sage Games
Windows
Automate, Defend, Repeat: A combination of factory management and tower defense strategy. Build a planet-dominating factory, defend it from disgruntled resource-carrying monsters, and defeat a total of 6 bosses. Once you have done that, select a New Game + modifier and do it again!
Why similar: Tower Defense 29.6%, Base Building 17.3%, Crafting 12.3%, Sandbox 11.1%, Building 11%
- #34 Citadel Anew
75% matchMixed50% of 10 reviews2025
Dev: Radical Byte
Windows
The game is an unholy blend of base defense, tower defense, roguelite elements, and some colony management. Also, mechs.
Why similar: Tower Defense 28.1%, Base Building 22.8%, Sandbox 14.3%, Survival 14.1%, Crafting 10.8%
- #35 Planetaries
74% matchMixed58% of 226 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.
Why similar: Tower Defense 21.3%, Base Building 17.1%, Survival 12.4%, Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 11%
- #36 Astral Guardian
75% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2023
Dev: Noahstar365
Windows · Mac
Build various towers to resist the large number of monsters coming from the wormhole, by extending their walking routes.
Why similar: Tower Defense 36.7%, Base Building 21.8%, Survival 14.6%, Building 13.1%, Strategy 10.2%
- #37 Forest Of Siege
73% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Rawi Studio
Windows
A tower defense game set in a magical forest. Watch out for the orcs!
Why similar: Tower Defense 49.3%, Base Building 31%, Action 8.5%, Strategy 7.8%, Adventure 2.4%
- #38 Terrafort
74% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Tessellation Specifications
Windows · Mac · Linux
A procedurally generated sandbox survival game with RTS elements.
Why similar: Tower Defense 28.9%, Base Building 23.9%, Sandbox 15.9%, Survival 12.6%, Building 6.9%
- #39 Nuclear Tides
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Inspiration Beggar
Windows
A minimalist game of building and defending an isolated island after a nuclear apocalypse
Why similar: Tower Defense 44.5%, Base Building 22.1%, Minimalist 17%, Strategy 15.9%, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #40 One More Turret
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CNES Studio
Windows
One More Turret is an automation and tower defense strategy game with interesting innovations. Gather resources and enemy loot to construct intricate factory while defending against relentless monster waves. Can you strike the perfect balance between production and defense?
Why similar: Tower Defense 28.4%, Base Building 21.8%, Crafting 11.7%, Sandbox 10.2%, Building 9.4%
- #41 Horizon Ring
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Mahhouse Games
Windows
Horizon Ring is an incremental tower-defense game built around flexible loadouts and distinct playstyles. Balance immediate defense against long-term growth, specialize in active clicking, passive income, towers, or fortifications, and unlock new maps and challenges in endless waves.
Why similar: Tower Defense 38.7%, Base Building 24.3%, Minimalist 14.2%, Strategy 12.1%, Survival 10.3%
- #42 It Takes a Village
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hoftware.io
Windows
It Takes a Village is a city-building RPG taking inspiration from games like Legend of Zelda and Animal Crossing. Venture into a procedurally generated world filled with monsters, dungeons, and more as you collect resources to build up your village to push back the evil that infests your world.
Why similar: Base Building 21.2%, Survival 14.7%, Tower Defense 13.6%, Crafting 13.2%, Sandbox 12.2%
- #43 Hold It In
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Timothy Graham
Windows · Mac · Linux
This game is a brutally hardcore sci-fi tower defense, featuring BBS-era and ASCII graphics. You are a commander who must use everything at your disposal to stop the AI horde from opening the rift, and unleashing a cosmic horror upon the earth.
Why similar: Tower Defense 52%, Strategy 12.9%, Base Building 10.9%, Minimalist 10.4%, Survival 8.5%
- #44 The Riftbreaker: Prologue
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 4,127 reviews2020
Dev: EXOR Studios
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 48%
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: Tower Defense 22.8%, Base Building 22.5%, Survival 13.6%, Sandbox 12.3%, Crafting 10.6%
- #45 Yavalanche
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Decent Salad Games
Windows
Yavalanche is a tower defense game in which you take control of a courageous yeti that lives on top of the mountain to repel waves of the sinister goblins coming to get you. Place your pins, strategize your attacks, upgrade your fortifications, and send those pesky green goblins down!
Why similar: Tower Defense 53%, Base Building 22.1%, Strategy 13.5%, Building 10.7%, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #46 X Space
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: X SPACE
Windows
A sudden, devastating strike has reduced your interstellar voyage to ruins. As the sole survivor in X SPACE, you must rebuild your space base from scratch, assemble a versatile fleet, and pilot your massive mobile fortress into the depths of the universe.
