- #1 Kill A Million Rats
97% matchVery Positive90% of 78 reviews2025
Dev: Nerdook ProductionsPub: Surefire.Games
Windows
A base-building, Roguelike Action/Turn-based Strategy (RATS) game, in a forest invaded by a million Rats. As the powerful Spirit of Vengeance, you must save the adorable Villagers! Explore a randomly generated world, expand your village, and exterminate the Rats!
Why similar: Tower Defense 28.6%, Base Building 22.2%, Roguelite 16.9%, Funny 12.5%, Strategy 7.4%
- #2 Rocket Rats
96% matchVery Positive94% of 2,647 reviews2024
Dev: Gagonfe
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Rocket Rats is a survivors-like game where you defeat cheese-based astral bodies in space – as a rat! Clear waves of enemies, collect cheese, upgrade your gear, and conquer the moon!
Why similar: Action Roguelike 34.4%, Roguelite 25.7%, Shooter 20.3%, 2D 10.4%, Action 9.1%
- #3 Utopia Must Fall
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 1,376 reviews2024
Dev: Pixeljam
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Defend humanity's last surviving metropolis from mysterious alien machinations in this challenging base-defense arcade shooter. Featuring rapid upgrade progression, procedurally generated attack waves, dark humor and laser-sharp aesthetics.
Why similar: Tower Defense 18.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 17.1%, Perma Death 12.3%, Action Roguelike 11.3%, Dark Humor 9.9%
- #4 Cyber Rats
95% matchVery Positive91% of 152 reviews2025
Dev: Outpost Games
Windows
Cute rats in deadly mazes... Cyber Rats is a dark and brutal action game. Escape sadistic horrifying death mazes, Improve your rats with upgrades, and find your way out of this sinister facility.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 59.8%, Action 40.2%
- #5 Ratropolis
94% matchVery Positive88% of 5,542 reviews2020
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
A fusion of roguelite, tower defense, city-building, and deck-building! We created a new kind of real time strategy game filled with addictive and fast-paced gameplay. Create your deck, defend your city, and build the largest Ratropolis in history!
Why similar: Tower Defense 28.7%, Difficult 28.4%, Roguelite 22.4%, 2D 11%, Strategy 9.5%
- #6 Ratten Reich
94% matchMostly Negative40% of 714 reviews2025
Dev: METALLADLERSTUDIO
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 1.4 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Ratten Reich is an RTS focusing on realistic combat in a unique, steampunk/dieselpunk world ripped apart by an ongoing war between rats, mice, cockroaches, and lizards.
Why similar: Strategy 60.9%, PvE 39.1%
- #7 Cluckmech Oasis
92% matchVery Positive88% of 3,638 reviews2024
Dev: BlackLightPub: Mammorize
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Cluckmech Oasis, a top-down shooting Roguelike tower defense game. Play as the Warcluck and lead your team of animal heroes in a fight for survival. Collect, build and upgrade defenses, and engage in intense battle against waves of plant enemies.
Why similar: Tower Defense 33.2%, Perma Death 16.2%, Roguelite 14.6%, Shooter 13.5%, Funny 9.8%
- #8 Red Rocket Defencism
91% matchVery Positive98% of 203 reviews2026
Dev: tiny cactus studio
Windows
You, a military officer from our great autocratic motherland, must protect our precious rockets from the evil capitalist enemy in this revolutionary base building strategy game. Bribe! Surveil! Purge! Imbibe! The end justifies the means when you have to protect our invaluable rockets!
Why similar: Tower Defense 43.3%, Base Building 23.7%, Roguelite 18.7%, Strategy 8.8%, Action 5.5%
- #9 Armed to the Gears
93% matchMixed63% of 215 reviews2020
Dev: WS Software
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Control a fully armed Mech and fight through cyberpunk cities, military bases and industrial ruins. Capture and defend territories, build turrets and structures, and wage war against powerful enemies!
Why similar: Tower Defense 39.2%, Shooter 19.8%, Base Building 19.6%, Cyberpunk 17.3%, Strategy 2.2%
- #10 Home Wars
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,188 reviews2017
Dev: Insane Dreamers
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Do you hate bugs and arachnids? Seeing them creeps you out? Would you like them to disappear off the face of the Earth? GOOD! This is the right game for you! In HW you’ll play as a General of a toy soldiers army, with the sole purpose of saving the owner’s house from the invasion of those damn Bugs.
