- #1 Axom: Conquest
97% matchMostly Positive80% of 54 reviews2026
Dev: Hairy Penguin
Windows
Build and defend your fortress while expanding out in this hold-out tower defense roguelite. Battle across a procedural alien homeworld, fight back corrupted terrain, discover hundreds of structures and upgrades as physics-driven swarms threaten to wipe out humanity.
Why similar: Tower Defense 20.2%, RTS 16.7%, Procedural Generation 11.7%, Aliens 10.3%, Roguelike 10.2%
- #2 The Territory of Egg 2
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 14 reviews2024
Dev: ZGameStudioPub: Hawthorn Games
Windows
The Territory of Egg 2 is an unique tower defense indie game. Place Egg Towers, choose evolution branches, combine skills and build defenses. The souls of Heroic Eggs await your awakening! Explore and gather resources in the dark forest, unlock the technology tree, and defeat even stronger enemies!
Why similar: Tower Defense 21.7%, RTS 19.3%, Roguelite 10.7%, Building 10.2%, Procedural Generation 9.8%
- #3 Hexguardian
96% matchMostly Positive80% of 700 reviews2024
Dev: Split Second GamesPub: Yogscast Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 19.2%, RTS 16%, Hex Grid 15.8% ★, Procedural Generation 12.2%, Roguelite 9.9%
- #4 Labyrinthian Lockdown
95% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: Twonkage Games
Windows
Klondor is in grave danger of being overwhelmed, enter the Labyrinth, prepare your defences, defend your Mana Crystal and annihilate the incoming waves of enemy forces that pose a threat to the Kingdom.
Why similar: Tower Defense 25.8%, RTS 22.1%, Procedural Generation 18.7%, Magic 10.8%, Roguelike 10%
- #5 Sushi Cat - Tower Defense
94% matchVery Positive86% of 51 reviews2026
Dev: OverPowered TeamPub: Armor Games Studios
Windows
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 23.5%, RTS 20.9%, Roguelite 12.6%, Roguelike 11.7%, Procedural Generation 11.2%
- #6 The Territory of Egg
94% matchVery Positive95% of 59 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 21.6%, RTS 18.7%, Procedural Generation 12.6%, Roguelite 10.6%, Roguelike 9.6%
- #7 Rogue Tower
93% matchVery Positive83% of 5,919 reviews2022
Dev: Die of Death Games
Windows
Median: 10.7 hrsMean: 20.3 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 40.9%, Roguelike 15.6%, Procedural Generation 12.7%, Roguelite 7.9%, Strategy 7.7%
- #8 Tower Dominion
91% matchVery Positive86% of 5,489 reviews2025
Dev: Parallel 45 Games
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 22.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 24.4%, RTS 16.7%, Procedural Generation 11.5%, Roguelike 10.5%, Roguelite 9.4%
- #9 Stand Your Ground
92% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2023
Dev: Noahstar365
Windows · Mac
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 23.5%, RTS 22%, Roguelike 12.1%, Roguelite 11%, Building 8.3%
- #10 TowerKeep - Tower Defense
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Red Giraffe
Windows
In a living land of magic and monsters, the world itself is your greatest weapon. Gather from the land, build your defenses, and hold back the horde. A tower defense where no two lands are ever the same.
Why similar: Tower Defense 29.8%, Procedural Generation 19.1%, Roguelike 14.2%, Roguelite 13%, Building 7.1%
- #11 Orbit Armada
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Viktor Borg Grelsson
Windows
Defend Earth from the dangers of space in Orbit Armada! Orbit Armada is a tower defense / roguelite where every run is different. Pick and manage your units wisely, you've only got one Earth!
Why similar: Tower Defense 27.1%, RTS 23.1%, Roguelite 15.4%, Roguelike 12.3%, Strategy 7.6%
- #12 Crystal Guardians Prologue
89% matchVery Positive94% of 77 reviews2024
Dev: Green Pine Studios
Windows
Crystal Guardians prologue (small slice of the full game) is a tower defense game with rogue-like elements. Fight off waves and defend the base crystal. Gear up your towers with a powerful combination of items for your personal strategy. In a procedural map, find hidden powers and conquer the enemy.
