Games Like The Defender: Farm and Castle

Get ready for an epic journey to defend your kingdom against hordes of orcs, trolls, evil wizards and other nasty fiends using a vast arsenal of towers and spells at your command!Fight on forests, mountains and wastelands, customizing your defensive strategy with different tower upgrades and specializations!

Why similar: Tower Defense 76.9%, Strategy 12.7%, Action 4.1%, 2D 3.6%, Singleplayer 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for tower defense, offering the same satisfying progression and strategic depth found in the seed game.

Create a hero from one of four classes to save Etheria in this 4-player coop Tower Defense Action-RPG. Includes Steam exclusive Portal gun & TF2 familiars!

Why similar: Tower Defense 80.9%, Strategy 14.9%, Singleplayer 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: Combines action-RPG shooter mechanics with tower defense in a way that mirrors the active role the player takes in defending their base.

You’ve tossed, burned and sliced them by the thousands – now orcs must die more than ever before! Grab a friend and slay orcs in untold numbers in this sequel to the 2011 AIAS Strategy Game of the Year from Robot Entertainment.

Why similar: Tower Defense 75.9%, Strategy 10.7%, Action 6.5%, Shooter 4.9%, Singleplayer 1.3%

Why You'll Like It: A premier action-tower defense hybrid that requires you to actively participate in the combat alongside your traps and defenses.

An arcade strategy game about defending your garden. Grow potatoes, onions and carrots to defend your lawn!

Why similar: Strategy 53.6%, Tower Defense 24.8%, 2D 17.8%, Singleplayer 3.2%, Indie 0.6%

Why You'll Like It: Perfectly matches the seed game's niche by combining farming simulation with real-time tactical defense.

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 81.5%, Strategy 16.9%, Indie 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: A solid tower defense title with diverse maps and upgradeable towers that align well with the seed game's core loop.

1BIT CASTLE is a little tower defense game in which we are defending castle from the monsters.

Why similar: Tower Defense 80.7%, 2D 7.6%, Action 6.8%, Indie 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, retro-styled castle defense game that focuses on simple, addictive survival mechanics.

Welcome to the world of CastleStorm, a super genre mashup of 2D physics destruction mashed with tower defense brawler! CastleStorm was born out of the fond childhood memory of building and destroying LEGO castles.

Why similar: Tower Defense 67.3%, Strategy 16%, Action 9.2%, 2D 3.4%, Indie 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: Features physics-based castle destruction and active projectile shooting, capturing the intense feeling of defending a fortification.

A tower defense action roguelike 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 items to craft powerful builds that lead you to victory.

Why similar: Tower Defense 65.6%, Strategy 17.1%, Action 8.5%, 2D 6.5%, Singleplayer 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: Blends action-roguelike elements with tower defense, providing a fast-paced combat experience similar to the shooter aspects of the seed.

Battle hordes of monsters in Goblin Defenders: Steel 'n' Wood!

Why similar: Tower Defense 68.9%, Strategy 28.9%, Singleplayer 1.5%, Indie 0.7%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a straightforward, casual tower defense experience that is easy to pick up and play.

Defense Grid: The Awakening is a unique spin on tower defense gameplay that will appeal to players of all skill levels. A horde of enemies is invading, and it's up to the player to stop them by strategically building fortification towers around their base.

Why similar: Tower Defense 85.7%, Strategy 11.8%, Singleplayer 1.6%, Indie 0.9%

Why You'll Like It: A classic, highly polished tower defense experience that emphasizes strategic placement and resource management.

The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.

Why similar: Tower Defense 76.3%, Strategy 16.5%, 2D 2.6%, Singleplayer 2.5%, Action 2%

Why You'll Like It: Offers deep strategic tower defense gameplay with extensive upgrade paths and hero units that reward long-term planning.

Build turrets to destroy balls & earn cash, spend it to upgrade and get stronger

Why similar: Tower Defense 56%, Strategy 13.5%, Incremental 11.3%, Shooter 11.2%, 2D 5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the clicker and incremental aspects of the seed game, making it ideal for fans of progression-heavy defense.

In this tug-of-war, casual defense game， you play Leonidas who is the hero-king of Sparta, against hordes of attacking zombies in Thermopylae. Recruit allies and build defenses to stop them!

Why similar: Tower Defense 65.2%, Strategy 20.1%, 2D 8.4%, Singleplayer 3.4%, Indie 3%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D side-scrolling defense game that focuses on managing units to protect a base from waves of enemies.

In Kingdom Defense you have to be in the role of the commander of the defense of the kingdom. You will have to keep defense using three towers, soldiers, traps and a variety of improvements for them. For a successful level you need to hold out under the pressure of hostile troops, not allowing him to get to the territory of the kingdom.

