- #1 Doodle Defense
97% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: TimesIllusionGames
Windows
Doodle: Defense is an exciting roguelite tower defense game in which you play as a mining vessel defending yourself against the planets inhabitants! Use ink to fire bullets and level up to upgrade yourself and add defenses! Extraction will take 20 minutes, good luck!
Why similar: Tower Defense 27.1%, Roguelite 19.7%, Roguelike 15.3%, Top-Down Shooter 11.3%, Shooter 10.9%
- #2 Cluckmech Oasis
96% 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 22.2%, Top-Down Shooter 21.7%, Roguelike 15.3%, Roguelite 12.5%, Building 11.5%
- #3 Bro YuanShen Survivors
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 浮生蓝染
Windows
A survivor-like game where you control magic to kill monsters.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 31.6%, Roguelike 21.9%, Roguelite 17.6%, Top-Down 10.1%, Adventure 6.4%
- #4 NightfallZ
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Caiz
Windows
This is a top-down survival and building game where you scavenge for resources and construct a base to defend against zombie attacks when nightfall. Warning! The wilderness at night is extremely dangerous; please stay inside your base.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 23%, Building 16.2%, Tower Defense 15.5%, Base Building 13.2%, Shooter 9%
- #5 Starbase Starlight
94% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Tiny Witch Games
Windows
Defend your Starbase in a vibrant roguelite shooter. Upgrade your weapons mid-run, unlock permanent rewards, and survive the endless onslaught.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 24.9%, Tower Defense 23.3%, Roguelite 16.6%, Roguelike 13.4%, Shooter 9.4%
- #6 天灾:防御 THE TROUBLE:DEFENSE
94% matchNo user reviews2024
Dev: FLYBUTTER
Windows
This is an ordinary tower defense game. If you are not satisfied with the existing content, you can leave a message in the comment area or our QQ group. We will try our best to make this game better.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 27.9%, Tower Defense 19.9%, Roguelite 15.1%, Roguelike 13.9%, Shooter 10.6%
- #7 Metal War
93% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2023
Dev: ZihanSong
Windows
This is a fast-paced top-down shooting and tower defense game. You need to customize and upgrade your chariot, build defensive structures to protect your base, explore the world and destroy all enemies! Don't forget to come back and defend when the enemy attacks! Can you make it to the end?
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 21.1%, Tower Defense 20.8%, Base Building 14.6%, Roguelike 9.3%, Shooter 6.9%
- #8 The Last Camp
92% match7 user reviews43% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: TMM
Windows
This is a top-down survival-building game blending farming, tower defense, and micromanagement, requiring you to fend off zombie hordes, grow crops, and strategically deploy traps to defend your homestead.
Why similar: Tower Defense 20.3%, Top-Down Shooter 18.2%, Building 14.1%, Top-Down 9.1%, Shooter 8.5%
- #9 Luxmithar
91% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: MythicDevil Studios
Windows
Defend a crashed forge in this 2D survival defense roguelite. Expand a modular world grid, build towers and traps, and survive relentless enemy waves across shifting days, storms, and darkness.
Why similar: Tower Defense 27.5%, Roguelike 15.1%, Base Building 11.2%, Shooter 10.4%, Open World 8.3%
- #10 Swarm Fortress
91% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Dys
Windows
Build walls, turrets and summon allies to survive hordes of enemies in this top-down sandbox base builder.
Why similar: Tower Defense 22%, Top-Down Shooter 21.1%, Base Building 14.4%, Roguelike 12.1%, Building 9.2%
- #11 Zombie House Defense
90% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: AdamsaucePub: KAM Development
Windows
Defend your house from the hoards!
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 23.9%, Tower Defense 22.3%, Roguelike 13.3%, Base Building 11%, Shooter 9.5%
- #12 Galaxy Critter Co.
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Rat2 Studio
Windows
Galaxy Critter Co. is a cute chaotic roguelike where tower defense meets top-down shooting: build by day, fight by night, and craft broken synergies to survive the Swarm.
Why similar: Tower Defense 23.7%, Top-Down Shooter 22.4%, Roguelike 13.8%, Base Building 13.6%, Building 11.5%
- #13 Fanta Hitchhikers
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Living Alone
Windows
Fanta Hitchhikers is a casual roguelike shooter where the Fairy Godmother drives a magical carriage alongside heroes from another world to face relentless waves of monsters. Dash through the battlefield, recruit new heroes, and unleash powerful magic to defeat the slime army!
