Tower Defense (Tower Defense)
Years
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Statuses
Best Games in the Tower Defense (Tower Defense) genre for PC
Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Isometric, Indie, Tactics, Fantasy, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)
Early Access: PC → 7 October 2021; Game released: PC → 15 January 2025
Players:
7.2/10
Steam:
75/100
Metacritic:
74/100
A real-time strategy game set in a dark fantasy setting, where darkness becomes the main enemy of humanity. No one knows for sure what it is - the embodiment of...
Strategy, Simulation, Top-down view, Roguelike, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Construction, Crafting
Early Access: PC → 5 November 2024; Game released: PC → 17 September 2025
Steam:
88/100
The game takes place in a magic book, where the gamer creates heroes to fight monsters. You will have to develop a factory that produces fighters, as well as repel...
Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Adventure, In real time, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Fantasy, Medieval era, Indie, Roguelike, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)
Game released: PC → 11 June 2020
Players:
7.7/10
Steam:
87/100
Metacritic:
79/100
A hardcore roguelike in which a group of prisoners suddenly become explorers of a hostile world. After a prison ship crashes on the mysterious planet Auriga, the...
City Building, Sandbox, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Strategy, Medieval era, Comedy, Fantasy, Construction, Survival, Third-person view, Action
Early Access: PC → 28 April 2025; Game in development: PC → 2026
Steam:
82/100
A voxel sandbox where players build huge castles in a war-torn ancient world and defend them from hordes of enemies that threaten the entire kingdom. One of the...
Roguelike, Strategy, Business / Management, Top-down view, Casual game, Procedural generation, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)
Game released: PC → 25 March 2025
Steam:
85/100
The player controls the medieval Scandinavian village and protects it from the waves of opponents. 8 species of defense towers help to cope with all types of...
Survival, Shooter, Action, Top-down view, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Business / Management, Strategy, Zombies, Role-playing game, Construction
Game released: PC → 17 March 2025
Steam:
50/100
A top-down strategy game that combines survival, base defense, micromanagement, and agroecology. You must maintain a fragile order while waves of zombies become...
Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Tactics, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Casual game
Game released: PC → 18 October 2018
Players:
7.7/10
Steam:
94/100
Kingdom Rush Origins is a great continuation of the tower defense game with beautiful hand-drawn graphics, which tells the story of the war of one kingdom with...
Action, Shooter, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Tactics, Roguelike, Cooperative (co-op), Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Survival, Zombies
Game in development: PC → 2027
Steam:
100/100
Cooperative action with elements of survival, extraction, and dungeon exploration. The game combines dynamic shootouts with resource gathering and attempts to...
Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Arcade, Strategy, Fantasy / Medieval, Top-down view, Casual game, Indie
Game released: PC → 10 November 2014
Steam:
70/100
Royal Defense is a top-down arcade strategy game in a fantasy setting, made in the tower defense genre. In the game you have to defend yourself from the attacks of...
Action, Strategy, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Crafting, Survival, Online, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)
Game released: PC → 14 October 2021
Players:
9.1/10
Steam:
90/100
Metacritic:
83/100
The Riftbreaker is a sci-fi action game with real-time strategy elements. You will take on the role of Captain Ashley Novak — Riftbreaker, an elite commando...
Action, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Cooperative (co-op), Arcade, Indie, Survival, Strategy, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Zombies
Early Access: PC → 7 May 2025; Game in development: PC → 2026
Steam:
69/100
A cooperative action game where survival involves traveling on a giant tracked vehicle. The world is full of dangers: zombies attack a mobile home, and you have to...
Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Cooperative (co-op), Online, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)
Game released: PC → 18 October 2011
Players:
9.1/10
Steam:
92/100
Metacritic:
79/100
Dungeon Defenders is a dynamic cooperative action role-playing game with a third-person view and elements of the tower defense genre in a fantasy setting. You have...
Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Sandbox, City Building
Game released: PC → 25 March 2021
Players:
1/10
Steam:
72/100
Empires in Ruins is a fun top-down real-time strategy game with tower defense elements. Something happened in a small state full of corruption, pomaded dandies...
Action, Role-playing game, Roguelike, Tactics, Cooperative (co-op), Futurism (Future), Isometric, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Dungeons
Game released: PC → 19 October 2023
Players:
8.5/10
Steam:
63/100
Metacritic:
75/100
Endless Dungeon is a tactical action game with roguelike elements and an isometric camera view in a sci-fi setting, set in the brutal Endless universe. You have to...
Online, Strategy, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Free game, Top-down view, Tactics, In real time, Indie
Game released: PC → 30 November 2021
Steam:
83/100
Bloons TD Battles 2 is a continuation of the shareware arcade puzzle game with strategy elements in the tower defense genre. In the game, you will engage in a...
Role-playing game, Strategy, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Cooperative (co-op), Online, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)
Early Access: PC → 21 February 2020; Game released: PC → 28 May 2020
Players:
7.2/10
Steam:
68/100
Metacritic:
74/100
Dungeon Defenders: Awakened is a cooperative action role-playing game with a third-person view and tower defense elements in a fantasy setting. The game continues...
Fantasy, Role-playing game, Adventure, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Online, Online, Turn-based, Tactics
Game released: PC → 13 July 2023
Players:
6.9/10
Players explore the mystical continent of Thia and immerse themselves in a magical world. To save this land, gripped by madness, the gamer takes on the role of...
Role-playing game, Online, Action, Strategy, Hack and slash, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Free game, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Survival
Game released: PC → 20 June 2017
Players:
8.7/10
Steam:
73/100
Dungeon Defenders 2 is a third-person role-playing game with a mixture of online play, action, strategy, hack-and-slash and free-to-play game from the masters at...
Isometric, Strategy, In real time, Space, Science fiction, Procedural generation, Construction, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)
Game released: PC → 21 January 2025
Players:
7.6/10
Steam:
77/100
A sci-fi game set on the planet Idun. The gamer extracts resources and builds defensive towers to resist hordes of monsters. At the same time, you can move...
Strategy, Simulation, Business / Management, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Science fiction, City Building, Survival, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)
Game in development: PC → 2026
Anticipation Rating:
10/10
Real-time strategy with survival mechanics and tower defense. The action takes place in a sci-fi world, offering a new perspective on exploring the Wall — a key...
Top-down view, Strategy, In real time, Science fiction, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), City Building
Early Access: PC → 2 April 2024
Steam:
96/100
A sci-fi game set in an alien world. The player develops a colony, monitors the amount of resources and defends against waves of enemies. There are several factions...