
It’s a tower defense game disguised as a management/city building game.
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It’s a tower defense game disguised as a management/city building game.

News Tycoon
News Tycoon is a real-time tycoon game about newspaper management

Gargantua
Build your spaceship, Gargantua. Establish industries, shape the free market, trade between planets, and defend your wealth. A single mistake can collapse supply chains and trigger interstellar economic crises. In Gargantua, war is money.
News Tycoon is a real-time tycoon game about newspaper management
Why similar: Management 26.1%, Economy 19.6%, City Builder 19.6%, Strategy 17.6%, Building 11.5%
Build your spaceship, Gargantua. Establish industries, shape the free market, trade between planets, and defend your wealth. A single mistake can collapse supply chains and trigger interstellar economic crises. In Gargantua, war is money.
Why similar: Tower Defense 27.7%, City Builder 27.4%, Economy 15.2%, Building 12.2%, Management 10.6%
Fantasy & unreal universe for a fun and spectacular strategy game. Miniaturized in a sick body use the field to create colonies, collect resources and make fixed defenses to protect the antibody. Disinfect all !!
Why similar: Tower Defense 33.4%, City Builder 24.5%, Strategy 22%, Management 20.2%
An exciting new city-management/puzzle game about buildings and the city they inhabit. You must grow your city to a bustling metropolitan centre with an array of shops, offices, entertainment facilities and amenities, to help your buildings thrive; or risk them being demolished forever.
Why similar: City Builder 29.1%, Economy 21.1%, Management 19%, Building 12.8%, Strategy 8.8%
Sylox is a short, minimalist base-building game with a touch of worker placement and strategic expansion. Assign workers to key tasks, unlock new buildings, expand, and defend your growing base against increasing enemy attacks.
Why similar: Tower Defense 30%, City Builder 28.4%, Economy 12%, Strategy 10.6%, Management 9%
Become a hero of Eastern legend. Explore ancient secrets, plan your defenses, combine tower types and modifiers, and build an indestructible fortress in a tower-defence game with survival elements.
Why similar: Tower Defense 35.2%, City Builder 29%, Building 14.4%, Strategy 13.5%, Management 5%
Create, upgrade, and customize your very own Bloons Monkey City in this groundbreaking blend of city building and tower defense awesomeness!
Why similar: Tower Defense 45%, City Builder 38.5%, Strategy 15%, Casual 1.2%, Singleplayer 0.3%
Defend the Crucible from waves of enemies. Grow your economy to new heights, research and be always one step ahead. The Crucible must be completed!
Why similar: Tower Defense 37.9%, Management 19.7%, Economy 15.8%, Strategy 14.9%, Building 9.3%
Design, build, and manage the world’s largest and most diverse cities in Cities XXL. Bigger and better than ever before with a more powerful game engine and new interface, become the mayor of your very own sprawling metropolis.
Why similar: City Builder 40.2%, Economy 20.8%, Management 15.6%, Building 15.5%, Strategy 7.2%
Forget defense. This is Reverse Tower Defense where you are the threat. Lead the AI, build robots and destroy human bases.Your goal is invasion. Your weapon is the swarm.
Why similar: Tower Defense 40.8%, City Builder 20.7%, Auto Battler 18.1%, Building 10.2%, Strategy 8.8%
A classic 3D Tower Defense fantasy game, made by a very small and dedicated team.
Why similar: Tower Defense 53%, City Builder 17.3%, Strategy 12.7%, Building 9.2%, Casual 6.8%
NecroCity: Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full version of the game. Take on the role of the young Prince of Undead, trying to prove himself in the world of the Undead Kingdom. Push back the hordes of monsters and build your fortress! 🔥
Why similar: Tower Defense 31.2%, City Builder 27.8%, Management 15.3%, Building 14.2%, Strategy 8.6%
Hydra TD is a stylized tower defense game built around smart placement and careful decisions. Place towers along the path, upgrade them over time, and hold back incoming waves before they reach the end. Complete the campaign, then continue into Endless mode to see how long your defense can hold.
Why similar: Tower Defense 35.4%, Economy 18.1%, Management 13.7%, Auto Battler 10.4%, Building 8.3%
Chinese Empire is an economic city-building strategy taking place in the picturesque areas of China. Create your own new empire that will go down in history!
Why similar: City Builder 34.4%, Economy 19.9%, Management 17.6%, Building 15.9%, Strategy 9.5%
Post-apocalyptic city builder, where you Build, Defend, and Thrive in a desolate landscape overrun by enemy attacks. Manage resources, production and manufacturing to expand your settlement.
