Games Like X-Morph: Defense

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 58.1%, Co-op 13.3%, Strategy 6.8%, Sci-fi 5.5%, Aliens 5%

Why You'll Like It: It perfectly blends first-person shooter mechanics with tower defense strategy, requiring you to build mazes while actively fighting off waves.

Taur is an action-strategy sci-fi game. Control the Prime Cannon and unlock all of its powerful weapons and abilities. Build turrets, droids, aircraft and more as you fight to protect the homeworld of the Tauron droids against a relentless invasion. Will your Taur stand against the Imperion warmachine?

Why similar: Tower Defense 49%, Destruction 10.4%, Strategy 10.3%, Top-Down Shooter 7%, Sci-fi 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: You control a powerful defense weapon while managing a base against waves of enemies, mirroring the active combat focus of X-Morph.

The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.

Why similar: Tower Defense 62.7%, Isometric 23.9%, Strategy 10.8%, Singleplayer 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game is the closest match, combining base building, tower defense, and active top-down combat in a gorgeous sci-fi environment.

Command a team of 5 elite soldiers against an alien horde of 100,000. Surrounded on all sides, you must outmaneuver and outsmart the enemy.

Why similar: Tower Defense 44.7%, Strategy 15.8%, Aliens 11.7%, Top-Down 9.8%, Sci-fi 8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique blend of real-time strategy and action where you must manage your squad while dealing with overwhelming alien swarms.

Lead an armored squad through the perils of this reversed tower defense action-strategy game!

Why similar: Tower Defense 46.9%, Strategy 21.3%, Sci-fi 9.9%, Aliens 7.7%, Action 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: This 'reverse' tower defense game puts you in the role of the attacker, requiring tactical pathing and active unit management.

You’ve tossed, burned and sliced them by the thousands – now orcs must die more than ever before! Grab a friend and slay orcs in untold numbers in this sequel to the 2011 AIAS Strategy Game of the Year from Robot Entertainment.

Why similar: Tower Defense 63.3%, Co-op 16.5%, Strategy 7.9%, Shooter 5.2%, Action 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: A quintessential action-tower defense hybrid where you must use traps and personal combat skills to defend your rift.

Great strategy is timeless. Build, adapt, and defend across dynamic maps, solo or online - every session brings new strategies, new solutions, and new surprises. Now is the perfect time to enter the grid.

Why similar: Tower Defense 33.3%, Aliens 17.2%, Local Co-Op 15.6%, Co-op 10.4%, Sci-fi 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: While more traditional, it is the gold standard for tactical tower placement and maze construction in a sci-fi setting.

Create a hero from one of four classes to save Etheria in this 4-player coop Tower Defense Action-RPG. Includes Steam exclusive Portal gun & TF2 familiars!

Why similar: Tower Defense 82.5%, Strategy 13.4%, Singleplayer 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: This title integrates action-RPG elements with tower defense, allowing you to actively participate in the defense of your base.

Let Them Come is a fast paced pixel art shoot ‘em up. Twitchy trigger fingers and focused battle tactics are the order of the day as wave after wave of alien-like creatures try to take you down.

Why similar: Tower Defense 44.4%, Aliens 21.9%, Shooter 10.6%, Sci-fi 7.1%, Strategy 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A focused action-tower defense hybrid where you hold a defensive position against relentless waves of alien threats.

Top-down zombie shooter with tower defense elements featuring up to 4 players local and online co-op. Build your base by day, defend it by night, put your skills to the test to stay alive as long as possible! Darkness is coming. How long can YOU survive?

Why similar: Tower Defense 27.9%, Twin Stick Shooter 16.2%, Top-Down Shooter 14.9%, Isometric 10.1%, Co-op 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A simple but effective mix of top-down shooting and base fortification against endless waves of enemies.

The ultimate mash-up of Real-time Strategy and Tower Defense!

Why similar: Tower Defense 60.8%, Strategy 10.4%, Aliens 7.1%, Sci-fi 6.9%, Difficult 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: A deep tower defense game with a sci-fi aesthetic that focuses on resource management and strategic base expansion.

Command your TOY SOLDIERS in epic, action-packed battles.

Why similar: Tower Defense 71%, Strategy 20.1%, Action 8%, Singleplayer 0.9%

Why You'll Like It: A classic hybrid that lets you place defensive turrets and manually take control of them to engage enemies directly.

Anomaly 2 is a sequel to the critically acclaimed Anomaly Warzone Earth. Maintaining the core elements of the original, Anomaly 2 adds plenty of new features: unit morphing, over million tactical combinations, post-apo world and tower defense vs tower offense multiplayer mode.

Why similar: Tower Defense 54.7%, Strategy 22.2%, Sci-fi 8.7%, Action 7.6%, Indie 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: The sequel to the reverse-TD classic, offering more complex tactical choices and unit transformations.