Why similar: Tower Defense 28%, Procedural Generation 17.1%, Roguelike 14.2%, Roguelite 13.6%, Isometric 6.6%
- #13 Skyline Defense: Legends of the Aether
89% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Ghost Starship
Windows
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 23.3%, RTS 20.2%, Economy 14.2%, Building 9%, Strategy 8.2%
- #14 Castella
87% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: Slime Potion Games
Windows
Castella is a Tower Defense Rogue-like, where you will build a fortress to defend yourself from Hordes of monsters besieging your Castle. During the game you will unlock and upgrade a great variety of Towers and Buildings. You will build walls to block the path and defend your resources and Castle.
Why similar: Tower Defense 24.6%, Procedural Generation 13.1%, Roguelike 12.6%, Roguelite 12.3%, Economy 11.7%
- #15 U.F.O. K.O. Tower Defense
88% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2021
Dev: Pixel General LLC
Windows
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 32.9%, RTS 27%, Building 16%, Aliens 11.8%, Strategy 6.8%
- #16 Micron Defense Force
86% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Mystical XP Games
Windows
A Roguelike Tower Defense in space with missions to conquer. Can you hold against the spreading alien bosses? Build and upgrade towers against the corruption. Choose your technologies and warpspeed your way to victory.
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.1%, Roguelike 14%, Roguelite 12.3%, Building 11.1%, Aliens 10.6%
- #17 Dreadful Defenders
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Erelag Studio
Windows
Find Relics with eldritch abilities. Summon dreadful Defenders with unique traits, control the path by placing them, and combine their Benedictions to create otherworldly synergies!
Why similar: Tower Defense 38.4%, Roguelite 18.6%, Procedural Generation 15.5%, Roguelike 9.4%, Strategy 7.9%
- #18 Twisted Tower Tactics
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Team Sämst
Windows
You have awoken from your century long slumber only to find out your domain has been occupied by invading forces. Drive these invaders out and reclaim what is rightfully yours in this roguelike tower defense game.
Why similar: Tower Defense 31.2%, Roguelike 17.9%, Roguelite 15.2%, Strategy 13.1%, Procedural Generation 12.2%
- #19 Zero Bugs Given
84% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: BrokenKnee
Windows
Zero Bugs Given is a tower defense / roguelike game designed with the ambition of making every run different from the others. Every wave, a pair of bonus and malus will force you to adapt in the best way you can. Build your defense and try survive as long as you can!
Why similar: Tower Defense 29.8%, RTS 22.2%, Roguelike 13.8%, Strategy 10.8%, Roguelite 10.2%
- #20 Xenocrystal TD
84% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Nalu Games
Windows
A Rogue-like Tower Defense game with 10 towers, 5 damage types, 20 abilities, and hundreds of upgrades. Select one or more upgrades to your towers and/or abilities at the end of each level that stay with you through your mission to protect the Xenocrystals. Limitless possibilities!
Why similar: Tower Defense 40.2%, Roguelike 19.3%, Procedural Generation 15%, Aliens 10.5%, Strategy 8.3%
- #21 Another TD
82% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: LazyDogs
Windows
You're the Tower Marshal at the Elderglen kingdom, and you have a terrible job. Your king really likes to send letters to neighbours. Ones that make them offended enough to send armies at your castle. They're already on the way, so get back to work!
Why similar: Tower Defense 29.5%, Roguelite 16.8%, Roguelike 14.3%, Economy 8.8%, Magic 7.4%
- #22 FloraHive
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stranded Ocean
Windows
Build, Upgrade, and then Move your Towers in this unique twist on the Tower Defence genre. With Rogue-Lite mechanics every run offers new strategies, and every death unlocks new upgrades. Grow. Evolve. Destroy the Robots!
Why similar: Tower Defense 31%, Procedural Generation 18.5%, Roguelite 15.7%, Roguelike 11.8%, Strategy 7.8%
- #23 Archipelago
83% matchMostly Positive74% of 39 reviews2022
Dev: Isaac Lee
Windows
Archipelago is a roguelike tower defense game about defending randomly generated islands. Setup your defenses, manage your income, and find powerful charms to repel the enemy. Archipelago introduces tension and strategy to the tower defense genre.
Why similar: Tower Defense 37.8%, Roguelite 18.9%, Economy 15%, Procedural Generation 14.1%, Strategy 7.6%
- #24 Sky Defense
81% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Nova Code
Windows
A card-driven tower defense game where one wrong choice ends your run. Place defenses, upgrade your deck between rounds, and protect your floating island from endless waves of enemies.