Why similar: City Builder 36.2%, Tower Defense 35.9%, Building 15.6%, Management 11.7%, Singleplayer 0.6%
Build an unparalleled tower defense kingdom in "Skyline Defense"! With your strategic wisdom, construct defense towers, develop the economy, and withstand the fierce attacks of the enemies. Multiple difficulty levels of battle modes. Join now and start your sky island tower defense journey!
Why similar: Tower Defense 30.4%, City Builder 23.8%, Economy 18.3%, Strategy 11.3%, Building 10.6%
Foundland is a strategic city-building and resource management game with defense elements. Expand your lands, establish production chains, grow your population, and protect your city against rising threats.
Why similar: Tower Defense 28.3%, City Builder 18.7%, Management 17.9%, Economy 13.5%, Auto Battler 10.9%
Chinese Empire is an economic city-building strategy taking place in the picturesque areas of China. The prologue will introduce you to the world of Chinese Empire!
Why similar: City Builder 35.4%, Economy 19.4%, Building 15.7%, Strategy 12.6%, Management 12.5%
Shopping Center Tycoon Is : Market Simulation & Tycoon and Improve your market. Grow, Design and Manage your Shopping Center with the right Strategy.
Why similar: Management 24.5%, City Builder 21.9%, Economy 20.4%, Building 17%, Strategy 12.3%
Become the richest business owner in this strategy-based simulator, choose your playstyle trying to balance ethics and profits in this chaotic low poly world. Will you keep your ethical businesses thriving or will you let it all crumble down for a quick buck?
Why similar: City Builder 29.1%, Management 20.1%, Strategy 16.6%, Economy 13.2%, Building 11%
A revived magic brings a computer virus to life, materializing trolling into the real world to cause a different kind of 'undead' pandemic. In this world, your enemies are memes. The king of trolling, Hue Hue BR, aims to reach the city's airport. Stop him.
Why similar: Tower Defense 36.9%, City Builder 30.1%, Strategy 14.1%, Building 9.1%, Casual 8.5%
The enemy is approaching. What's your strategy? In this fusion of Tower Defense and Autobattler, optimize the power of your turrets, create strong synergies and wisely choose your bonuses... Or your maluses! Will you be able to defend your city against the hordes of furious monsters?
Why similar: Tower Defense 31.6%, City Builder 23.5%, Auto Battler 15.1%, Management 10.2%, Strategy 8.1%
Defend the CPU of your computer from the waves of virus invasions in this pixel-art tower defense game!
Why similar: Tower Defense 51%, Strategy 14.6%, Building 11%, Management 10.8%, Casual 7.6%
Dubai Builder is a strategy game in which you build, develop and manage a city in the desert and are responsible for all aspects related to it and struggle with difficult climatic conditions.
Why similar: City Builder 33%, Management 17.8%, Tower Defense 17.6%, Building 16.1%, Strategy 14%
Aquis: A strategic elemental adventure where a human mage, stranded in a mystical world, must collaborate with elemental beings to mend a portal breach. Battle shadow creatures, restore harmony, and seek a path back to Earth.
Why similar: City Builder 36.2%, Economy 21.1%, Management 16%, Building 15.8%, Strategy 9.5%
Build and manage your own chess club from the ground up. Recruit amateurs, train them into champions, expand your facility, and rise to global fame.
Why similar: City Builder 37.6%, Economy 22.1%, Management 16.8%, Building 10.2%, Strategy 9.3%
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 30.6%, City Builder 26.5%, Management 12%, Economy 10.2%, Building 9.4%
In Defend the Town, it's up to you to create a successful town. You must build while defending against enemies, adding defense towers, and leveling up to make your own attacks more powerful. Collect coins as you play to unlock permanent upgrades in this Rogue Like, base-building adventure!
Why similar: Tower Defense 25.6%, City Builder 23.3%, Economy 15.9%, Management 12.8%, Building 11.3%
This is a tower defense game where you use four dice to build a turret. The rolls of the dice are the ability value of "number of shots", "time reload", "damage(& range)" and "magazine". Try your best to clear all 40 stages, which are getting more and more difficult!
Why similar: Tower Defense 53.3%, Management 19.4%, Strategy 16.5%, 2D 4.7%, Casual 3.5%
Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis with the most realistic city builder ever. Push your creativity and problem-solving to build on a scale you've never experienced. With deep simulation and a living economy, this is world-building without limits.