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 22.3%, Roguelike 20.7%, Roguelite 16.9%, Shooter 12.3%, Action 8.5%
- #14 Crazy Monster
88% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Pengsheng
Windows
As long as there is open space, you can freely arrange defense towers and cooperate with your strong combat power to win victory! This is a pixel tower defense shooting game, where the player is a hero who helps our camp defeat powerful and crazy monsters!
Why similar: Tower Defense 22.2%, Top-Down Shooter 18.8%, Roguelike 14.2%, Roguelite 12.4%, Open World 10.5%
- #15 Surface Tension
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Selim Kaltakkiran
Windows
Construct a base, harness resources, defend against relentless waves of hostiles. Don't forget to choose which technologies to research to combat a spreading corruption and restore nature in this roguelike base defense. But be quick the last wave is something else entirely.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 22.3%, Tower Defense 22.1%, Roguelike 15.2%, Building 10.7%, Post-apocalyptic 7.5%
- #16 Rise of the Gorecats
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: StudioNX
Windows
Welcome to downtown Catsburg: where the streets bleed neon and the critters bite back. You play as private detective Mitch Birman, an ex-Vietnam vet, with a trunk full of guns and a personal vendetta against the little monsters that plague his city.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 27.7%, Roguelite 18.8%, Noir 18.8%, Shooter 13.1%, Action 8.6%
- #17 Like old times
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Troglodyte Studio
Windows
A top-down looter shooter set in a post-apocalyptic, nuclear war-torn world where humans, mutants and aggressive new flora and fauna battle for dominance over the wasteland.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 25.5%, Roguelike 18%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%, Shooter 8.2%, Action 8%
- #18 Outpost
85% matchVery Positive87% of 793 reviews2020
Dev: Open Mid Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 51%
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 23.6%, Roguelike 14.3%, Roguelite 13.3%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 11.5%
- #19 Ice Fighter
84% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: NaarDev
Windows · Linux
Ice Fighter is a fast-paced Tower Defense-like game where you battle enemies, scavenge for resources, manage upgrades, and build defenses. Melt enemies during the night and gather resources during the day.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 23.2%, Tower Defense 20.6%, Roguelite 12.6%, Base Building 12.1%, Roguelike 10.9%
- #20 Shroom & Doom
83% matchMixed60% of 20 reviews2023
Dev: Whole Hearted GamesPub: DigiPen Institute of Technology
Windows
A top-down tower-defense game where you play as a little robot that has crash landed on an alien planet. Defend yourself against waves of bug-like enemies using towers made from the local mushrooms. Find a way to repair your ship and escape the planet!
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 36%, Tower Defense 29.7%, Shooter 12.6%, Top-Down 9.8%, Action 6.2%
- #21 Tower Command
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: RILE Games
Windows
Strategic tower defense where you need to maximize your bonuses. Create your build, upgrade towers, link them, equip items to create ridiculous combos. Placement is key in this game, you decide the path enemies take to their goal. Explore all maps and unlock towers, commanders, traits and items.
Why similar: Tower Defense 30.9%, Roguelike 20.1%, Roguelite 16%, Top-Down 8.2%, Building 7%
- #22 Haru: The Armada of the Astral Void
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio Boreli
Windows
Help Haru defeat the armada of the astral void in a fast-paced roguelite retro space shooter.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 31.5%, Roguelite 19.1%, Roguelike 18.2%, Shooter 12.5%, Top-Down 9.6%
- #23 Galaxy Defense War
79% matchVery Positive97% of 145 reviews2025
Dev: Zero Space
Windows
'Galaxy Defense War' is a roguelike tower defense game where you need to select suitable galactic principles from randomly dropped heroes and equipment to form a combat-ready team to resist alien invaders.
Why similar: Tower Defense 31.4%, Roguelite 22.6%, Base Building 16.7%, Building 12.5%, Cartoon 10%
- #24 Z: The End
84% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2018
Dev: Ridgeline Studios LLC
Windows
Z: The End is a top-down shooter survival sandbox set in a world infested with zombies. Explore, scavenge for supplies and weapons, and survive as long as you can against the zombies and the elements.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 24%, Base Building 12.8%, Post-apocalyptic 10%, Open World 9.8%, Shooter 9.3%
- #25 Disaster Plan Z
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GeeView Games
Windows
Stop running from the disaster. DisasterPlanZ is a single-player survival shooter where you scavenge resources, upgrade weapons, build a human survival settlement, and defend it against zombies, mutants, disaster creatures, and powerful bosses.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 25.2%, Building 13.2%, Base Building 12.2%, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Roguelite 9%
- #26 Circle TD:Defence War
81% matchPositive86% of 14 reviews2024
Dev: 小东马
Windows
A tower defense game.In the wave after wave of enemy attacks like a tide, constantly configure defense tower ties, player talents, props and equipment, build a powerful defense position, and eliminate the enemy before they fill the map!