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.5%, RTS 22.3%, Roguelike 14.9%, Procedural Generation 12.3%, Roguelite 8%
- #25 Glorpotron
79% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: Bitwise Botworks, Inc
Windows · Mac
A tower defense roguelike about robots and ooze. Play solo or local multiplayer, protect the Glorp, and defeat the creeps.
Why similar: Tower Defense 33%, Roguelite 15.5%, Procedural Generation 13.9%, Robots 12.7%, Roguelike 8.8%
- #26 Project Kepler: Delivery Included!
81% 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: Tower Defense 24.5%, RTS 20.4%, Roguelite 13.6%, Roguelike 9.9%, Procedural Generation 9.7%
- #27 Mystic Resistance
80% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Hurricane Games
Windows
Fend against goblins and kobolds in this challenging rogue-like tower defense game! Adjust your strategy every run to save your village from an evil warlock.
Why similar: Tower Defense 33.4%, Roguelike 20%, Procedural Generation 12.5%, Strategy 10.8%, Roguelite 10.4%
- #28 Surging Matrix
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: YX Studio
Windows
Upgrade and evolve, expand your territory, and build mighty defense towers to repel hordes of monsters.
Why similar: Tower Defense 25.1%, RTS 20.6%, Hex Grid 17.6% ★, Roguelite 12.6%, Building 12.1%
- #29 Mineral Defense
78% matchVery Positive90% of 253 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 25.2%, Procedural Generation 14%, Roguelite 13.4%, Roguelike 12.8%, Robots 6.7%
- #30 Endless Defense
77% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2026
Dev: Yamu Studios
Windows
Endless Defense is a roguelite sci-fi tower defense game where every run becomes a new build. Place turrets, choose traits, draw upgrade cards, use special tiles, and evolve your defense to survive endless waves of enemies, elites, and bosses.
Why similar: Tower Defense 35.1%, Roguelike 15.4%, Strategy 10.6%, Procedural Generation 10.5%, Building 10.1%
- #31 Kingdom's Path
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sönmez Cankurt
Windows
In Kingdom’s Path, each battle is your own living battlefield. Every zone you place shifts enemy flow, pushing you to adapt and outsmart them. Towers rise, leaders guide, and no run plays the same. Build, defend, and carve victory from chaos.
Why similar: Tower Defense 24.2%, RTS 19.8%, Procedural Generation 12.5%, Roguelike 11.8%, Roguelite 10.4%
- #32 Skyward Bastion
76% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: Shenkrad
Windows
Skyward Bastion is a roguelite tower defense game set on floating islands. Build and upgrade your defenses, unlock new strategic possibilities, and adapt your run to procedurally expanding maps.
Why similar: Tower Defense 28.1%, Procedural Generation 16.2%, Roguelite 14.4%, Roguelike 9.7%, Magic 7.6%
- #33 Astro Company
77% matchNo user reviews
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 31.3%, Roguelite 18.8%, Roguelike 14.4%, Procedural Generation 12.5%, Strategy 9.2%
- #34 MageGuard Tower
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Daniel BatistaPub: Finite Shift
Windows
MageGuard Tower is a roguelike tower defense game where thousands of physics-driven monsters surge toward your crystal. Build, unlock, and adapt across procedurally generated maps in a relentless struggle for survival.
Why similar: Tower Defense 33.6%, Procedural Generation 17.9%, Roguelite 14.7%, Strategy 10.1%, Roguelike 7.9%
- #35 Castles on Clouds
75% matchPositive100% of 32 reviews2024
Dev: TJPub: Memori Studios
Windows
A Roguelike Tower Defense game set on a user controlled procedurally generated island. Select unique cards and relics that enhance your towers abilities, crafting powerful builds to defend against the growing hordes of enemies.
Why similar: Tower Defense 29.1%, Roguelite 14.8%, Roguelike 13.7%, Procedural Generation 13.5%, Economy 12.6%
- #36 Rogue Station Defense
75% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: Cladcake
Windows
A rogue-like sci-fi Tower Defense strategy game with infinite replayability!
Why similar: Tower Defense 27.4%, Procedural Generation 17%, Roguelite 14.1%, Roguelike 13.8%, RTS 11.2%
- #37 Cosmic Robots
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Aniode Pub: Aniode
Windows · Mac
Defend your planet from waves of robot invaders! Build powerful turrets, upgrade your defenses, and command robot units to fight drones, tanks, and massive bosses. Then send your own forces to attack the enemy planet in this action-packed sci-fi tower defense game.