Why similar: Base Building 27%, Tower Defense 23.1%, Shooter 22.5%, Funny 11.9%, Strategy 10%
- #11 Bot Wars
90% matchVery Positive86% of 730 reviews2021
Dev: Frompy GamesPub: Big Play Games
Windows
Bot Wars is an action RTS about managing a squad of kill-bots and their bases as you work to take over all the capture points across the map. Featuring corporate kill bot armies, ranging from a firearms and beverage manufacturer to a lovecraftian burger cult.
Why similar: Shooter 54%, Strategy 24.3%, Action 21.7%
- #12 Stickman Trenches
89% matchVery Positive82% of 1,990 reviews2023
Dev: Big Play Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Stickman Trenches is a Real Time Strategy game in which you need to manage your men and weapons and build up your defenses in the brutal trenches of Stick World War 1.
Why similar: Tower Defense 27%, Side Scroller 24.3%, Roguelite 14.7%, Strategy 11.4%, Action 9.1%
- #13 Octogeddon
89% matchVery Positive93% of 1,362 reviews2018
Dev: All Yes Good
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
You ARE Octogeddon, a massive mutant octopus with one mission: DESTROY the world! Grow more tentacles and evolve each of them into deadlier and deadlier weapons until you become the ultimate eight-legged killing machine!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 29.9%, Action Roguelike 18.5%, Tower Defense 15.6%, Roguelite 11.6%, Funny 9.1%
- #14 GROSS
88% matchMostly Positive79% of 316 reviews2023
Dev: hangry owl games
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 51%
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 30.3%, Base Building 15.2%, Dark Humor 13.8%, Shooter 12.1%, Funny 8.8%
- #15 Rats, Bats, and Bones
86% matchVery Positive90% of 99 reviews2019
Dev: Smallfry Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
The undead have awakened! You must build clever mazes of traps if you wish to defeat them in this challenging trap defense game. Travel across the land battling a host of creepy monsters, unlocking new traps and upgrades, and finally finding the source of the evil and stopping it once and for all.
Why similar: Tower Defense 73.2%, Strategy 26.8%
- #16 Towerful Defense: Prologue
85% matchVery Positive88% of 75 reviews2024
Dev: Mini Fun Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Shoot 'Em Up 27.6%, Tower Defense 26.4%, Action Roguelike 17.1%, Roguelite 13.2%, Strategy 5.7%
- #17 DOLLMAKER
84% matchVery Positive98% of 50 reviews2025
Dev: STH
Windows
DOLLMAKER is a first person shooter tower defense game where you, an anthropomorphic rat, traverse the town of Willoughby to harvest eggs for the purpose of creating the perfect doll
Why similar: Tower Defense 35.1%, Dark Humor 17.3%, Shooter 17.1%, Roguelite 15.5%, Strategy 7.8%
- #18 No Creeps Were Harmed TD
84% matchVery Positive89% of 501 reviews2024
Dev: MinMax Games Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Employ lethal turrets, traps, and gadgets to defend against an onslaught of evolving creeps! Step into a twisted, hyper 3D, mind bending realm. Upgrade and adapt your defenses. Become a master maze crafter. Collect bizarre artifacts. Rush creeps for lucrative rewards, and succumb to greed!
Why similar: Tower Defense 76.6%, Strategy 14.7%, Action 8.7%
- #19 Contract Rush DX
82% matchVery Positive100% of 282 reviews2025
Dev: FigburnPub: 2 Left Thumbs
Windows
Every character plays like an entirely different action game in Contract Rush DX. Explore a world inspired by 2000's flash animation, collect powerful upgrades throughout levels, and unleash them to defeat difficult boss battles!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 33.7%, Difficult 22.9%, Hand-drawn 16.7%, Shooter 10.5%, Funny 7.3%
- #20 Tower Escape
83% matchVery Positive84% of 415 reviews2023
Dev: Final Screw
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Tower Escape is a reverse tower defense game, where instead of defending against incoming enemies, you play the baddies and guide your minions to the exit. Recruit a team of minions, and collect powerful gems and relics that make each run unique.
