- #1 Kingdom's Deck
97% matchMostly Positive75% of 469 reviews2025
Dev: Ivan AcoPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Build by day, defend by night! Kingdom's Deck is a card-based city builder where you build and protect your Kingdom from the enemy siege. Build your deck, deploy your cards wisely, defend your walls, manage your resources, and respond to various events that will shape your Kingdom!
Why similar: City Builder 20.3%, Wargame 18.1%, Base Building 13.1%, Card Game 12.7%, Survival 7.9%
- #2 Ratropolis
96% matchVery Positive88% of 5,498 reviews2020
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 15.2 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: Card Game 18.9%, Roguelite 17.3%, Deckbuilding 15.9%, City Builder 13.5%, Survival 10.5%
- #3 Border Pioneer
96% matchVery Positive87% of 1,822 reviews2025
Dev: Yahzj GamesPub: Yogscast Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
As the kingdom's most promising pioneer, embark on a legendary journey to tame the frontier! Build thriving towns across various landscapes, fending off waves of diverse enemies until you establish a firm foothold and have explored everything the eye can see!
Why similar: City Builder 20.2%, Wargame 15.8%, RTS 12.9%, Base Building 12.9%, Medieval 10.6%
- #4 There Are No Orcs
95% matchVery Positive94% of 1,076 reviews2025
Dev: BaseTrade StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
An RTS-Roguelike hybrid with auto-battling troops. Master building placement, swarm your enemies, and smash their defenses with unit-commander combos!
Why similar: City Builder 18.9%, Wargame 18.4%, RTS 15.7%, Card Game 11.8%, Base Building 10.7%
- #5 Nordhold
94% matchVery Positive87% of 3,149 reviews2025
Dev: StunForgePub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Enemies are coming! Every decision matters: build your city, grow the economy, and prepare for enemy waves. Strengthen your defenses, adapt your strategy, and unleash your hero’s full potential. This unique Tower Defense will test your skills – are you worthy to claim a place at Valhalla?
Why similar: City Builder 24.4%, Roguelite 16.3%, Base Building 16.1%, RTS 11.8%, Roguelike 10.4%
- #6 Super Fantasy Kingdom
94% matchVery Positive87% of 5,669 reviews2025
Dev: Super Fantasy GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Rebuild your kingdom and explore a vibrant fantasy world in this roguelite city builder. Defeat hordes of monsters with a unique team of defenders as you harvest, build, mine, cook, brew, and grow. But if your defenses should fail, be prepared to watch it all burn!
Why similar: Card Game 20.8%, Medieval 19.3%, Roguelite 18.7%, Deckbuilding 15.8%, Roguelike 13.5%
- #7 Becastled
93% matchVery Positive82% of 5,534 reviews2025
Dev: Mana Potion Studios
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build a castle by day and defend it by night. Becastled blends cozy city-building with challenging tower defense strategy. Lead the Sun Kingdom’s last stand against the Moon Beasts and end the ancient conflict between light and darkness!
Why similar: City Builder 25%, Base Building 22.1%, RTS 15.2%, Building 12.6%, Medieval 12.5%
- #8 Last Stand: Defense
92% matchVery Positive84% of 130 reviews2025
Dev: ZiiTech Games
Windows · Mac
"Last Stand:Defense" is a tower defense-themed Rogue-like game. Players need to defend against waves of enemies by building bases, matching talents, and performing delicate operations during battles. Remember, every choice you make will affect the final outcome of the battle!
Why similar: Wargame 19.1%, City Builder 18.1%, RTS 17.1%, Building 13.5%, Roguelite 11.6%
- #9 Thronefall
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 22,974 reviews2024
Dev: GrizzlyGamesPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A minimalist game about building and defending your little kingdom.
Why similar: Action RTS 27% ★, City Builder 26.5%, Medieval 13.7%, Base Building 10.6%, Building 9.6%
- #10 Sunbreak War
91% matchVery Positive83% of 143 reviews2026
Dev: Candlelight Studio
Windows
A light Rogue strategy game centered on building and defense. Build your territory, recruit soldiers to fend off enemies. 9 maps, 6 weapons (30 talents), 40 monsters, 30 units/buildings. Plan your pace, control soldiers, choose abilities—enjoy command and strategy.