Why similar: Tower Defense 29%, RTS 22.5%, Robots 15.4%, Aliens 13.7%, Strategy 8.5%
- #38 Rabbit Comes Home
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ZIPSTED
Windows · Mac · Linux
Play as a lone rabbit sent to the outer space on the journey back home. Defend the ship against relentless alien waves, harvest precious resources, upgrade under pressure, and survive the crushing energy deficit. Every warp brings you one step closer to home… or to ruin.
Why similar: Tower Defense 20.5%, Hex Grid 17% ★, Roguelike 13.3%, Robots 12.6%, Procedural Generation 9.8%
- #39 Blackwood Division
73% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: GlassTower
Windows · Linux
Fight supernatural creatures with your forces in this fast paced Roguelike RTS game!
Why similar: RTS 30.9%, Roguelite 17.1%, Roguelike 15.7%, Procedural Generation 11.6%, Aliens 9.1%
- #40 Infinite Evo TD
72% match4 user reviews25% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: Starchase Games
Windows
A tower defense game where mechanics evolve through your choices. Strengthen classic tower defense, blend in other game genres, or abandon tower defense entirely. Each level unlocks a fresh ruleset, making one purchase feel like many games in one.
Why similar: Tower Defense 28.4%, RTS 24.7%, Roguelike 13.3%, Roguelite 12.9%, Procedural Generation 9.2%
- #41 Citadelic
73% matchMostly Positive71% of 14 reviews2023
Dev: Keyreal
Windows
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 25.1%, RTS 17.7%, Roguelite 12.6%, Roguelike 10.4%, Procedural Generation 9.4%
- #42 Tessellar
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nightware Games
Windows
A grid-based Roguelike Tower Defense where the board fights back. Survive the swarm, expand the terrain, and draft powerful rewards. Build the perfect defense, but beware: the grid flips, forcing you to fight on two fronts. Will you master the twist or be consumed by the abyss?
Why similar: Tower Defense 40%, Roguelite 16.9%, Strategy 12.4%, Procedural Generation 12.3%, Magic 8.4%
- #43 Prototype TD 2
73% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2022
Dev: Faf Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Prototype TD 2 is a rogue-like tower defense game which focuses on replayability, giving the player meaningful decisions and a different experience each game. Design the route that enemies will follow and combine your tower types to adapt to a wide variety of procedurally generated maps.
Why similar: Tower Defense 30.4%, Hex Grid 21.1% ★, Roguelite 18.3%, Procedural Generation 13.8%, Strategy 9.9%
- #44 packet.Breach()
71% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: CeltiCo
Windows
packet.Breach() is a roguelike tower defense where you deploy hacker programs to manipulate and redirect projectiles to attack your enemies. Build your deck and join a hacker faction, or choose to remain unaffiliated and become a legend.
Why similar: Tower Defense 31%, Procedural Generation 19.8%, Roguelike 15.6%, Roguelite 13.1%, Strategy 7.1%
- #45 Crystal Tower Defense
71% matchMixed69% of 35 reviews2023
Dev: Hot Roof Studios
Windows
Stop an endless hoard of crystal-type enemies, with different attributes, from reaching the portal to earth! You can build your own labyrinths, unlock new turrets, upgrade them, unlock abilities, and also gather permanent bonuses.
Why similar: Tower Defense 30.6%, Procedural Generation 18.1%, Roguelite 14.7%, Building 9%, Strategy 6.8%
- #46 Robo Siege TD
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cléo Saulnier
Windows
A classic sci-fi tower defense game filled with waves of robots in full 3D. Get rewarded with automatic mini upgrades for well placed towers. Progress far enough to unlock the Factory tower, opening a hidden layer of upgrades and the path to the golden tower.
Why similar: Tower Defense 35.7%, Robots 20.9%, Economy 12.9%, Building 10.6%, Strategy 10.3%
- #47 Crystal Guardians TD
70% matchVery Positive88% of 116 reviews2024
Dev: Green Pine Studios
Windows
Crystal Guardians is a tower defense game with rogue-like elements. Fight of waves and defend the world crystal. Gear up your towers with a powerful combination of items for your strategy. In an ever expanding map, find hidden powers and conquer the enemies.
Why similar: Tower Defense 27.7%, Procedural Generation 14.5%, Roguelite 14%, Roguelike 13.6%, Building 7.4%
- #48 Axon TD: Uprising - Tower Defense
69% matchVery Positive86% of 790 reviews2024
Dev: Element Studios
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Axon TD lets you expand the map boundaries themselves. A huge arsenal of towers and a wide variety of enemies clash in a battlefield that grows to your whims. Engage in single, cooperative, and roguelite gameplay.