Why similar: Tower Defense 65.6%, Strategy 30.1%, Indie 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: A classic-style tower defense game that focuses on strategic unit placement and wave management.

Refence is a roguelite based idle defense game, where you can choose heroes and their traits, upgrade your castle, and manage resources to fend off enemies from the Demon Realm who are trying to attack your castle.

Why similar: Tower Defense 62.8%, Strategy 15.2%, Incremental 12%, 2D 6.1%, Singleplayer 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite tower defense game that incorporates clicker and idler mechanics for a satisfying growth loop.

Defend your ancestral castle – show the invader who the master is! Build towers, save money, train your spells, and your enemy will be vanquished.

Why similar: Tower Defense 63%, Strategy 18.4%, Action 8.9%, 2D 5.7%, Singleplayer 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: Features a medieval theme and tower-based combat that mirrors the aesthetic and gameplay style of the seed game.

Defend your Castle against the relentless army of crayon invaders! Those crafty barbarian hordes have amassed their forces once again to challenge your domain. Will you and your court rise to the challenge, or stand aside as they raze your Castle to the ground?

Why similar: Tower Defense 51.7%, Strategy 27.2%, Action 10.1%, 2D 5.2%, Indie 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the essence of simple, high-stakes base defense with an emphasis on survival and quick reactions.

Get ready for modern battles! Defend your islands against evil invaders in jungles! Your team will consist of modern snipers, gunners, rockets, ice towers and other great things. A deep conflict has been brewing between you and the evil invaders. Fight to protect your freedom and liberty.

Why similar: Tower Defense 64.5%, Strategy 25%, Action 8.5%, Indie 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: An action-oriented tower defense game that requires quick thinking and effective resource usage.

Fortify is a real-time strategy game with a tower defense twist. Defend your castle from attacking monsters and siege weapons by using ranged and melee defenders, catapults, cannons, oil fields and more. You start at the iron age, advancing to the medieval age, and later, the imperial age.

Why similar: Strategy 62.8%, Action 30.3%, Indie 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A blend of RTS and tower defense that emphasizes building up defenses to survive increasingly difficult waves.

You will select a hero with unique abilities. As you defend your castle, you will earn money and loot. This will allow you to upgrade your castle and recruit AI controlled allies to synergize with and equip them with weapons and relics. You may also choose to allow the AI to control your hero.

Why similar: Tower Defense 57.8%, Strategy 13.6%, Shooter 10%, Incremental 8.3%, Action 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: Adds inventory management and roguelite elements to the tower defense formula for a fresh take on base protection.

Rush for Glory is featuring challenging and rewarding Tower Defense battles, in which players are defending their base against an alien invasion. By strategically building towers and upgrading them, the player can keep his base safely and further progress through the extensive singleplayer campaign.

Why similar: Tower Defense 71.7%, Strategy 20%, Action 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines tower defense with action elements, requiring players to manage defenses while dealing with incoming threats.

Artificial Defense is a one man made, real time strategy game combining orbital shooter and tower defense components within an electrifying, virtual reality setting. You are the machine, a mighty computer-system defending its servers against swarms of intruding creeps.

Why similar: Tower Defense 46.2%, Strategy 33.6%, Action 16.2%, Indie 4%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-heavy tower defense game that offers a variety of tactical options for base protection.

Magic Quest is a tower defense game with towers, mighty enemies, bosses and heroes with unique abilities.

Why similar: Tower Defense 64.6%, Strategy 25.4%, Action 8.2%, Indie 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: A casual, action-packed tower defense game that is accessible and fun for fans of the genre.

Ducks are after your toast! Setup various water guns in this fun tower defense game to shoo away the ducks so they don't steal your precious toast. You choose how many flocks of ducks come for your toast each wave, the greater the risk the greater the reward!

Why similar: Tower Defense 64.7%, Strategy 22.3%, 2D 5.4%, Action 5.1%, Singleplayer 1.7%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox-style tower defense game that allows for creative base building and survival strategies.

Help the plants to defend the garden from being invaded by sneaky beetles.

Why similar: Tower Defense 57.6%, Strategy 42.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features a lighthearted theme and tower defense mechanics that focus on protecting a specific area from pests.

"Age of Steel: Recharge" is a 2D strategy with a view from the side. You're taking the role of commander, who was entrusted the management of the military base. Your mission is to defend a base from the waves of enemies at any price.

Why similar: Tower Defense 44.6%, Strategy 37.5%, Action 14.8%, Indie 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced tower defense game that requires constant attention to base management and enemy waves.

In Your Face TD is a Tower Defense, which utilises room scale VR to give a new dimension to a classic genre. Fight the invading monsters face-to-face using a laser minigun, or even an exploding sawblade frisbee and build towers to stand your ground.