Why similar: Wargame 21.4%, City Builder 19.8%, Roguelite 11.9%, Base Building 10.3%, Medieval 9.9%
- #11 Tower Dominion
90% matchVery Positive86% of 5,010 reviews2025
Dev: Parallel 45 Games
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 21.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Build and design the terrain while defending your stronghold against alien invasion in this unique Roguelike tower defense. Choose from 30 heroes, survive enemy waves, and upgrade a variety of destructive towers to hold the line!
Why similar: RTS 23.3%, Base Building 21.9%, Roguelite 16.5%, Building 15.9%, Roguelike 13.2%
- #12 The King is Watching
88% matchVery Positive89% of 9,652 reviews2025
Dev: HypnoheadPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 9.4 hrsMean: 17.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
The King is Watching is a roguelite kingdom builder. Rule by the power of your royal gaze! Decide between producing resources, training armies, or balancing both, while adapting to unique events every run
Why similar: City Builder 20.3%, RTS 17.4%, Base Building 15.3%, Medieval 11.2%, Roguelite 11.2%
- #13 Aurora Defense
89% matchMixed63% of 97 reviews2025
Dev: Moka Games
Windows
A unique roguelike deckbuilder + base-building tower defense game. Build powerful defenses in the last bastion of light, fend off relentless waves of darkness, and protect the final goddess!
Why similar: City Builder 19.8%, RTS 14.7%, Base Building 14.1%, Card Game 12.9%, Roguelite 11.3%
- #14 Monsters are Coming!
87% matchVery Positive80% of 2,489 reviews2025
Dev: LudogramPub: Raw Fury
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Beware, Monsters are Coming! In this Tower-Survivor rogue-lite, you protect an ever-moving city from unrelenting hordes. Gather resources, fortify defences, and survive for as long as you can. Will you reach the Ark?
Why similar: City Builder 21.7%, Action Roguelike 15.9%, Base Building 14.9%, Building 13.7%, Roguelite 13.2%
- #15 Rogue Command
86% matchVery Positive91% of 771 reviews2026
Dev: feneq
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 64%
True RTS gameplay reinforced with roguelite build crafting. Control units with bullet-time precision. Call down bases and raise armies. Drafted from a different arsenal every run. Weave builds that break the game. Or the game breaks you.
Why similar: Action RTS 25.4% ★, RTS 13%, Action Roguelike 10.8%, Base Building 10.5%, Building 9.5%
- #16 ValeGuard
89% matchMixed68% of 174 reviews2018
Dev: Lost Tower Games
Windows
ValeGuard is an RTS, Town-Management hybrid game that combines Turn-Based City-Building with Real-Time Combat. Each day you construct your defenses, train troops, and prepare for attack. When enemies come in the night, you defend with towers, troops, and heroes with powerful abilities.
Why similar: City Builder 22.3%, Base Building 15.6%, RTS 14.9%, Medieval 12.4%, Building 11.4%
- #17 MIGLORN
86% matchMostly Positive74% of 54 reviews2024
Dev: WuzzyWizard
Windows
Gather resources and strategically build up your Viking settlement by day, fortifying it to withstand the relentless onslaught of skeletons by night
Why similar: Action RTS 32.1% ★, City Builder 20%, Building 12.7%, Base Building 10.4%, RTS 10.1%
- #18 City Defense Z
84% matchMostly Positive77% of 312 reviews2025
Dev: Good Mood Games
Windows · Linux
City Defense Z combines base-building and base defense in a roguelite progression loop. Build by day, defend by night, and face a growing zombie threat. Every defeat unlocks permanent upgrades, helping you rebuild smarter and push further each time. See how many days you can last.
Why similar: Base Building 22.2%, Roguelite 19.6%, Deckbuilding 16.5%, Survival 15.8%, Roguelike 15.4%
- #19 Stronghold: Warlords
85% matchMixed65% of 5,254 reviews2021
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Besiege Great Khans, Imperial warlords and Shōgun commanders in Stronghold: Warlords, the latest 'castle sim' from Firefly Studios. Command AI warlords across the battlefield as you build a castle economy and new gunpowder-fuelled siege engines!