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.9%, RTS 19.6%, Roguelite 12.8%, Roguelike 11%, Robots 8.8%
- #49 Phos
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Amatsugu
Windows
You play as a robot colonizer that has been sent out to an alien planet with one goal. Harvest its resources and send them back home. To accomplish this you must build a base on the planet. But the native inhabitants of the planet won’t sit idly by as you strip their world of its resources.
Why similar: RTS 18.3%, Economy 15.9%, Robots 14.7%, Procedural Generation 11.5%, Building 10.5%
- #50 Inu : Loas'Fate
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lucid Factory
Windows
Embark on an adventure with "Inu: Loas'Fate," a reverse tower defense strategy game. Be Inu, Loa of transformation. Mix your creatures in a cauldron and unleash powerful spells to conquer the trials of Vilokan!
Why similar: Tower Defense 24.3%, RTS 21.2%, Procedural Generation 14.3%, Roguelite 11.2%, Roguelike 10.1%
- #51 Rogue Door Defense
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 22 reviews2022
Dev: brimselGames
Windows
Rogue Door Defense is a tower defense mazing game with rogue-lite elements. Choose a door, defeat the enemies behind it and claim your unique reward. Build and upgrade different towers. Design your own maze to defend your lives against the attacking waves of monsters and powerful bosses.
Why similar: Tower Defense 30.3%, RTS 25.9%, Roguelike 13.1%, Roguelite 12%, Strategy 10.9%
- #52 Reclamation of Xanthros
70% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Kyle Genter
Windows
Reclamation of Xanthros is a unique Tower-Defense Roguelike. Xeno have taken over the planet Xanthros and you must save it by defeating their Matriarch. Battle across a wide range of biomes with a changing assortment of Towers, Upgrades, and Artifacts. Features a unique turret building mechanic.
Why similar: Tower Defense 29.4%, Aliens 19.4%, Procedural Generation 16.1%, Roguelike 15.1%, Strategy 7.5%
- #53 Layered Loop层叠环道
68% 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 29.6%, RTS 26%, Roguelite 17.8%, Roguelike 14.3%, Building 6.2%
- #54 Exodus Flight
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Monstrum
Windows
Take control of a starship fleeing the sudden attack on your home world in this single-player sci-fi roguelike. Evade pursuit, manage resources, deal with aliens, and acquire new weapons and technology. Each ship you lead to safety will join the mission to take back the home world.
Why similar: Roguelite 19.8%, Roguelike 17.5%, Hex Grid 13.7% ★, Procedural Generation 12.9%, Strategy 10.8%
- #55 STARGEARS
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: nodoxi
Windows
STARGEARS is a sci-fi RTS set on an alien world.
Why similar: Tower Defense 29.9%, RTS 29.4%, Aliens 12.9%, Strategy 11.8%, Building 8.4%
- #56 Wild Growth TD
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sgt. PepPep
Windows
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 26.3%, RTS 23.7%, Economy 12.9%, Roguelite 12.2%, Building 10.4%
- #57 Rogue Tiles
67% matchMixed60% of 42 reviews2024
Dev: Possibility Paradox
Windows
Rogue Tiles merges tower defense with roguelike elements, offering a dynamic experience where you shape the expanding path. Unlock, build, upgrade, and defend against waves of enemies.
Why similar: Tower Defense 32.6%, Procedural Generation 20.6%, Roguelike 16.2%, Roguelite 14.8%, Strategy 6.8%
- #58 Terra Exodus
67% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: GreyHoodieGames
Windows
Defend the evacuation of Terra on the losing side of an alien invasion. This experimental action strategy game breaks out of genre norms to provide fresh mechanics to strategic gaming.
Why similar: Tower Defense 20.5%, RTS 17.3%, Aliens 15.5%, Procedural Generation 13.8%, Roguelike 11.9%
- #59 Dawn of Defense
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 6side Studio
Windows
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 23.6%, RTS 21%, Procedural Generation 12.3%, Roguelite 11.9%, Hex Grid 11.1% ★
- #60 Infested Planet
68% matchVery Positive94% of 3,039 reviews2014
Dev: Rocket Bear Games
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 35.5%, RTS 29%, Strategy 12.7%, Aliens 11.4%, Sci-fi 5.9%