Why similar: Tower Defense 38.1%, Perma Death 27.9%, Roguelite 20.5%, Strategy 7%, 2D 6.5%
- #21 2112TD: Tower Defense Survival
82% matchVery Positive87% of 448 reviews2023
Dev: Refinery Games
Windows
Get ready for the ULTIMATE tower defense onslaught. Build, deploy, research and upgrade your defenses in this epic, old school RTS inspired sci-fi adventure.
Why similar: Tower Defense 49.3%, PvE 13.4%, 1990's 10.9%, Strategy 10.4%, Action 8.2%
- #22 Crustacean Nations
81% matchVery Positive93% of 529 reviews2022
Dev: Team Beans
Windows
🦀Crustacean Nations🦀 is a real-time strategy game about total crab warfare. Build a sprawling sand castle and amass huge armies to dominate the beach and become the one true crustacean nation!
Why similar: Base Building 52.7%, Funny 28.2%, Strategy 19.1%
- #23 Sir, We Have an Orc Problem
78% matchVery Positive87% of 4,406 reviews2026
Dev: Mumpitz Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Sir, We Have an Orc Problem is an incremental-style tower defense game where you face an overwhelming number of orcs. Greet them with even more bullets, bombs and lasers!
Why similar: Tower Defense 42.4%, Base Building 19.4%, Roguelite 15.6%, PvE 10.8%, Strategy 6.2%
- #24 Dog Duty
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 126 reviews2020
Dev: Zanardi and LizaPub: SOEDESCO
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
As some evil bigwig Octopus Commander and his army are threatening world-peace, it’s up to you and your squad of misfits to eliminate that octo-scum. Liberate outposts, defeat bosses and wreck these wicked squids up, but beware, they’re well-armed.
Why similar: Funny 50.3%, Strategy 27.3%, Action 22.4%
- #25 Chip ‘n Clawz vs. The Brainioids
79% matchVery Positive88% of 145 reviews2025
Dev: Snapshot Games Inc.Pub: Arc Games
Windows
Build bases, lead an army of robots, and squash brains in this radical hybrid between RTS and third-person shooter. Join a duo of quirky heroes on a mission to save Earth, smash an evil alien corporation, and complete their comic book collection.
Why similar: Base Building 61.8%, Strategy 21.6%, Action 16.6%
- #26 Northend Tower Defense
79% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,461 reviews2024
Dev: Northend Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Jump into a realtime strategy, action filled battlefield, deploy relentless soldiers, unlock powerful troops and vehicles, upgrade your army, decimate the enemy. If that's not enough, jump into a chaotic Zombie mode, with traps, fun upgrades, and a new gameplay!
Why similar: Tower Defense 55.2%, Base Building 26%, Strategy 11.4%, Action 7.5%
- #27 Mechs V Kaijus - Tower Defense
77% matchVery Positive84% of 543 reviews2022
Dev: Doble Punch Games
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 41.4%, Base Building 18.1%, Difficult 10.4%, Roguelite 9.4%, Strategy 8.3%
- #28 Bad Rats Show
78% matchMostly Positive79% of 964 reviews2016
Dev: Invent4 EntertainmentPub: Strategy First
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 93.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Bad Rats Show is a physics puzzle game where the rats exact their bloody revenge against their main enemies: the Cats. Solve puzzles in 2D and 3D maps using physics, objects and specially trained Rats. All new Rats and Cats, but with the same classic and questionable Bad Rats humor.
Why similar: Difficult 79.1%, Action 20.9%
- #29 BATTLE PIXELS
80% matchMixed56% of 68 reviews2016
Dev: AppyArt Games
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 99%
Battle Pixels is a frantic arcade action, point and click shoot 'em up with a 16 bit retro style.Take control of your tanks and eliminate the enemy's turret defences over 25 randomly generated levels.
