- #1 Mindustry
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 25,660 reviews2019
Dev: AnukenDev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
Why similar: Automation 28%, Tower Defense 22.9%, Base Building 21.4%, Resource Management 15.3%, Building 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive blend of factory automation and tower defense, requiring you to manage complex supply chains to power your defensive turrets.
- #2 Tower Factory
96% matchVery Positive89% of 1,139 reviews2024
Dev: Gius Caminiti
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 5.8 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: Automation 22.7%, Tower Defense 18.4%, Base Building 15%, Resource Management 10.8%, Roguelite 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game mirrors the seed's core loop by combining automation mechanics with tower defense strategy in a compact, satisfying package.
- #3 shapez 2
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 13,196 reviews2024
Dev: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 27.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.
Why similar: Automation 35.5%, Base Building 17.8%, Building 12%, Resource Management 11.8%, Crafting 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: While it lacks the combat, it is the premier experience for players who love the shape-processing and logistical puzzle aspects of the seed game.
- #4 Mob Factory
96% matchMostly Positive72% of 474 reviews2023
Dev: LiterallyEveryone Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Mob factory is an tower defense and automation game for the lazy adventurer. Smelt down enemy loot into turrets & factories to automate an ever expanding dungeon from the comfort of your tower.
Why similar: Automation 28%, Tower Defense 19.5%, Base Building 15.1%, Resource Management 12.6%, Building 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: You automate the production of mobs to defend your base, capturing the exact 'unit-spawning factory' feel of the seed game.
- #5 Factorio
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 227,071 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.8 hrsMean: 188.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Why similar: Automation 40%, Base Building 24.7%, Resource Management 16.6%, Crafting 7.4%, Building 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for automation games, providing the deep resource management and base-building foundation that inspired the genre.
- #6 Emberward
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,607 reviews2024
Dev: Refic Games
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 25.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Build twisting mazes with tetromino blocks and deploy unique towers in this strategic roguelite tower defense adventure!
Why similar: Tower Defense 25%, Base Building 19%, Roguelite 14.1%, Deckbuilding 8.2%, Resource Management 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A roguelite tower defense game that emphasizes creative path-building and strategic placement, matching the tactical depth of the seed.
- #7 Rogue Tower
93% matchVery Positive82% of 5,842 reviews2022
Dev: Die of Death Games
Windows
Median: 10.7 hrsMean: 20.2 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 45.6%, Base Building 14.8%, Roguelike 12%, Roguelite 10%, Strategy 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: This title perfectly captures the roguelite tower defense experience with procedural generation and permanent upgrades between runs.
- #8 Hexguardian
92% matchMostly Positive80% of 685 reviews2024
Dev: Split Second GamesPub: Yogscast Games
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 33.6%, Roguelite 19.4%, Roguelike 11.9%, Cute 8.1%, Fantasy 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A roguelite tower defense game that features a unique hexagonal grid and strategic depth similar to the seed's defensive challenges.
- #9 Final Factory
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 300 reviews2024
Dev: Never Games Limited
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Final Factory blends factory building, spaceship design, and a rich universe to explore. Build a mega factory and command a massive fleet against the hostile local aliens. Discover new technologies and unlock the secrets of an ancient civilization as you explore an infinite cosmos.
Why similar: Automation 29.8%, Base Building 19%, Resource Management 14.2%, Building 9.7%, Crafting 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It combines massive-scale automation with space-faring combat, offering a more expansive take on the factory-meets-battle concept.
- #10 shapez
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,210 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 66%
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Why similar: Automation 36%, Base Building 20.9%, Resource Management 16.2%, Crafting 8.8%, Building 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: The original shape-processing automation game that focuses purely on the satisfaction of optimizing production lines.
- #11 AutoForge
89% matchVery Positive88% of 450 reviews2024
Dev: Siege Games
Windows
A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.
Why similar: Automation 30.8%, Base Building 20.1%, Resource Management 15.9%, Building 12.3%, Crafting 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game blends automation with action-adventure elements, allowing you to build complex factories while exploring and fighting in a colorful world.
- #12 Shapebreaker - Tower Defense Deckbuilder
90% matchMostly Positive79% of 63 reviews2023
Dev: Alexander Van den Bulck
Windows
A fusion of tower defense games and roguelike deckbuilders. Use your cards to build towers and to upgrade them in unique ways. Gain rewards to customize your deck, defense and playstyle. Break the shapes before they break you!