Why similar: City Builder 28.7%, RTS 16.1%, Building 15.4%, Base Building 14.3%, Medieval 14%
- #20 Cataclismo
82% matchVery Positive89% of 4,143 reviews2025
Dev: Digital SunPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.
Why similar: City Builder 26.8%, RTS 20.6%, Base Building 18.5%, Building 16.2%, Survival 12.7%
- #21 Wool at the Gates
82% matchVery Positive91% of 68 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: Action RTS 32.6% ★, City Builder 22.2%, Medieval 12.1%, Building 10.6%, Base Building 10.1%
- #22 Here Comes The Swarm
81% matchVery Positive88% of 258 reviews2026
Dev: CableHook Games
Windows
Here Comes the Swarm is a survival RTS with a pause button! Create your strategy, build, manage, and defend your settlements at your own pace. Take the fight to the hive mind and lead expeditions to deliver a deadly blow and eradicate your foes. Will you reclaim Ulora from the relentless Swarm?
Why similar: Action RTS 26.4% ★, City Builder 14.8%, RTS 13.9%, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 8.9%
- #23 Medieval Kingdom Wars
84% matchMostly Positive76% of 2,606 reviews2019
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Rewrite medieval history through bloody siege combat in a fusion of RTS and Grand Strategy genres. Rule, build, and serve your King as a minor lord in medieval Europe. Experience siege, field and naval combat with an unseen degree of brutality. Rogue-like progression, epic towns and battles await…
Why similar: Action RTS 22.9% ★, Wargame 16.6%, City Builder 16.3%, RTS 13.2%, Base Building 10.9%
- #24 希望之城 The City Of Hope
83% matchMixed67% of 130 reviews2024
Dev: 家里蹲工作室
Windows
A light city-building game that combines elements of card games and tower defense, where players must survive daily enemy attacks and gradually grow their strength to ultimately defeat powerful invaders.
Why similar: City Builder 21.1%, Wargame 18.5%, Card Game 14.7%, Survival 11.9%, Medieval 11.7%
- #25 Darfall
81% matchMostly Positive74% of 481 reviews2025
Dev: SquareNitePub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Darfall is a hero-based RPG city-building game that puts you in the role of a hero who must protect their home and help it grow! During the day, grow your hero’s might, find epic loot, master new abilities, and fortify your settlement. At night, survive the hordes of undead, until you triumph.
Why similar: Action RTS 22.3% ★, City Builder 20.1%, RTS 15.4%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 10.8%
- #26 EverSiege: Untold Ages
78% matchMixed69% of 1,792 reviews2026
Dev: Tindalos InteractivePub: Dear Villagers
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Retreating ends here. Defend Bastion against evil hordes, reclaim lost powers, rebuild ancient ruins, and adapt your tactics to reverse the siege. Shape your playstyle in this hero-strategy rogue-lite solo or co-op up to 3 players.
Why similar: Action RTS 40.9% ★, RTS 17.3%, Roguelite 15.1%, Survival 11%, Top-Down 6%
- #27 Final War: Frozen Defense
80% matchMixed46% of 105 reviews2025
Dev: HaoPlay Limited
Windows
Strategy Tower Defense, RTS Battles on the World Map
Why similar: Wargame 22.1%, City Builder 17%, RTS 16.7%, Medieval 12.1%, Roguelite 10.6%
- #28 Siege Survival: Gloria Victis
79% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,735 reviews2021
Dev: Black Eye GamesPub: Ravenscourt
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
A medieval city under siege and a handful of civilians are all that keep the walls from falling. Mixing survival strategy and resource management, build your camp, craft supplies, and scavenge the occupied city to supply the last troops holding back the invaders.
Why similar: City Builder 35.6%, Base Building 20.3%, Medieval 18.9%, Survival 15.5%, Strategy 6.1%
- #29 Little Kingdom RTS
78% matchVery Positive87% of 68 reviews2025
Dev: MyDreamForeverPub: Andgo Games
Windows
Little Kingdom RTS is an indie real-time strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Gather resources, build settlements, raise walls, and grow your small kingdom. Command an army of knights, archers, and mages to fight off rival kingdoms, orcs, and undead.
