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This is a 2D defense game that depicts the near future that may arise from climate change. Unlike the defense game, which is automatically attacked by traditional turrets, it is an attractive game that requires you to defeat the enemy by operating the turret directly with limited power.

Why similar: Tower Defense 29.3%, RTS 27.6%, Wargame 18%, Strategy 11%, Casual 6%

This indie sci-fi TD has easy controls. Play as a futuristic commander defending humanity from mutants across diverse maps. Beat levels to unlock units: defenders, melee fighters, crowd controllers. Buy unique shop units, mix ability units for powerful custom defense lines.

Why similar: RTS 30.5%, Tower Defense 25.8%, Strategy 20%, Casual 12.6%, Realistic 7.6%

"Dynasty Rush" is an official Chinese-themed TD game. Command legendary heroes and unique towers across iconic Chinese landscapes. Experience deep strategy infused with rich culture as you defend the realm. The vast empire awaits your command!

Why similar: Tower Defense 26.8%, RTS 25%, Wargame 14.8%, Strategy 14.7%, Historical 10.2%

A single-player tower defense game across the vast Ming frontier. Serve as a garrison commander, earn military promotions and take charge of greater forces. Build your defenses and withstand massed Later Jin Eight Banner assaults in one continuous world.

Why similar: Tower Defense 26.9%, RTS 25.7%, Wargame 19.8%, Historical 12.3%, Strategy 11.1%

Play as a 7 Years' War general in Kriegsspiel ~ 7 Years' War, a real-time wargame. You command huge armies, but depend on couriers to send orders to your troops, and to be aware of the situation on the battlefield. Think strategically, and send the right orders to win every of your battle!

Why similar: Wargame 31.1%, RTS 26.2%, Historical 16%, Strategy 15.1%, Realistic 7%

In a time when the Napoleonic Wars were raging in Europe, another minor theatre took place in the far north. In the lands of the Kingdom of Sweden, in modern-day Finland, the Finnish War was a conflict in a dangerous land that saw stories, battles, and heroes unlike anywhere else in the continent.

Why similar: Wargame 35.6%, RTS 31.7%, Strategy 18.6%, Historical 13.4%, Singleplayer 0.6%

The replicator robots are back! It's 2528. The machines are increasingly infecting the planets with genetically modified monsters. Challenge them and try to stop the onslaught. Upgrade buildings and heroes, mine resources, discover technology and fight to save humanity!

Why similar: Tower Defense 41.8%, RTS 40.4%, Strategy 17.4%, Indie 0.4%

《三国阵》is a unique 2D confrontation game. The simple and easy-to-understand way of deploying troops on the battlefield frees up your hands. You just need to send out troops, and the soldiers will keep fighting to help you defeat the enemies.

Why similar: RTS 30.2%, Wargame 24.9%, Strategy 19.3%, Casual 12.1%, Historical 10.1%

A single-player sci-fi strategy game set in a future where humankind has made the first leap to a distant star system

Why similar: RTS 28.4%, Tower Defense 24.4%, Wargame 22%, Strategy 18.2%, Top-Down 3%

The New Fatal Error DLC includes a new 5-mission Operation and touch-screen controls.

Why similar: RTS 28.3%, Cold War 27.5% ★, Wargame 18.7%, Strategy 17.3%, Realistic 5.5%

Goblin of galantis has been lurking for ten thousand years. In preparation for their revenge, the last hope of the alliance between human beings and elves has been broken, and the mainland will encounter another crisis.

Why similar: Tower Defense 28.9%, Strategy 27.1%, RTS 25%, Casual 15.5%, Indie 3.5%

Stick Ragdoll Battle Simulator is a fun real-time strategy game with ragdoll physics. Protect your tower and destroy the enemy's.

Why similar: Tower Defense 26.8%, RTS 26.6%, Strategy 19.3%, Casual 12.7%, Historical 9.4%

The best elements of Real-Time Strategy (RTS) and Tower Defense genres combined into a new Base Defense game. Defend against countless waves of enemies while you expand your base, gather resources, and research technologies to defeat the ever strengthening enemy units.

Why similar: Cold War 20.8% ★, Wargame 19%, RTS 18.2%, Tower Defense 18.2%, Vehicular Combat 7.4%

Block enemies with randomly generated heroes Survive until the last round and clear the game. Defeat enemies and use the gold you earn to produce more heroes and become stronger.

Why similar: RTS 29.5%, Tower Defense 25.1%, Wargame 24.2%, Strategy 19%, 3D 1.7%

An exciting tower defense game where you have to defend your people from the invasion of enemy forces. Your task is to build and upgrade cannons to fend off waves of attacking enemies.