Why similar: Tower Defense 42.1%, Roguelite 18.4%, Deckbuilding 12%, Roguelike 11.8%, Strategy 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the shape-based theme and combines it with deckbuilding and tower defense mechanics for a unique strategic experience.
- #13 Builderment
89% matchMixed66% of 119 reviews2023
Dev: Builderment LLC
Windows · Mac
Builderment is a casual factory builder, where you are sent to far away planets to keep Earth going with fresh resources. Establish your base, then mine, build, transport, and ultimately design an automated operation that will save your home one shipment at a time!
Why similar: Automation 33.2%, Base Building 21.1%, Resource Management 15.2%, Building 10.5%, Crafting 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A clean, focused automation game that excels at the resource management and logistical planning found in the seed.
- #14 Loopstructor
86% matchVery Positive84% of 372 reviews2024
Dev: Pone Games
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 5.9 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 23.3%, Automation 21.7%, Auto Battler 16.7%, Base Building 14.2%, Roguelike 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A strategic tower defense game with roguelike elements that requires careful planning and resource management to survive waves.
- #15 ReFactory
88% matchMostly Positive78% of 91 reviews2022
Dev: AIVIK LLCPub: BIVAK LLC
Windows
Build, explore, fight! ReFactory is a 2D strategy game with a focus on construction and logistics where you build an automated mega-factory on an alien planet.
Why similar: Automation 35.6%, Base Building 29.2%, Crafting 12.7%, Strategy 11.8%, Simulation 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a complex automation experience with a focus on efficiency and base expansion, perfect for players who enjoy the building phase of the seed.
- #16 Alchemy Factory
84% matchVery Positive90% of 2,078 reviews2025
Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 21.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Craft your workshop as an alchemist! Harness arcane devices to automate crafting. Sell alchemical goods, fulfill commissions, and rise to become a renowned alchemy magnate. Multiplayer Supported! Invite master designers to (ahem) contribute their expertise—let them optimize your production lines!
Why similar: Automation 39.5%, Base Building 18.7%, Building 13.6%, Resource Management 9.4%, Crafting 9%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox automation game with a medieval theme that requires you to manage resources to create magical products.
- #17 Keep Keepers
86% matchVery Positive88% of 150 reviews2024
Dev: Thunderrock Innovations
Windows
Tower Defense meets Base Management. Strategically place your defenses. Craft wacky ammunition like fiery peppers and boomerang bananas. Discover amazing weapons and automate your economy while defending against waves of enemies. Can you handle the chaos?
Why similar: Automation 26.9%, Tower Defense 20.7%, Base Building 16.1%, Roguelite 11.7%, Crafting 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features a mix of automation and tower defense with a cooperative twist, keeping the core gameplay loop of the seed game intact.
- #18 Illuminaria
87% matchVery Positive83% of 76 reviews2022
Dev: Selva Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Command a swarm of intelligent robots in their quest to save the world. Mine resources, manage, and defend multiple bases. Go on expeditions, fight in auto-battles, research new technologies, and create your army of golems to bring back the light.
Why similar: Automation 19.9%, Tower Defense 17.7%, Base Building 17.7%, Resource Management 12.8%, Building 10%
Why You'll Like It: Combines base-building and tower defense with a unique aesthetic, focusing on managing resources to protect your territory.
- #19 Mineral Defense
85% matchVery Positive91% of 236 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 27%, Base Building 20.3%, Roguelite 16.1%, Roguelike 9.5%, Deckbuilding 9%
Why You'll Like It: A tower defense game with roguelite deckbuilding elements that forces you to adapt your strategy based on the resources you gather.
- #20 Color Factory: Automation Meets Canvas
84% matchVery Positive88% of 86 reviews2025
Dev: Bosphorus Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Color Factory is a relaxing factory-building game where strategy meets automation. Start with basic colors, refine them into vivid shades, and craft canvases of all sizes. Optimize your machines, scale operations at your own pace, and master automation to build a masterpiece of efficiency.
Why similar: Automation 41.3%, Base Building 19.6%, Crafting 10.9%, Strategy 9.2%, Simulation 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the color-mixing and automation aspects of the seed game, offering a more puzzle-oriented experience.