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 37.9%, Aliens 16.2%, Isometric 14.2%, Sci-fi 10%, Strategy 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A high-quality sci-fi tower defense game that features active abilities and tactical unit placement.

Super Sanctum TD is a retro-styled Tower Defense game that focuses on strategy, customization and replayability. Build advanced mazes and construct powerful towers to prevent alien hordes from reaching the Core!

Why similar: Tower Defense 39.7%, Aliens 12.9%, Isometric 12.2%, Futuristic 8.2%, Difficult 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A more traditional tower defense experience that retains the sci-fi aesthetic and strategic depth of the Sanctum series.

Pilot a mech to hunt down and destroy the oppressive government of a cyberpunk autocracy. In this fast-paced, top-down shooter, use overwhelming firepower to destroy columns of tanks and level buildings. Unlock up to 56 unique vehicles and 40 weapons.

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 22.1%, Destruction 18.3%, Top-Down Shooter 14.3%, Isometric 11.8%, Difficult 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: While not a tower defense game, its focus on heavy destruction and top-down tactical combat captures the feel of X-Morph's action sequences.

An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.

Why similar: Tower Defense 63.2%, Strategy 13.1%, Co-op 12.7%, Sci-fi 5.8%, Action 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines resource management and tower defense with a heavy emphasis on building complex supply chains and defensive networks.

Co-operative top-down shooter game available for free. An epic bug hunt featuring a unique blend of co-op play and squad-level tactics.

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 26%, Aliens 19.1%, Top-Down Shooter 17.2%, Co-op 12.6%, Sci-fi 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down tactical shooter that emphasizes team-based defense and strategic positioning against alien hordes.

Defend the solar system from fearsome aliens by sending satellites into orbit in revolutionary tower defense action!

Why similar: Tower Defense 69.6%, Strategy 10.1%, Aliens 8.3%, Sci-fi 6.4%, Action 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: A unique tower defense game where you can rotate the orbital paths of your towers to optimize your defensive coverage.

HELLDIVERS™ is a hardcore, cooperative, twin stick shooter. As part of the elite unit called the HELLDIVERS, players must work together to protect SUPER EARTH and defeat the enemies of mankind in an intense intergalactic war.

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 23%, Local Co-Op 17%, Top-Down Shooter 16.8%, Co-op 15.6%, Sci-fi 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down shooter that focuses on intense sci-fi combat and the strategic use of stratagems to defend objectives.

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 76.7%, Strategy 10.8%, Co-op 8%, Indie 2.5%, Action 1.6%

Why You'll Like It: A competitive multiplayer tower defense game that focuses on outsmarting your opponent with clever pathing and unit choices.

Evil Defenders is a fun, frenetic defense game: build and upgrade your towers, сast spells to repel enemy forces, use special landmarks and defend the Lands of Evil from invaders! Feel free to play the game in many different ways through unique tower upgrades, a deep skill tree and 100 in-game achievements.

Why similar: Tower Defense 81.1%, Strategy 14.8%, Indie 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: A fun, stylized tower defense game with a wide variety of towers and strategic upgrades.

Defend against thousands of enemies in this explosive tower defense game. Deploy upgradable towers and unleash powerful orbital abilities as you try to protect Earth's first colony world from destruction.

Why similar: Tower Defense 42.9%, Isometric 18.6%, Aliens 16.4%, Sci-fi 9.2%, Strategy 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi tower defense game that emphasizes large-scale battles and tactical unit management.

Warstone is a Tower Defense game, with RPG, Strategy, and even city building elements. Detailed Hi-res graphics and beautiful illustrations combine with a deep storyline to draw you into the world.

Why similar: Tower Defense 69.2%, Strategy 14.8%, Co-op 11.8%, Indie 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines tower defense with RPG elements, allowing for deep customization of your defensive strategy.

Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.

Why similar: Tower Defense 69.5%, Co-op 17%, Strategy 10.9%, Singleplayer 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling strategy game where you must build and defend your kingdom, emphasizing resource management and tactical expansion.

Epic sci-fi tower defense action with 16-bit era look and feel, pitching your colonists against an almost endless horde of hostile alien robots who strongly oppose your attempts of colonizing their planet! Deluxe version includes the soundtrack!

Why similar: Tower Defense 58.5%, Strategy 22.9%, Action 11.1%, Indie 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A straightforward but challenging tower defense game that captures the classic sci-fi aesthetic.

Thousands of aliens, giant spiders, mutant lizards, and more are on the attack - can you survive the onslaught? Crimsonland is a top-down shooter with a touch of RPG. Unlock over 30 weapons and over 50 perks from quirky to brutal. Complete the quest and show your skills in five survival modes.

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 22.8%, Local Co-Op 18.5%, Top-Down Shooter 17.4%, Shooter 10.9%, Top-Down 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses purely on the top-down shooter aspect, providing the same intense, screen-filling combat found in X-Morph.

