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Defend attacks from enemies from all directions within a limited time. Only by making full use of the differences in each tower and choosing appropriate random rewards can you survive.

Why similar: Tower Defense 19.7%, RTS 18.5%, Real Time Tactics 10.2%, Roguelite 10%, Building 8.6%

1931-1945,the chinese Tunnel Warfare. Customizable map WWII RTS simulation with player-designed tunnels, dynamic difficulty, and enemy AI. Base strategies and tech choices shape unique combat styles. Experience authentic WWII tactics, not fantasy.

Why similar: Tower Defense 20.1%, RTS 19.9%, Strategy 10.6%, Real Time Tactics 10.3%, Roguelite 9.6%

Geometric Defense is a top-down tower defense survival game that seamlessly blends minimalist aesthetics with deep strategic gameplay. In this unforgiving world of lines and polygons, you are no longer just a remote commander—you are the final guardian at the heart of the battlefield.

Why similar: Tower Defense 24.8%, RTS 17.9%, Real Time Tactics 12.2%, Roguelite 11.8%, Strategy 8.5%

Defend the energy cores from ever increasing enemy waves by destroying their spawn gates. Build tower mazes on Hex grid. Adapt them to dynamic changes in the terrain. Face quirky bosses. Design your own levels and share them on the Steam Workshop.

Why similar: Hex Grid 29.6% ★, Tower Defense 22.8%, Building 11.7%, Real Time Tactics 10.6%, Top-Down 7.8%

Defend your kingdom against legendary monsters. Place turrets strategically to block their path. Upgrade your defenses to fend off enemy hordes. Become the legendary guardian of the earth alone or in co-op!

Why similar: Tower Defense 23%, RTS 20.7%, Real Time Tactics 11.9%, Building 11.7%, Base Building 10.2%

Grow out your defenses and defend against waves of invasive enemies. Manage resources, explore further out into the wilds, and strengthen your grove. Wild Growth TD combines tower defense with real time strategy and rogue-lite elements.

Why similar: Tower Defense 22.2%, RTS 20%, Real Time Tactics 11.7%, Roguelite 11.1%, Building 10.8%

Discover one of the hardest tower defense games with strategic elements, individual gameplay and challenging mechanics. Play together with your friends in co-op mode, create a team and compete with other players in the online ranking.

Why similar: Tower Defense 28.1%, RTS 20.8%, Roguelite 14.9%, Base Building 13.8%, Strategy 9.4%

HEX Defense is a tower-based strategy game set in a hexagonal world where you have to fight enemy forces by combining simple blocks into complex tower patterns.

Why similar: Tower Defense 25.5%, RTS 21.4%, Strategy 12.6%, Real Time Tactics 12.2%, Hex Grid 10% ★

Craft an unstoppable defence using Dwarven Towers and a fearless squad, then take on waves of invading Hobgoblins in this thrilling real-time strategy tower defence game! Strategize, upgrade, and triumph in Hobgoblins Against Dwarfs!

Why similar: Tower Defense 28.8%, RTS 23.3%, Base Building 14.1%, Strategy 11.1%, Real Time Tactics 7.8%

Tired of RNG and card draws? Experience a "Plan first, pay later" economy where construction scales with your income in real time. As the map grows massive, only careful planning. Not a lucky roll, will keep you alive.

Why similar: Tower Defense 30.2%, RTS 25.5%, Base Building 16.8%, Building 13.7%, Strategy 7.9%

Taur is an action-strategy sci-fi game. Control the Prime Cannon and unlock all of its powerful weapons and abilities. Build turrets, droids, aircraft and more as you fight to protect the homeworld of the Tauron droids against a relentless invasion. Will your Taur stand against the Imperion warmachine?

Why similar: Tower Defense 34.7%, Base Building 15.1%, RTS 13.5%, Strategy 10%, Real Time Tactics 6.5%

Dawn of Defense blends RTS, Tower Defense, and Roguelite progression. In a last defense, lead your tribe against the Empire: Command warriors in battle, fortify defenses, and build an economy as you fight to reclaim your ancestral homeland.

Why similar: Tower Defense 19.9%, RTS 17.7%, Hex Grid 14.6% ★, Base Building 13%, Roguelite 10.8%

Power TD is a 3D top-down strategy tower defense game where players must build and strategically balance defensive towers with essential Energy Facilities. The core challenge is maintaining power while designing intricate mazes to maximize enemy exposure to tower attacks.