- #21 Tower Dominion
83% matchVery Positive86% of 4,827 reviews2025
Dev: Parallel 45 Games
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 21.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Build and design the terrain while defending your stronghold against alien invasion in this unique Roguelike tower defense. Choose from 30 heroes, survive enemy waves, and upgrade a variety of destructive towers to hold the line!
Why similar: Tower Defense 25.1%, Base Building 18.1%, Auto Battler 12.2%, Resource Management 11.6%, Roguelite 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: A strategy-heavy tower defense game that emphasizes base-building and long-term planning during each run.
- #22 Auto Rogue
82% matchVery Positive92% of 703 reviews2025
Dev: 定期的な宝物
Windows
A roguelike where you automate combat. Combine skills and conditions to find your own optimal solution! No complicated controls at all!! Sit back with a coffee and watch the beautiful battles you've crafted unfold! Utilize a variety of skills, conditions, and relics to craft the ultimate build!
Why similar: Automation 35.1%, Auto Battler 21.9%, Roguelite 14%, Roguelike 10.8%, Strategy 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: Integrates programming-style automation with roguelike combat, appealing to players who enjoy the technical side of the seed game.
- #23 Block Factory
81% matchMostly Positive78% of 255 reviews2025
Dev: OverPowered TeamPub: Shiro Unlimited
Windows
Block Factory is a relaxing and creative building game where you craft delightful 3D figurines from blocks. Shape your designs and build flowing production lines in a peaceful factory world.
Why similar: Automation 30.5%, Base Building 18.1%, Resource Management 14%, Building 12.5%, Crafting 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A relaxing automation and building game that focuses on the satisfaction of creating efficient, self-sustaining systems.
- #24 Incremental Factory
82% matchMixed68% of 244 reviews2024
Dev: Significant Steak
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Craft and automate an industrial empire from scratch! Experience a strategic game teeming with challenges as you manage resources, overcome hurdles, and optimize production chains. Are you ready to conquer the challenges of Incremental Factory? Your journey starts here... The Factory Must Grow!
Why similar: Automation 35.9%, Resource Management 18%, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 10.4%, Building 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: An idler-style automation game that captures the addictive nature of scaling up production and resource generation.
- #25 SHOOPER NOVA
79% matchVery Positive85% of 616 reviews2025
Dev: JamesikaPub: Gamersky Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Craft Your Ultimate Circular Fortress! Dive into SHOOPER NOVA, where you choose props and components to build a unique fortress. Unlock combos to shape your strategy and battle style. Become an unstoppable barrage machine and obliterate waves of enemies from all directions!
Why similar: Tower Defense 34%, Roguelite 22.1%, Bullet Hell 16.3%, Strategy 10%, Roguelike 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A casual roguelite tower defense game that focuses on quick, satisfying combat encounters.
- #26 Super Fantasy Kingdom
78% matchVery Positive88% of 5,123 reviews2025
Dev: Super Fantasy GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Rebuild your kingdom and explore a vibrant fantasy world in this roguelite city builder. Defeat hordes of monsters with a unique team of defenders as you harvest, build, mine, cook, brew, and grow. But if your defenses should fail, be prepared to watch it all burn!
Why similar: Tower Defense 32.5%, Roguelite 21.5%, Deckbuilding 13.9%, Roguelike 13.5%, Fantasy 9.9%
- #27 Elements and build
80% matchMostly Positive76% of 215 reviews2024
Dev: ChuTouMiao StudioPub: 2P Games
Windows
Form your own genre with skills in different elements, use building rewards to build your own unique maze in randomly generated levels, and fight to survive waves of monsters to win
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.1%, Auto Battler 20.9%, Base Building 12.9%, Roguelite 12%, Building 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A tower defense game that incorporates auto-battler mechanics and roguelite progression to keep gameplay fresh.
- #28 Dyson Sphere Program
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 90,027 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 75.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
Why similar: Automation 39.8%, Base Building 25.2%, Resource Management 14.9%, Building 12.4%, Simulation 4.4%
Why You'll Like It: While larger in scale, it is the ultimate automation game for those who love the logistical complexity of the seed.
- #29 Rogue Factory
78% matchMostly Positive73% of 157 reviews2026
Dev: curried_functor
Windows
The AUTOMATION bullet heaven! Build your custom spellcasting factory and tear through endless waves of monsters. Unlock 20+ characters and 100+ golden totems to craft broken roguelite synergies and survive the swarm! Build, automate, autocast, OBLITERATE!
