Tower Defense Hidden Gems on Steam

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Citywars Tower Defense Citywars TD is a cute multiplayer third person Survival Tower Defense. Build towers, gather resources, craft tools, upgrade weapons, level up buildings, expand your city with your friends and work under pressure before the next incoming wave of monsters.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.6
Release 03 Mar 2022
Mechs V Kaijus - Tower Defense Mechs V Kaijus is an addictive hardcore tower defense gameplay. In Mechs V Kaijus you take on the role of Commander of a powerful Mechs squadron. Improve your Mech, strategically place towers and factories on the battlefield. Deploy support units on the battlefield, and save our civilization.

Price 10.79€
Rating 7.8
Release 17 Feb 2022
Quarantineer For the glory of Motherland, the truth shall never be revealed. None of us expected this, Yet history is repeating itself.

Price -71% 2.39€
Rating 7.4
Release 27 Dec 2021
Candy Disaster - Tower Defense Candy Disaster is 3D trap-style tower defense game where you guard candies against alien thieves! Unlock powerful and clever traps, choose your arsenal for different bases, and find the deadliest trap combination - then watch those space goons walk into their death!

Price 11.59€
Rating 7.5
Release 12 Nov 2021
Variables 2 After two years of precipitation, we re-made this variable sequel after thinking about it! Variable 2 is a unique stand-alone tower defense game. We have enriched the building and elements of tower defense, and the experience in the game can be changed according to your ideas!

Price -61% 4.88€
Rating 8.4
Release 01 Oct 2021
Attack on Toys Relive Your Childhood Toys comes to life! Build your Army Toys, make battle scenario, watch the Toys battling each other, and customize your play with Attack on Toys Toy Box. Command your Army Toys to fight againts another toys strategically and keep them alive during battle!

Price 5.69€
Rating 8.8
Release 24 Sep 2021
Idle Monster TD An endless Tower Defense game of epic Monsters vs evil War Machines. Unlock and upgrade tons of unique elemental Monsters (Water, Air, Earth, and Fire) to defend your home from an infinite swarm of robots. Strategize the most effective placement of Monsters to synergize their elemental abilities.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.9
Release 20 Jun 2021
Royal Revolt II Royal Revolt 2 is an asynchronous PvP Reverse Tower Defense game full of medieval magic and action-laden battles.Can you set up your defenses so other Kings and Queens can't crash your castle gates? We're throwing down the gauntlet. Will you pick it up?

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 19 May 2021
Love n War: Hero by Chance Hero by Chance is a tactical RPG with exciting battles and hot girls. Upgrade your army with many cool unlockables, engage in striking love stories and WIN THIS WAR!

Price -80% 0.59€
Rating 7.5
Release 08 Jan 2021
AOD: Art Of Defense AOD is a new gameplay in the traditional tower defence genre. You must protect your base from waves of approaching enemies. Build and improve your towers and units and destroy your enemies in any way you can. Don't be weak, destroy them all, show who's in charge!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.4
Release 01 Dec 2020
Core Defense A roguelike tower defense game with a dash of deckbuilding. Choose a reward, improve your build, survive the next wave, repeat. Highly replayable, difficult, and addictive. You'll want just one more wave, just one more run!

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.5
Release 30 Jul 2020
Cyber Agent Welcome to the world of Cyber Agent! This is an easy to play, hotly fought 3D tower defense game, please use your mouse to aim at the enemy, auto shoot and make sure not to get hurt by the enemy! And pretty ladies to fight with you!

Price 1.99€
Rating 6.9
Release 08 Jun 2020
MechDefender - Tower Defense MechDefender is an innovative fusion of two gaming genres - seamlessly blending the intense action of a top-down shooter with the strategic depth of tower defense.

Price -74% 0.26€
Rating 7.2
Release 03 Mar 2020
Risen Kingdom Risen Kingdom is a real-time strategy game. Build and fortify your settlements to survive and push back armies of the undead.

Price 2.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 28 Feb 2020
Time Warpers Time Warpers is the evolution of the popular incremental game Time Clickers. With features like gun customization, optional permadeath & co-op with friends, it combines a first person shooter with the seemingly endless progression & upgrades of a clicker game.

Price 16.79€
Rating 7.9
Release 16 Jan 2020
NEOMORPH This is a simple tower defend like game,click mouse left button to shoot enemies, make sure you don't get hurt. Defeat Neomorph, fight with ladies!

Price 0.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 14 Jan 2020
Death Crown Death Crown is a minimalist real time strategy game in a 1bit style, where you will be play Death herself, commanding her legions of death, and punishing humanity's Kingdom for its overconfidence.

Price -80% 2.55€
Rating 8.4
Release 23 Aug 2019
变量 Variables We created this unique single player game with a combination of Tower Defence and Roguelike. Come and create your maze, build your turret, defeat the invaders, and save the world!