Why similar: Tower Defense 28.7%, RTS 19.8%, Real Time Tactics 13.8%, Strategy 9.9%, Base Building 9.7%

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

Why similar: Tower Defense 24.9%, RTS 24.8%, Strategy 13.2%, Real Time Tactics 10.5%, Building 8.8%

Project VTS is a real-time TD game. You'll need to build your defence around your base and defend against different enemies from all directions in various terrains of the alien planet.Use your turrets, obstacles, power supply, resource facillities to defend your base.

Why similar: Tower Defense 33.4%, Base Building 17.5%, Building 17.3%, Top-Down 10.7%, Strategy 8.5%

Build deadly mazes and outsmart a rogue AI in this strategic tower defense game. Adapt your defenses, use aiming parameters to your advantage, and activate powerful perks to survive increasingly complex waves of incoming robots.

Why similar: Tower Defense 24.1%, RTS 19.8%, Building 14.2%, Base Building 13.7%, Roguelite 9%

A strategic tower-defense where you control powerfull drones. Unlock new tower and use specific technologies to defend your base on Thukothea!

Why similar: Tower Defense 38.7%, RTS 14.4%, Real Time Tactics 12.2%, Strategy 11%, Base Building 10.3%

A strategy game that combines MOBA and Tower Defence, You would control guardians with different skills，building your outpost to fend off enemy attacks.

Why similar: Tower Defense 29.5%, Base Building 19.3%, Building 15.1%, Strategy 14.5%, Top-Down 6.7%

Multiplayer Tower Defense Game - Send out units and defend against enemy units in this Arena RTS with up to 32 players

Why similar: Hex Grid 26.2% ★, Tower Defense 21.4%, RTS 18.2%, Base Building 14.2%, Top-Down 6.8%

The core gameplay of Cubic Defender is strategy planning and resource management, with the aim of deploying heroes and defensive towers to eliminate invading enemies.

Why similar: Tower Defense 29.9%, Base Building 14.6%, Real Time Tactics 13.4%, Roguelite 12.9%, Strategy 12.1%

In the flooded future world, mankind has built floating islands where electricity is harnessed during the raging thunderstorms. This unstable energy is crucial for survival, but also poses the greatest risk in this Tower Defense game.

Why similar: Hex Grid 31.2% ★, Tower Defense 24.5%, RTS 11.5%, Real Time Tactics 10.8%, Strategy 8.3%

| Rogue elements + Free Layout + BattleMastery + Turn-based March | What kind of different experience will it bring ? Will you be able to hold on to a tower caught in a tidal wave of enemy attacks ? May be this is the answer you're looking for.

Why similar: Tower Defense 26.8%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 12.5%, Roguelite 12.3%, Real Time Tactics 10.1%

Build and upgrade towers, defend your fortress from the growing onslaught. With each wave, the challenges become more difficult, but a smart strategy and the right decisions will help you endure and prevail!

Why similar: Tower Defense 31.6%, Building 17%, Strategy 12.1%, Base Building 10.9%, Real Time Tactics 10.2%

Hextalia is a hex-based strategic tower defense where you get maximum control over the board. Use walls to shape the paths of your enemies, experiment with endless build combinations, and discover different levels-each comes with its own unique challenge.

Why similar: Hex Grid 32% ★, Tower Defense 29.7%, Top-Down 10.1%, Strategy 10%, Tactical 8%

Little Kingdom RTS is an indie real-time strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Gather resources, build settlements, raise walls, and grow your small kingdom. Command an army of knights, archers, and mages to fight off rival kingdoms, orcs, and undead.

Why similar: Tower Defense 21.3%, RTS 19.3%, Base Building 14.9%, War 11.6%, Real Time Tactics 10%

Dimension Core is a tower defense game set in a collapsing multiverse. Defend the Dimensional Core across unique worlds by deploying strategic towers. Unlock powerful abilities and uncover cosmic truths to save all realities.

Why similar: Tower Defense 28.9%, Base Building 18.1%, Roguelite 13.6%, RTS 11.3%, Hex Grid 9% ★

U.F.O. K.O. Tower Defense: Place lasers, missile launchers, sniper turrets, and use combat strategies such as airstrikes and the space ray to repel waves of alien invaders in this sci-fi tower defense game.