Why similar: Automation 32.9%, Resource Management 15%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 11.4%, Roguelite 11.3%
- #30 Wireworks
77% matchVery Positive87% of 245 reviews2026
Dev: JJJ
Windows · Linux
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: Automation 25.9%, Tower Defense 21.9%, Auto Battler 18.3%, Inventory Management 8.3%, Roguelite 7.6%
- #31 Dwarves: Glory, Death and Loot
77% matchVery Positive82% of 2,479 reviews2026
Dev: Hamma StudiosPub: Sidekick Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build and command your own party of Dwarves in this mix of RPGs, roguelike and auto battlers. Prepare formations, assign equipment, and decide the fate of up to 10 Beardlings, as you lead the raid through reckless runs filled with Glory, Death, and Loot!
Why similar: Auto Battler 57.8%, Roguelite 12.1%, Inventory Management 10%, Roguelike 9.3%, Strategy 5.6%
- #32 The King is Watching
75% matchVery Positive88% of 9,222 reviews2025
Dev: HypnoheadPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
The King is Watching is a roguelite kingdom builder. Rule by the power of your royal gaze! Decide between producing resources, training armies, or balancing both, while adapting to unique events every run
Why similar: Tower Defense 17.9%, Base Building 16%, Automation 14.4%, Resource Management 11.2%, Auto Battler 10.6%
- #33 Factory Town
76% matchVery Positive91% of 4,419 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Why similar: Automation 34.1%, Base Building 22.2%, Resource Management 16.9%, Crafting 9.5%, Building 8.5%
- #34 Gladiator Guild Manager
75% matchVery Positive81% of 3,874 reviews2024
Dev: Entertainment ForgePub: GrabTheGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
A strategic autobattler sim where you build a team of gladiators, compete in arenas, plan fight tactics, and form alliances. Combine fighters, beasts, and mages, develop and equip them to optimize your well-oiled fighting machine, dominate the championships, and leave your mark on the world.
Why similar: Auto Battler 25.4%, Base Building 22.3%, Roguelite 15.8%, Building 14.8%, Resource Management 14.8%
- #35 Nordhold
73% matchVery Positive88% of 3,019 reviews2025
Dev: StunForgePub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 29.3%, Base Building 21.2%, Roguelite 17.3%, Resource Management 10.2%, Roguelike 9.6%
- #36 Factory Town Idle
74% matchVery Positive91% of 1,204 reviews2024
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 72.5 hrs≥1hr: 80%
An entire town builder experience packed into a living spreadsheet. Build housing, assign workers, then craft and sell a huge variety of items to level up your town and expand your civilization across the world!
Why similar: Automation 45.7%, Resource Management 26.2%, Crafting 13.5%, Fantasy 10.1%, Simulation 4.5%
- #37 Widget Inc.
74% matchVery Positive86% of 740 reviews2024
Dev: Leaping Turtle
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 61.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
A hybrid factory builder / incremental clicker game. Starting from humble beginnings, master the many crafting processes to build up resources and expand your factory. Then, using your newly automated production, unlock new technology and grow ever closer to your goal of spreading to the stars.
Why similar: Automation 43.1%, Base Building 23.3%, Resource Management 20.8%, Simulation 5.6%, Top-Down 3.9%
- #38 Factory Engineer
81% matchMixed46% of 132 reviews2017
Dev: Mind Leak
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Factory Engineer is a factory simulation game which is about creating a huge automated factory by building production lines to create products and make money. Start with simple products,make money,unlock technologies then create the most sophisticated products.
Why similar: Automation 22%, Base Building 17.1%, Building 15.1%, Resource Management 12.8%, Simulation 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a sandbox environment for building and optimizing complex factories, focusing on the core engineering challenge.
- #39 Factory Planner
72% matchMostly Positive74% of 319 reviews2026
Dev: Lebleby GamesPub: Red Axe Games
Windows
Factory Planner is a card-based simulation/strategy game that lets you build a factory using cards. The main goal of the game is to make combinations with different cards so that each player can build different factories and feel the sandbox experience to the fullest.