Price 8.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 30 Jul 2019
YORG.io YORG.io is a game with an original twist on supply chains and zombies. Your goal is to build a base which survives the night which is when zombies attack. Build and upgrade defensive towers to protect your base and try to survive as long as possible.

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 23 May 2019
MarZ: Tactical Base Defense Build your defense base to fight back the undead hordes of Mars and secure the future of the red planet. MarZ is a game of strategy and tactical defense where you must carefully manage your crew and resources as you try to uncover the terrible secrets of the undead.

Price -81% 3.82€
Rating 7.5
Release 04 Apr 2019
The White Laboratory The White Laboratory is a sandbox style physics-based tower defense and RTS game in which you modularly build and command robotic structures. Use them to defend against or conquer other disobedient mechanical blocks on a facility floating in the atmosphere of a remote gas planet.

Price -62% 3.15€
Rating 7.3
Release 28 Mar 2019
Skirmish Line Experience the brutality and randomness of war as an Allied tactical commander in the Pacific Theater during World War 2. Train, equip, and command a squad of soldiers as you fight against the fanatical Imperial Japanese Empire.

Price 8.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 21 Mar 2019
Aurora Dusk: Steam Age An amazing mix of RPG, strategy, simulation, sandbox and survival game. Aurora Dusk looks like many other games, but instead of being alone, you live in a community. You can play one or more villagers and evolve from the Wood Age to the Steam Age.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 08 Mar 2019
Cows VS Vikings You think you’ve seen everything in Stream already?! No, buddy, you never saw anything like that before! The Vikings against the cows! Show them the strength of Odin and twist their horns off!

Price 7.39€
Rating 7.9
Release 06 Dec 2018
Dungeon Warfare 2 Become a dungeon lord to defend your dungeons with the deadliest of traps and insidious contraptions against greedy adventurers and wannabe heroes.

Price 12.49€
Rating 8.6
Release 06 Jul 2018
Protolife 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.

Price 11.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 15 Jun 2018
Steampunk Tower 2 Steampunk Tower 2 is an action-strategy game set in the alternative Steampunk universe. In Lord Bingham’s military service there is a new secret weapon under your command, the gigantic aircraft Carrier transporting the Battle Tower.

Price -64% 2.91€
Rating 7.1
Release 19 Apr 2018
No Heroes Here No Heroes Here is a frantic co-op game for 1 to 4 players, available in local and online modes. Craft and use several items effectively whilst coordinating your ragtag band of non-heroes to defend castles and survive! ...Oh, as well as saving the Kingdom in the meantime!

Price 12.49€
Rating 8.4
Release 02 Oct 2017
Pixel Gladiator Distant future… Brutal gladiatorial battles is a top-rated show, extremely popular all over the Universe. You’ve been sent to the abandoned planet as one of the participants of the show. Your goal is to survive as long as possible, fighting back deadly creatures in the focus of billions of viewers.

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 08 Sep 2017
Home Wars Do you hate bugs and arachnids? Seeing them creeps you out? Would you like them to disappear off the face of the Earth? GOOD! This is the right game for you! In HW you’ll play as a General of a toy soldiers army, with the sole purpose of saving the owner’s house from the invasion of those damn Bugs.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 13 Jun 2017
Cosmic Trip Cosmic Trip is an award-winning real-time strategy VR game. Build a base, command a flying drone army, and attack/defend hostile enemies on strange alien planets.

Price -80% 4.14€
Rating 8.0
Release 24 May 2017
Has-Been Heroes Has-Been Heroes is a challenging, lane-based roguelike game of strategy and action, featuring a band of heroes on a quest to escort the King's twin princesses to school!

Price -45% 11.16€
Rating 7.2
Release 27 Mar 2017
Alien Shooter TD Innovative Tower Defense inspired by legendary Alien Shooter series! The game was created in keeping with the best traditions of Sigma`s games, no concessions of any kind - everything is just like in real life!

Price -82% 1.84€
Rating 8.1
Release 13 Jan 2017
Defense Zone 3 Ultra HD The sequel to the hit strategy game, with new weapons, landscapes, and options.

Price 8.19€
Rating 7.6
Release 14 Dec 2016
Creeper World 2: Anniversary Edition Deceptively simple... amazingly deep. Creeper World 2 thrusts you into the 14th millennium fighting and enemy that flows and oozes through the terrain. Employ advanced weapons,gravity manipulating repulsors, wormhole like rifts, and your own wit against this never yielding enemy.

Price -31% 3.48€
Rating 8.4
Release 16 Nov 2016
Creeper World: Anniversary Edition Imagine an enemy that is everywhere and moves like a giant, organic mass across the map. Imagine your base and your people surrounded by a blanket of crushing destruction from all directions. Your only hope, well what hope? Then you take the high ground and pound this enemy into oblivion.

Price -33% 3.37€
Rating 9.1
Release 16 Nov 2016

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