Why similar: Tower Defense 58.8%, Strategy 27%, Action 14.2%

Why You'll Like It: A VR-based tower defense game that provides an immersive perspective on the classic genre mechanics.

Upgrade your Castle and Unlock new tiers of Skills and Weapons to Defend vs Monsters and Bosses across VARIOUS ZONES! Find Rare ITEMS dropped from monsters and bosses and upgrade them to their full potential! Defeat RAID Mega-Bosses to find LEGENDARY items!

Why similar: Tower Defense 71.7%, Incremental 11.7%, Strategy 11.7%, Indie 1.9%, 2D 1.7%

Defend your castle in this fast-paced tower defense/action hybrid game with stunning pixel art graphics! Play as alchemically enhanced warrior Bellator, set traps, build towers, craft powerful weapons, and defend your home! The fate of the castle lies in your hands!

Why similar: Tower Defense 67.8%, Strategy 14.4%, Action 7.5%, 2D 5.8%, Singleplayer 2.9%

The Culling Of The Cows is a side-scrolling shooter / tower defence game. You will take the role of Sammy, a soliloquizing schizophrenic farmer with a self prophesied mission to lay waste to the disease spreading over his farm.

Why similar: Tower Defense 61.9%, Strategy 13.5%, Action 10.5%, Shooter 6.9%, Indie 4.5%

Farm Defense pits you against waves of increasingly difficult enemies in a Tower Defense environment. Mitigate the random elements to defend the farm. Conquer all 40 waves to live and fight another day.

Why similar: Tower Defense 75.6%, Strategy 21.4%, Singleplayer 2.1%, Indie 0.9%

Sleep Tight is an adrenaline pumping arcade-style, twin-stick shooter with base-building elements and wrapped in blankets of nostalgia. Construct your strongest pillow fort during the day to defend your bedroom from endless hordes of monsters each night.

Why similar: Tower Defense 47%, Strategy 24.7%, Action 13.6%, Shooter 11.8%, Indie 3%

Become the hero of a fantasy world and defend against monsters! 'Legacy of Defense - Prologue' is the intro to the innovative game 'Legacy of Defense' combining side-scrolling action and deck-building. Collect cards, use skills, gain experience, upgrade, and defeat the final boss!

Why similar: Tower Defense 76%, Strategy 18.7%, 2D 4.4%, Singleplayer 0.6%, Indie 0.3%

M.A.C.E. Tower Defense is a classic tower defense game with unique towers and enemies and an ingame shop system for getting better towers, upgrade existing towers and buy special items.

Why similar: Tower Defense 57.5%, Strategy 26.2%, Action 13.4%, Indie 2.8%

Play as a giant troll in One Troll Army - a defense game about building forts, upgrading your troll, and fighting off waves of enemies. Play Against The Twitch Chat!

Why similar: Tower Defense 48.1%, Strategy 47.7%, Action 2.1%, Indie 1.3%, Singleplayer 0.8%

Goblin Buster is an incremental tower defense game with deep upgrade mechanics. Obliterate annoying goblins, collect materials, discover powerful relics, invest in unique buildings and spend your resources to upgrade towers and magical spells with a massive skill tree!

Why similar: Tower Defense 61.4%, Strategy 17.7%, Incremental 13.6%, 2D 4.7%, Singleplayer 2.5%

Harvest: Massive Encounter is an award-winning real-time strategy game with battles of epic proportions and a unique style of resource management and exploration. Build power plants, mineral harvesters and defense towers and make sure they have sufficient energy to fend off endless hordes of evil aliens.

Why similar: Tower Defense 73.9%, Strategy 22.3%, Indie 2.4%, Singleplayer 1.5%

An endless Tower Defense game of epic Monsters vs evil War Machines. Unlock and upgrade tons of unique elemental Monsters (Water, Air, Earth, and Fire) to defend your home from an infinite swarm of robots. Strategize the most effective placement of Monsters to synergize their elemental abilities.

Why similar: Tower Defense 67.8%, Strategy 18.2%, Incremental 7.8%, 2D 5.7%, Singleplayer 0.6%

castle idler is a short, relaxing incremental tower defense game with no waves. upgrade towers, collect coins, and unlock powerful prestige upgrades to defend your castle.

Why similar: Tower Defense 64.4%, Strategy 15.6%, Incremental 12.3%, 2D 5.2%, Singleplayer 1.4%

A roguelite tower defense where every defeat makes you stronger. Spend gold on powerful temporary boosts, invest gems in permanent upgrades, and push your tower higher each attempt as you fight to survive all 100 waves.

Why similar: Tower Defense 75.1%, Strategy 16.8%, 2D 5.6%, Singleplayer 1.3%, Indie 1.1%

Keep Defending is a first-person VR tower defense archery game where you build up your defenses during the enemy onslaught. Target enemies before they reach your gate and earn gold to set up ever more capable defenses including crossbows, wizards, knights, cannons, and more.