Why similar: Tower Defense 27.5%, Roguelike 17.4%, Roguelite 16.1%, Building 14.5%, Base Building 14.3%
- #27 Tower Field
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: shooQrow
Windows
Tower Field is a roguelike tower defense game with a random generated world to explore and modular towers that you can customize and adapt to protect yourself from the dangers you discover.
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.4%, Roguelike 16.7%, Roguelite 14.9%, Base Building 11.8%, Open World 10.4%
- #28 NTD: Tower Defense x Arcade
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Disco69
Windows
Be the Gun & the Architect. Arcade-Tower defense hybrid with controller-first design for a snappy tower building and twin-stick shooting. Every kill feeds the machine. Adapt to roguelike chaos with unique items and synergies. Can you build the ultimate defense & survive the Derp?
Why similar: Tower Defense 28.5%, Top-Down Shooter 27.2%, Roguelike 16.7%, Top-Down 9%, Shooter 8.8%
- #29 Z-Company
80% matchMixed65% of 17 reviews2021
Dev: MecHead Games
Windows
You and your friends can be part of the Z-Company. Defend Targets against huge hordes of zombies with all kinds of weapons and buildings in this Tower-Defense/Shooter hybrid.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 23.9%, Tower Defense 23.8%, Building 11.2%, Shooter 10.5%, Post-apocalyptic 10%
- #30 Acid Planet
78% matchVery Positive80% of 70 reviews2024
Dev: Adam Travers
Windows
Acid Planet is a caustic blend of horde-survival, tower-defense and strategy. Build, fight and evolve to survive against rampaging swarms of monsters and fearsome Kaiju.
Why similar: Tower Defense 21.8%, Top-Down Shooter 16.2%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 9.7%, Roguelike 9.6%
- #31 Layered Loop层叠环道
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Zack
Windows
Layered Loop is a minimalist tower defense game built on stacking & evolution. Towers auto-level to boost damage/production, evolve via devouring key structures for new abilities or stat boosts. Stack towers with full effects retained, unlock global buffs at 5 layers.
Why similar: Tower Defense 40.8%, Roguelike 16.6%, Roguelite 14.8%, Building 10.6%, Base Building 10.3%
- #32 Project: Vaccine A
77% matchVery Positive90% of 51 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 33.4%, Top-Down Shooter 23.5%, Base Building 20.8%, Building 10.1%, 2D 3.4%
- #33 Journey of Harvest
76% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: GFXR2048
Windows
Your father, who is the district chief, has appointed you as the manager of Zone 21 in the Blackrock Cave and set a small goal for you: earn one hundred million. Try every means possible to earn funds from adventurers and enjoy this journey of reaping rewards.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 25.3%, Tower Defense 23.1%, Trading 23%, Base Building 14.2%, Top-Down 7%
- #34 Dinopirates from Inner Space
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tangara Studio
Windows · Mac
An action roguelike set in sci-fi space where dinosaurs, dino-tech weapons, and chaos collide. Reclaim your honor as Captain TTT, fight deadly Brocolites, rescue your crew, and conquer the Inner Space.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 26.5%, Roguelike 18.7%, Roguelite 15.5%, Shooter 12.7%, Cartoon 10.6%
- #35 Let's Fight! Box
76% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2023
Dev: Fantasy Tree
Windows
This is a survivor class barrage game, the difference is that the boss rhythm barrage level is embedded inside, come and avoid the overwhelming exciting barrage!!
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 35.8%, Roguelite 18.7%, Roguelike 16.9%, Shooter 11.6%, Top-Down 7.8%
- #36 Project Kepler: Delivery Included!
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Skalkevai
Windows
Survive on a hostile planet by automating a factory, fighting alien waves, and buying random upgrades. Hold out until the cleansing bomb drops! Roguelike strategy with drones & survival.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 28.5%, Tower Defense 24.1%, Roguelite 16.4%, Roguelike 12.5%, Building 6.6%
- #37 孵化之地 wild eclosion
75% match6 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: PixelChords
Windows
You have to kill monsters to get resources, build your own terrain, build your own buildings, and get equipment to enhance yourself. But you need to accept a constant stream of challenges to prove your ability. You have the strength to lead the new era!