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: Tower Defense 54.7%, Isometric 13.1%, Aliens 12.8%, Strategy 11%, Sci-fi 6.8%

Rush for Glory is featuring challenging and rewarding Tower Defense battles, in which players are defending their base against an alien invasion. By strategically building towers and upgrading them, the player can keep his base safely and further progress through the extensive singleplayer campaign.

Why similar: Tower Defense 74.6%, Strategy 18.4%, Action 7%

Why You'll Like It: A solid tower defense game that focuses on turret placement and managing waves of diverse enemies.

Ancient Planet is classic tower defense game. The stronghold of an ancient civilization has been invaded by hordes of alien raiders. Use powerful technologies of the Ancient and repel the attack of the enemy's armies!

Why similar: Tower Defense 72.5%, Strategy 10%, Isometric 9.6%, Difficult 4.8%, Indie 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: A charming and tactical tower defense game that offers a variety of unique towers and enemy types.

Defense Grid: The Awakening is a unique spin on tower defense gameplay that will appeal to players of all skill levels. A horde of enemies is invading, and it's up to the player to stop them by strategically building fortification towers around their base.

Why similar: Tower Defense 71.5%, Strategy 8.7%, Sci-fi 7.2%, Aliens 6.5%, Futuristic 2.9%

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 67.5%, Strategy 17.2%, Action 6.7%, Indie 4.4%, Sci-fi 4.3%

Versus Squad is a fast action twin-stick shooter from the creator of Nation Red. Build your own sandbox defense and battle thousands of zombie mutants in top down combat! Face up to a dozen bosses. Simultaneously. Collect loot, build and repair. Play single player, on-line or local coop!

Why similar: Tower Defense 31.3%, Twin Stick Shooter 20.1%, Top-Down Shooter 15.1%, Co-op 11.4%, Top-Down 5.7%

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 47.2%, Aliens 17.4%, Sci-fi 11.1%, Futuristic 9.6%, Strategy 9.5%

HELLFRONT is an intense top-down shooter. Conquer ground, build a base, and command your troops in battle! Play PvP or beat the campaign co-op or solo.

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 17.5%, Top-Down Shooter 16.2%, Aliens 14.3%, Local Co-Op 12.7%, Co-op 9.4%

Protolife is an unique tower-based strategy game which gives you a direct control over the builder robot in a struggle against the hungry proto-life organism.

Why similar: Tower Defense 49.4%, Aliens 16.6%, Sci-fi 11.4%, Strategy 10.6%, Top-Down 7.1%

Control your Hero to aid your Turrets and Traps in battle in this grim, dark Tower Defense & Action RPG with a scifi-grindhouse aesthetic. Create deadly weapon barrages and fuse together Bleed, Burn, Shock, Freeze, Stun and many more elements to annihilate your enemies.

Why similar: Tower Defense 47.1%, Futuristic 12.1%, Strategy 11.9%, Top-Down Shooter 8.6%, Sci-fi 8.3%

Take on wild beasts, ruthless soldiers, and ancient gods in this 2D Action-Platformer inspired by Tower-Defense combat.

Why similar: Tower Defense 49.9%, Local Co-Op 19.5%, Co-op 11.2%, Strategy 9.8%, Action 5.3%

Black blood is a mix of hardcore Tower Defense strategy and top-down shooter. Act as a defender against alien invaders, attack and destroy all their insidious plans...

Why similar: Tower Defense 35.5%, Aliens 19.9%, Shooter 9.3%, Difficult 9.2%, Top-Down 8.9%

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 62.3%, Co-op 11.6%, Strategy 8%, Sci-fi 5.4%, Shooter 4.2%

M.A.C.E. Tower Defense is a classic tower defense game with unique towers and enemies and an ingame shop system for getting better towers, upgrade existing towers and buy special items.

Why similar: Tower Defense 53%, Strategy 21.3%, Action 10%, Sci-fi 8.8%, Indie 7%

Team up or face it alone in this top down zombie slaying defense adventure! Featuring up to 4 player online co-op, cleanse the infected wave by wave and upgrade your base with traps & defenses to build the Ultimate Zombie Defense. Can YOU stop them?

Why similar: Tower Defense 40.1%, Top-Down Shooter 17.2%, Co-op 12.6%, Action 7.5%, Strategy 6.9%

Axon TD lets you expand the map boundaries themselves. A huge arsenal of towers and a wide variety of enemies clash in a battlefield that grows to your whims. Engage in single, cooperative, and roguelite gameplay.

Why similar: Tower Defense 58.2%, Co-op 13.1%, Sci-fi 12.7%, Strategy 11.9%, Indie 2.4%

Stranded on an alien planet, you must defend your Powercore! Use your weapons to fight hordes of alien enemies and strategically use traps in this new FPS tower-defense survival game!

