- #1 Planetary Defense Force
97% matchNo user reviews2023
Dev: Blue Sunset Games
Windows
Jump into the shoes of an interplanetary defender! Grab weapons, build towers, expand ground economics and protect planets from space invasions in this unique mix of twin-stick shooter, tower defense and city builder game.
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 23%, Tower Defense 19.9%, City Builder 16.2%, Building 11.8%, Base Building 11.2%
- #2 Oasis: Dark Forest
96% matchPositive82% of 11 reviews2021
Dev: ZGameStudio
Windows
Darkness rules the land. Defend your holy tree. Plant trees to defeat the ghost army. Explore and collect resources in a randomly generated forest world. Upgrade your technology tree. You are the light in the darkness.
Why similar: Tower Defense 31.1%, Minimalist 16%, City Builder 13.1%, Roguelike 10.7%, Building 9.9%
- #3 Beacon of Havoc
96% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: Majao Games
Windows
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 29.6%, Tower Defense 26.6%, Building 16%, Post-apocalyptic 14.8%, Base Building 7%
- #4 Queen's Revenge
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: WizradHatDice
Windows
Queen’s Revenge is a fast-paced tower defense game where you play as a fallen queen, betrayed and cast into darkness. Build defenses by day, fight relentless foes at night, and reclaim your throne. Every action counts—plan, battle, survive!
Why similar: Tower Defense 32.8%, Building 16.1%, City Builder 15%, Base Building 10.8%, Strategy 9.5%
- #5 Bee Island
94% matchVery Positive86% of 1,584 reviews2023
Dev: Lemma Arts
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Take control of the hive and protect it from enemies. Build factories and defence, research technologies and, if necessary, use nuclear weapons, but do not let the enemies harm the queen!
Why similar: Tower Defense 21.4%, Minimalist 16.6%, City Builder 15.6%, Building 11.2%, Base Building 10%
- #6 Dark Age Asunder
94% matchPositive81% of 21 reviews2025
Dev: Plutonium Powered
Windows · Linux
Defend against relentless monsters, rebuild your home, and unlock powerful abilities in 'Dark Age Asunder.' Your journey to restore peace begins now—will you rise or fall to the darkness?
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.8%, Base Building 21.1%, Roguelike 11.6%, Action Roguelike 11%, Building 9.8%
- #7 Surface Tension
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Selim Kaltakkiran
Windows
Construct a base, harness resources, defend against relentless waves of hostiles. Don't forget to choose which technologies to research to combat a spreading corruption and restore nature in this roguelike base defense. But be quick the last wave is something else entirely.
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 25.9%, Tower Defense 23.3%, Building 12%, Roguelike 11.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10%
- #8 Citadelic
92% 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 23.4%, City Builder 19.4%, Base Building 13.6%, Minimalist 11.4%, Building 9.2%
- #9 Kingdom Two Crowns
91% matchVery Positive90% of 37,612 reviews2018
Dev: Stumpy🐙SquidPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.3%, City Builder 20.3%, Minimalist 12.7%, Building 12.5%, Base Building 10.8%
- #10 Thronefall
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 22,563 reviews2024
Dev: GrizzlyGamesPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A minimalist game about building and defending your little kingdom.
Why similar: Tower Defense 30.5%, City Builder 24.5%, Minimalist 14.1%, Building 9.8%, Base Building 9.2%
- #11 Homelander’s Valor
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 2D Axis
Windows
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 29.6%, City Builder 26.9%, Building 16.7%, Strategy 11.1%, Base Building 9.1%
- #12 Bullet Meltdown
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Games Anatomy Studio
Windows
Build and automate your outpost to survive enemy waves. Fight with powerful guns, place walls, traps, farms and factories, hire units to defend your base, and level them up between runs or lose them forever when they die.
Why similar: Tower Defense 30.1%, Base Building 16.2%, City Builder 14.3%, Action Roguelike 9%, Survival 7.1%
- #13 Mawang: Dark Lord Defense
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SANDY FLOOR
Windows · Mac
Mawang: Dark Lord Defense is a real-time tactical tower defense game. As Princess Lua, defend the demon realm against the hero alliance. Build unique towers, manage unit morale, and use tactical pauses to repel invasions. Your strategy decides the demon realm's fate.
