- #1 Circuit Defender
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Velidyne
Windows
A first person shooter and tower defense blend where players defend against waves of robots. Play alone or with friends to design paths, build towers, and upgrade weapons to protect key areas!
Why similar: Tower Defense 21.4%, FPS 12.3%, Shooter 7.8%, Base Building 7%, Futuristic 6.9%
- #2 Forg
96% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Four Games
Windows
Defend the furnace from waves of goblins by building and upgrading in an FPS tower defense.
Why similar: Tower Defense 26%, FPS 16.1%, Shooter 12%, Strategy 7.6%, Building 6.2%
- #3 Iron grid
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Iscreamdye
Windows
Unlock new towers based on enemy types encountered. Construct towers to hold the line and survive waves. Position defenses strategically to control enemy paths. Defend base and mining stations. Destroy enemy monoliths to gain control over battlefield. Build the colossal superweapon Iron Grid
Why similar: Tower Defense 29.8%, FPS 16.4%, Action 13.2%, Building 11.2%, First-Person 6.6%
- #4 Dwarfare: All For The Forge
95% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: Blanc Smith Studios
Windows
Be the dwarf you know you are! Build towers to protect the beacons and keep production in motion! Use your weapons to corner any enemies that scrape through. Do it- do it ALL FOR THE FORGE!!
Why similar: Tower Defense 32.3%, FPS 17%, Shooter 12.5%, Strategy 11.8%, Action 8%
- #5 Autothysis
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Somniare Studios
Windows · Mac
Autothysis is a first-person tower defense game where strategy meets precision. Deploy turrets, manage resources, and fight swarms of insectoid enemies. Target weak points to shatter foes while upgrading defenses to survive escalating waves. Can you withstand the oncoming horde?
Why similar: Tower Defense 27.6%, FPS 15.3%, Strategy 8.8%, Shooter 7.9%, Futuristic 7.8%
- #6 Defender Of Falyndor
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Larrabee Game Studio
Windows
Defender OF Falyndor is a First-Person Tower Defense game in Virtual Reality! Take control of your character, towers, and much more to protect Falyndor from waves of invasions to become the ultimate Defender of Falyndor!
Why similar: Tower Defense 24%, FPS 13.6%, Shooter 10%, Robots 10%, Building 7.3%
- #7 Sanctum 2
93% matchVery Positive90% of 14,356 reviews2013
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Sanctum 2 is the sequel to the world’s first Tower Defense/FPS hybrid game. Pick from four unique character classes and embark on a mission to protect the oxygen-producing Cores from hordes of deadly aliens who are threatened by their existence.
Why similar: Tower Defense 46.6%, FPS 19.3%, Strategy 7.9%, Action 5.6%, Shooter 4.6%
- #8 Sanctum
92% matchVery Positive89% of 3,340 reviews2011
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 62%
You think Tower Defense games are all about building? You thought wrong. Sanctum is not your average Tower Defense title. When the havoc starts, you get to join the fray! As one of the world’s first First Person Shooter - Tower Defense games, Sanctum has taken the best of both worlds to deliver an epic, one-of-a-kind experience.
Why similar: Tower Defense 49.6%, FPS 16.7%, Strategy 9.2%, Action 6.3%, Shooter 6.2%
- #9 Robo Siege TD
91% 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. As you make progress, unlock even more upgrades for your towers by building factories. Can you unlock the legendary golden tower?
Why similar: Tower Defense 36.2%, Robots 19.2%, Strategy 14.8%, Building 9.9%, Futuristic 8.2%
- #10 Hold your houses
91% matchMixed45% of 169 reviews2017
Dev: WhackAKey GamesPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Have you ever been in a robbery and didn't have weapons to defend yourself and your house? Well now you can, with hold your houses you have a variety of weapons to use to help you defend yourself, your house and take on those unwanted robbers.
Why similar: Tower Defense 27.8%, FPS 13.5%, Shooter 13.5%, Action 11.9%, Strategy 10.6%
- #11 Naught Bots
90% matchMostly Positive79% of 14 reviews2021
Dev: JT MitchellPub: Dos Gatitos Games
Windows
Make cute things cry!
Why similar: FPS 24.3%, Shooter 18.2%, Robots 15.5%, Sci-fi 10.9%, Action 10.9%
- #12 Echofall
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Retrocausal Studios
Windows
A high-mobility sci-fi FPS built around full directional gravity control. Rotate gravity at will, transform walls into floors, ceilings into escape routes, and vertical arenas into tactical advantages. Combine precision gunplay with fluid movement to survive relentless, escalating enemy pressure.