Why similar: City Builder 41.5%, Economy 17.5%, Building 16.1%, Management 16%, Strategy 5.8%
Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...
Why similar: Management 34.6%, Building 24.4%, Economy 12.5%, Strategy 12.3%, City Builder 9.7%
《孤军深入》是一款结合策略、防御和射击元素的游戏,玩家需要合理利用有限的资源,通过生成和升级弹药,来抵御不断涌来的敌人,保卫战士。 建造,弹药合成,射击,空间管理,资源管理
Why similar: Tower Defense 44.4%, Strategy 18.1%, Economy 17.3%, Management 15.5%, 2D 3.8%
The orc and undead camps are spreading across your land, threatening to overrun everything in their path. As their numbers grow, so does their power. It’s up to you to lead the charge and wipe them out before it's too late.
Why similar: Tower Defense 28%, City Builder 25.7%, Economy 14.1%, Building 10.3%, Management 9.7%
Ridiculous Shipping is an arcade management sim about running a chaotic sea port. Unload ships and get every container to its destination using cranes, drones, trucks, and ridiculous buildings like shark-filled aquariums.
Why similar: Tower Defense 31.2%, City Builder 28.8%, Economy 18.7%, Building 13.6%, Strategy 5.7%
Construct the infrastructure to rebuild civilization. Set up supply lines, mine skyscrapers for plastics, and find a place to process all the poop your people will generate. You have twenty minutes.
Why similar: City Builder 36.2%, Management 20.4%, Building 17.9%, Economy 14.8%, Strategy 8.2%
Build your own dungeon and attract heroes from all over the realm! Grow your business by exploiting every facet of your visitors' dungeon exploration experience. Will you be able to keep your evil dungeon business going?
Why similar: Tower Defense 27.5%, City Builder 20.9%, Economy 17.6%, Management 16.1%, Building 10.4%
Gemstone Guardians is a tower defense game where selection and combinations are key. Similar to a game of poker, players are given a set of random towers each round and must make the best combinations to prevent the waves of enemies from reaching the end.
Why similar: Tower Defense 53.4%, Strategy 22.3%, Building 20.9%, Singleplayer 1.8%, Indie 1.5%
Thousands of citizens, each with a life of their own. Urbanist is a strategy and simulation game about transforming small settlements into thriving cities and vibrant neighborhoods. Build up your island, manage resources and production chains, and earn your reputation as the next great Urbanist.
Why similar: City Builder 36.6%, Building 17.4%, Management 16.9%, Economy 16.4%, Strategy 9.3%
Build an impossible tower. Defend it against endless sieges. Watch it crumble — and rebuild stronger.
Why similar: Tower Defense 49.1%, Management 21%, Strategy 16%, Building 9.3%, 2D 3.5%
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 55%, Building 21.8%, Strategy 16.6%, 2D 4%, Indie 1.3%
Defend your kingdom from evil monsters in this combination of Tower Defense and Auto Battle. Place your defenses and stop the forces of evil from reaching your kingdom.
Why similar: Tower Defense 46.7%, Auto Battler 18%, Strategy 14.4%, Building 14.3%, Casual 2.6%
Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.
Why similar: City Builder 47.7%, Building 15.5%, Management 15.3%, Economy 13.1%, Strategy 6.2%
Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware is a free prequel to the original game. In a medieval fantasy world, you are to build settlements, raise huge armies, and defend against massive hordes of enemies. Learn how Ironbrow clan shaped the world's map the first time - if you survive, that is.
Why similar: Tower Defense 27.9%, City Builder 27.4%, Economy 11.7%, Management 11.5%, Building 11.3%
This is a game of building planning on a plot like a chessboard. The player needs to plan the buildings built on the plot to achieve higher revenue in order to promote the development of little yellow people.
Why similar: Economy 29.2%, Management 22.1%, City Builder 19.9%, Strategy 12.9%, Casual 10.3%
Evil Defenders is a fun, frenetic defense game: build and upgrade your towers, сast spells to repel enemy forces, use special landmarks and defend the Lands of Evil from invaders! Feel free to play the game in many different ways through unique tower upgrades, a deep skill tree and 100 in-game achievements.
