Games Like The Extinction Directive

Build powerful defenses, collect loot, combine effects, and survive evolving waves from the void in a tower defense game driven by ARPG-inspired buildcrafting and persistent progression.

Why similar: RTS 19.5%, Tower Defense 16.6%, Real Time Tactics 15.4%, Wargame 15%, Strategy 8.6%

Molten Armor is an action tower defense game with a non-linear story in sci-fi setting! Command defenses and stop hordes of enemies! Fight on land, sea and in the skies!Decisions taken in the heat of battle will change the course of the war.

Why similar: RTS 19.5%, Tower Defense 18.4%, Wargame 14.9%, Real Time Tactics 14.6%, Strategy 9.4%

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 25.4%, RTS 25%, Wargame 14.7%, Strategy 10.5%, Real Time Tactics 9.1%

A grand and intense tower defense science fiction game, where you only need to purchase once to enjoy all the content of the game.

Why similar: RTS 20.4%, Tower Defense 17.6%, Wargame 16.4%, Real Time Tactics 16.3%, Strategy 10%

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 26.4%, Tower Defense 20.6%, Real Time Tactics 17.2%, Strategy 13.6%, Wargame 10.7%

A strategic space tower-defense game. Enemies detect, warn, and try to bypass defenses, forcing you to adapt. Combine diverse towers and face unique maps for varied battles. With tense sci-fi atmosphere, it delivers a fresh experience beyond traditional tower defense.

Why similar: RTS 22.8%, Tower Defense 19.3%, Real Time Tactics 17.7%, Strategy 10.6%, Wargame 8.1%

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 32%, Real Time Tactics 17.4%, RTS 14.6%, Strategy 14.2%, War 4.3%

Red VS Green is a no frills tactical simulator that focuses on troop movements rather then building speed. There are 3 basic units in the game Red Androids, Green Androids, and Blue Androids. Blue androids are neutral. The main battle is between Red and Green.

Why similar: RTS 25.2%, Strategy 17.2%, Real Time Tactics 14%, Wargame 12.5%, Tactical 7.1%

Are you prepared for a thrilling toy army tower defense adventure? Welcome to the Toy Shire! Battle diverse foes in various locations, defend your family, and repel foes from your area. Save the world by strengthening your defense with toy towers! FULL GAME AVAILABLE NOW!

Why similar: Tower Defense 23%, RTS 21.7%, Real Time Tactics 14.2%, Wargame 13.8%, Strategy 10.1%

Protect the base from an alien invasion. Place cannons and destroy the invaders. Upgrade cannons to resist the enemies.

Why similar: RTS 19.9%, Tower Defense 18.1%, Wargame 16.7%, Real Time Tactics 15.2%, Strategy 10.2%

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 21.9%, Tower Defense 18.8%, Wargame 18.1%, Real Time Tactics 16.7%, Strategy 10.8%

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 23.5%, RTS 21.1%, Wargame 17.2%, Real Time Tactics 16.9%, Strategy 10.9%

Command your forces against endless waves of enemies in this intense RTS. Build bases, manage resources, and defend the Omega Beacon across procedurally generated worlds. Play solo or team up with friends via Steam multiplayer.

Why similar: RTS 22.1%, Tower Defense 18.4%, Real Time Tactics 16.5%, Wargame 16.1%, Strategy 14%

Join our machine legion to conquer the world.

Why similar: RTS 18.7%, Tower Defense 18.4%, Wargame 15.4%, Real Time Tactics 13.8%, Strategy 8.5%

권력은 왕관에, 살림은 금화에, 힘은 강철에 있다. 왕관 없는 왕국 아르덴의 지휘관이 되어 부대를 이끌고 곳간을 채워라. 마법 없는 사실적인 후기 중세 전쟁 전략 게임.

