- #1 Holdline: Last Gate
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Out of Spite Games
Windows
Holdline: Last Gate is a third-person tower-defense survival game. Harvest resources, craft and place towers, and hold the gate across a chain of diverse alien maps as the wave fights you on every front at once.
Why similar: Tower Defense 25.1%, Crafting 17%, Base Building 15.3%, Survival 8.9%, Third Person 6.7%
- #2 Survival Machine
96% matchMostly Positive70% of 809 reviews2026
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?
Why similar: Tower Defense 18%, Crafting 12.5%, Base Building 11.2%, Survival 9.8%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #3 Medieval Survivors: Village Defense
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MadDevs Studio
Windows
A first-person strategy game blending colony building, lane-based battles, tower defense, and action combat.
Why similar: Survival 18.1%, Base Building 16.7%, Tower Defense 16.7%, PvE 11.2%, Medieval 8.4%
- #4 Fortress of the Fallen
95% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Slate Relay
Windows
Build by day. Survive by night. A focused medieval tower defense where every decision is permanent.
Why similar: Tower Defense 29%, Medieval 17.1%, Base Building 14.5%, Time Management 12.9%, Resource Management 10.8%
- #5 Cosmic Castaway
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vinciware
Windows
Cosmic Castaway is a colony building survival game. Gather scarce resources, rescue and assign your crew, build and defend your outpost from hostile forces, and turn wreckage into refuge to repair your ship and escape back to your home planet.
Why similar: Tower Defense 21.3%, Crafting 14.7%, Time Management 14%, Survival 13.7%, Base Building 12.1%
- #6 Monsters per second
94% matchNo user reviews2022
Dev: ALTILLRA
Windows
In this party-based strategy defence game you will visit distant planets, build small camps and battle fierce monsters. Can you survive by learning and exploiting their weaknesses or is your party doomed to never return home?
Why similar: Tower Defense 25.2%, Medieval 16.3%, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 13.3%, Survival 12.2%
- #7 Forteria
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sleepy Compiler
Windows
Gather resources, upgrade your equipment, and strengthen your base with up to 4 players. When night falls, fend off waves of monsters and protect the precious Mana Stone from destruction.
Why similar: Tower Defense 24.2%, Crafting 17.3%, Survival 16.7%, Resource Management 11.1%, PvE 8.5%
- #8 Jwala: Himalayan Temple Defense
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MonkVerse
Windows
Defend a sacred Himalayan temple as its warrior-guardian in an action tower defense where you don't just place defenders — you fight beside them. Wield sword, spear, trident, and bow against a dark cult seeking to corrupt its sacred flame and bandits out to plunder its ancient treasure.
Why similar: Tower Defense 24.1%, Survival 14.1%, Base Building 11%, Dark Fantasy 7.8%, Medieval 7.3%
- #9 The Chenwei Unveiler
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TianDuan
Windows
Breaker of Clouds is a dark medieval single-player action game: scour, fight, and extract by day; hold the tower against the cloud tide by night—survive to the next dawn through tough choices in building, troops, and builds.
Why similar: Tower Defense 18.7%, Medieval 15.1%, Crafting 13.4%, Dark Fantasy 10.2%, Survival 9.4%
- #10 Portal Sentinels
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Astrow Games
Windows · Linux
Portal Sentinels is a pixel-art, grid-based tower defense blending labyrinthine strategy and rich tower evolution. Choose a class, create the path the army will take and wipe them out before they reach their destination.
Why similar: Tower Defense 31.4%, Base Building 16%, PvE 14.3%, Strategy 11.9%, Medieval 11.1%
- #11 The Islands
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Trash Studios
Windows
An open-world survival game. Use your environment to craft items and structures. Physics based with weather and day/night. More than 50 different animals. Combat and non-combat activities fishing.
Why similar: Tower Defense 22.6%, Crafting 18.9%, Survival 17.1%, Base Building 16.6%, Third Person 6.3%
- #12 Reforge Front
89% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Four Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Defend the furnace from waves of goblins by building and upgrading in an FPS tower defense.
Why similar: Tower Defense 27.8%, Base Building 15.8%, Survival 11.6%, Resource Management 10%, Shooter 9.9%
- #13 Full Manual Tower Defense
89% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2025
Dev: Individual
Windows
3D Tower Defense! Run! Build it yourself! Connect power yourself! You should build your tower manually!