Why similar: Wargame 35.2%, RTS 29.2%, Tower Defense 29.1%, Top-Down 2.9%, 3D 1.6%

Defend your ever growing platform against an ever rising amount creeps

Why similar: Tower Defense 39.2%, RTS 28.6%, Strategy 22.1%, Casual 7.7%, 3D 1.6%

Cuban Missile Crisis is a real-time strategy game combined with a global turn-based tactical mode, thrusting gamers into a world ravaged by the military-political confrontation between the USA and USSR in 1962.

Why similar: Strategy 37.6%, RTS 33%, Cold War 29.4% ★

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Why similar: Cold War 22.6% ★, Wargame 19.1%, RTS 18.5%, Tower Defense 15.8%, Strategy 7.6%

"Tank Guards" is an independent game of strategy and defense based on tanks. Terrible enemies will invade your base, you have to upgrade your base, arm your tanks, and take advantage of the terrain, with friends to defend against their crazy attack.

Why similar: RTS 35.4%, Wargame 31.4%, Strategy 16%, Casual 15.3%, Indie 1.1%

Stickman World Battle - new exciting and thrilling real-time strategy with famous stickman heroes!

Why similar: RTS 26.8%, Tower Defense 26.6%, Wargame 24.1%, Strategy 19.6%, PvE 2.6%

Toy Empires is a unique fast-paced, micro-management-free real-time strategy game. All you have to do is make the purest decisions and games!

Why similar: RTS 26%, Wargame 23.8%, Tower Defense 23.4%, Strategy 12.2%, Historical 8.5%

Manage your own farm in a turn-based defense game, and fend off swarming gangs with avocado towers you've grown yourself.

Why similar: RTS 31.8%, Tower Defense 27.7%, Strategy 21.2%, Casual 13.4%, PvE 4.5%

Lead your warriors on an epic adventure to defend your kingdom from invaders - in this action tower defense game, you can use various defense towers, levels, heroes, and many good things to help you destroy enemies!

Why similar: Tower Defense 29.4%, RTS 25.2%, Wargame 22.8%, Strategy 12.2%, Casual 6.5%

With dozens of hours of gameplay set across a rich tapestry of time, Empire Earth: Gold Edition offers real-time strategy for the ages. Choose any point in time - from the discovery of fire to the laser battles of the future - and command your civilization with one goal: make Earth your Empire.

Why similar: RTS 38.2%, Wargame 30%, Strategy 26.4%, Top-Down 4.6%, Singleplayer 0.8%

The bees are back… bigger, bolder, better! Protect your beehive fortress against the hornet menace. After all, the best offense is a good BeeFense! Command your forces, manage your resources, and improve your defenses in increasingly challenging battles.

Why similar: Tower Defense 28.1%, RTS 22.9%, Wargame 20.9%, Strategy 13.1%, Historical 8.9%

Rise of the Cones is a tower defense game where a relentless army of cones is marching toward your base. They will not stop. Build towers, shape them with branching upgrades, and figure out how to hold the line.

Why similar: Tower Defense 31.3%, RTS 26%, Strategy 16.3%, Wargame 12.4%, Realistic 8.3%

Orcs coming TD is a classic tower defense game where you have to keep an eye on your economy and defenses .

Why similar: Tower Defense 33.1%, RTS 26.7%, Strategy 18.3%, Historical 7.8%, PvE 5.1%

Build and defend an island base in this isometric real-time strategy game. Keep your launchers fueled as incoming missiles threaten your buildings, then strike enemy islands with missiles or send in mechs to fight on the ground.

Why similar: Wargame 31.9%, Tower Defense 26.7%, RTS 25%, Strategy 14.7%, 3D 1.6%

The new reference in RTS at its best! The Wargame series returns to duty, larger, richer and more spectacular than ever before. In Wargame Red Dragon, you are engaged in a large-scale conflict where Western forces clash against the Communist bloc.

Why similar: RTS 33%, Cold War 22.4% ★, Wargame 19.7%, Strategy 17.2%, Realistic 7.4%

Command 30+ historical armies across 3,000 years of warfare, from Persian spearmen to Abrams tanks, in real-time pixel-art battles where every soldier fights and flees on his own. Then deploy the anomalies: trolls, zombies, wizards, flying saucers and more!

Why similar: RTS 29.6%, Wargame 26.2%, Strategy 20.1%, Casual 13.3%, Historical 10.2%

Command armies of flocking creatures in this fast-paced RTS. Battle for control of strategic nodes, utilize terrain advantages, and dominate the continent in the single-player campaign.