Why similar: Tower Defense 22.7%, Roguelite 19.1%, Building 16.5%, Roguelike 13.4%, Base Building 10.5%
- #38 Zombie Battlefield Survivors
74% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2024
Dev: ZHANG FANPub: TBD
Windows · Mac · Linux
Zombie Battlefield Survivors is a top-down view roguelike action shooter game. Fight against hordes of zombies, constantly upgrading attributes and collecting credits to enhance your character's abilities.
Why similar: Tower Defense 25.3%, Top-Down Shooter 20.7%, Roguelike 14.3%, Shooter 10.5%, Roguelite 9.3%
- #39 Neon Null
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Warsong Studios
Windows
Reality is collapsing into the Null, a digital void that consumes entire sectors of existence. As the last surviving pilot, you dive into corrupted space to fight through hostile anomalies, recover lost data, and uncover the force behind the collapse before everything is erased.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 26.6%, Roguelite 18.1%, Roguelike 17.9%, Shooter 11.8%, Top-Down 9.4%
- #40 CreateDun
71% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2026
Dev: obscure
Windows
Your Dungeon, Built by You [CreateDun]A new kind of roguelike tower defense where you reshape routes with walls.Place allies, collect relics, and complete your build.From path design to combat, the dungeon you create becomes your strategy.
Why similar: Tower Defense 37.8%, Roguelike 20.9%, Roguelite 18.6%, Building 9.4%, Top-Down 6.8%
- #41 Isolation Edge
72% 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: Top-Down Shooter 23.4%, Tower Defense 19.2%, Base Building 14.6%, Building 12.1%, Top-Down 7.1%
- #42 Chorus of the Night
73% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2022
Dev: Matt Sayer
Windows · Mac
Fight through hordes of burnt CDs, flying TVs, and faceless suits in this frantic, run-based, twin-stick shooter. Forget firing bullets, though - you'll be flinging vinyl records, throwing drumsticks and swinging guitars to fend off the enemies of music and maybe, just maybe, survive the night.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 29.4%, Roguelite 17.9%, Roguelike 15.7%, Shooter 11.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9.5%
- #43 Astro company
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Elephant Arts
Windows
Defend your Core in an endless tower defense where every decision matters. Build too slow and you’re overrun. Build too fast and chaos breaks your defenses.
Why similar: Tower Defense 30.5%, Roguelite 22.5%, Roguelike 17.9%, Base Building 12.9%, Top-Down 8.1%
- #44 Ash & Adam's Existential Treads
69% matchVery Positive93% of 355 reviews2026
Dev: Ash & Adam's Games
Windows · Mac
A mini action city-builder in a post-post-apocalyptic world. Grow your settlement. Fend off waves of enemies. Restore nature.
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.1%, Top-Down Shooter 23.2%, Base Building 14.2%, Building 10.2%, Top-Down 7.8%
- #45 WarShape
71% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: João Capobianco
Windows
WarShape is a "Top Down Shooter" where you face growing hordes of enemies. As you progress, the weapons and defenses of everyone in the arena evolve, starting from primitive equipment to technological weapons. Build, find weapons, recruit allies and buy upgrades to survive the attacks.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 32.9%, Tower Defense 29.9%, Building 11.4%, Shooter 7.8%, Top-Down 7%
- #46 Space Bross
69% matchPositive88% of 32 reviews2026
Dev: Lavega Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your chicken has been kidnapped, and that’s all it takes to send a retired astronaut into full galactic mayhem. Space Bross is a hand-drawn 2.5D tower defense & action roguelite where you’ll build bases, fend off alien hordes, and blast your way across planets to bring your feathery friend back.
