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The best Tower Defense games

Ranked on the Metacritic score where one exists, and on the number of Steam reviews where it doesn't — because a game judged by a hundred thousand players is not less known than one judged by twenty critics. Titles with neither are left out.

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Bloons TD Battles 2 cover art

Bloons TD Battles 2202134,153 reviewsTower Defense · StrategyFrom the creators of Bloons TD6... Bloons TD Battles 2 is a brand new installment of the top-rated head-to-head tower defense game. Gather your Hero, choose your team of powerful Monkey Towers, and prepare to battle one on one against other players and relentless waves of Bloons!

Yet Another Zombie Defense cover art

Yet Another Zombie Defense201012,386 reviewsSurvival · Tower DefenseDarkness is coming. How long can YOU survive? Build your base by day, defend it by night. Play in online or local co-op. Stay alive as long as you can.

Bad North: Jotunn Edition cover art

Bad North: Jotunn Edition201812,230 reviewsWargame · Tower DefenseBad North is a charming but brutal real-time tactics roguelite. Defend your idyllic island kingdom against a horde of Viking invaders, as you lead the desperate exodus of your people. Command your loyal subjects to take full tactical advantage of the unique shape of each island.

Outpost: Infinity Siege cover art

Outpost: Infinity Siege202411,633 reviewsTower Defense · Base BuildingCommand Mobile Outpost and take XEN Firearm to venture deep into the Signet surveillance off-limit area. Collect unique Weapon Units. Amp up the firepower of the Outpost that fights with you. This is an FTD game - FPS, Tower Defense, Base Building and much more all at the same time.

Wall World cover art

Wall World202311,322 reviewsRoguelite · Tower DefenseExplore the mysterious Wall World on your giant robospider: mine for valuable resources, upgrade your equipment to fight off hordes of monsters, and discover exotic biomes in-between attacks. Will you be able to survive and learn the secrets of the Wall World?

Bloons TD 5 cover art

Bloons TD 5201410,757 reviewsTower Defense · StrategyFive-star tower defense with unrivaled depth and replayability. The Bloons are back in full HD glory and this time they mean business! Build awesome towers, choose your favorite upgrades, hire new Special Agents, and pop every last invading Bloon in the most popular tower defense series in history.

Stronghold: Crusader cover art

Stronghold: Crusader202510,496 reviewsStrategy · City BuilderGird your loins and sharpen your steel! Besiege 20 unique enemy lords and battle friends online, in this expanded remaster of the classic 'castle sim'. Relive history with new units, opponents, visuals, audio, campaigns, skirmish trails, co-op and larger maps.

Night of the Dead cover art

Night of the Dead202410,358 reviewsTower Defense · Open World'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!

Kingdom Rush Frontiers - Tower Defense cover art

Kingdom Rush Frontiers - Tower Defense20169,942 reviewsTower Defense · StrategyCommand your troops through an epic (mis)adventure as you defend exotic lands from dragons, man-eating plants, and ghastly denizens of the underworld -all with flashy new towers, levels, heroes, and more goodies to help you crush your foes in this Fantasy Action Tower Defense game!

Kingdom Rush Vengeance - Tower Defense cover art

Kingdom Rush Vengeance - Tower Defense20209,857 reviewsTower Defense · StrategyIt's payback time! Lead your mighty dark army and make the Kingdom tremble with every step. Build powerful towers, choose your arsenal for destruction, and find the deadliest combination - train legendary heroes and lead them to victory!

The Front cover art

The Front20259,563 reviewsSurvival · Base BuildingThe Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.

Age of Darkness: Final Stand cover art

Age of Darkness: Final Stand20259,463 reviewsTower Defense · StrategyAge 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.

Castle Story cover art

Castle Story20179,263 reviewsColony Sim · StrategyCastle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.

Starship Troopers: Terran Command cover art

Starship Troopers: Terran Command20229,202 reviewsStrategy · WargameLead the Mobile Infantry in this RTS game set in the Starship Troopers film universe. Balance your army composition with a diverse set of unit types, overcome line-of-sight and line-of-fire challenges through tactical positioning, and use special abilities to smash the Arachnid hordes!

Stronghold HD (2012) cover art

Stronghold HD (2012)20138,642 reviewsCity Builder · Colony SimThe original castle sim, Stronghold HD allows you to design, build and destroy historical castles. Engage in medieval warfare against the AI in one of two single player campaigns or online with up to 8 players.

Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense cover art

Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense20187,431 reviewsTower Defense · StrategyCommand your elven army and defend mystical lands from sea serpents, evil sorcerers, and wave after wave of gnoll tribesman, all with the help of brand-spankin’ new towers, heroes, and spells to fend off every last baddie.

Rise to Ruins cover art

Rise to Ruins20197,231 reviewsTower Defense · Colony SimA 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.

Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted cover art

Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted20256,792 reviewsTower Defense · CasualThe classic Plants vs. Zombies returns in glorious HD! The original battle between Plants and Zombies is back — bigger, brighter, and crazier than ever before! Experience the game that started it all, now remastered with stunning HD graphics and packed with new secrets and content to uncover.

Bloons Monkey City cover art

Bloons Monkey City20206,771 reviewsStrategy · ActionCreate, upgrade, and customize your very own Bloons Monkey City in this groundbreaking blend of city building and tower defense awesomeness!