Why similar: FPS 22%, Shooter 21.7%, Action 19.3%, Futuristic 8.7%, Combat 7%
- #13 Robotica
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SWADER
Windows
Play with friends and defend The Tower from corrupt robotic organisms.
Why similar: Tower Defense 23.1%, FPS 12.8%, Shooter 11.9%, Strategy 8.7%, Building 8.4%
- #14 Technitive
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cybernetic Studios LLC
Windows
Technitive is a first-person open world tower defense set in 2043, where you advance from primitive tools to machines and modern weapons. A colonization attempt is set on an Earth-like planet after an extinction threat to Earth. Colonize the planet and save mankind!
Why similar: Tower Defense 30.6%, FPS 17.6%, Strategy 10.5%, Action 10%, Futuristic 9.1%
- #15 Quartermaster
87% match6 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Nathan ShturmPub: Quartermaster Games
Windows
An online PvE co-op action game for up to 4 players. Work together with your team to manage your inventory, complete objectives, and destroy endless waves of ferocious robots.
Why similar: FPS 17%, Strategy 15.6%, Shooter 15.4%, Action 13.9%, Robots 10.1%
- #16 SENTRY
86% matchVery Positive83% of 853 reviews2024
Dev: Fireblade Software
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 70%
SENTRY is an action-defense first person shooter where you defend your spaceship against invading aliens. Plot an escape route through hostile space and battle the enemy across your vessel with the support of traps, turrets and environmental destruction.
Why similar: Tower Defense 30.8%, FPS 17.4%, Strategy 10%, Shooter 8.4%, Survival 7.6%
- #17 Drone Shooter
86% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Butchers Bell Studio
Windows
Drone Shooter is a realistic tower defence game where you place and then operate turrets in order to defend a moving core from a swarm of drones. Shoot them down before they drop their payload or shoot the payload before it hits the core.
Why similar: Tower Defense 45.3%, Action 21.1%, Shooter 20.8%, 3D 6.9%, Combat 5.9%
- #18 ArcaneOutpost
85% 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 34.1%, Strategy 17.9%, Building 13%, Action 12.3%, Base Building 12%
- #19 AI.VI
84% matchPositive100% of 25 reviews2026
Dev: Out of TimePub: indie.io
Windows · Mac
The mercenary robot AIVI is forced out of retirement as the P.A.S.C.A.L. Gigacorporation conquers his planet to squeeze it dry. Combine your FPS and tower defense skills, then send the corporate invaders to the scrapheap, seize the means of production, and take the planet back for the worker bots!
Why similar: Tower Defense 25.3%, Robots 14.8%, FPS 14%, Shooter 10.8%, Strategy 8.4%
- #20 The Defender: Farm and Castle
83% matchVery Positive89% of 1,091 reviews2019
Dev: Kobsoft Kitti
Windows
You are an archer tasked with defending a castle from invading monsters. Inside the castle, you can manage resources and harvest crops, gather experience points to level up, and learn new skills and abilities to face stronger enemies.
Why similar: Tower Defense 56.5%, Strategy 17.1%, Action 13.6%, Shooter 12.8%
- #21 Project VTS
82% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: DT3 Digital
Windows
Project VTS is a real-time TD game. You'll need to build your defence around your base and defend against different enemies from all directions in various terrains of the alien planet.Use your turrets, obstacles, power supply, resource facillities to defend your base.
Why similar: Tower Defense 39.3%, Building 15.3%, Futuristic 12.3%, Base Building 11.1%, Strategy 10.6%
- #22 District Zero
81% matchMixed64% of 11 reviews2025
Dev: Contrail Productions
Windows
Shoot your way through an alien takeover. Using your flashlight to see through the darkness and fight the aliens to make your way off the ship.
Why similar: FPS 22.8%, Shooter 20.7%, Action 18.5%, Futuristic 14.9%, First-Person 9.2%
- #23 Sleep Tight
82% matchVery Positive87% of 69 reviews2018
Dev: We Are Fuzzy
Windows
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 35.3%, Strategy 23.6%, Shooter 20.9%, Action 20.2%
- #24 Tired of Being the Hero
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tired Hero Games
Windows
As a retired hero, lead and train your villagers to stand against relentless monster attacks. Assign roles, motivate your team, upgrade townsfolk, unlock powerful abilities, and adapt your strategy to outlast the next assault. TBH is a first-person fantasy action RPG with a strategy twist.