Why similar: Tower Defense 18.8%, Top-Down Shooter 18.7%, Roguelite 13.3%, Roguelike 13%, Base Building 12.2%
- #47 Secret Heroes-Survivor Roguelike
70% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: YYTGAME
Windows · Mac
Exciting and playable free and open hero adventure Roguelike game
Why similar: Tower Defense 21.1%, Top-Down Shooter 18.7%, Roguelike 13.4%, Roguelite 11.3%, Shooter 8.8%
- #48 Gods With Guns
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Indiedges
Windows · Linux
In Valhalla, heroes pull the trigger to defy Ragnarok! Rogue-like shooting game. 8 mythological heroes + 36 guns + 26 types of ammo + 60 Cards.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 33.2%, Roguelite 19.4%, Roguelike 13%, Shooter 9%, RPG 7.7%
- #49 GEODE
68% matchPositive96% of 26 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 31.7%, Roguelite 17.1%, Building 12.6%, Exploration 9.8%, Top-Down 8.8%
- #50 Goblin Takes No Argument[s]
73% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2020
Dev: Zeroject
Windows
In this retro style tower defence, we have created a short experience for all of you seeking a true Atari-like experience. This is off cause bull___. This was a school project completely made with Python and Pygames. Be sure to give us a grade;)
Why similar: Tower Defense 41.2%, Building 21.2%, Top-Down Shooter 18.9%, Top-Down 10.6%, 2D 5.2%
- #51 Keep Her Safe
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Gugu Studio
Windows
Scavenge, build, and defend in a top-down survival game. Gather resources, fortify your base, and withstand zombie hordes to keep the rocket launch project alive and bring an end to the acid rain apocalypse.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 21.9%, Tower Defense 21.6%, Base Building 15%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%, Shooter 7.8%
- #52 Kill A Million Rats
67% matchVery Positive90% of 78 reviews2025
Dev: Nerdook ProductionsPub: Surefire.Games
Windows
A base-building, Roguelike Action/Turn-based Strategy (RATS) game, in a forest invaded by a million Rats. As the powerful Spirit of Vengeance, you must save the adorable Villagers! Explore a randomly generated world, expand your village, and exterminate the Rats!
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 20.3%, Tower Defense 17.6%, Base Building 13.8%, Roguelike 13.4%, Roguelite 13.3%
- #53 Solitary Sentinel
67% match6 user reviews100% of 16 reviews2025
Dev: JLau Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Welcome to Solitary Sentinel, a captivating modern reimagination of Space Invaders and Missile Command, where you must defend against constantly evolving enemies by upgrading a single Sentinel. Enjoy simple controls, and deep strategic gameplay as you fend off the relentless onslaught!
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 26.7%, Tower Defense 24.2%, Roguelike 14.7%, Shooter 9.8%, Top-Down 8%
- #54 Bugs and Bullets
70% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2023
Dev: Ludificor
Windows · Mac
As a lone military engineer on a strange planet you must survive the constant swarms of the hive! Shoot your way through millions of bugs! Collect upgrades and turn your turret into an unstoppable bug killing machine!
Why similar: Tower Defense 23.1%, Top-Down Shooter 20.8%, Roguelike 16.6%, Roguelite 14.2%, Shooter 10.3%
- #55 BALL x PIT
63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 25,698 reviews2025
Dev: Kenny Sun and FriendsPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.7 hrsMean: 20.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
BALL x PIT is a brick-breaking, ball-fusing, base-building survival roguelite. Batter hordes of enemies with ricocheting balls and gather the riches of the pit to expand your homestead, generate resources and recruit unique heroes.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 21.9%, Roguelite 21.5%, Roguelike 18.9%, Base Building 10.1%, Building 9.4%
- #56 Synthetic Paradox
67% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Smazak
Windows
Synthetic Paradox is a sci-fi action rogue-lite mixed with tower defense elements. Fight never-ending waves of enemies and bosses, collect items and build up your defenses alone or in co-op for up to 4 players! Discover unique combinations of towers and items to help you protect your Core!
Why similar: Tower Defense 28.7%, Top-Down Shooter 19%, Roguelike 17.7%, Roguelite 17.5%, Top-Down 6.6%
- #57 Mech My Day
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Bug_Smelter
Windows
Build a quad-leg mech from scrap, cards, and bad decisions. Craft parts, build a deck, and survive endless swarms in a sarcastic, survivor-like chaos sandbox where your worst ideas sometimes work.
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.3%, Top-Down Shooter 20%, Roguelike 19.1%, Roguelite 13.4%, Action 7.6%
- #58 逃离感化院 The Reformatory
66% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Pan
Windows
Your name is Dewey. You enjoy playing video games, much to the dismay of your parents. One day, they send you to a reformatory. There, a man electroshocks you. In convulsions, you fall into a world filled with enemies. This is a top-down 2D pixel-style shooter game with roguelite elements.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 25%, Roguelike 17.3%, Roguelite 13.2%, Shooter 11.2%, Noir 8.8%
- #59 Metal Survivor
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: pcmorm
Windows
A base-building action-roguelite horde-survival game. Build up your base and defend it with a customized armored vehicle. Set-up defenses, upgrade your weapons, improve your vehicle and be ready to shoot down an ever growing horde of enemies to survive each night.
Why similar: Tower Defense 23%, Top-Down Shooter 22.2%, Base Building 16%, Building 9.9%, Roguelite 8.8%