Bloons Adventure Time TD cover art

Bloons Adventure Time TD20194,778 reviewsStrategy · ActionDefend Ooo from the Bloon invasion in this epic tower defense crossover.

Creeper World 4 cover art

Creeper World 420204,541 reviewsTower Defense · WargameThe unstoppable fluid enemy has returned and destroyed every world in its path! Defend against Creeper as it floods across the 3D terrain in this real time strategy game where the enemy is a fluid.

The Perfect Tower II cover art

The Perfect Tower II20254,426 reviewsTower Defense · StrategyThe Perfect Tower II is a mix between an incremental and a tower defense game. Build a town, manage resources and explore a variety of mini-games and tons of upgrades. Fully automate your game and watch numbers going up!

Warpips cover art

Warpips20224,314 reviewsStrategy · Tower DefenseWarpips is the ultimate quick to learn but amazingly deep tug-of-war strategy game. Deploy the right composition of soldiers, tanks, helicopters and planes in this tight, streamlined strategy-focused war game. Compose the best army, research the right tech; overwhelm your enemy!

Until We Die cover art

Until We Die20214,219 reviewsSurvival · StrategyUntil We Die is a side-scrolling strategy game about defending your base where you have to run around as Ivan, assign tasks to people, and fight mutants in the post-apocalyptic subway!

Infinitode 2 - Infinite Tower Defense cover art

Infinitode 2 - Infinite Tower Defense20214,216 reviewsTower Defense · StrategyInfinitode 2 - a strategy in the Tower Defense genre, in which the player will have to build towers to protect his base from endless waves of enemies. The game features huge maps, lots of towers, resource miners, upgrade tree and map editor.

The Riftbreaker: Prologue cover art

The Riftbreaker: Prologue20204,127 reviewsBase Building · SurvivalThe Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.

Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal cover art

Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal20144,092 reviewsTower Defense · StrategyCreeper World 3 is what happens when cellular automata takes over a strategy simulation. Instead of discrete units that attack your base, a fluid-like substance spreads over the terraformable terrain. Your base, your weapons, your strategy... you must adapt them all.

Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap cover art

Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap20254,027 reviewsTower Defense · Third-Person ShooterOrcs Must Die! Deathtrap combines chaotic third-person combat with devious trap-laying strategy. Enjoy endless replayability as your War Mage grows stronger through roguelite progression. Repel relentless orc hordes solo or with up to 4 players.

Dig or Die cover art

Dig or Die20183,859 reviewsSurvival · SandboxCrash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.

Emberward cover art

Emberward20243,728 reviewsTower Defense · StrategyBuild twisting mazes with tetromino blocks and deploy unique towers in this strategic roguelite tower defense adventure!

GemCraft - Chasing Shadows cover art

GemCraft - Chasing Shadows20153,646 reviewsTower Defense · StrategyAn epic, challenging tower defense game with an emphasis on strategy and replayability. Summon gems of immense magical potency and harness their unique abilities against a seemingly endless horde of monsters. The archdemon seeks to swallow the world, and you must journey to stand against her.

Rock 'N' Roll Defense cover art

Rock 'N' Roll Defense20163,643 reviewsTower Defense · StrategyRocked by an explosive soundtrack, choose your band, place your equipments and defend the Rock 'N' Roll from everyone and everything who try to pull it down, on a totally hardcore tower defense!

Sir, We Have an Orc Problem cover art

Sir, We Have an Orc Problem20263,552 reviewsTower Defense · RogueliteSir, 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!

Progressbar95 cover art

Progressbar9520203,439 reviewsCasual · ArcadeProgressbar95 is a unique indie game with a strong nostalgic vibe. It turns vintage GUI elements like panels, buttons and icons into game elements! Simple and addictive gameplay based on dozens of mini-games and puzzles. The game will make you smile!

Rock of Ages cover art

Rock of Ages20113,348 reviewsStrategy · IndieA rock-solid combination of rock-rolling action, deep strategy, and captivating art and music from different ages of history, this is a game of crush or be crushed!

Dungeon Defenders: Awakened cover art

Dungeon Defenders: Awakened20203,262 reviewsTower Defense · StrategyDungeon Defenders: Awakened is co-op Tower Defense combined with epic Action RPG combat. You’re able to join forces with up to four players to take on a never-ending army of orcs, demons, and dragons! Are your defenses strong enough to save the world of Etheria?

X-Morph: Defense cover art

X-Morph: Defense20173,213 reviewsTower Defense · StrategyUnique fusion of a top-down shooter and tower defense strategy. You are the invader! Use destructive weapons or lead your enemies into a maze of towers. Strategize in the build mode by carefully selecting various types of alien towers or throw yourself right into the heat of the battle.

Heretic's Fork cover art

Heretic's Fork20233,094 reviewsDeckbuilding · Tower DefenseDear candidate, we are pleased to invite you to take up the position of manager of Hell. You will punish sinners by using our deck-building computer system to construct hellish towers capable of keeping the endless hordes of the underworld in check. Best of luck!

Cluckmech Oasis cover art

Cluckmech Oasis20243,058 reviewsStrategy · RoguelikeCluckmech 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.

Kingdom Eighties cover art

Kingdom Eighties20232,978 reviewsCity Builder · Colony SimKingdom Eighties is a short story-based standalone expansion set in the Kingdom universe. A rad adventure of micro-strategy and base building in vivid ‘80s neon. Defend your town against the mysterious Greed and discover the secrets of your family lineage!

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