The Best Tower-defense Games

Update : Nordhold added at rank #1.
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Nordhold (2025)

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Mac OS Linux PC Windows

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?

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  • rogue-like
  • tower-defense
  • procedural
  • city-building
  • management
  • economy
  • strategy
  • top-down
  • medieval
  • resource-management
  • tower
  • pay-to-win
  • session

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Doomsday Tower Defense (2025)

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Mac OS PC Windows

Challenging tower defense game with 20 levels. Can be completed under 2-3 hours. Kill zombies in a doomsday vibe. Discover your own strategy to beat the horde. No fluff, no story, no BS.


  • top-down
  • tower-defense
  • capitalism
  • shoot-em-up
  • shooter
  • building
  • zombies
  • cartoony
  • logic
  • real-time
  • dark
  • colourful
  • management
  • tactical
  • simulation

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Tower Defense (2025)

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Android PC Windows

Protect the castle towers from dark forces. Use a battle mage and bonuses. Upgrade weapons and bonuses.


  • tower-defense
  • spectacle
  • shoot-em-up
  • bullet-hell
  • hand-drawn
  • hack-and-slash

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I Am The Registered Environmental Engineer (2024)

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Mac OS PC Windows

This world is plagued by pollution, and as an engineer, you need to plan waste routes, gather, sort, and transport it to safe areas. Use powerful equipment to finally clean it up and restore cleanliness to the world.

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  • tower-defense
  • building
  • turn-based
  • rogue-like
  • strategy
  • cartoony
  • drama
  • top-down
  • base-building
  • nature
  • rpg
  • 2d

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Idle Tower Defense (2024)

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Android PC Windows

Idle Tower Defense is a game where you control a single tower to fight off hordes of enemies. No randomization. Choose from a variety of modules to create unique builds and upgrade modules and survive endless waves.


  • idler
  • clicker
  • tower-defense
  • bullet-hell
  • minimalist
  • colourful
  • relaxing
  • psychedelic
  • casual

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Castle Doombad Classic (2024)

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Android Mac OS PC Windows

BE THE VILLAIN and slay any hero who dares enter your dark domain! Deck out your castle with traps and minions as the ultimate diabolical dungeon keeper in this strategy / TD puzzler. Includes the original Castle Doombad game, rebuilt and remastered, plus brand new content.


  • tower-defense
  • cartoony
  • gothic
  • strategy
  • medieval
  • colourful
  • 2d
  • fantasy
  • vampire
  • casual
  • funny
  • cute

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Defensurvivor (2024)

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PC Windows

DEFENSURVIVOR is a strategy game where you build obstacles and place and move units to block zombies. There are various units with unique characteristics and powerful high-level units that can be obtained through combination. Use randomly given units to survive until the end!

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  • tower-defense
  • base-building
  • strategy
  • rogue-like
  • simulation
  • zombies
  • cute
  • casual
  • 2d
  • pve
  • top-down
  • cartoony

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Diplomacy is Not an Option (2024)

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PC Windows

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?


  • real-time
  • strategy
  • medieval
  • tower-defense
  • base-building
  • city-building
  • management
  • survival
  • procedural
  • sandbox
  • zombies
  • building
  • minimalist
  • pause

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Utopia Must Fall (2024)

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early access Mac OS PC Windows

Defend humanity's last surviving metropolis from mysterious alien machinations in this challenging base-defense arcade shooter. Featuring rapid upgrade progression, procedurally generated attack waves, dark humor and laser-sharp aesthetics.

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  • dark
  • arcade
  • rogue-like
  • shoot-em-up
  • base-building
  • humor
  • tower-defense
  • bullet-hell
  • procedural
  • perma-death
  • comedy
  • abstract
  • sci-fi
  • minimalist
  • shooter

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Operation: Polygon Storm (2024)

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

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!


  • auto-battler
  • strategy
  • tower-defense
  • real-time
  • resource-management
  • physics
  • military
  • war
  • wargame
  • destruction
  • artillery
  • base-building
  • tactical
  • gore
  • resource

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