Why similar: Tower Defense 23.7%, City Builder 20.1%, Building 14.2%, Base Building 13.5%, Dark Fantasy 8.8%
- #14 Scrap Bulwark Guide
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CrazyDream Game
Windows
"Scrap Bulwark Guide" is a tower defense game blending exploration and RPG mechanics. As a survivor in a post-apocalyptic city, you must recruit others, scavenge building materials from ruins, build street barricades, and fend off nightly zombie hordes to ultimately lead your group to safety.
Why similar: Tower Defense 28.9%, Building 18%, Post-apocalyptic 14.9%, Base Building 14.1%, Strategy 7.5%
- #15 Ash & Adam's Existential Treads
87% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Ash & Adam's Games
Windows · Mac
A mini action city-builder in a post-post-apocalyptic world. Grow your settlement. Fend off waves of enemies. Restore nature.
Why similar: Tower Defense 25.6%, City Builder 24.4%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 10.6%, Post-apocalyptic 7.6%
- #16 Break The Line
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Break Point Studio
Windows
| 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 28.6%, City Builder 23.6%, Building 13.5%, Base Building 12.1%, Strategy 6.5%
- #17 Fight for Freedom: Civil War
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Big Hands Game
Windows
A minimalist game about fighting for freedom and independence in the United States of America!
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.8%, City Builder 24.4%, Minimalist 14.4%, Building 12.5%, Base Building 12.3%
- #18 ArchOlden
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Golden Possum
Windows
ArchOlden is a meditative puzzle-city-builder.
Why similar: City Builder 35.7%, Building 19.1%, Minimalist 18.9%, Base Building 14.8%, Strategy 10.5%
- #19 Luxmithar
84% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: MythicDevil Studios
Windows
Defend a crashed forge in this 2D survival defense roguelite. Expand a modular world grid, build towers and traps, and survive relentless enemy waves across shifting days, storms, and darkness.
Why similar: Tower Defense 31.7%, Action Roguelike 12.7%, Roguelike 12%, Base Building 11.4%, Shooter 11%
- #20 Layered Loop层叠环道
84% matchNo user reviews2026
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 43.1%, Minimalist 13.1%, Roguelike 12.1%, Building 12%, Base Building 9.6%
- #21 Malón
82% matchPositive83% of 42 reviews2026
Dev: Lara the Pitbull
Windows
From the plains in the Pampas to the most hostile places in the untamed Patagonia: Manage your own frontier outpost, build new structures, train soldiers, and survive relentless attacks from the enemy.
Why similar: Tower Defense 25.9%, City Builder 23.9%, Minimalist 14.4%, Building 12.8%, Base Building 10.6%
- #22 Fortifend
81% matchPositive96% of 26 reviews2026
Dev: Side Crumb
Windows
Fortifend is a fantasy city builder with a mix of resource management and strategic tower defense. As Lord Mayor, build your settlement into a fortified city capable of fending off waves of demonic invaders. Guard the gates!
Why similar: Tower Defense 29.8%, City Builder 27.1%, Base Building 19.8%, Building 10.5%, Strategy 9.2%
- #23 NecroCity: Prologue
83% matchPositive86% of 43 reviews2023
Dev: Shift GamesPub: Gameparic
Windows
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 25.6%, City Builder 25.3%, Building 16.1%, Base Building 14%, Strategy 7%
- #24 The Merchant's Eden
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Norse Sea Studio
Windows · Mac
Build a medieval town around a thriving market. Defend your citizens and traveling merchants against raiding bandits. A minimalist game blending cozy city-building and intense tower-defense as you grow and protect your town.
Why similar: City Builder 30%, Tower Defense 29.5%, Minimalist 19.2%, Strategy 9%, Base Building 7.6%
- #25 Awakening of Darkness: Build, Survive and Defend
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Orivion Games
Windows
Build your village by day, survive the darkness by night. Awakening of Darkness is a 2D base-building survival game combining city building, tower defense, and roguelike mechanics in a day-night cycle.
Why similar: Tower Defense 25.7%, City Builder 23.5%, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%, Base Building 12.2%, Dark Fantasy 11.9%
- #26 Crystal Storm
81% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: LukifahPub: Tekuani Games
Windows
Defend your castle, mine for minerals, and level up your wizarding powers in this thrilling action-roguelike game. Grab your wand and prepare to fight off magical foes in this epic battle for survival!