Why similar: Wargame 25.7%, RTS 24.1%, Real Time Tactics 21.8%, Strategy 14.7%, Top-Down 5.1%

Infinite Fantasy Battlefront is a sci-fi fantasy RTS. Command diverse, ever-expanding factions with unique heroes and armies. Battle solo or with friends across various PvP & PvE modes.

Why similar: RTS 27%, Real Time Tactics 21.2%, Wargame 20.1%, Strategy 18%, War 6.5%

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 24.6%, Tower Defense 23.4%, Strategy 19.7%, Real Time Tactics 19%, Tactical 5.6%

Human VS monsters. Protect the castle! Wave-based real-time strategy (RTS). Protect your castle from attacking enemy monsters with warriors, Cavalry, magic, catapult. The Hero and the golem, along with his companions, go looking for the cause of the appearance of monsters in the world.

Why similar: RTS 27.1%, Real Time Tactics 21.2%, Tower Defense 20.6%, Strategy 18.5%, Top-Down 5%

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 22.9%, Tower Defense 18.8%, Strategy 15.5%, Real Time Tactics 15.4%, Wargame 13.3%

You command Ukraine's air defense. Every night — missiles and drone swarms, and always fewer interceptors than targets. By day it's your turn: deep strikes past enemy radars. And when orders aren't enough — take the stick yourself.

Why similar: Wargame 20.2%, RTS 19.3%, Tower Defense 19.3%, Strategy 14.6%, Real Time Tactics 13.4%

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 24.6%, RTS 24.6%, Wargame 17.1%, Real Time Tactics 13.6%, Strategy 11.3%

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: Real Time Tactics 26.5%, Tower Defense 19.6%, Strategy 17.3%, RTS 14.9%, War 7.5%

ASSEMBLE AND COMMAND YOUR SPACE FLEET TO VICTORY

Why similar: Real Time Tactics 25.1%, RTS 22.9%, Strategy 14.1%, Tower Defense 8.6%, Wargame 7.5%

TECHFRONT is a sci-fi RTS featuring tens of thousands of units. Build bases and wage war across land, air, and sea using tanks, aircraft, fleets, submarines, nuclear missiles, and gigantic combat robots.

Why similar: RTS 27.5%, Wargame 22.3%, Strategy 19%, Futuristic 9.4%, War 7.2%

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 25%, Tower Defense 18.9%, Strategy 16.6%, Real Time Tactics 15%, Wargame 14.6%

Lead the heroes of Water Margin through eight missions in this 2D isometric RTS. Rescue allies, build camps and command troops, then defend Liangshan or battle the AI in single-player skirmishes. Includes a level editor. Game interface: Simplified Chinese.

Why similar: RTS 23.1%, Tower Defense 17.8%, Strategy 16.1%, Real Time Tactics 14.4%, Wargame 14.2%

This thrilling real-time strategy tower defense game immerses you in a three-dimensional world, where every decision matters and every action impacts the outcome of the battle. Get ready for epic battles and become the hero of the kingdom!

Why similar: Real Time Tactics 28.3%, RTS 27.4%, Tower Defense 26%, Strategy 10.9%, Top-Down 5.7%

"Fleet Craft" is a real-time strategy game with a science fiction theme. Players can build land fleets composed of large tanks, robots and other units. You can customize the weapons on the unit to achieve different functions.

Why similar: RTS 33.4%, Strategy 23.9%, Wargame 18%, Sci-fi 8%, War 7.5%

Defend a besieged kingdom in a real-time tactical strategy game. Build walls, towers and traps, command heroes and specialized troops, manage scarce resources, and adapt your defenses against raiders, monsters and siege engines across handcrafted battlefields.

Why similar: RTS 24.1%, Tower Defense 19.9%, Strategy 16.8%, Real Time Tactics 15.1%, Wargame 14.8%

Formica is a realistic, top-down RTS where you control hordes of ants and termites. Gather resources and build massive armies to destroy enemy nests and take home the spoils of war!