Why similar: Tower Defense 32.4%, RTS 26.7%, Building 19.4%, Top-Down 9.1%, Strategy 8.9%

Pingdom is a Tower Defence game with endless replayability with the random terrain generation and wave system.

Why similar: Hex Grid 27.2% ★, Tower Defense 22%, RTS 19.7%, Building 13.5%, Base Building 11.2%

Build towers, shape enemy paths, and defend your outpost from endless waves. Survive escalating threats, destroy falling asteroid hazards, and push your defenses to their limits in Endless Mode.

Why similar: Tower Defense 27.8%, RTS 20.5%, Building 15.7%, Real Time Tactics 10.7%, Strategy 8%

《星夜迷城》是一款轻松休闲的的策略，建设，塔防类型的小游戏。玩家需要在有限的时间内生存发展，并且抵御敌人的进攻，合理的利用资源，将会是成功的关键。

Why similar: Tower Defense 29.5%, Base Building 17.9%, Building 17.6%, Strategy 14.9%, War 11%

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 27.8%, Building 15.5%, Base Building 14.9%, Roguelite 14.3%, Strategy 9.5%

Build various towers to resist the large number of monsters coming from the wormhole, by extending their walking routes.

Why similar: Tower Defense 30.1%, Base Building 16.7%, Building 16.2%, Real Time Tactics 15.8%, Strategy 9.7%

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 30.2%, RTS 21.7%, Base Building 18.4%, Strategy 11.4%, Building 9.7%

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: Tower Defense 25.4%, RTS 25.1%, Strategy 13.5%, Real Time Tactics 13%, War 8.9%

Commander is a war strategy tower defense game. You will play the role of a commander, constantly recruit soldiers to improve the defensive strength, match the appropriate lineup, and finally defeat the enemy.

Why similar: Tower Defense 36.2%, Strategy 19.1%, War 17.6%, Roguelite 16.7%, Top-Down 7.9%

Plasma Dome is a tactical tower defense with roguelite progression and no predefined paths. Defend your city from an aerial assault of geometric entities from another dimension.

Why similar: Tower Defense 34.9%, RTS 27.9%, Base Building 13.3%, Strategy 12.8%, Building 10.2%

Citadelic is a base building and defending strategy game with roguelite elements. Survive against waves of constantly evolving enemies while expanding your base and managing resources.

Why similar: Tower Defense 23.5%, RTS 16.7%, Base Building 16%, Roguelite 12.8%, Building 9.2%

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 41%, Roguelite 13%, Strategy 11.8%, Building 11.3%, Base Building 10.7%

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 22%, RTS 16.8%, Base Building 14.5%, Building 10.4%, Top-Down Shooter 8.7%

Create your own distinctive towers, enhance only the necessary components, and experiment with them in quick battle mode. THWN enables you to craft each tower individually using runes that determine the projectile and its effects, giving you the freedom to adopt strategies that suit your play style.

Why similar: Tower Defense 23%, RTS 20.2%, Building 12.9%, Real Time Tactics 11.9%, Top-Down 7.6%

Zombie Warz is a strategy survivor RTS with rogue-lite gameplay elements. Play as the king of a kingdom under siege by zombies and survive to discover their origins.

Why similar: Tower Defense 24.7%, RTS 19.6%, Base Building 14%, Roguelite 12.5%, Building 10.7%

3D Real-time strategy attack enemy defense with upgradable summoned units. You play as Spirit Summoner to destroy modern human sophisticated defenses of a small city. Devise a masterful strategy that utilizes your summoned creatures to their fullest potential and breach their fortifications.

Why similar: Tower Defense 23.6%, Real Time Tactics 18.4%, RTS 14.5%, Strategy 13.4%, War 12.2%

Aim, fire, and fortify. Shogun's Stand is a fast-paced tower defense rogue-lite where you take direct control of your castle against relentless waves of feudal enemies. Place traps, command the battlefield, and level up to survive!

Why similar: Tower Defense 27.9%, Base Building 16%, Real Time Tactics 13.4%, Strategy 11.9%, Top-Down 11.6%

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 24.7%, RTS 17.6%, Base Building 14.5%, Roguelite 10.6%, Building 10.4%

Battle back waves of rogue sushi in this cute-but-chaotic roguelite tower defense! Build, upgrade, and reshape the battlefield each run.