Why similar: Tower Defense 34.8%, Co-op 17.2%, Aliens 15.7%, Strategy 10.9%, Sci-fi 7.5%

Deathtrap is a Tower Defense game with strong action-RPG elements, a game of vicious tricks, killing machines, rotating blades and splattering blood.

Why similar: Tower Defense 52.7%, Isometric 15.2%, Co-op 14.3%, Strategy 8.9%, Action 4.5%

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 34.4%, Top-Down Shooter 19.1%, Isometric 11%, Shooter 9.1%, Top-Down 7.7%

Defense Task Force Featuring Large Scale Procedurally Generated Tower Defense Battles with FPS Quality Visuals and Infinite Waves. 10 tower types, with different attacks , 3 levels plus boosts. 25 Enemy alien species: Regulars, Swarmers, Racers, Cloakers, Healers, Boss Units and Spawners.

Why similar: Tower Defense 65.7%, Strategy 16.8%, Sci-fi 11.9%, Indie 5.6%

Welcome to the world of CastleStorm, a super genre mashup of 2D physics destruction mashed with tower defense brawler! CastleStorm was born out of the fond childhood memory of building and destroying LEGO castles.

Why similar: Tower Defense 38.3%, Destruction 27.1%, Local Co-Op 10.1%, Co-op 8.1%, Strategy 7.9%

Colony Siege combines the best of RTS and tower defense, including base building, mazing, and unit physics. Defend Earth's remaining colonies using an arsenal of deadly weapons to torch, slice, throw, and impale swarms of alien invaders.

Why similar: Tower Defense 47.5%, Strategy 28.5%, Co-op 12.8%, Sci-fi 9.9%, Indie 1.2%

Battle massive hordes of alien monsters to secure humanity's presence on planet Gore. Upgrade your base, hire troops, and install turrets to fight back the ever growing waves of aliens.

Why similar: Tower Defense 28.2%, Twin Stick Shooter 20.6%, Top-Down Shooter 17.2%, Aliens 9.3%, Shooter 8.1%

Become a dungeon lord to defend your dungeons with the deadliest of traps and insidious contraptions against greedy adventurers and wannabe heroes.

Why similar: Tower Defense 67.7%, Strategy 24.7%, Indie 7.5%

PolyCore Defense is a tower defense game where you have to raise your defenses in order to defend your core. Build unique turrets, upgrade them with special effects and use abilities to survive waves of enemies that are trying to destroy your core!

Why similar: Tower Defense 54.7%, Difficult 16.7%, Strategy 11.6%, Top-Down 9.8%, Action 4.7%

Artificial Defense is a one man made, real time strategy game combining orbital shooter and tower defense components within an electrifying, virtual reality setting. You are the machine, a mighty computer-system defending its servers against swarms of intruding creeps.

Why similar: Tower Defense 46.4%, Strategy 29.7%, Action 13.2%, Indie 10.6%

Dungeon Warfare is a challenging tower defense strategy game where you become a dungeon lord to defend your dungeons with deadliest of traps and insidious contraptions against greedy adventurers and wanna-be heroes.

Why similar: Tower Defense 52.9%, Villain Protagonist 18.4% ★, Strategy 11.5%, Top-Down 11.1%, Indie 3.9%

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 72.7%, Strategy 15.8%, Indie 5.7%, Action 5.7%

A.I. Invasion is an action-loaded top-down-shooter in a futuristic setting. The superior machines subjugated the universe. In a wide range of missions you take the role of a soldier and equip and command a team of special units to reclaim the planet system.

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 33.3%, Top-Down Shooter 30.6%, Strategy 12.3%, Action 9%, Shooter 8.3%

Element TD 2 sees you combine powerful elements to create unique towers. Prove your defenses against challenging foes, and compete or cooperate with others to determine who has mastered the elements.

Why similar: Tower Defense 68.5%, Co-op 14.4%, Strategy 13.3%, Indie 2.2%, Singleplayer 1.7%

CREEPS CRUMBLE. HEROES RISE. Command a team of renegade heroes and impale, slash, tear and burn through legions of undead hell-bent on world domination. Your mission: to defeat the world’s most powerful vampire, Count Necrosis.

Why similar: Tower Defense 73%, Strategy 9.5%, Co-op 5.7%, Difficult 4%, Action 3.8%

Tesla vs Lovecraft is an intense top-down twin stick arena shooter from the creators of Crimsonland and Neon Chrome. Play as the enigmatic inventor Nikola Tesla harnessing the static energy to power up Tesla-Mech and give the lovecraftian nightmares a lesson in horror!

Why similar: Destruction 18.6%, Top-Down Shooter 18%, Twin Stick Shooter 15.7%, Local Co-Op 15%, Futuristic 7%