Why similar: Action RTS 29.1% ★, RTS 18.5%, Base Building 16.1%, Medieval 13.2%, Building 8.8%
- #30 Fantasy Village Simulator
79% matchMixed65% of 54 reviews2024
Dev: CYCLOPS
Windows · Mac
Experience building your own village with different races in a fantasy world! Produce more villagers for various production tasks and train more guards to resist waves of demonic attacks. Plan the production of supplies to create more powerful equipment for the guards to wear.
Why similar: Base Building 18.4%, Roguelite 15.3%, Deckbuilding 13.4%, Building 10.7%, Roguelike 9.6%
- #31 Mineral Defense
77% matchVery Positive90% of 241 reviews2024
Dev: Corestone Games
Windows · Linux
Mineral Defense combines tower defense with roguelite elements and procedural generation. Build paths, unlock upgrades, and unleash powerful synergies to conquer evolving challenges in an ever-expanding world.
Why similar: Card Game 18.6%, Base Building 16.8%, Roguelite 16.5%, Deckbuilding 12.3%, Roguelike 11.2%
- #32 Rise to Ruins
76% matchVery Positive88% of 7,745 reviews2019
Dev: Raymond DoerrPub: SixtyGig Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.
Why similar: City Builder 46.3%, Base Building 20.8%, Survival 16.7%, Strategy 7.3%, Roguelike 4.7%
- #33 These Doomed Isles
76% matchMostly Positive72% of 223 reviews2024
Dev: Triplevision Games LimitedPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Harvest cards to raise land from the sea, build settlements and rain fire upon invaders in this survival city-builder with roguelike deckbuilding mechanics. Choose from 4 gods with unique cards, playstyles and abilities to lead their civilisations to victory in strategic run-based gameplay!
Why similar: City Builder 27.3%, Base Building 14.8%, Card Game 14.6%, Deckbuilding 11.8%, Survival 9.8%
- #34 Rogue Tower
75% matchVery Positive83% of 5,872 reviews2022
Dev: Die of Death Games
Windows
Median: 10.7 hrsMean: 20.3 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: Roguelike 23.2%, Base Building 19.8%, Roguelite 16.5%, Building 12.3%, Strategy 11.9%
- #35 Transport Legion
74% matchVery Positive86% of 92 reviews2025
Dev: 喜人一个
Windows · Linux
A unique roguelike card-based tower defense game. Strategically place cards, manage resource transport, balance production with combat, and craft distinctive decks to claim victory.
Why similar: Card Game 31.8%, Roguelite 22.3%, Medieval 16.1%, Building 15.5%, Strategy 14.3%
- #36 Hexguardian
74% matchMostly Positive79% of 692 reviews2024
Dev: Split Second GamesPub: Yogscast Games
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Hexguardian is a roguelite, tower defense game where you build your own maps with hexagonal tiles! Build and upgrade towers, recruit armies, learn spells, construct wonders and place hexagonal tiles to create a path to enhance your defenses. With plenty of game modes and talents to unlock!
Why similar: RTS 21.3%, City Builder 19.8%, Roguelite 16.9%, Roguelike 12%, Medieval 6.3%
- #37 Wireworks
72% matchVery Positive89% of 393 reviews2026
Dev: JJJ
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Design your defenses, build your module board, and manage your wires. Combine signals and create synergies to empower your weapons and survive in this base-defense roguelike auto-battler.
Why similar: Deckbuilding 25.5%, Roguelite 24.8%, Roguelike 18.9%, Strategy 11.2%, Survival 8.3%
- #38 Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition
77% matchMixed66% of 451 reviews2019
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 48%
An intense real-time strategy game set in a dark fantasy world of Orcs, Elves and Dragons. Kingdom Wars 2 combines the best of Zombie survival and crafting with complex fast-paced city building. Fight massive siege battles that turn beautiful landscapes into gory blood-soaked battlefields.
Why similar: Action RTS 21.6% ★, Moddable 16.2% ★, City Builder 13.5%, RTS 11.2%, Base Building 9.2%
- #39 Castle Cardians
75% matchMostly Positive75% of 133 reviews2021
Dev: 风宇冲
Windows
Castle Cardians fused card games,roguelike and real time colony defense together. Build your powerful deck, defend the castle and beat invaders.