Why similar: Tower Defense 48.4%, Strategy 14.9%, Action 11.6%, Shooter 6.6%, First-Person 5.4%
- #25 Pls Kill it.
80% matchMixed68% of 63 reviews2022
Dev: XinPub: Owner
Windows
Use your FPS expertise and beat it!! The enemy AI in the game will follow the player's behavior and try to surpass you; please do your best to defeat it, it may perform beyond your expectations, and the rest will surpass you!
Why similar: FPS 26.6%, Shooter 25.6%, Robots 13.5%, Action 13.4%, First-Person 10.5%
- #26 Desolorian Defenses
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Open Mirror
Windows
An asynchronous multiplayer tower defense game were you either maze towers to defend against other players robots and/or assemble your robots and invade other players mazes.
Why similar: Tower Defense 35.7%, Strategy 19.7%, Robots 13.5%, Futuristic 12.7%, Base Building 7.1%
- #27 DOLLMAKER 2
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: STH
Windows
DOLLMAKER 2 is an FPS Tower Defense game where you, a lucky Fisher Co. recruit, help develop cutting edge weaponry at the acclaimed Willoughby Headquarters by fighting monsters.
Why similar: Tower Defense 29.9%, FPS 16.4%, Shooter 13.3%, Strategy 9.5%, Base Building 6.9%
- #28 Lil'Johnny Watermelon Smash
78% matchPositive93% of 14 reviews2024
Dev: Panther Game Design StudioPub: Panther Game Design Studio
Windows
Lil Johnny, armed with a watermelon gun, defends his tranquil world from the malevolent dragon Steve. To reach Steve’s lair, he faces nineteen timed levels, honing his skills through target practice. Panther Game Design Studio’s legacy is a high school class from Ottawa Canada.
Why similar: FPS 25.8%, Shooter 23.7%, Action 21.7%, Futuristic 16.6%, 3D 7.2%
- #29 Syndeo-Complex
78% matchMixed65% of 23 reviews2022
Dev: ddzevprod
Windows
In Syndeo-Complex you will explore five different environments connected by a hub. Each level has its own mechanics, weapons, enemies and bosses. The Keli, small droids, will (probably) guide you in your quest.
Why similar: FPS 21.1%, Shooter 18.7%, Action 17%, Robots 12%, Futuristic 10.8%
- #30 Light Towers
77% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: Ion Rodriguez
Windows · Mac
A Tower Defense Action game, set in a bright geometric world. Combine shooting skills with strategic thinking to fight off waves of enemies, and defend your base.
Why similar: Tower Defense 41.4%, Shooter 18.3%, Strategy 16.1%, Action 13.8%, 3D 4%
- #31 Wrecker II, The Wreckening
76% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Sleepless Inc.
Windows
Year 2425, humanity colonized the exoplanet named SACH-041840. But then, in the 55th year "they" came; No one knows who or what controls them, but what is known is that if they reach the colony proper, it will be annihilated. It is up to you to bring the WRECKONING upon them!
Why similar: Tower Defense 29.6%, Shooter 14.4%, Strategy 10%, Futuristic 8%, Action 7.9%
- #32 The first titans
77% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2020
Dev: Anden studios
Windows
The first titans is an indie VR game where the shooters, tower defense and strategy games meet together. You will land in a hostile planet where you have to protect your crystal reactor. Recollect resources, build towers and kill the aliens trying to destroy you.
Why similar: Tower Defense 29.7%, FPS 16.4%, Strategy 15%, Action 14.1%, Robots 10.5%
- #33 Siege of Shadows
76% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: PhantomCore StudioPub: PhantomCore Publisher
Windows
"Siege of Shadows" is an intense tower defense survival game where strategy, skill, and quick thinking are your keys to victory. In a world overrun by relentless waves of enemies, your mission is to build, upgrade, and defend your base at all costs.
Why similar: Tower Defense 21.5%, FPS 21.1%, Shooter 18.1%, Action 10.4%, First-Person 8.3%
- #34 Artificial Extinction
75% matchMostly Positive76% of 262 reviews2020
Dev: 100Hr Games Inc
Windows
You have 9 days to find a safe place on the planet. Your ship is low on fuel and you have to land. Setup sentry guns around you to defend yourself while you collect more fuel for the ship. AI controlled Drones and Tanks attack you trying to find weaknesses in your defenses.