Why similar: RTS 28.4%, Wargame 20.7%, Real Time Tactics 18.6%, Strategy 15.4%, Top-Down 4.6%

Negative Energy is a tower defense game with basic RTS mechanics, where your goal is to defend the construction of a Dyson sphere, while fighting against waves of hundreds of enemies ships.

Why similar: RTS 24.5%, Tower Defense 23.1%, Real Time Tactics 19.1%, Strategy 17.6%, Futuristic 4.7%

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 24.3%, RTS 22.2%, Real Time Tactics 16.2%, Strategy 10.9%, Sci-fi 6.1%

A real-time war of air defence and industry. Build the economy, bury it, and layer SAMs over what you cannot hide. Read a fading intel picture of the enemy base and aim every missile yourself. Break their will to fight before they break yours.

Why similar: RTS 24.8%, Real Time Tactics 18.8%, Tower Defense 18.6%, Wargame 17.4%, Strategy 10.5%

'SPUM TD' is a 2D strategy game that combines Auto-Chess and Tower Defense. Hire units from a randomized shop and match attribute and class synergies to build a powerful formation. Fend off pouring waves of enemies and complete your ultimate deck!

Why similar: RTS 29.5%, Tower Defense 24.1%, Strategy 20.9%, Real Time Tactics 19.2%, Top-Down 5.1%

This is Xhono overwatch space station. Enemy forces are attacking. All kinds of turrets, space station supports and plugins at your disposal. Please use your resources wisely, build your defense, face against all kinds of enemies, and explore the unknown secrets of Xhono.

Why similar: RTS 26.3%, Tower Defense 21.6%, Real Time Tactics 19.1%, Strategy 17.2%, Futuristic 5.7%

Fight in the dynamic 2D strategy game Alien Battlefield! The game has two modes available: real-time strategy mode and chess game mode. Explore the different abilities of units, amass resources, deploy units and try to use them intelligently to win!

Why similar: RTS 26.4%, Real Time Tactics 19.2%, Wargame 19%, Strategy 17.9%, War 7.4%

A real-time strategy game that does not require micro operations

Why similar: RTS 30.6%, Tower Defense 23.6%, Real Time Tactics 19.4%, Strategy 11.8%, War 6%

The unstoppable fluid enemy has returned and destroyed every world in its path! Defend against Creeper as it floods across the 3D terrain in this real time strategy game where the enemy is a fluid.

Why similar: RTS 18.4%, Tower Defense 18.1%, Wargame 16.8%, Real Time Tactics 16.4%, Strategy 7.7%

Path of Insanity is side scrolling based strategy game in a land of maddness where the unbelieveable becomes believeable. Arm yourself with creatures of absolute stupidity and claim victory.

Why similar: RTS 25.1%, Tower Defense 21.4%, Real Time Tactics 19.6%, Wargame 18.6%, Strategy 12.6%

Ukraine War 2022 is a real-time, tactical land and air warfare simulation game focusing on the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia.

Why similar: RTS 31.8%, Real Time Tactics 24.6%, Strategy 23%, Tactical 8.6%, War 8.4%

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 23.7%, RTS 21.3%, Real Time Tactics 21.1%, Tower Defense 20.5%, Strategy 12.5%

Para Bellum - Hold the Line is a 3D real time small unit tactics game. Your task is to hold off enemy attacks wave after wave using a variety of different Units and Supports in your arsenal to the best of your abilities in Campaign and Skirmish modes.

Why similar: RTS 22.3%, Tower Defense 19.3%, Real Time Tactics 17.6%, Wargame 17.1%, Strategy 9.9%

Command an ever-growing army as Humans, Orcs, Undead, Elves, or Dwarves in a fast-paced four-way RTS. Unlock unique units, upgrade your forces, seize valuable territory, and destroy every rival Keep.