Why similar: Tower Defense 35.1%, Crafting 20.2%, Strategy 14.2%, PvE 10.8%, Resource Management 10.4%
- #14 Crystal Guardian
88% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: AKDasan
Windows
Crystal Guardian is a tower defense game featuring survival and time control elements. Defend the crystal against enemies from different biomes every night, and during the days, gather resources from various biomes to alleviate hunger and thirst, aiming to survive until the 100th day.
Why similar: Tower Defense 33.3%, Time Management 23.5%, Survival 15.6%, Strategy 13.6%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #15 Citywars Tower Defense
87% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,129 reviews2022
Dev: 01 Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Citywars TD is a cute multiplayer third person Survival Tower Defense. Build towers, gather resources, craft tools, upgrade weapons, level up buildings, expand your city with your friends and work under pressure before the next incoming wave of monsters.
Why similar: Tower Defense 23.3%, Crafting 15.4%, Survival 13.6%, Base Building 12.8%, PvE 9.6%
- #16 Rivet & Ruin
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gargantua Interactive
Windows
A procedurally generated tower defense game. Shape creep pathing with defenses and buildings. Gather enough resources to keep up with increasingly powerful waves of creeps.
Why similar: Tower Defense 35.4%, Medieval 11.3%, Base Building 11.2%, Strategy 10.7%, PvE 9.9%
- #17 Age of Darkness: Final Stand
85% matchMostly Positive74% of 10,665 reviews2025
Dev: PlaySide
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Age of Darkness: Final Stand is a dark fantasy survival RTS where you must illuminate, build and defend humanity’s last bastion against hordes of Nightmares. Set in the remnants of a kingdom consumed by a deadly fog, you decide. Will you hide in the light? Or take back your world.
Why similar: Tower Defense 20.8%, Medieval 12.8%, Base Building 12.5%, Survival 10.6%, PvE 9.6%
- #18 Rags to Liches
86% matchPositive92% of 24 reviews2023
Dev: Louis BuiPub: Neumont College of Computer Science
Windows
A small, third-person, action, tower defense game where you play as a peasant who gets tired of adventurers breaking into his house. Place down towers and fight off waves and waves of "enemies." Progress through the story and see just how far one man will go to protect his beloved llama.
Why similar: Tower Defense 40.5%, Strategy 12.2%, PvE 9.6%, Action 9.3%, Medieval 9.2%
- #19 Stone to Stove
84% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: mehmetozbostanci
Windows
Gather resources during the day and earn money by serving people; at night, buy towers and defend your base. Optimize your settlement, take risks to gain more profit, and surviving increasingly difficult attacks each day offers a rewarding experience.
Why similar: Tower Defense 28.3%, Time Management 18.3%, Strategy 11%, Medieval 9.8%, Action 8.7%
- #20 TavernHold
84% matchMostly Positive73% of 33 reviews2026
Dev: Tevniyal Studios
Windows
Build, manage and defend your fantasy tavern.
Why similar: Tower Defense 22.8%, Time Management 14.4%, Base Building 14.2%, Medieval 13.4%, Resource Management 12%
- #21 Land and Sword
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Rohr
Windows · Linux
Lead a group of survivors in a new land, build a functional settlement, manage deep production chains, and prepare defenses to face growing hordes of creatures. Balance growth, logistics, and survival in a world scarred by a creeping plague.
Why similar: Tower Defense 29.9%, Time Management 20.9%, Medieval 14%, Strategy 13.2%, Crafting 12.5%
- #22 Project Tomorrow
82% matchNo user reviews2026
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 26.2%, Base Building 18.5%, Crafting 17.7%, Survival 16.4%, Resource Management 7%
- #23 Bandit the game
83% matchMostly Positive73% of 48 reviews2019
Dev: Adrian Ubiorski
Windows
Bandit the game is an open-world RPG with unique quests, character development, intense combat and interesting exploration. With optional elements: tower defense, city/base building and gang management.
Why similar: Tower Defense 24.5%, Survival 15.9%, Base Building 15.9%, Crafting 14.2%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #24 Siege of Akanor
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: North Sun Games
Windows
A castle defense you fight in person. Between waves you spend your gold on swordsmen, archers, traps and barricades; when the horn sounds you take the field yourself, sword and bow in hand. Solo, in co-op for up to four, or from the horde's side.