Why similar: RTS 33.4%, Wargame 29.9%, Strategy 21.6%, Casual 13.5%, Indie 0.9%

This is a RTS game, a war game about Three Kingdoms.Focus on the era of the Three Kingdoms when Zhuge Liang , and Cao Pi and Sun Quan.This game has a series of magical events, to tell the story of that era.

Why similar: RTS 30.1%, Wargame 24.5%, Historical 20.8%, Strategy 19.8%, Top-Down 2.7%

Replay the events of the first hot war of the Cold War era, the Korean War, also known as the Forgotten War. Players will be involved in two campaigns, both set in the 1950’s: the North Korean (June 25 – August 20) and the American (September 15 – October 8).

Why similar: Strategy 39.2%, Cold War 36.6% ★, RTS 24.2%

2 SIDES, 12 NATIONS, 750 UNITS: THE STRATEGY GAME REFERENCE IS BACK! Richer, more beautiful and more accessible, Wargame AirLand Battle is the sequel to the explosive real-time strategy game Wargame European Escalation! 1985.

Why similar: Cold War 30.5% ★, RTS 30.3%, Strategy 16.8%, Wargame 16.6%, Realistic 3.4%

Shan Hai Chang Ge is a war strategy tower defense game based on the battle of the deer. The Chiyou army is about to attack your city, you need to continuously improve the army lineup, use the recruitment order reasonably, and help the Yellow Emperor defeat Chiyou.

Why similar: Tower Defense 34.8%, Wargame 33.7%, Strategy 25.8%, Top-Down 4.6%, Singleplayer 1.2%

Lead the battles that forged the greatest Empire of all time. Seven civilizations fighting for glory or freedom: Rome, Aegyptus, Britannia, Germania, Gallia, Hispania, and Carthago. Enjoy the fast-paced RTC “Real-Time Conquest” gameplay, an Old School RTS oriented to military conquest.

Why similar: RTS 31.9%, Wargame 30.4%, Strategy 21.4%, Historical 15.8%, Singleplayer 0.6%

In Empire Earth III it’s you who creates history. Build your empire from three distinct factions or create a custom faction of your choosing. Lead your people to supremacy in technology, politics and economy, from ancient times to the future. Your quest for world domination is finally at hand.

Why similar: RTS 36.7%, Wargame 32.8%, Strategy 24.8%, Top-Down 5%, Singleplayer 0.8%

The game is set in the summer of 1944 during the defense of Hengyang, China. General Fang leads the Tenth Army with 17000 soldiers to resist 110000 Japanese soldiers for 47 days.

Why similar: RTS 27.5%, Tower Defense 22.8%, Strategy 20.3%, Wargame 16.4%, Casual 10.6%

Tower defense Game to safeguard the land of Rome.

Why similar: Tower Defense 23.8%, RTS 22.3%, Wargame 20.6%, Strategy 11.3%, Historical 9%

A geometric-style tower defense game where your defenses persist beyond victories, becoming permanent strategic assets. Build defenses, repel attacks, expand territory, and snowball economically to gain tech and military advantages.

Why similar: Wargame 30%, Tower Defense 24.5%, RTS 24.3%, Strategy 13.4%, Casual 6.7%

《Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne》 and 《Mirage War》 are two games that I really love in my childhood, and it would be a lot of fun to mix them together with some design.....

Why similar: Wargame 39.1%, RTS 31.8%, Strategy 19.4%, PvE 9%, Singleplayer 0.7%

Command your troops through the muddy chaos of WWI. Build trenches, call in artillery, and outsmart your enemies in this chaotic and bloody trench warfare strategy game.

Why similar: RTS 27.5%, Tower Defense 23.7%, Wargame 17.8%, Strategy 17.6%, Historical 8.1%

Command the sky in a tense real-time strategy simulation where you manage a nation's air defenses. Analyze radar contacts, scramble interceptor jets, and make split-second decisions to protect your airspace from hostile threats.

Why similar: Cold War 36.1% ★, Wargame 23.6%, RTS 18.7%, Strategy 10.6%, Historical 8.2%

This is a roguelike tower defense game focused on builds and decision-making. In every run, map layouts, enemy compositions, shop offerings, and rune rules are procedurally altered. There are no fixed solutions you can rely on—only choices made under constantly changing conditions.