Why similar: RTS 26.6%, Real Time Tactics 20.8%, Wargame 20.1%, Strategy 17.4%, Top-Down 5.4%

A physics-driven tower defense game where one massive cube does everything: fight, build, activate, and survive. Drop into a neon sci-fi battlefield, hold back waves of Chaos Dice, and power up your defenses through energy, momentum, and precision.

Why similar: RTS 26.5%, Tower Defense 21.8%, Strategy 18%, Real Time Tactics 17.8%, Futuristic 6.6%

Defense Builder is a sci-fi tower defense game. Players can build various defense towers to resist enemy attacks. There are as many as 36 types of available units, and it features a highly free economic system and defense system.

Why similar: Tower Defense 27.9%, Strategy 22.5%, Wargame 21.4%, War 11.7%, Sci-fi 7.6%

Real-time strategy and tactics on an alien world! Command super space soldiers against an array of alien hordes. Commander - we need you!

Why similar: RTS 33.7%, Real Time Tactics 25.5%, Strategy 23.9%, Sci-fi 6.8%, Tactical 6%

Strategy Tower Defense, RTS Battles on the World Map

Why similar: RTS 22.6%, Tower Defense 20.1%, Wargame 18.1%, Real Time Tactics 14.1%, Strategy 11%

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

Why similar: RTS 24.5%, Tower Defense 23.2%, Wargame 19.8%, Strategy 19%, War 5.6%

"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 25.8%, RTS 25.2%, Strategy 15.7%, Wargame 13.4%, Real Time Tactics 10.3%

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: RTS 29.1%, Tower Defense 28.9%, Strategy 21.4%, Top-Down 8.2%, Sci-fi 5.3%

A real time strategy, tower defense game where you can evolve your turrets and give them special abilities.

Why similar: RTS 26.8%, Tower Defense 25.5%, Real Time Tactics 20.8%, Strategy 20.1%, War 6.3%

RPF is a simple real-time strategy game with lush graphics and easy gameplay. You mine resources and send your medieval units from one floating island to another to conquer enemies who reside there in quest of treasure and empire.

Why similar: RTS 30.9%, Strategy 19.9%, Real Time Tactics 13.6%, Wargame 12.2%, Top-Down 8.4%

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 29.6%, Wargame 27%, Strategy 24.3%, Top-Down 7.7%, Tactical 7.2%

A real-time combat strategy game. Summon your troops onto the battlefield and let them fight on their own. Pay attention to unit counters, as well as the role of magic and buildings.

Why similar: RTS 26.3%, Real Time Tactics 19.1%, Wargame 18.4%, Strategy 17.8%, Tactical 5.4%

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: RTS 25.2%, Tower Defense 24.3%, Real Time Tactics 20.1%, Strategy 18.7%, Top-Down 6.6%

A roguelike tower defense where every run reshapes your strategy. Build your team of towers, combine more than 80 artifacts, and explore a pixel-art world while taking on ever tougher challenges and bosses.

Why similar: Tower Defense 27.5%, RTS 23.3%, Real Time Tactics 16.9%, Strategy 16.6%, Tactical 6%

It’s a defense game where you create your own strategy, grow your units, and defend against enemies.

Why similar: RTS 22.6%, Tower Defense 21.2%, Real Time Tactics 17.1%, Wargame 15.9%, Strategy 9.5%

The Winged Missive is a top-down RTS. Your general has a limited field of vision. Units beyond general's sight are invisible and cannot be commanded directly. Your intelligence updated when messengers of units report from frontline, and order is only executed once the messenger reaches the unit.

Why similar: RTS 26%, Real Time Tactics 20.5%, Wargame 19.9%, Strategy 17.2%, Top-Down 5.4%

RTS, but the soldiers will act automatically: Each soldier has different characteristics/attribute values/action methods. Choose the appropriate soldiers and buildings according to the battlefield situation, and destroy the opponent's castle only through your strategy rather than operation!

Why similar: RTS 27.2%, Real Time Tactics 16.9%, Wargame 16.7%, Tower Defense 15.5%, Strategy 10.9%