Why similar: Tower Defense 25.1%, RTS 22.4%, Roguelite 14.5%, Base Building 14.5%, Strategy 8%

Creeping Dusk is a tower defense game. Build a town around an abandoned gold mine and defend against monsters that swarm the area. Fortify your defenses, and prepare for the increasingly challenging nights. Will you be able to protect your town from the encroaching darkness?

Why similar: Tower Defense 29.6%, Base Building 18.6%, Building 16.2%, Roguelite 16%, Strategy 9.8%

'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 32.7%, Roguelite 20.6%, Base Building 18%, Strategy 13.8%, Building 13.7%

Build a castle and defend it from your enemies! Construct towers, place traps, train and command units in this historical, manuscript-themed mix of Tower Defense and classical Real Time Strategy.

Why similar: Tower Defense 29.4%, RTS 21.2%, Base Building 18.4%, Strategy 10.1%, Survival 8.6%

A small strategy game . Players need to rely on reasonable strategies to survive in this mysterious field.

Why similar: RTS 22.3%, Tower Defense 21.2%, Building 14.9%, Real Time Tactics 10.7%, Strategy 8.5%

Random Realms Hero Under Siege is a fast-paced single player tower defense RTS where every match is a fresh roll of the dice. Build bases from randomized building options, lead a leveling hero and their army, and hold the line against escalating enemy waves.

Why similar: Tower Defense 27.8%, RTS 18.3%, Base Building 10.9%, Building 10.8%, Top-Down 10.7%

Your village must survive for 13 days! Gather resources, expand, explore the underground for riches, and train soldiers to defend against hordes of the undead.

Why similar: Tower Defense 28.1%, RTS 19%, Base Building 18.6%, Building 11.6%, Strategy 9.5%

"Fighting for Land" is a casual roguelite tower defense game that blends randomized card draws, randomized power-ups, and territory-coloring.

Why similar: Tower Defense 23.3%, RTS 22.4%, Roguelite 12%, Real Time Tactics 12%, Base Building 10.4%

Eternal 4 Rounds isn't just a game. It's a struggle for glory! Each round presents a new challenge, new strategies, and new victories. Feel like a true commander and taste glory!

Why similar: Tower Defense 29.8%, RTS 25.8%, Real Time Tactics 14.4%, Strategy 14.3%, Roguelite 11.8%

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: Hex Grid 28% ★, Tower Defense 21.8%, RTS 18.2%, Roguelite 12.2%, Tactical 6.6%

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 40.9%, Building 22.2%, Strategy 15.7%, Top-Down Shooter 9.9%, Top-Down 9.7%

DEFENSURVIVOR is a strategy game where you build obstacles and place and move units to block zombies. There are various units with unique characteristics and powerful high-level units that can be obtained through combination. Use randomly given units to survive until the end!

Why similar: Tower Defense 26.3%, RTS 21.5%, Base Building 17.6%, Roguelite 15.4%, Top-Down 7.4%

This game is a arcade block placing game mixed with action-packed Tower Defense gameplay mechanics. Build forts out of tetrominoes high up in the sky and defend it against the incoming waves of airships, by shooting at them with your minigun and building defenses!

Why similar: Tower Defense 26.9%, RTS 20.4%, Base Building 17.6%, Building 16.5%, Strategy 9%

Orcdom is a minimalist tower defense game with full freedom in tower placement. Defend your crystal from waves of orcs attacking from all directions. Plan your layout, time your spells, and unlock new strategy modes in this fast-paced tactical challenge!

Why similar: Tower Defense 27.2%, RTS 15.9%, Base Building 13.9%, Real Time Tactics 13.8%, Building 12%

A real-time roguelite tower defense game about extracting the riches of the forest. Lure creatures to your emitter and mow them down with towers and spells. Build freely, shape your maze, and choose spells that transform how you play.

Why similar: Tower Defense 25%, RTS 23.5%, Real Time Tactics 13.4%, Building 12.9%, Strategy 9.1%

This is an RTS game less than 300MB, but it already contains many interesting game mechanics, There are many types of soldiers and tactics for you to choose. Support LAN online battle. Special Thanks for Pixel Art UwU~ I hope you will be interested in more RTS games after playing :)

Why similar: Tower Defense 23.5%, RTS 22.6%, Base Building 16.2%, Real Time Tactics 8.5%, Top-Down 7.8%