Why similar: Card Game 30.6%, Deckbuilding 24.2%, Roguelike 16.2%, Medieval 15.2%, Strategy 9.4%
- #40 Royal Lord - 王权领主
71% matchVery Positive94% of 53 reviews2026
Dev: 开发鸭
Windows
In "Kingdom Monarch", you are a monarch and can build the kingdom of your dreams! You need to build city walls, assign jobs to villagers, recruit soldiers, repel hordes of monsters at night, and expand your village during the day.
Why similar: City Builder 21.9%, Base Building 15.9%, RTS 14.4%, Building 12.6%, Medieval 12.5%
- #41 Open The Gates!
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 77 reviews2022
Dev: Robin van der Horst
Windows
Build, manage and defend your medieval castle in this crazy sidescroller RTS game. Build walls, towers and traps to protect your fortress from enemy sieges before launching your own. Command powerful siege weapons and design the perfect strategy to take back the empire.
Why similar: City Builder 24.3%, RTS 21.9%, Base Building 18.3%, Building 15.1%, Medieval 9.1%
- #42 Defend the Rook
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 243 reviews2021
Dev: One Up PlusPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 54%
A roguelike tactics board combat combined with tower defense elements. Defeat the invading hordes to stay alive and save the land! Enjoy more tactics than a normal TD game, combined with the added challenge of building towers and fighting off waves of enemies!
Why similar: City Builder 30.4%, Base Building 18.8%, Roguelite 17.3%, Medieval 16%, Roguelike 12%
- #43 As We Descend
69% matchVery Positive87% of 1,226 reviews2025
Dev: Box DragonPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
The apocalyptic roguelike deckbuilder with squad sculpting and deep tactics. Recruit the right units and outmaneuver titanic foes on dangerous expeditions. Build up allies and resources in the feudal Vault-City. Can you survive all the perils that await the last bastion of humanity?
Why similar: Card Game 26.3%, Roguelite 20.5%, Deckbuilding 19.4%, Roguelike 15.7%, Medieval 8.6%
- #44 Warlords Battle Simulator
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 68 reviews2024
Dev: RedKar Devs
Windows
Test your mettle as a commander in a Tactical Roguelike Auto Battler where positioning and unit combinations are key! Write your own story in Roguelike mode, try out over 100 unique challenges or create interesting battles with the Sandbox tool!
Why similar: Wargame 33.9%, Action Roguelike 21.5%, Medieval 16.8%, Roguelike 12.8%, Strategy 4.3%
- #45 Gods Of Defense
73% matchMostly Positive70% of 50 reviews2023
Dev: Blue Math
Windows
Tower Defense Rogue-like. Defend a temple on a procedural map with variety of towers. Craft your strategy through Boon and Curse cards. With every run earn faith to upgrade the weapons. Many progression paths keep you engaged and entertained without getting stuck.
Why similar: Action RTS 35.7% ★, Roguelike 23.8%, Base Building 12.3%, Strategy 9.5%, Building 9.4%
- #46 Operation: Polygon Storm
71% matchMostly Positive70% of 288 reviews2024
Dev: Toxic Studio
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 50%
A fastpaced, military tug-of-war game with minimal micromanagement. Choose and deploy from a mix of specialized military units to overwhelm the enemy. Experiment with a huge variety of unit compositions, synergies, abilities, and upgrades to lead your army to victory!
Why similar: Action RTS 35.4% ★, Wargame 24.9%, RTS 15.2%, Roguelite 12%, Base Building 5.3%
- #47 Diplomacy is Not an Option
68% matchVery Positive85% of 11,951 reviews2024
Dev: Door 407
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Diplomacy is Not an Option is a strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Build your town and defenses, raise huge armies and fight against massive hordes of enemies. How long can you survive?
Why similar: Action RTS 29.1% ★, Base Building 21%, Medieval 20.2%, RTS 14.6%, Survival 8.9%
- #48 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: Action RTS 24.9% ★, City Builder 22.1%, RTS 16.3%, Base Building 13.4%, Roguelike 8%
- #49 First Feudal
72% matchMostly Positive76% of 634 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.