Why similar: Tower Defense 35.1%, RTS 31.9%, Strategy 26.3%, PvE 5.4%, Singleplayer 1.3%

Your defense is the enemy's disaster! Combine units to build a powerful army and send defeated monsters to your opponent instantly. Master your strategy with skill synergies and real-time scouting to survive and win.

Why similar: RTS 29.8%, Tower Defense 29.8%, Strategy 22.6%, Casual 11.8%, Top-Down 3.4%

Join the historic battles of World War II in the new game Stickman WW2

Why similar: RTS 26.7%, Tower Defense 26.5%, Wargame 23.9%, Strategy 19.7%, PvE 2.9%

Castle Arena is a classic real-time strategy (RTS) game where you defend your own castle while aiming to conquer the enemy's. Master the rock-paper-scissors dynamics between Warriors, Mages, and Knights, and command your troops with intuitive tap-and-drag controls.

Why similar: RTS 34.5%, Tower Defense 28.3%, Strategy 16.9%, Wargame 15.5%, Top-Down 3%

A real-time strategy game where you build your own army to consolidate your territory.

Why similar: Wargame 43.3%, RTS 40%, Strategy 15.4%, Indie 0.8%, Singleplayer 0.6%

Coastal Defense is a fast-paced, casual top-down tower defense game inspired by real-world coastal defense structures. Buy and upgrade your coastal defenses to defeat incoming navies!

Why similar: Tower Defense 29.4%, Historical 15.5%, Wargame 15.2%, Cold War 13.6% ★, Strategy 8.9%

Command real-time WWII battles across the complete Theatre of War series, unified on the latest version of its original engine. Experience deep tactical combat, realistic ballistics, and over 100 missions, enhanced for modern systems.

Why similar: RTS 30.5%, Wargame 26.4%, Strategy 19.4%, Historical 10.7%, Realistic 7.6%

HOLD THE LINE is a dark 3D tower defense about humanity’s last stand against the Ashen horde. Build and upgrade turrets, use mines, artillery, and napalm, manage scarce resources, and hold the defense through relentless waves.

Why similar: Tower Defense 34.2%, Wargame 32.4%, Strategy 24.5%, Top-Down 4.6%, 3D 2.6%

Command a team of 5 elite soldiers against an alien horde of 100,000. Surrounded on all sides, you must outmaneuver and outsmart the enemy.

Why similar: Tower Defense 35%, RTS 33.7%, Strategy 23.3%, Top-Down 5.1%, Indie 1.7%

Command a rebellion against an oppressive kingdom in this medieval tower-defense strategy game. Manage resources, upgrade units, and battle through 21 intense matches. Protect your tower, crush the enemy's, and lead the people to justice in a fight for freedom and equality.

Why similar: RTS 30.1%, Tower Defense 23.8%, Wargame 19.5%, Strategy 18.9%, Casual 3.5%

Catch your friends hiding in the public transport network, before they manage to disappear. Use bikes, trams, trains and more to move around in the city.

Why similar: Cold War 34.7% ★, Trains 27.8% ★, Transportation 20.8% ★, Strategy 7.9%, PvE 4.1%

Oil Rush is a naval strategy game that takes place in a world where nuclear war has melted the ice caps, changing the face of the planet forever. Oil Rush offers unique gameplay, avoiding micromanagement of every single unit, while still providing full control over all important aspects of strategy and economy.

Why similar: RTS 38.3%, Strategy 33.2%, Tower Defense 25.6%, Indie 3%

Take on thousands of robots in a massive, 25-hour macro-focused RTS campaign. Reclaim territory, harvest resources, and upgrade your army to crush the machine stronghold. But beware: the harder you push, the harder they push back.

Why similar: RTS 41.8%, Tower Defense 32.3%, Strategy 24.4%, Singleplayer 1.4%

A Tactical Battle Simulator that allows you to command thousands of soldiers as a Union or Confederate General. The game features the most accurately created map, a non-linear battle campaign, complex morale, innovative control mechanics and smart AI.

Why similar: RTS 30%, Wargame 25.4%, Strategy 21.7%, Historical 21.4%, Indie 1.1%

Three Kingdoms Defense is a real-time strategy tower defense set in the Three Kingdoms era. Recruit 1,000 historical generals, combine powerful faction-based synergies, deploy units in active combat, and shape your growth through strategic progression and resource management.

Why similar: Tower Defense 30%, Wargame 29.3%, Strategy 21.1%, Historical 14.3%, 3D 2.3%

All kinds of enemies entered the battlefield! Build your defenses against hordes of enemies!

Why similar: RTS 33.1%, Tower Defense 28.3%, Strategy 21%, Casual 13.1%, Top-Down 3.2%