Why similar: Tower Defense 30.9%, Medieval 17.2%, Strategy 7.5%, PvE 6.9%, Online Co-Op 6.2%
- #25 Classic Tower Defense 2
79% matchPositive96% of 26 reviews2026
Dev: Blacksmith Forge
Windows
Classic tower defense rules meet modern systems. Build medieval towers, face adaptive waves, and experiment with upgrades, modifiers, and roguelike progression.
Why similar: Tower Defense 27.7%, Medieval 17.6%, Base Building 13.2%, Resource Management 9.8%, PvE 9.7%
- #26 Night Horde
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MXR Games
Windows
Defend a castle by yourself or with friends against monsters in 3 phases. Defend the king at all costs, otherwise you'll never survive the horde.
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.5%, Medieval 14%, PvE 12.4%, Survival 11.8%, Shooter 10.5%
- #27 Unburied
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Far Anchor
Windows
The Unburied King's funeral marches home, waking every grave it crosses. Keep the vigil alone or with friends — hold until dawn, and the dead burn to ash. Free demo out now.
Why similar: Tower Defense 30.7%, Base Building 17.3%, Dark Fantasy 13.6%, Survival 13.3%, Online Co-Op 10.4%
- #28 Golems TD
81% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2020
Dev: Mythforge Games
Windows
Build towers against waves of golems. Spend resources for upgrades or to increase income. Control your hero to fight golems directly.
Why similar: Tower Defense 34.2%, Medieval 17%, Resource Management 14.9%, Strategy 7.6%, Crafting 7.1%
- #29 Hostile Mars: Prologue
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Big Rook Games
Windows
Hostile Mars is a Factory-Building game focused on Combat! Explore an open world and discover new tech, unlocking powerful weapons and structures. Create efficient supply chains using delivery bots. Salvage destroyed enemies for resources. Design your base to withstand increasing waves of enemies!
Why similar: Tower Defense 23.8%, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 13%, Resource Management 11%, Shooter 8.5%
- #30 Mineral Zone
78% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Surio
Windows · Linux
Mine resources, automate production, and defend your base from escalating alien attacks. Expand your power grid, unlock new technology, and survive alone or with friends in online co-op.
Why similar: Tower Defense 24.7%, Crafting 14.3%, Base Building 14.3%, Resource Management 11.1%, Survival 10.6%
- #31 MysteryJars
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: EdenArtsStudio
Windows
Team up, scavenge, and defend your base against relentless waves of monsters. Every 10-minute round in MysteryJar is a fight for survival and discovery.
Why similar: Tower Defense 27%, Strategy 12%, Survival 11.8%, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 11.1%
- #32 Seven Nights of the Black Tide
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: YuanMu
Windows
Seven Nights of the Black Tide is a dark fantasy strategy game about survival and defense. Gather resources, assign survivors, repair walls, build defenses, and prepare by day. When night falls, hold back the Black Tide and protect your last stronghold through seven deadly nights.
Why similar: Tower Defense 28.5%, Base Building 15.8%, Time Management 14.3%, Resource Management 11.8%, Strategy 10.7%
- #33 ArcaneOutpost
76% 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 33.4%, Base Building 19.6%, Strategy 12.9%, Survival 9.6%, Medieval 8.9%
- #34 Everything Invades
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: CapCat
Windows
Play as the Knight, use your towers and items to drive away the hungry enemies that show up at your cozy cavern and try to survive as Everything Invades
Why similar: Tower Defense 37%, Medieval 17.9%, PvE 16.8%, Third Person 10.2%, Combat 6.6%
- #35 Soul Stone Defense
76% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: SoloDevTom
Windows
A dark fantasy tower defense and survival game where you build defenses by day and possess your warriors by night to fight off endless waves of monsters.
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.8%, Survival 14.1%, Base Building 12.9%, Resource Management 9.6%, PvE 9.5%
- #36 Queen's Revenge
75% 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 37.4%, Medieval 15.6%, Base Building 12.9%, Strategy 11%, Action 8.4%
- #37 Abyss Born
73% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: PolyLS
Windows
Abyss Born is a single-player dark survival with RPG. Fight various monsters, explore dangerous dungeons, trade with allies and complete quests to face evil.
