Best Tower Defense Games on Steam

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Royal Defense The castle needs a hero – hordes of trolls are surrounding it! Build towers, save money, learn spells - don't let the enemy in! Follow the exciting story of the dwarven kingdom's eternal struggle against the troll hordes, who want only to crush the dwarves and claim their territory.

Price -75% 3.69€
Rating 6.9
Release 10 Nov 2014
Guns n Zombies This is the world after a zombie apocalypse in which the main characters have to go through many perils. It is a story about ordinary people who, when faced with danger, decided not to run away from it, but to fight back. As the story goes along, you will learn what caused the disaster and help other survivors to overcome its aftermath.

Price -76% 1.93€
Rating 6.7
Release 30 Oct 2014
Dungeon of the ENDLESS™ Dungeon of the ENDLESS™ is a Rogue-Like Dungeon-Defense game, in which the player and their team of heroes must protect the generator of their crashed ship while exploring an ever-expanding dungeon, all while facing waves of monsters and special events as they try to find their way out...

Price -96% 0.55€
Rating 8.4
Release 27 Oct 2014
Time Rifters Be your own teammates in this unique single-player co-op shooter!

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 21 Oct 2014
DG2: Defense Grid 2 Setting the bar as the definitive tower defense game, Defense Grid 2 introduces new worlds and threats to test your tower placement strategies. With a bold new look and the addition of new game modes, player-versus-player and multiplayer co-op, every play brings fun new opportunities and challenges.

Price -98% 0.36€
Rating 8.3
Release 23 Sep 2014
Cannon Brawl Cannon Brawl is action RTS and artillery hybrid. Pilot an airship, command powerful weapon emplacements and use the destructible terrain to out think and destroy your enemy! It's a new take on artillery strategy!

Price 15.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 19 Sep 2014
OTTTD Take command of HEROCORP™ and launch a Preemptive Defence Campaign™ against parallel dimensions in OTTTD, the most outrageous Tower Defence title around.

Price -84% 1.31€
Rating 7.1
Release 06 Aug 2014
Battle Islands Battle friends over air, land and sea in this epic WW2-themed battle strategy game.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.4
Release 06 Aug 2014
Terrorhedron Tower Defense Terrorhedron is the 3D, cooperative tower defense game for the PC. Unmatched challenge and complexity is introduced to the genre through 3 dimensional gameplay, micro-strategy through programmable turrets and 'edge of seat' gameplay is extended to multiplayer with up to 8 players online co-op.

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 24 Jul 2014
Farm for your Life Your community was taken down by a heavy storm which caused an apocalypse and unleashed the living dead. Together with the other survivors, it is your task to rebuild and to allow that sustainable life can still be assured. Cultivate your farm and manage your restaurant to provide food and deal with all the zombies.

Price -74% 2.63€
Rating 7.7
Release 16 Jun 2014
Space Run Space Run is a «real-time spaceship construction strategy game». Space Run takes the well-known Tower Defense-style gameplay and twists it, challenging you to manage and protect a spaceship and its cargo against the hazards of deep space!

Price -85% 0.77€
Rating 8.2
Release 13 Jun 2014
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing II In the second part of the unfolding saga that could also be enjoyed independently, you can explore new corners of this unique world and experience the mix of old-school gothic and mad science, with more action, powerful foes and plenty of stunning places to visit.

Price -92% 1.20€
Rating 6.7
Release 13 Jun 2014
Anomaly Defenders Anomaly Defenders is the closing installment of the Anomaly series. The original incarnation of the Tower Offense sub-genre had players controlling humans fighting alien invaders. Now, the tables have turned. The human counterattack is underway and the alien homeworld is under threat.

Price -96% 0.41€
Rating 7.3
Release 29 May 2014
The Culling Of The Cows The Culling Of The Cows is a side-scrolling shooter / tower defence game. You will take the role of Sammy, a soliloquizing schizophrenic farmer with a self prophesied mission to lay waste to the disease spreading over his farm.

Price -82% 0.93€
Rating 7.2
Release 09 May 2014
Battlepillars Gold Edition Battlepillars is a real-time tug-of-war strategy game in which you command caterpillars armed to the teeth with flamethrowers, sticky honey, mines, machine guns, and more!

Price -21% 3.97€
Rating 7.9
Release 28 Apr 2014
ReignMaker ReignMaker: Saving the World One Tower at a Time. ReignMaker is a match-3 game with tower defense, city building, and political strategy elements. Your policy decisions determine the fate of your city and the direction of the story. Your match-3 and tower defense skills determine the fate of the world.

Price -99% 0.19€
Rating 6.1
Release 16 Apr 2014
Beware Planet Earth Beware Planet Earth! is a beguiling mix of classic tower defense and time management coming to PC via Steam for the first time. Save your cows from the Martian invasion by building an effective defense using towers, traps and objects, and also by firing your Zapper directly at the invading force of little green men!

Price -92% 0.42€
Rating 6.8
Release 11 Apr 2014
Bardbarian You play as Brad the barbarian, who is awoken to the sounds of his town under siege. Today is different though; Brad has grown tired of fighting all the time. The usual grind for XP has grown dull, and he has decided to pursue his dreams of making music instead of shedding blood.

Price -60% 3.25€
Rating 8.4
Release 01 Apr 2014
Yet Another Zombie Defense Darkness 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.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 28 Mar 2014
Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal Creeper 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.

Price -38% 9.28€
Rating 9.3
Release 27 Mar 2014
Infested Planet Command a team of 5 elite soldiers against an alien horde of 100,000. Surrounded on all sides, you must outmaneuver and outsmart the enemy.

Price -86% 1.84€
Rating 9.0
Release 06 Mar 2014
Deadly 30 Can you survive the horror? … a retro-style survival horror game developed by the two-man indie team of Gonzossm and Iggy Zuk. Survive 30 days and nights in a zombie-infested world by recruiting companions, upgrading weaponry and fortifying your position.

Price -96% 0.23€
Rating 7.4
Release 08 Jan 2014
Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense Get ready for an epic journey to defend your kingdom against hordes of orcs, trolls, evil wizards and other nasty fiends using a vast arsenal of towers and spells at your command!Fight on forests, mountains and wastelands, customizing your defensive strategy with different tower upgrades and specializations!

Price 9.99€
Rating 9.5
Release 06 Jan 2014
Anomaly Warzone Earth Mobile Campaign Anomaly Warzone Earth Mobile Campaign continues Steam's Anomaly Warzone Earth in an extra 15-level campaign. Originally released on mobile devices, the campaign is brought to Steam for PC, Mac and Linux exclusively in Anomaly Bundle. AWE Mobile Campaign turns tower defense on its head.

Price -89% 0.55€
Rating 7.5
Release 06 Nov 2013

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