Why similar: Automation 55.4%, Crafting 16.8%, Strategy 8.8%, Cute 7.5%, Resource Management 5.8%
- #40 Little Big Workshop
76% matchVery Positive84% of 3,350 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: HandyGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Automation 27.2%, Resource Management 17.9%, Building 15%, Simulation 12.9%, Strategy 11.8%
- #41 Spin Hero
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,028 reviews2024
Dev: Sphere StudiosPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Spin Hero is a roguelike deckbuilder, where you spin the reels to decide your fate. Collect powerful symbols for your inventory, adapt and evolve your strategy, learning from defeats to unlock new possibilities and synergies.
Why similar: Auto Battler 37.8%, Roguelike 16.3%, Roguelite 14.9%, Deckbuilding 14.4%, Strategy 9.3%
- #42 Backpack Battles
70% matchVery Positive91% of 19,754 reviews2025
Dev: PlayWithFurciferPub: IndieArk
Windows · Linux
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 31.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A PvP inventory management auto battler! Buy and craft powerful items, then carefully arrange them in your backpack.
Why similar: Auto Battler 51.7%, Inventory Management 24%, Strategy 9.7%, Roguelike 9%, Cute 3.3%
- #43 This Isn't Just Tower Defense
73% matchMixed61% of 113 reviews2025
Dev: Pri Games
Windows
Defend your base with placeable towers that can be upgraded endlessly. Automate your production and make sure there's enough power to keep everything running.
Why similar: Tower Defense 30.5%, Automation 27.8%, Resource Management 14.6%, Auto Battler 10.4%, Strategy 5.8%
- #44 Nomad Idle
72% matchMixed65% of 850 reviews2025
Dev: The Fox Knocks
Windows
Median: 28.6 hrsMean: 63.0 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Face waves of enemies automatically and create builds by distributing stat points, leveling up equipment, choosing passive skills, summons and more. An idle game about killing hordes of enemies, becoming stronger, and exploring an unfolding storyline. A spin-off of Nomad Survival.
Why similar: Auto Battler 25.7%, Roguelite 19.4%, Automation 18.8%, Crafting 13.1%, Roguelike 11.1%
- #45 Survivor Challenge TD
71% matchVery Positive82% of 60 reviews2025
Dev: SQRT Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Survivor Challenge TD - is a Tower Defense game where you manage a single tower and add upgrades to it. Buy abilities, enhance upgrades, and defeat the boss!
Why similar: Automation 31.5%, Tower Defense 30.5%, Bullet Hell 15.6%, Roguelite 15.4%, Strategy 5.4%
- #46 Cluckmech Oasis
70% matchVery Positive88% of 3,463 reviews2024
Dev: BlackLightPub: Mammorize
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Cluckmech Oasis, a top-down shooting Roguelike tower defense game. Play as the Warcluck and lead your team of animal heroes in a fight for survival. Collect, build and upgrade defenses, and engage in intense battle against waves of plant enemies.
Why similar: Tower Defense 33.6%, Roguelite 17.1%, Building 15.5%, Roguelike 12.5%, Strategy 8.2%
- #47 Monster Tiles TD: Tower Wars
71% matchVery Positive82% of 494 reviews2024
Dev: Swell Games LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Free Tower Defense game with unique roguelike elements. Custom base building mechanics allow you to create your own base and maze with tiles earned after each wave. Unleash a variety of monsters, each with its own evolution path and unique skills, and evolve them into legendary creatures.
Why similar: Tower Defense 23.7%, Auto Battler 20.5%, Roguelite 12.6%, Base Building 9.9%, Building 9.4%
- #48 Idle Hero TD - Tower Defense
70% matchVery Positive83% of 1,068 reviews2024
Dev: Swell Games LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 169.0 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Endless idle tower defense game full of deep strategy and combat mechanics. Unlock and upgrade dozens of epic fantasy heroes to defeat an infinite swarm of enemy monsters. Strategize hero positions, synergies, and skills for an effective defense, then sit back and let the auto-battler do its thing!
Why similar: Tower Defense 29.6%, Auto Battler 24.2%, Resource Management 13.7%, Automation 12.4%, Strategy 7%
- #49 Poly TD
68% matchVery Positive86% of 491 reviews2026
Dev: Naroot
Windows
Classic Warcraft III TD customs meet roguelike strategy. Summon and merge units to evolve them into legendary figures like Joan of Arc, Guan Yu, and Lovecraft—Legendary heroes from across time and space await! Prove your ultimate synergy against endless waves of enemies.