Why similar: Medieval 17.8%, Crafting 17.5%, Survival 15.7%, Base Building 12.5%, PvE 11.2%
- #38 GEODE
72% matchPositive97% of 30 reviews2026
Dev: PhD
Windows
In this top-down, multiplayer, co-op game, you must protect your Core Crystal by any means necessary. Build up your defenses, explore, refine, and upgrade to reach your goal. Play alone or with up to 8 people.
Why similar: Tower Defense 33.1%, Crafting 14.8%, Survival 12.6%, Strategy 8.5%, Base Building 7.3%
- #39 Save The Village - Tower Defense
73% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Zupti
Windows · Mac
Save The Village is a medieval tower defense game where you strategically protect villages from waves of skeletons, goblins, and fearsome bosses. Build powerful towers and use magical abilities to fend off the invading forces!
Why similar: Tower Defense 28.7%, Time Management 20.9%, Medieval 18.6%, PvE 11.6%, Strategy 7.5%
- #40 Wasteland Outpost
71% matchPositive100% of 13 reviews2026
Dev: Tarakan Game Studio
Windows
Build, defend, and destroy in 40 minute high stakes matches. Wasteland Outpost is a tactical top down PvPvE shooter where you scavenge for resources, fortify a custom base, and outlive both mutant hordes and enemy teams. In the wasteland, your strategy is your only shield.
Why similar: Tower Defense 19.1%, Base Building 12.4%, PvE 11.5%, Survival 11.3%, Crafting 10.5%
- #41 Titanhelm
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Crashout Games
Windows
Titanhelm is a co-op base building game where you and your friends build a settlement, command a Titan and fight back the creatures of a dark and hostile forest. Gather resources, harvest Soul energy from fallen enemies and upgrade your Titan before the forest consumes you.
Why similar: Tower Defense 24.4%, Base Building 17.2%, Crafting 14.1%, PvE 10.9%, Medieval 9.2%
- #42 TD Fade to Dark
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Firedev Studio SRLPub: S.C. 16 BIT NIGHTS S.R.L.
Windows
A dark Tower Defense and Survival hybrid where your only currency is time, and how you choose to use. Step into the dark forest, build your defenses during the day, explore, and during the night make every second count before the monsters find you.
Why similar: Tower Defense 35.1%, Base Building 17.8%, Survival 12.9%, Crafting 11%, Action 6.6%
- #43 Listenbourg
74% matchNo user reviews2023
Dev: Omar Benouamer
Windows
Play a sci-fi turn-based strategy game while an AI threat the humanity. A VR experience allowing to discover the famous Listenbourg.
Why similar: Tower Defense 29.5%, Base Building 19.3%, Survival 16.8%, PvE 9.9%, Crafting 9.8%
- #44 MyTavern
74% matchNo user reviews2024
Dev: Daniel Swatridge
Windows
Design and create your own tavern. Make the space comfortable for guest to stay and rest the night away.
Why similar: Medieval 25.4%, Crafting 20.5%, Base Building 20.3%, Time Management 16.1%, Third Person 10.6%
- #45 Luxmithar
70% 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 32.9%, PvE 14.9%, Base Building 12.4%, Shooter 12.2%, Crafting 10.3%
- #46 Petty Kings
71% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: BlackDove Studios
Windows
Petty Kings is a pixel art survival RTS about reclaiming your stolen kingdom. Rebuild your settlement, defend against night raids, raise your army, and destroy enemy outposts to take back your rightful throne.
Why similar: Tower Defense 27.2%, Base Building 16%, Medieval 15.4%, Survival 14.8%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #47 Roots Of Ruin
71% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Lison Studios
Windows
Build your defenses, fight beside them, and reclaim your kingdom from the corruption. Expand your land, command powerful towers, and take direct control of one of four unique heroes to defend against relentless enemy waves and devastating bosses.
Why similar: Tower Defense 24.6%, Base Building 14.4%, Survival 12.4%, Medieval 10.6%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #48 Milkraid
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: KartsDev
Windows
Defend the milk at all costs! Place towers, build your base, recruit minions, and battle endless swarms of enemies. Unlock new towers, characters and base upgrades, and upgrade them to create ridiculous builds. Every run is unique.
