The Best Tower-defense Games for Playstation 5

Update, : Slaycation Paradise added at rank #6.
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Orcs Must Die! 3 (2020)

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stadia PC Windows Playstation 4 Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 5

Orcs Must Die! 3 is a thrilling tower defense game that puts you in the shoes of a hero fighting back hordes of orcs using an impressive collection of traps and weapons. The game offers fast and frantic gameplay, well-designed levels and a deep campaign mode with multiple waves, and a range of game modes providing players with a variety of challenges. With tons of replayability options, including a randomized set of tools mode and multiplayer co-op, this game is a gem that will keep you entertained for hours!


Pros:
  • Impressive gameplay
  • Well-designed levels
  • Lots of replayability options
  • Great co-op mode
  • Multiplayer mode
Cons:
  • Some traps and weapons are useless
  • Audio can become repetitive
  • No matchmaking feature

  • tower-defense
  • cooperative
  • wave
  • defence
  • tower

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The Riftbreaker (2021)

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Xbox Series X PC Windows Xbox One Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Android

The Riftbreaker is a base building, survival game with action RPG elements that borrows from a lot of other games. Play as Ashley S. Nowak and enter the hostile planet Galatea 37 in your powerful Mecha-suit to build a base and defend yourself against thousands of creatures trying to eliminate you. The Riftbreaker offers high-quality graphics, great sound and music, flexible custom difficulty settings, varied biomes, and hours of gameplay that provides endless replayability.


Pros:
  • Good storyline and rewarding gaming experience
  • Customizable gameplay options
  • Hours of gameplay with almost endless replayability
  • Exciting and balanced base building, resource gathering, and combat
  • High-quality graphics, great sound and music
Cons:
  • Fairly demanding on PC
  • Lacks gameplay depth in research and weaponry
  • Cumbersome weapon and armor upgrades

  • survival
  • base-building
  • tower-defense
  • resource-management
  • mech
  • real-time
  • strategy
  • rpg
  • bullet-hell
  • aliens
  • top-down
  • action
  • resource
  • shooter
  • arpg

3

Monster Hunter Rise (2021)

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86
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Nintendo Switch Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Xbox Series X Xbox One PC Windows

Monster Hunter Rise combines the best elements of past entries and the more recent Monster Hunter World, offering a fresh and exciting experience that will keep you coming back for more. With an engaging story, challenging combat, and a plethora of features, Rise has something for everyone.


Pros:
  • Open hunting grounds with no loading zones between sections
  • Rich story with fully voiced cutscenes
  • Switch Skill system to customize your playstyle
  • Tons of weapon balancing and updates
  • New Rampage Quests for intense battles against multiple monsters at once
Cons:
  • Separate quest lines for solo/multiplayer play
  • Visuals are not quite as detailed as those in World

  • rpg
  • battle
  • online
  • fight
  • combat
  • crafting
  • cooperative
  • japanese
  • tower-defense
  • farming
  • action
  • skill
  • multiplayer
  • local
  • customization

4

Warpips (2021)

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80
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PC Windows Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Nintendo Switch

Warpips is a physics-based combat game that will keep you entertained for hours. You get to assemble your army from a variety of infantry, vehicles and airplanes, and lead them to the battlefield without the stress of micromanagement. With each round lasting between 10-20 minutes, this game is easy to learn and hard to master. You can try out various randomly generated battles with multiple replay options, unlockable upgrade tree, and multiple strategic combinations that provide a unique gaming experience.


Pros:
  • Awesome graphics and soundtrack
  • Challenging gameplay that is easy to learn
  • Multiple units and upgrades available
  • Runs smoothly on Linux
  • Good value for its price
Cons:
  • Repetitive gameplay
  • No multiplayer or ability to play as other side's units
  • Units are consumable and get boring quickly
  • Lack of innovation and unit diversity

  • auto
  • strategy
  • battler
  • resource-management
  • tower-defense
  • real-time
  • 2.5d
  • war
  • base-building
  • wargame
  • tactical
  • pixel
  • combat
  • tanks
  • artillery

5

Elemental War 2 (2022)

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Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Playstation 4 stadia Linux Mac OS PC Windows Nintendo Switch

Elemental War 2 offers you the popular tower defense feeling combined with innovative game mechanics - the ultimate mix for many hours of fun!


  • tower-defense
  • steampunk
  • replay-value
  • strategy
  • top-down
  • medieval
  • procedural
  • real-time
  • 3d
  • magic
  • cooperative
  • fantasy
  • single-player

6

Slaycation Paradise (2022)

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stadia Xbox One Xbox Series X PC Windows Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch Playstation 5

Are you tired of the same boring old vacations? Then boy have we got the tonic for you! Slaycation Paradise offers the ultimate in multi-dimensional apocalyptic tours. Slay away your worries with Twin-Stick action mixed with Tower Defence as you visit the end-of-world scenarios of your dreams!


  • twin-stick
  • shooter
  • tower-defense
  • zombies
  • rogue-like
  • alternate
  • humor
  • base-building
  • top-down
  • dark

7

Garda (2021)

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Xbox 360 Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Playstation 3 PC Windows

Garda is a 2d pixel art tower defense and exploration game. Protect your totem that is keeping your world out of the darkness. Wander across an immense desert. Learn about the weird laws of this world by using technology and energy systems to power defense turret against the numerous enemies…


  • tower-defense
  • 2d
  • action-adventure
  • automation
  • management
  • building
  • fight
  • base-building
  • adventure
  • fantasy
  • action

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Elemental War (2019)

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Android Playstation 5 Playstation 4 PC Windows Xbox One Linux Mac OS

Elemental War takes Tower Defenses to a new level with exciting multiplayer matches, dozens of hours of single-player gameplay, and lots of indie love!


  • rogue-like
  • editor
  • tower-defense
  • level
  • magic
  • steampunk
  • strategy
  • real-time
  • 4x
  • pvp
  • attack
  • single-player
  • medieval
  • score
  • fantasy

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