Why similar: Tower Defense 40.4%, Strategy 14.8%, FPS 13.2%, Action 12.8%, First-Person 6.5%
- #35 Queen's Revenge
74% 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 39.5%, Strategy 15.7%, Building 14.3%, Action 13.7%, Base Building 8.2%
- #36 Tower of Portal
75% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2021
Dev: MCA Games
Windows
Tower of Portal is a little Indie FPS Shooter, where you control a soldier with the mission to destroy the AI Central Computer that controls the machines spreads in the city. Your mission is avoid this domination through the machines.
Why similar: FPS 26.3%, Shooter 23.4%, Action 21.2%, Futuristic 16.5%, 3D 7.1%
- #37 BioFusion
73% matchPositive90% of 20 reviews2024
Dev: Pcubed VR
Windows
BioFusion is a VR co-op multiplayer, PvE, first-person-shooter, tower defense game. Swing on a grappling hook, ride a hovercraft, throw grenades, collect buffs, build towers and traps. Do what you must to keep the mutants from the Spores of Evolution.
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.1%, FPS 15.8%, Shooter 11.8%, Strategy 8.4%, Base Building 7.5%
- #38 Bounty
74% matchMixed63% of 19 reviews2022
Dev: Cupine Army
Windows
A sci-fi first-person shooter with a dynamic deployable cover system. A demo level from our game Bounty.
Why similar: FPS 33.5%, Shooter 20.7%, Action 19.2%, Sci-fi 9.6%, First-Person 7.2%
- #39 Crystalia
73% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Trame Rouge Studio
Windows
Crystalia is a first-person tower defense game mixing automation, management and exploration set in a utopian sci-fi world built on crystal extraction. Dig into caves, build autonomous defense zones and uncover the history of a civilization shaped around crystals.
Why similar: Tower Defense 29.3%, FPS 15.9%, Building 12.3%, Shooter 11.4%, Strategy 9.4%
- #40 ASTRAL
71% match8 user reviews63% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: GURACORP®
Windows
ASTRAL is a first-person shooter set in a futuristic universe. Embody a GRD robot and engage adversaries in dynamic environments, spanning Earth and Off-World locations. Utilize comprehensive weapon customization to craft your personalized loadout, preparing you for intense kinetic action.
Why similar: FPS 25.5%, Shooter 17.7%, Action 11%, Robots 10.2%, First-Person 7.9%
- #41 PROTOZOA
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Oplexity Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Protect the asteroid mine's reactor from swarms of supersized alien protozoa. This game's groundbreaking AI system uses machine learning to adapt to your strategy in real-time as you build and upgrade your defenses. Fight evolution itself.
Why similar: Tower Defense 35.8%, Strategy 19.2%, Action 13.7%, Futuristic 8.4%, Sci-fi 7.9%
- #42 Alien Destroyer
72% matchMixed48% of 27 reviews2021
Dev: RandomSpin
Windows
Alien robots are attacking.
Why similar: FPS 28.3%, Shooter 25.2%, Action 22.9%, Sci-fi 9.9%, 3D 7.7%
- #43 NBF0
70% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Desafortunados Games
Windows · Linux
A simple, fun, FPS where you must advance through waves of evil robots. Use your energy weapons to fight them and escape to freedom!
Why similar: FPS 28.4%, Shooter 26%, Action 23.9%, First-Person 11.4%, Sci-fi 10.2%
- #44 BrainZ Defender
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MINT Creative
Windows
Freeze, burn, and electrocute hordes of relentless zombies with deadly traps and weapons. Strategize your defenses, protect the Brain, and survive the undead apocalypse as you fight to secure humanity's future!
Why similar: Tower Defense 28.4%, FPS 16.5%, Shooter 10%, Strategy 9.7%, Base Building 9.4%
- #45 Creepy Crawling
69% matchMixed58% of 19 reviews2025
Dev: Enrique RicaldePub: Lixeira Publishing
Windows · Mac
Horror FPS where you'll be dealing with crawling monsters.
Why similar: FPS 28.2%, Shooter 25.7%, Action 23.2%, First-Person 10.4%, 3D 7.7%
- #46 CYBERSPACE VR
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FUSE / VR StudiosPub: FUSE / People & Technology
Windows
CYBERSPACE VR is a Fast-Paced Tower Defense / FPS Hybrid VR Game set in a Futuristic Dystopia where humans and AI Join Forces to save what remains. Fun and Active Combats combined with Strategic RPG Progression, all while you discover our Cinematic Universe through a mesmerizing Storytelling.