Why similar: Tower Defense 76%, Strategy 14.8%, Casual 6.8%, Indie 2.5%
Idle Spin&Win is a Tower defense Idler with luck based mechanics build in. As you clime the enemy waves you unlock new tower and upgrade their power and ear more XP . Collect bonus spins to test your luck. Upgrade the skill tree and research to improve your power and boost your gold.
Why similar: Tower Defense 43.2%, Economy 21.1%, Auto Battler 18.4%, Strategy 9%, 2D 3.5%
Dicey Towers is a unique tower defense hybrid that includes a variety of unique enemies, towers, and bosses. Upgrade, combine and, manage your towers to defeat countless waves of enemies as they attempt to breach your kingdom.
Why similar: Tower Defense 39.5%, Economy 16.3%, Management 13%, Building 11.7%, Strategy 9.1%
A minimalist game about building and defending your little kingdom.
Why similar: Tower Defense 41.7%, City Builder 30.5%, Building 9.7%, Strategy 9.6%, Auto Battler 7.2%
In Airport Manager, you’re in charge of turning a small airstrip into a thriving airport! Manage landing requests, refuel planes, handle baggage, and upgrade your facilities to attract bigger aircraft and more passengers. Earn money, and grow your airport into a world-class hub.
Why similar: Economy 25.2%, Building 20.7%, City Builder 16.4%, Management 15.9%, Strategy 10.9%
Build, advance, reshape! For all those who have missed relaxing strategy classics. LowPolis is a friendly-paced city builder game where you become the ruler of a rising community. Begin with a handful of resources and pave your way to a truly majestic kingdom!
Why similar: City Builder 38.9%, Building 17%, Strategy 14%, Economy 11.4%, Management 10.4%
After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!
Why similar: City Builder 27.7%, Tower Defense 20.6%, Economy 18.4%, Management 13.8%, Building 10.9%
Fieldrunners is now available on Steam! Download it now to play the hit tower defense game critics and fans have been raving about. Descend into the world of Fieldrunners, the most anticipated and visually stunning game in tower defense history!
Why similar: Tower Defense 78%, Strategy 12.8%, Casual 6.7%, Indie 2.5%
Create a thriving space station in a lost sector. Face thrilling challenges head-on, from pirate raids to asteroid impacts, as you lead your company to new heights.
Why similar: Tower Defense 27.1%, City Builder 23.6%, Management 16.5%, Economy 16%, Building 11.6%
Build and manage your own trailer park to either become a peaceful haven or a pit of unruly partiers. Expand on services and amenities to keep tenants happy. Manage staff to keep your park safe and clean or let chaos run amuck and risk it all for higher gains.
Why similar: City Builder 43.1%, Management 22%, Building 17%, Economy 16.6%, Singleplayer 1.2%
City building real time strategy economy simulation game. Manage the resources on the map and build a city connected through road networks of different types of road so that you can meet production targets.
Why similar: City Builder 35.6%, Economy 26.1%, Building 21.8%, Strategy 13.2%, 2D 2.3%
The Archaeologists is a single-player settlement builder. Establish multiple settlements through manufacturing and trade. Raise great structures across the mountain to link them into one interconnected economy. Dig into the rock to unearth valuable artifacts and uncover a forgotten past.
Why similar: City Builder 38.5%, Economy 21.3%, Management 18.9%, Strategy 13.1%, Building 7.8%
A tower defense with a twist - you’re defending a nuclear bomb. It powers your defenses, but the more you use it, the closer you get to meltdown. Manage chaotic engineers, scarce resources and risky upgrades - every decision counts.
Why similar: Tower Defense 29.5%, City Builder 25%, Management 14.1%, Economy 13.5%, Building 9.9%
A strategic tower defense set in World War I. Defend Belgian trenches, manage your soldiers, their supplies and fatigue. Every choice matters. This is not about conquering — it’s about holding the line.
Why similar: Tower Defense 53.8%, Management 24%, Strategy 17.4%, 2D 3.6%, Singleplayer 1.1%
You will act as an entrepreneur in the 1990s, producing all kinds of goods that citizens need; Providing residential and educational services for citizens; Carry out international trade and upgrade industries. You should choose the right development strategy to grow the company.
Why similar: City Builder 33.5%, Economy 25.1%, Management 16.9%, Building 11.3%, Strategy 11%
"HAKONIWA DEFENSE" is a tower defense game in which the protagonist, who has lost his memory, cooperates with the girls to progress. Defeat enemies to regain your memory.
Why similar: Tower Defense 54.5%, Management 22.8%, Strategy 19.8%, Singleplayer 2.9%