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 23.1%, Tower Defense 21.6%, Base Building 12.7%, Roguelike 10.5%, Post-apocalyptic 7.2%
- #27 Nuclear Tides
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Inspiration Beggar
Windows
A minimalist game of building and defending an isolated island after a nuclear apocalypse
Why similar: Tower Defense 39.1%, Minimalist 18.5%, Base Building 15.5%, Post-apocalyptic 13.4%, Strategy 12.5%
- #28 Arcane Rings
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GameTide
Windows
Defend your imperial cities against the invasion of underworld mages! Rally survivors, mages and soldiers, strengthen your defenses and fight for survival in this epic tower defense fantasy.
Why similar: Tower Defense 22.2%, City Builder 20.1%, Base Building 13%, Building 12.7%, Dark Fantasy 11.2%
- #29 clickyland
78% matchVery Positive85% of 605 reviews2024
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 65%
clickyland is a tower defense village builder where clicks are your main resource. Use clicks to harvest resources, fight enemies and manage your village, but use them wisely as you only get 20 clicks every day! Can you reach day 100?
Why similar: Tower Defense 35.2%, City Builder 25.3%, Base Building 19.5%, Strategy 13%, Survival 5.9%
- #30 Block Tower TD
78% matchVery Positive82% of 76 reviews2023
Dev: MyDreamForever
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 24.2%, City Builder 23%, Minimalist 11.5%, Roguelike 10.8%, Base Building 8.1%
- #31 Ruins of Majika
77% matchMixed67% of 15 reviews2024
Dev: Ariel EstipularPub: Gears2Game
Windows
Strategically build impenetrable towers & defenses, to endure the endless foes that emerge in the shroud of night. Each passing day is an opportunity to grow stronger. so take what you need from the environment. Gather, Craft, Survive, Defend, Thrive!
Why similar: Tower Defense 32.6%, Base Building 17.7%, Minimalist 14.9%, Building 12.8%, Survival 9%
- #32 Decision: Red Daze
77% matchMostly Positive74% of 872 reviews2022
Dev: FlyAnvilPub: Nordcurrent Labs
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Decision: Red Daze is an action RPG with a unique mix of survival and tower defense mechanics. Explore an apocalyptic wasteland, build a safe haven, and lead your team of specialists in a hopeless world, searching for a cure for the infectious disease that turns people into monsters.
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 24.3%, Tower Defense 20.5%, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 11.1%
- #33 Rogue Tower
76% matchVery Positive82% of 5,842 reviews2022
Dev: Die of Death Games
Windows
Median: 10.7 hrsMean: 20.2 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 46.1%, Roguelike 15.4%, Minimalist 10.6%, Base Building 10.5%, Strategy 9%
- #34 Block Tower TD 2: Prologue
75% matchPositive93% of 30 reviews2024
Dev: MyDreamForever
Windows
Block Tower TD 2 is a strategic game in the roguelike style with original innovations. Build worlds from blocks, choose random upgrades, each game will be unique.
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.8%, City Builder 25.2%, Roguelike 12.3%, Building 11.2%, Base Building 10.6%
- #35 Gold and Bricks
74% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: kurigamedev
Windows · Linux
Gold and Bricks is a small game that mixes elements of city builder, roguelite, strategy and tower defense. Plan the layout, manage your economy and invest your gold in defensive towers to protect yourself from the hordes of enemies invading your village.
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.4%, City Builder 17.9%, Base Building 16.6%, Roguelike 10.3%, Action Roguelike 10.1%
- #36 Survive In Strange World
76% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: E-Snail Studio
Windows
Action adventure strategy game with tower defense, in a fantasy world, use your own combat skills, weapons, and the power of your partners to survive. Face the ultimate fate with your unique combat style.
Why similar: Tower Defense 28.7%, City Builder 28.5%, Building 9.8%, Survival 8.6%, Base Building 6%
- #37 Bug Bait
74% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Chimera Unchained
Windows · Linux
Defend your base against relentless hordes of bugs in this single-player survival tower defense game. Strategically build and upgrade your defenses, manage vital resources, and adapt to ever-evolving threats. Can you outsmart the infestation and survive the chaos?
Why similar: Tower Defense 39.3%, Building 13.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%, Base Building 11.5%, Survival 10.1%
- #38 Endzone - A World Apart
75% matchMostly Positive77% of 9,807 reviews2021
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
Why similar: City Builder 37.6%, Post-apocalyptic 20.2%, Base Building 13.4%, Survival 10.4%, Building 9.2%
- #39 Overheat
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Meboxen Studio
Windows
Overheat is a factory-rouge-like game. Build factory pipelines and defenses, with a variety of unique plugins, carefully deploy buildings to avoid overheating and face a series of enemy attacks!