Why similar: Tower Defense 38.8%, FPS 20.3%, Strategy 11.2%, Shooter 8.4%, Action 7.5%
- #47 Kill Cast
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: CGBYLG
Windows
Born from classic arcade top down shooters like Smash TV and 80’s action thriller The Running Man! Welcome to Kill Cast Show! An FPS endless shooter where you must survive endless wave of mutants. It's the gameshow of the future where contestants fight for survival.
Why similar: FPS 22.7%, Shooter 20.6%, Action 18%, Futuristic 11.4%, First-Person 8.4%
- #48 Rise of Mutant Swarms
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Feative Studios
Windows
Rise of Mutant Swarms is a strategy survival tower-defense game where you defend the base against waves of evolving mutant enemies. Place and upgrade turrets, adapt to enemy abilities, and make critical decisions as the pressure rises with every wave.
Why similar: Tower Defense 40.1%, Strategy 16.8%, Shooter 9.5%, Sci-fi 8.1%, Building 7%
- #49 GROSS
68% matchVery Positive81% of 292 reviews2023
Dev: hangry owl games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 52%
GROSS is a unique twist on the classic tower defense genre. After building your defenses, you will jump into the action to take on enemies head-on. Make sure to collect as much cash as possible to upgrade your defenses and stay ahead of the game. Can you outlast the waves of enemies?
Why similar: Tower Defense 31.5%, FPS 17.6%, Shooter 11.8%, Strategy 8.9%, Base Building 8.1%
- #50 Anomaly Defenders
68% matchMostly Positive77% of 676 reviews2014
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Anomaly Defenders is the closing installment of the Anomaly series. The original incarnation of the Tower Offense sub-genre had players controlling humans fighting alien invaders. Now, the tables have turned. The human counterattack is underway and the alien homeworld is under threat.
Why similar: Tower Defense 60.2%, Strategy 22.2%, Action 14.5%, Sci-fi 3.2%
- #51 Robot TD
69% matchNo user reviews2023
Dev: zToxicity
Windows
Get ready to defend from murderous robots. Use your cast of towers to defend from the robots in this 3D strategy game.
Why similar: Tower Defense 50.2%, Strategy 22.5%, Robots 21.5%, 3D 5.8%
- #52 Galactic Siege
66% 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 41.6%, Strategy 17%, Futuristic 8%, PvE 7%, Sci-fi 5.8%
- #53 Anomaly Warzone Earth Mobile Campaign
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 549 reviews2013
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Anomaly Warzone Earth Mobile Campaign continues Steam's Anomaly Warzone Earth in an extra 15-level campaign. Originally released on mobile devices, the campaign is brought to Steam for PC, Mac and Linux exclusively in Anomaly Bundle. AWE Mobile Campaign turns tower defense on its head.
Why similar: Tower Defense 36.6%, Strategy 32.6%, Action 23.7%, Sci-fi 7%
- #54 Rocket Bots
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 70 reviews2020
Dev: ic3bug
Windows · Linux
Rocket Bots is a fast-paced FPS where you destroy waves of hacked robots in simple compact arenas. Build custom ones via Steam Workshop and fight for divine glory.
Why similar: FPS 30.4%, Robots 19.8%, Action 12.7%, Shooter 12.6%, 3D 8.8%
- #55 Gemstone Guardians
67% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2023
Dev: MM Studios
Windows
Gemstone Guardians is a tower defense game where selection and combinations are key. Similar to a game of poker, players are given a set of random towers each round and must make the best combinations to prevent the waves of enemies from reaching the end.
Why similar: Tower Defense 47%, Strategy 26.6%, Building 18.8%, 3D 7.6%
- #56 Toofan AlAqsa
66% matchMixed63% of 70 reviews2024
Dev: Digital Dimension LLC
Windows
A shooter game is about protecting AlAqsa and Palestine . for the support of Palestine .. #FreePalestine
Why similar: FPS 24.5%, Shooter 22.9%, Strategy 15.3%, Action 15.3%, First-Person 9.1%
- #57 Cascadence
66% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: proxaCor
Windows
Survive in a foreign world using your creativity to assemble your defenses.
Why similar: Tower Defense 25.6%, FPS 15.5%, Building 10.6%, Base Building 10%, Shooter 9.7%