Why similar: City Builder 24.6%, Base Building 19.1%, Building 16.9%, Medieval 15.7%, Survival 9%
- #50 FrostBound
68% matchVery Positive81% of 1,189 reviews2025
Dev: Lyra StudioPub: Shelly Technology
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
FrostBound is a roguelike deck-building tower defense set in an endless winter. Build your base, master 500+ cards, and withstand relentless waves to end the eternal frost.
Why similar: Card Game 28.1%, Deckbuilding 23%, Roguelike 15.7%, Medieval 13.8%, Roguelite 12.5%
- #51 Vedelem: The Golden Horde
70% matchVery Positive89% of 790 reviews2021
Dev: Castle RoachesPub: Breda University of Applied Sciences
Windows
Védelem: The Golden Horde is a medieval Real Time Strategy and Survival game set in the 13th century. Build, expand and defend your lands against the deadliest Mongolian invasion ever witnessed. They will seek to destroy your walls and salt your earth. Will you survive the Golden Horde?
Why similar: Wargame 20.8%, City Builder 18.4%, RTS 15.5%, Base Building 13.8%, Survival 9.1%
- #52 Northend Tower Defense
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,417 reviews2024
Dev: Northend Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 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: Action RTS 59.2% ★, Base Building 20.6%, Strategy 7.9%, Stylized 5.7%, Simulation 3.9%
- #53 Lumencraft
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,273 reviews2023
Dev: 2Dynamic GamesPub: Star Drifters
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Lumencraft is a unique combination of a top-down, rogue-like shooter and base building with tower defense elements. Dig and light up dark halls of a fully destructible environment on procedurally generated maps and campaign levels to find precious Lumen - humanity's only chance for survival.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 34.7%, Base Building 33.5%, Survival 22.4%, Strategy 9.5%
- #54 Tower Factory
67% matchVery Positive89% of 1,199 reviews2024
Dev: Gius Caminiti
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Tower Factory is a tower defense and automation game with roguelite elements. Optimize resource production using conveyor systems while defending against monster waves. Can you find and destroy the enemy tower before it's too late?
Why similar: Action RTS 23.1% ★, City Builder 15.9%, RTS 15.1%, Base Building 13.5%, Roguelite 10.3%
- #55 Break Siege
67% matchVery Positive86% of 91 reviews2025
Dev: FojoGamesPub: Edigger
Windows · Linux
Break Siege is a train-themed deck-building rougelike game in which you constantly construct your own deck and breakthrough forces of the Imperial in intense, real-time battles.
Why similar: Card Game 31%, Roguelite 27.6%, Roguelike 16.6%, Deckbuilding 16.2%, Strategy 8.6%
- #56 Age of Darkness: Final Stand
66% matchMostly Positive75% of 10,488 reviews2025
Dev: PlaySide
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 13.8 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: Action RTS 30.2% ★, RTS 14.9%, Base Building 12.8%, Building 10.6%, Medieval 10.5%
- #57 Castle Warriors
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 105 reviews2023
Dev: Cluck Games, LLC
Windows
Castle Warriors is a rogue like auto battler with a strategy twist. Build your army one card at a time!
Why similar: Action Roguelike 20.7%, Roguelite 17.4%, Deckbuilding 14.4%, Roguelike 12.8%, Card Game 12.6%
- #58 The Last Spell
65% matchVery Positive91% of 13,289 reviews2023
Dev: Ishtar GamesPub: Nacon
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 24.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.
Why similar: Base Building 31.1%, Roguelite 30.3%, Roguelike 18.2%, Strategy 12.5%, Fantasy 7.9%
- #59 Reignfall
68% matchVery Positive89% of 424 reviews2018
Dev: Checkmaty
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 39%
Reignfall is a real-time strategy game with elements of city-building and third-person action. Build a city and defend your keep against waves of increasingly difficult enemies. Can you survive against the fallen horde?
Why similar: City Builder 59.3%, RTS 29.3%, Strategy 11.4%
- #60 Siegebreaker
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 97 reviews2024
Dev: Immortal ForgePub: indie.io
Windows
Conquer the realm in this strategic tower defense game. Build unique towers, unlock powerful upgrades, and master new tactics to overpower your enemies and vanquish the fallen gods.
Why similar: Roguelite 22.5%, Building 20.2%, Deckbuilding 19.6%, Medieval 14.3%, Top-Down 10.2%