Why similar: Tower Defense 31.6%, Base Building 18.7%, Medieval 13.9%, PvE 11%, Strategy 8.1%
- #49 Galactic Siege
70% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: 2MGames
Windows
Defend your base across four unique worlds in this 3D tower defense game. Battle waves of monsters, conquer 20 campaign levels, and climb the global leaderboard in the endless mode.
Why similar: Tower Defense 38.5%, PvE 16.4%, Strategy 11.6%, Survival 10.7%, Resource Management 7.4%
- #50 Runehold
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ByteSide Studio
Windows
Build up defenses, recruit helpers, gather items and defend the stronghold against an ever increasing number and difficulty of enemies who come at night.
Why similar: Tower Defense 28.2%, Base Building 18.6%, Survival 15.5%, Resource Management 10.4%, Strategy 8.7%
- #51 One More Tower
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: KlartPub: Spelkollektivet
Windows
One More Tower is a horde survival TD set in a medieval fantasy world. Pioneer an unexplored forest, build your town and defenses, and hold out against the onslaught of enemies. How long can you survive?
Why similar: Tower Defense 28.4%, Medieval 17.3%, Survival 12.8%, Base Building 11.9%, PvE 10%
- #52 Bonebreaker Bastion
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mathias Andreasen
Windows
A frantic wave-based roguelite defense shooter where medieval fantasy clashes with modern firepower. Combine a vast arsenal of spells, weapons, and items to survive the ever-growing skeletal onslaught.
Why similar: Tower Defense 38.6%, PvE 16.5%, Shooter 13.5%, Medieval 11.5%, Action 6.5%
- #53 Nightfall Waves
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Torched Hill
Windows
Explore islands, gather resources, unlock upgrades and strengthen your defenses by day. When night falls, survive against relentless waves of shadow creatures.
Why similar: Tower Defense 31.3%, Base Building 17.7%, Medieval 13.1%, Survival 9.9%, Strategy 8.4%
- #54 Valhalla Path: Survival
68% matchMixed63% of 16 reviews2025
Dev: Survival Saga Studios
Windows
Valhalla Path casts you as a Viking warrior stranded in a hostile land. Build a village, defend against the fallen warriors, lead your people to glory and secure your place in Valhalla's legends.
Why similar: Crafting 25.1%, Survival 23.4%, Medieval 22%, Base Building 18.6%, Resource Management 9%
- #55 Sorrow Be The Night
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: High Riser Media
Windows
A dark fantasy action tower defense where you summon powerful defenses, wield diverse weapons, and unleash devastating magic to hold back relentless hordes across crumbling castles, haunted towns, and ancient ruins.
Why similar: Tower Defense 28.9%, Dark Fantasy 11.9%, PvE 11.2%, Survival 8.9%, Strategy 7.7%
- #56 Parabellum: Siege Of Legends
67% match8 user reviews38% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Studio Baikin
Windows
An epic war and strategy game set in the medieval universe.
Why similar: Tower Defense 32%, Survival 15.5%, Base Building 13.5%, Strategy 12.5%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #57 Bug Bait
67% 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 40.3%, Survival 19.5%, Resource Management 15.7%, Base Building 12.4%, Strategy 9.4%
- #58 Astronaut Assault
67% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: DalyForge Games
Windows · Mac
Dive into Astronaut Assault, a third-person Sci-Fi tower defense game, and battle against relentless enemy waves in diverse arena settings. Arm yourself with an array of turrets, traps, and gadgets to halt, hinder, and outmaneuver your foes.
Why similar: Tower Defense 28.8%, Survival 16.5%, Base Building 13.6%, PvE 12.4%, Third Person 6.9%
- #59 Ruins of Majika
67% 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 33.7%, Base Building 19.2%, Survival 17.4%, Crafting 17.3%, Strategy 7.8%
- #60 Architect of War
65% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Six Sided Studio
Windows
A strategic tower defense with roguelike elements where every enemy demands an answer. Prepare your team, adapt your defense, and face waves designed to break your strategy.
Why similar: Tower Defense 41.2%, Strategy 13%, Medieval 10.9%, Third Person 10.2%, PvE 9.2%