Why similar: Funny 30.2%, Strategy 29.9%, Action 25%, 2D 14.9%
- #30 Bug Heroes: Tower Defense
76% matchVery Positive93% of 54 reviews2024
Dev: Foursaken Media
Windows · Mac
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 57.5%, Strategy 18.9%, Action 18.3%, PvE 5.3%
- #31 Bees vs Zombees
75% matchVery Positive89% of 107 reviews2024
Dev: DeadPixelPub: DeadPIxel
Windows
A fast-paced roguelike tower defense where you choose your Queen Bee with unique skills and the Artisan to build turrets and cast powerful spells to defend your hive through regions infested with zombees. Face bosses with insane mechanics and survive the Zumbeecalypse!
Why similar: Tower Defense 32.6%, Shoot 'Em Up 25%, Roguelite 16.2%, Funny 10.4%, PvE 8.7%
- #32 Badlands Crew - Drive, Command, Conquer
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,241 reviews2025
Dev: Runner DuckPub: Curve Games
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Create, customize and command your battle wagon to conquer crazed enemy factions and save innocent survivors scattered throughout the lawless Badlands in the aftermath of a devastating apocalypse. Do you have what it takes to Build, Evolve and Fight to survive?
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 45.6%, Roguelite 18.7%, PvE 14.8%, Strategy 11.7%, Action 9.1%
- #33 Towerful Defense: A Rogue TD
75% matchMostly Positive74% of 241 reviews2024
Dev: Mini Fun Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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: Shoot 'Em Up 28.2%, Tower Defense 27.9%, Action Roguelike 18.4%, Roguelite 13.6%, Strategy 5.4%
- #34 Devader
76% matchVery Positive95% of 55 reviews2019
Dev: Falkenbrew
Windows · Mac · Linux
Devader is an intense 90's-style twin-stick shooter, complete with crazy old-school bosses, powerful strategic abilities and multiple endings. Upgrade your robot with nukes, shields, turrets and more to exterminate the relentless invaders.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 23.1%, Tower Defense 20.7%, Difficult 17%, Action Roguelike 14.6%, Shooter 10.7%
- #35 City Siege: Faction Island
77% matchMixed67% of 256 reviews2017
Dev: Ish GamesPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The ultimate 2D Physics War Game - War just got fun, build your army with tanks, guns, spies, flame tanks and helicopters. Then embark on battles of mass destruction and tactical rescues. Bring peace to faction island by destroying all your enemies!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 40.9%, Side Scroller 21.4%, Shooter 20%, Action 8.2%, 2D 6.5%
- #36 Space Raiders in Space
74% matchVery Positive94% of 154 reviews2020
Dev: Apollo Interactive S.L.Pub: Destructive Creations
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Space Raiders in Space is a wave defense roguelike mixing squad management and tower defence mechanics. Command your almost competent crew to loot weapons and supplies, build defenses, and fight their way through the Bugpocalypse.
Why similar: Tower Defense 27.5%, Shoot 'Em Up 21.4%, Action Roguelike 14.6%, Roguelite 13%, Funny 11.4%
- #37 Galaxy Defense War
71% matchVery Positive97% of 145 reviews2025
Dev: Zero Space
Windows
'Galaxy Defense War' is a roguelike tower defense game where you need to select suitable galactic principles from randomly dropped heroes and equipment to form a combat-ready team to resist alien invaders.
Why similar: Tower Defense 32.4%, Roguelite 18.3%, Base Building 17.1%, Cartoon 16.9%, Strategy 9.6%
- #38 Sushi Cat - Tower Defense
72% matchVery Positive85% of 53 reviews2026
Dev: OverPowered TeamPub: Armor Games Studios
Windows
Battle back waves of rogue sushi in this cute-but-chaotic roguelite tower defense! Build, upgrade, and reshape the battlefield each run.
Why similar: Tower Defense 43.6%, Base Building 24.1%, Roguelite 22.5%, Strategy 9.7%
- #39 9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far
71% matchVery Positive81% of 1,038 reviews2024
Dev: Petroglyph
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Unleash voxel warfare in 9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far. Lead a modern military, build bases, unlock units, and attack in all-out war. Engage on land, sea and air in over two dozen missions, online skirmishes, or co-op. Easy to learn, a challenge to master.