Why similar: Tower Defense 25.1%, Base Building 16.7%, Sandbox 13.7%, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 11%
- #47 Bug Bait
70% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Chimera Unchained
Windows · Linux
Defend your base against relentless hordes of bugs in this single-player survival tower defense game. Strategically build and upgrade your defenses, manage vital resources, and adapt to ever-evolving threats. Can you outsmart the infestation and survive the chaos?
Why similar: Tower Defense 43.9%, Survival 17.2%, Base Building 16.1%, Strategy 11.2%, Building 9.6%
- #48 Rogue Tower
70% matchVery Positive83% of 5,919 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 52.1%, Base Building 14.7%, Strategy 11.3%, Minimalist 9.6%, Building 5.5%
- #49 The Aether Project
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Public Void
Windows
A classic tower defense game with evolving battlefields and relentless waves. Build deadly defenses, adapt to new attack routes, and survive escalating enemy assaults.
Why similar: Tower Defense 48.2%, Base Building 14%, Strategy 12.1%, Fantasy 10.9%, Building 5.9%
- #50 Method to Madness
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jörn Lindner
Windows · Mac
Defend against waves of enemies with a strategic mix of spellcasting and tower defense. Explore new spells, towers, and artifacts in each run and discover your own playstyle in this rougelike Tower Defense game.
Why similar: Tower Defense 32.9%, Base Building 23.5%, Minimalist 14.4%, Strategy 10.3%, Building 7.1%
- #51 Catch it
68% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: CCLXGAMES
Windows
"Dusk to Dawn, Strategy Drawn" In this blighted realm, daylight grants but fleeting respite— While darkness unleashes the reaper's carnival. As the Last Nightwatch, you must wield more than steel: To orchestrate the symphony of survival.
Why similar: Base Building 30.1%, Tower Defense 25%, Survival 15.7%, Building 15.4%, Strategy 6%
- #52 Hostile Mars: Prologue
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Big Rook Games
Windows
Hostile Mars is a Factory-Building game focused on Combat! Explore an open world and discover new tech, unlocking powerful weapons and structures. Create efficient supply chains using delivery bots. Salvage destroyed enemies for resources. Design your base to withstand increasing waves of enemies!
Why similar: Tower Defense 27.4%, Base Building 21%, Sandbox 13%, Crafting 10.1%, Building 10.1%
- #53 Horizon 1990
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: S.C. 16 BIT NIGHTS S.R.L.
Windows
Gather exotic resources, build defenses, research new technologies, and explore the mysteries of the void, all while being chased by the darkness from the end of time.
Why similar: Tower Defense 29.6%, Base Building 23.9%, Survival 19.7%, Strategy 13.5%, Building 7.8%
- #54 Isolation Edge
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: EzGameStudio
Windows
Isolation Edge is a hardcore single-player survival game set in a desolate world reclaimed by zombies. Traverse dangerous zones to scavenge, craft gear, and build your fortress to endure the relentless hordes. The past is lost, but on this isolated edge, every breath is a victory worth fighting for.
Why similar: Tower Defense 23.4%, Base Building 19.7%, Survival 14.5%, Sandbox 13.5%, Building 10.3%
- #55 GEODE
65% matchPositive96% of 28 reviews2026
Dev: PhD
Windows
In this top-down, multiplayer, co-op game, you must protect your Core Crystal by any means necessary. Build up your defenses, explore, refine, and upgrade to reach your goal. Play alone or with up to 8 people.
Why similar: Tower Defense 38%, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 11.6%, Strategy 10.8%, Building 10.5%
- #56 Sheepdog
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: dubious fungi
Windows · Mac
Sheepdog is a cheeky micro-strategy roguelite about herding magical sheep by day and defending them from the forest by night.
Why similar: Tower Defense 40.5%, Strategy 19.1%, Survival 18.3%, Minimalist 8.5%, Action 6.4%
- #57 Craft In Abyss
68% matchVery Positive83% of 54 reviews2021
Dev: FirePillar2
Windows
Craft in Abyss is a tower defense rogue-lite game. It allow players to design their own mechanical fortress, gather resources and continuously strengthen the fortress facilities within a sci-fi world.
Why similar: Tower Defense 28.2%, Base Building 15.9%, Crafting 15%, Survival 14%, Building 11.1%
- #58 Alterworld
67% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2024
Dev: Poonpoonza
Windows
Explore the infinite world! Play with the fully destructible voxel terrain! Craft and split items! Build and customize a house or any building! And many more! This is the ultimate sandbox survival game where you can do almost anything you can dream!
Why similar: Sandbox 23.7%, Base Building 16.9%, Crafting 13.6%, Survival 12.4%, Building 12.3%