Why similar: Tower Defense 28.7%, Auto Battler 24.2%, Roguelite 11.5%, Roguelike 9.8%, Deckbuilding 9.1%
- #50 Towerful Defense: A Rogue TD
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 227 reviews2024
Dev: Mini Fun Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 67%
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 26.1%, Auto Battler 23.3%, Roguelite 14.5%, Bullet Hell 12.4%, Deckbuilding 8.7%
- #51 Blacksmith: Ignite the Forge
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 93 reviews2025
Dev: Floodgate CrewPub: Awaken Realms
Windows
Blacksmith: Ignite the Forge is a mix of a simulator, strategy, and auto-battler. Become a master smith, craft various weapons, and enhance them with magical runes. Equip a team of adventurers with your hand-made tools, send them on missions, gather loot to upgrade your forge, and save the land!
Why similar: Auto Battler 41.6%, Building 20%, Crafting 15.3%, Resource Management 13%, Simulation 10.1%
- #52 MineMogul
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,443 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!
Why similar: Automation 35.6%, Base Building 18.3%, Building 13.6%, Resource Management 13.4%, Crafting 8.9%
- #53 BALL x PIT
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 23,880 reviews2025
Dev: Kenny Sun and FriendsPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.5 hrsMean: 19.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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: Roguelite 25.4%, Bullet Hell 20.4%, Base Building 16.4%, Roguelike 13.7%, Building 11.4%
- #54 MoteMancer
67% matchVery Positive94% of 236 reviews2025
Dev: CyanAvatar Studios
Windows
An alchemical automation game of logistical puzzles across six Elemental planes. Each Element offers unique tools for power, transport, and defense, rewarding adaptation and experimentation. Cultivate your own garden of possibility with dozens of uniquely shaped structures in this Hex-Grid sandbox.
Why similar: Automation 30.5%, Base Building 19.4%, Resource Management 14.8%, Building 8.3%, Crafting 7.4%
- #55 Automate It: Factory Puzzle
68% matchMostly Positive77% of 73 reviews2025
Dev: South Blue MoonPub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Automate It is a factory-building puzzle game that challenges players to find clever solutions within size, power, and time constraints. Design, build, and share your own puzzles with other players. If you want to build it - choose Automate It.
Why similar: Automation 38.2%, Resource Management 14.4%, Building 13.8%, Strategy 9.2%, Simulation 9%
- #56 The Territory of Egg
69% matchVery Positive95% of 58 reviews2023
Dev: ZGameStudioPub: Hawthorn Games
Windows
The Territory of Egg is a unique twist on tower defense game. You need to build defense lines with egg warriors to protect the Holy Egg, the core of all eggs. Remember to upgrade your Tech Tree with the resources you've collected and unlock more skills to fight against the evil monsters.
Why similar: Tower Defense 24.4%, 2.5D 14%, Roguelite 13.4%, Resource Management 13.3%, Building 9.8%
- #57 Learning Factory
66% matchVery Positive86% of 511 reviews2025
Dev: Luden.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build intricate supply chains to meet your feline customers' needs. Discover underground and air transport layers, a vast research tree, procedural worlds, machine learning, and endless automation in this relaxing, enemyless game.
Why similar: Automation 27.9%, Base Building 20.9%, Resource Management 14.6%, Building 12.9%, Crafting 8.4%
- #58 Outhold
64% matchVery Positive86% of 1,292 reviews2025
Dev: Tellus Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Outhold is a short, strategic incremental game that blends tower defense with a deep meta-progression. Experiment with builds and find overpowered synergies to defend the dwindling fires of Outhold.
Why similar: Tower Defense 57.4%, Strategy 13.2%, Roguelike 10.1%, Simulation 7.9%, Top-Down 6.6%
- #59 Knightica
66% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,114 reviews2025
Dev: Mad Mango GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Recruit powerful units, place them strategically and find the best synergies in this Roguelike Autobattler! Knightica lets you guide a warband through many challenges to free the Kingdoms. Discover optimal combinations, weave powerful enchants, face dangerous monsters and lead your army to victory!
Why similar: Auto Battler 38.1%, Inventory Management 16.7%, Roguelike 14.2%, Deckbuilding 12.3%, Strategy 9.8%
- #60 Block Tower TD
69% matchVery Positive82% of 76 reviews2023
Dev: MyDreamForever
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 30.9%, Roguelite 16.5%, Base Building 14.8%, Roguelike 10.9%, Building 8.5%