Why similar: Base Building 46.7%, Funny 25.8%, Strategy 15.1%, Action 12.5%
- #40 OTTTD
74% matchMostly Positive75% of 360 reviews2014
Dev: SMG Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Take command of HEROCORP™ and launch a Preemptive Defence Campaign™ against parallel dimensions in OTTTD, the most outrageous Tower Defence title around.
Why similar: Tower Defense 58.2%, Funny 20.8%, Strategy 12.1%, Action 9%
- #41 Turtle Riders
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 128 reviews2025
Dev: Solenya
Windows
Ride giant turtles and aim your weapons at hordes of enemies chasing you while you gather as many resources as you can. Pick your upgrades carefully and create strong builds to survive the long road to the Outpost!
Why similar: Tower Defense 54.8%, Roguelite 16.4%, Action 11.2%, Strategy 9.6%, 2D 8%
- #42 MoeArmy vs SuArmy
69% matchVery Positive85% of 68 reviews2026
Dev: KumiLGames
Windows
MoeArmy vs SuArmy is a 2D auto-battle strategy game. Choose the Moe or Su faction, build structures to deploy formations, combine cards, gear, and commander skills to power up your troops, exploit armor counters in automatic combat, and destroy the enemy base to claim victory!
Why similar: Tower Defense 35.8%, Cartoon 20.1%, Base Building 18.9%, Roguelite 13.5%, Strategy 7.3%
- #43 Tower Wars
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 1,755 reviews2012
Dev: SuperVillain Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Tower Wars combines elements of tower defense, RTS, and all-out multi-player mayhem to bring you a completely unique experience, delivered with a fun and funny not-so-old world style!
Why similar: Tower Defense 85.5%, Strategy 11.4%, Action 3.1%
- #44 Radiant Defense
73% matchVery Positive83% of 149 reviews2014
Dev: Hexage
Windows
MILLIONS OF ALIENS WILL DIE!Radiant Defense is a tower defense game set in a vibrant universe invaded by countless alien hordes.Build your space fortress any way you wish, set up wide variety of weapons and traps and let the invasions begin!
Why similar: Tower Defense 34.5%, Difficult 22.7%, Cartoon 14.6%, Hand-drawn 9.3%, Strategy 8%
- #45 Gunbot Diplomacy: Blast Off
69% matchVery Positive88% of 144 reviews2025
Dev: Sleepy SentryPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Splatter slimes, massacre mutants, and assemble your perfect Gunbot! Survive the wasteland in this top-down shooter roguelite by customizing your weapons on the unique upgrade grid, and pick from tons of build-defining modules and wacky bots for a new experience every run. Prologue teaser build.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 44.7%, Roguelite 31.5%, Action 14.4%, 2D 9.4%
- #46 Grumpy Gaffer
69% matchVery Positive94% of 123 reviews2024
Dev: RC Games Studio
Windows
Join Mr. Gaffer on his mission to protect the peace of his home in this dynamic strategy game. Test your wits and reflexes as you face intense waves of enemies, and compete in thrilling mini-games against other players.
Why similar: Tower Defense 43.1%, Dark Humor 17.2%, Funny 13.7%, Strategy 10%, PvE 9.5%
- #47 Kritter: Defend Together
68% matchVery Positive84% of 153 reviews2026
Dev: LJF Games
Windows · Linux
Explore, loot, and rush back to defend your ship against alien hordes. Solo or 4-player coop, grow stronger run after run in this frantic action roguelite with a touch of tower defense.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 24%, Tower Defense 23.5%, Base Building 14.6%, Action Roguelike 13%, Roguelite 12.2%
- #48 Endless Horde
72% matchMixed66% of 200 reviews2017
Dev: Ominous Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 80%
The horde is here to eat your brain and murder every single one of your scientists. Gather your forces, this is the last stand before we lose the facility! Place guards, close doors, and position traps. Survive as long as you can!
Why similar: Tower Defense 55.2%, Dark Humor 18.8%, Funny 12.3%, Strategy 7%, Action 6.6%
- #49 Mostly Intense Monster Defense
70% matchVery Positive90% of 67 reviews2019
Dev: Patsui Games
Windows
Defend your dungeon against a bunch of impolite humans in this humorous tower/lane defense game. Summon monsters, change tactics on the fly & skip funny dialogue to defeat waves and waves of the most generic heroes mankind has ever seen!