Why similar: Tower Defense 37.9%, Roguelike 16.3%, Strategy 15.3%, Post-apocalyptic 14%, Base Building 11.7%
- #40 Catch it
73% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: CCLXGAMES
Windows
"Dusk to Dawn, Strategy Drawn" In this blighted realm, daylight grants but fleeting respite— While darkness unleashes the reaper's carnival. As the Last Nightwatch, you must wield more than steel: To orchestrate the symphony of survival.
Why similar: Tower Defense 22.4%, Base Building 21.6%, Building 21%, Action Roguelike 9.5%, Survival 9.2%
- #41 We Are The Wall
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NorthWall Studio
Windows · Mac
We Are The Wall is a city-builder / RTS where you lead a hardy dwarf settlement fighting to protect their mountain home. Train armies, gather vital resources, explore the surrounding lands, and defend the Heart of the Mountain at all costs. We Are The Wall!
Why similar: City Builder 28.4%, Base Building 19.8%, Tower Defense 19.1%, Strategy 9.6%, Building 7.7%
- #42 Captain Edgar Giza
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Black Steel StudioPub: Zeka Games
Windows
It's a story of an impossible fight for survival on a wild planet known as Giza. Gather unique Weapon Units. Enhance the firepower and production capacity of the Outpost fighting alongside you. This is an FTD game - featuring FPS, Tower Defense, Base Building, and much more all at once.
Why similar: Tower Defense 20.4%, City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 12.8%, Building 11.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%
- #43 DarkSwitch
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Cyber TemplePub: Cyber Temple Games LLC
Windows
DarkSwitch is a vertical survival city builder. Build a city on a great tree and defend it against the Fog. Face the challenges of limited real estate, scarce resources, and tough moral choices as you seek to uncover the mystery of the Veil. The Tree Provides! The Tree Protects! The Tree Prevails!
Why similar: City Builder 23%, Tower Defense 22.6%, Building 13.6%, Base Building 12.9%, Dark Fantasy 11.7%
- #44 Line Hold
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TR8 Torus StudiosPub: TR8 Torus Studios
Windows
THIS GAME WILL VANISH SOON! CHECK OUT LAST LINE - We’ve rebuilt and improved the game in every way, and it now lives on as Last Line!
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 30.7%, Tower Defense 24.2%, Base Building 15.3%, Shooter 7.2%, Survival 7.2%
- #45 Defense Line of Crystal
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ajiu
Windows
Tower defense game with unprecedented freedom: move towers at will, access a vast array of cards, build decks freely, and even synthesize and upgrade them.
Why similar: Tower Defense 44.3%, Building 18.4%, Roguelike 16.4%, Strategy 9.8%, Combat 5.7%
- #46 Last Outpost
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 78 reviews2025
Dev: Troyd Games
Windows
Last Outpost is a minimalist Base Building & Strategy game where you build and defend your outpost in zombie apocalypse. Choose your vehicle and loadout before embarking on your adventure. Use your abilities and control your units to eliminate all threats. Will you manage to defend your outpost?
Why similar: Tower Defense 27.1%, City Builder 23.9%, Base Building 14%, Minimalist 12.2%, Roguelike 10%
- #47 Towerful Guardians
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mini Fun Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Pilot your flying machine, be it a helicopter, a mech, or a straight magical suit, to fight alien monsters and defend the towers that are very important to mankind in a post-apocalyptic setting. Upgrade your gears, build strong synergy with the tower's abilities to out-scale enemy power and survive!
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 27.8%, Tower Defense 22.9%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%, Roguelike 9.7%, Action Roguelike 9.1%
- #48 Project Tomorrow
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Advance Nine
Windows
A base-building survival game with terraforming and crafting. Earth lies poisoned and abandoned ten thousand years after invasion. Awaken from stasis, defend your fragile foothold, and restore a dead world so humanity can live here again.