Why similar: Tower Defense 78.8%, Action 11.3%, Shooter 6.4%, Indie 2.2%, Singleplayer 1.3%

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 72.6%, Strategy 16.9%, Action 6.4%, 2D 4.1%

Simulating castle, Set up a monster army, Defend the evil empire

Why similar: Strategy 100%

Defend the transport ship from being captured by enemy waves on the way to the jump hole. Upgrade weapons, kill enemies, get cargo, transfer cargo, buy features, repeat.

Why similar: Strategy 56%, Incremental 44%

Survive waves of enemies in Ash Warden, an incremental tower defense where you slowly become overpowered. Unlock new abilities, fight against powerful bosses, and evolve into an unstoppable force against the endless Redgaze hordes.

Why similar: Tower Defense 67.3%, Strategy 15.5%, Incremental 11.7%, 2D 3.7%, Singleplayer 1.8%

Mechs V Kaijus is an addictive hardcore tower defense gameplay. In Mechs V Kaijus you take on the role of Commander of a powerful Mechs squadron. Improve your Mech, strategically place towers and factories on the battlefield. Deploy support units on the battlefield, and save our civilization.

Why similar: Tower Defense 84.5%, Strategy 9.7%, Action 3.8%, Indie 1.2%, Singleplayer 0.8%

Pick up your sword and fight off waves of Potatoes by upgrading your stats constantly, use Equipment, choose between different Classes, put your many Talents to good use, and so much more designed to keep you entertained for a long time.

Why similar: Incremental 97.7%, Indie 2.3%

Become a dungeon lord to defend your dungeons with the deadliest of traps and insidious contraptions against greedy adventurers and wannabe heroes.

Why similar: Tower Defense 66.8%, Strategy 27.7%, Indie 2.8%, 2D 2.7%

The Perfect Tower II is a mix between an incremental and a tower defense game. Build a town, manage resources and explore a variety of mini-games and tons of upgrades. Fully automate your game and watch numbers going up!

Why similar: Tower Defense 64.9%, Strategy 16.5%, Incremental 9.9%, Action 8.2%, Singleplayer 0.3%

Help the Bug Heroes defend their food stash from hordes of enemies! Control powerful heroes, build your defenses, level up your heroes and towers, equip upgrades, and more!

Why similar: Tower Defense 60.7%, Strategy 23.9%, Action 13.9%, Singleplayer 1.1%, Indie 0.5%

Defend Ooo from the Bloon invasion in this epic tower defense crossover.

Why similar: Tower Defense 62.2%, Strategy 24.4%, Action 11.4%, Singleplayer 2.1%

Defend the land of the Pharaohs. Build towers, unleash powers, and hold the line in Ancient Egypt.

Why similar: Tower Defense 65.9%, Strategy 16.2%, Action 8.3%, 2D 5.3%, Singleplayer 3%

Defense Clicker is an clicker game which will be soon F2P, with an tower defense theme and a few twists which make it very unique. You have to build an defense line with towers and upgrade them to stay alive as long as possible. when you die the map resets but you get a few special points depending on how long you survived.

Why similar: Tower Defense 73.5%, Strategy 26.5%

Mine and combine gems for your defenses. Play Arcade Mode and accompany Lou on a journey to save the Star Babies.

Why similar: Tower Defense 63.2%, Strategy 33.2%, Indie 3.7%

Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.

Why similar: Incremental 66.1%, 2D 22.1%, Singleplayer 8.3%, Indie 3.5%

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: Tower Defense 73.8%, Strategy 16.4%, Action 5.5%, Singleplayer 2.9%, Indie 1.4%

Strategic tower defense where you play a witch, place class-based towers, equip them with items that grant powerful abilities, combine them, create unique builds & deal ridiculous amounts of damage! Customize your builds with a deep stat system and giant skill tree!

Why similar: Tower Defense 67%, Strategy 15.7%, Action 8%, 2D 5.3%, Singleplayer 3.1%

Poöf has been tricked by accepting a golden laying kitten. But the precious kitty makes all the greedy monsters envious. Survive waves of monsters trying to steal your revenue!Poöf vs the cursed kitty is a mix between tower defense, and platforming action, a game focused on hardcore gameplay, tight controls and choices, inspired by games...

Why similar: Tower Defense 56.9%, Strategy 25.5%, Action 14.3%, Indie 3.2%

Welcome to Farmer Survivors, where you'll embark on an epic rural adventure, defending your farm against hordes of hungry insects in this action-packed Arcade Survivor game!

Why similar: Strategy 54.2%, Action 35.8%, 2D 5.5%, Indie 2.9%, Singleplayer 1.7%