Why similar: Tower Defense 43%, Dark Humor 18.6%, Funny 17.7%, Strategy 8.6%, 2D 6.8%
- #50 Necronator: Dead Wrong
70% matchMixed68% of 526 reviews2020
Dev: Toge ProductionsPub: Modern Wolf
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Necronator: Dead Wrong is a deck-building roguelike with an RTS twist. Build a powerful deck. Collect and deploy undead units and raise a unique army. Master each commander’s playstyle and conquer the world. Change the game with rule-bending relics. Unlock new decks and do it all again.
Why similar: Tower Defense 44.9%, Roguelite 22.2%, Funny 16.7%, Strategy 9%, Action 7.4%
- #51 Cavity Busters
68% matchVery Positive96% of 125 reviews2022
Dev: SpaceMyFriend
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Cavity Busters is a roguelite toothpunk bullet hell where you bite and chomp cavity infested enemies. Run on the walls, dodge through bullet filled rooms and stomp baddies. Collect power ups, contract powerful diseases, and carve your way through a bloated body kingdom.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 25%, Difficult 19.5%, Action Roguelike 14.6%, Roguelite 12.5%, Shooter 11.5%
- #52 Tangy TD
65% matchVery Positive90% of 1,546 reviews2026
Dev: Cakez
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 57%
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 44.5%, Difficult 18.8%, Funny 13.5%, Strategy 8.8%, Action 7.4%
- #53 Ooglians
70% matchMixed64% of 256 reviews2022
Dev: Simon BäckströmPub: Aurora Punks
Windows
Ooglians are coming! Nothing excites an ooglian more than smashing machinery. Protect your machinery with more machinery which attracts even more ooglians. How unfortunate.
Why similar: Tower Defense 29.7%, Base Building 19.5%, Hand-drawn 16%, Roguelite 12.7%, Funny 7.9%
- #54 The Gate Must Stand
66% matchMostly Positive78% of 257 reviews2026
Dev: Senmu StudioPub: Gamersky Games
Windows
Fend off brutal waves of demonic hordes in this epic fantasy tower defense survivors like! Hack and slash among the action or zoom to strategically control the battlefield. You are the city’s last line of defense, build your base, defend the gate!
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.1%, Difficult 20%, Action Roguelike 17.3%, Base Building 15.1%, Roguelite 13.1%
- #55 D.O.T. Defence
65% matchVery Positive85% of 223 reviews2026
Dev: Rattleaxe Games
Windows · Linux
Welcome to the frontlines! Build towers, muster armies, and conquer the map. Challenge yourself in the single-player campaign following the Chroma Wars, survive relentless waves in solo defense, or battle it out in local matches against friends and AI bots. Victory comes with the last HQ standing!
Why similar: Tower Defense 37.9%, Base Building 25.1%, PvE 13.7%, Strategy 8.3%, 2D 7.8%
- #56 Tempest Tower
66% matchVery Positive92% of 72 reviews2025
Dev: Half Past Yellow
Windows
Tempest Tower is an action packed tower defense platformer where you must brawl with incoming hordes of Creepers while herding the local critters to safety. Build, fight, upgrade, overcome.
Why similar: Tower Defense 50.6%, Base Building 32.4%, Strategy 10.1%, Action 6.8%
- #57 9 Lives to Defend
66% matchVery Positive86% of 80 reviews2025
Dev: Goldarait
Windows
Face a pest infestation and survive until Loki's parents return from their trip! Defend the house with your 9 lives. Choose upgrades, play with different versions of Loki, with unique weapons and abilities to fight this war ^.^
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 31.6%, Action Roguelike 20.5%, Hand-drawn 17.2%, Roguelite 16.4%, Funny 10%
- #58 Zombie Rollerz: The Last Ship
66% matchVery Positive82% of 205 reviews2025
Dev: Zing Games Inc.Pub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
Build turrets, lead your crew, and upgrade the ship while gathering loot in this exciting "Tower Defense-on-wheels zombie survival roguelite" game.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 27%, Tower Defense 24.9%, Action Roguelike 17.2%, Roguelite 13%, PvE 8.7%