Why similar: Tower Defense 32.6%, Base Building 21.7%, City Builder 15%, Survival 9.8%, Building 8.6%
- #49 Bloons Monkey City
71% matchVery Positive91% of 6,589 reviews2020
Dev: Ninja Kiwi
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 34.5 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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 41.8%, City Builder 39.5%, Strategy 13.7%, Action 4.6%, Singleplayer 0.4%
- #50 Minimalist Tower Defense
68% matchVery Positive95% of 1,706 reviews2024
Dev: Happy213
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Collect resources and establish a defense line before dark And then Facing countless enemies
Why similar: Tower Defense 32.8%, Post-apocalyptic 14.6%, Minimalist 13.6%, Base Building 13.4%, Strategy 7.3%
- #51 Drifters & Demons
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quite Fresh Games
Windows
As the leader of a small settlement in a demon-infested wilderness, you will have to shelter survivors and protect them with a variety of guns and abilities. Build homes, turrets, weapons, and traps, and when you're ready to face the horde, take out your guns and sound the klaxon!
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 27.8%, Post-apocalyptic 15.9%, Base Building 13.5%, Building 13%, Action Roguelike 8.8%
- #52 Wool at the Gates
68% matchVery Positive91% of 67 reviews2025
Dev: Okay Creature
Windows
A minimalist tactical base defense game where you play as a powerful hero, command troops, and harness class synergies inspired by auto-battlers. Fortify your city’s defenses to withstand hordes of enraged sheep, plan your tactics, and lead epic battles in a thrilling cycle of strategy and combat.
Why similar: Tower Defense 27.7%, City Builder 23.9%, Minimalist 12.7%, Building 12.4%, Base Building 10.2%
- #53 Exponent: The Scaling Tower Defense
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Retromagine
Windows
A roguelite incremental tower defense where expansion is survival. Execute Command Cards from your expanding deck, build towers, and create land tile by tile to defend the last Node in your dimensional bubble. Grow strong enough to find your kin in the void… and merge into higher dimensions.
Why similar: Tower Defense 33.2%, Minimalist 15.8%, Roguelike 14.5%, Base Building 13.9%, Strategy 8.9%
- #54 ArcaneOutpost
69% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: VortexRingGame
Windows
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 34.8%, Base Building 19.5%, Building 18%, Strategy 13.2%, Survival 5.3%
- #55 Metal Survivor
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: pcmorm
Windows
A base-building action-roguelite horde-survival game. Build up your base and defend it with a customized armored vehicle. Set-up defenses, upgrade your weapons, improve your vehicle and be ready to shoot down an ever growing horde of enemies to survive each night.
Why similar: Tower Defense 24.9%, Base Building 15.3%, Building 11.4%, City Builder 10.4%, Action Roguelike 9.3%
- #56 Hue Hue Defense
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hue Game Dev
Windows
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 32.2%, City Builder 29.1%, Strategy 12.1%, Minimalist 11.8%, Building 11%
- #57 Song of Slavs
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sleeping Fox Studio
Windows
Become a Tsar! Create your own settlement and expand it into a stronghold to protect your people in a handcrafted side-scroller pixel art adventure game. Construct your town, gather resources, and fight enemies like a real tsar.
Why similar: Tower Defense 23.7%, City Builder 20.9%, Building 14.3%, Minimalist 13.7%, Base Building 13.1%
- #58 Desperate Place
65% matchMostly Positive73% of 292 reviews2025
Dev: BruceGalaxy
Windows
Desperate Place is a strategic tower defense game where you play as a crew member who wakes up early on a damaged colonization starship. Stranded on an unknown planet, you must gather resources, repair the ship, and defend against alien monsters to survive and escape.
Why similar: Tower Defense 23.1%, City Builder 22%, Building 13.4%, Base Building 12.9%, Shooter 8.9%
- #59 Beyond The Walls
66% matchPositive85% of 13 reviews2024
Dev: Pear vs Apple
Windows
Immerse yourself in a 3D tower defense game set in a medieval realm. Build towers with unique effects and strategically manage your town to amass resources. Master the elements and devise cunning strategies to triumph in this captivating fusion of defense and city management.
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.8%, City Builder 22.9%, Base Building 15.1%, Building 14.4%, Survival 8.2%
- #60 Kingdom: New Lands
68% matchVery Positive86% of 12,165 reviews2016
Dev: NoioPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Kingdom: New Lands builds upon the award-winning gameplay and mystery of Kingdom by introducing an abundance of new content to the IGF-nominated title while maintaining the simplicity and depth that legions of monarchs have come to experience and enjoy.
Why similar: Tower Defense 23.3%, Building 14.1%, Base Building 13.8%, Minimalist 13.4%, Roguelike 10.2%