Best Tower Defense Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated tower defense games.

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Touhou Big Big Battle just a touhou rts game

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 10 Sep 2018
Dig or Die Crash 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.

Price -50% 5.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 10 Jul 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 -75% 3.12€
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 -35% 7.79€
Rating 8.0
Release 15 Jun 2018
Warstone TD Warstone is a Tower Defense game, with RPG, Strategy, and even city building elements. Detailed Hi-res graphics and beautiful illustrations combine with a deep storyline to draw you into the world.

Price -98% 0.42€
Rating 8.0
Release 23 May 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
METAL GEAR SURVIVE METAL GEAR SURVIVE builds upon MGSV’s stealth action gameplay with elements of exploration and survival creating a bold new experience. *An internet connection is required to play the game.

Price -56% 17.90€
Rating 6.5
Release 21 Feb 2018
Octogeddon You ARE Octogeddon, a massive mutant octopus with one mission: DESTROY the world! Grow more tentacles and evolve each of them into deadlier and deadlier weapons until you become the ultimate eight-legged killing machine!

Price 6.88€
Rating 8.7
Release 08 Feb 2018
Aegis Defenders Take on wild beasts, ruthless soldiers, and ancient gods in this 2D Action-Platformer inspired by Tower-Defense combat.

Price -98% 0.43€
Rating 7.6
Release 08 Feb 2018
War Planet Online: Global Conquest Build your army, dominate your region and lead your alliance to conquer the globe!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.2
Release 19 Dec 2017
Mushroom Wars 2 In Mushroom Wars 2, enemy tribes of feisty mushroom creatures face off in short but fierce RTS battles. Step into the shoes of a fearless Mushroom Commander, choose a hero to lead your army, and take control of the battlefield in a variety of multiplayer modes or challenging story campaign.

Price 14.99€
Rating 6.1
Release 06 Oct 2017
Let Them Come Let Them Come is a fast paced pixel art shoot ‘em up. Twitchy trigger fingers and focused battle tactics are the order of the day as wave after wave of alien-like creatures try to take you down.

Price -95% 0.41€
Rating 8.1
Release 03 Oct 2017
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 -70% 3.74€
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
X-Morph: Defense Unique 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.

Price -95% 1.00€
Rating 8.8
Release 30 Aug 2017
Rock of Ages 2: Bigger & Boulder™ The greatest rock-racing, tower defense, art history game is back! Like the title says, Bigger & Boulder cranks up the surrealism and gameplay with chaotic 4P multiplayer, new time periods, and improved graphics, physics, and destructibility powered by UE4 to be, well… BIGGER AND BOULDER.

Price -14% 12.95€
Rating 8.2
Release 28 Aug 2017
Yet Another Zombie Defense HD Top-down zombie shooter with tower defense elements featuring up to 4 players local and online co-op. Build your base by day, defend it by night, put your skills to the test to stay alive as long as possible! Darkness is coming. How long can YOU survive?

Price -83% 0.67€
Rating 8.1
Release 25 Aug 2017
Castle Story Castle 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.

Price 9.75€
Rating 6.4
Release 17 Aug 2017
Cursed Treasure 2 Why be good when you can be... bad? Cursed Treasure 2 is an addictive tower-defense game that puts the power of darkness at your fingertips. Build towers of powerful orcs, demons, and undead, and master powerful spells, to protect your precious hoard from all manner of no-good do-gooders.

Price -25% 3.79€
Rating 7.7
Release 21 Jul 2017
Rusted Warfare - RTS {{An RTS inspired by the classics of the past!}} Making up for it's subpar retro graphics with fun gameplay and modern multi-threaded tech enabling huge battles to run smooth... Featuring singleplayer challenges, skirmish, sandbox, 10-player multiplayer & workshop modding.

Price 4.99€
Rating 9.3
Release 14 Jul 2017
Dungeon Defenders II Dungeon Defenders II is a cooperative Action Tower Defense game packed with roleplaying elements like loot, leveling, and pets.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.6
Release 20 Jun 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 -75% 5.00€
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 -88% 2.57€
Rating 7.2
Release 27 Mar 2017
Dropzone Dropzone is a game of action, strategy and skill. Win 15 minute battles by scoring points. Unlock gear, customize your squad of up to 3 Units and compete in Team 3v3, 2v2 or 1v1 matches. Lay claim to the riches of Europa!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.7
Release 15 Feb 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 -79% 2.05€
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 -60% 1.99€
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 -32% 3.40€
Rating 9.1
Release 16 Nov 2016
VERSUS SQUAD Versus Squad is a fast action twin-stick shooter from the creator of Nation Red. Build your own sandbox defense and battle thousands of zombie mutants in top down combat! Face up to a dozen bosses. Simultaneously. Collect loot, build and repair. Play single player, on-line or local coop!

Price -68% 2.56€
Rating 7.5
Release 26 Oct 2016
Oh My Gore! Control the Powers of Evil to crush the Good Guys! Take control of the revived God of War Raelius, recruit evil minions, build bastions of doom and command your groveling servants.

Price -86% 0.29€
Rating 8.2
Release 20 Oct 2016
Zombo Buster Rising Shoot zombies from terrace like a boss! Zombo Buster Rising Remastered brings you a nostalgic experience of classic 2D side shooting-defense in enhanced build right from your Steam library!

Price -69% 0.62€
Rating 8.7
Release 02 Oct 2016
Zombie Defense A modern hybrid of the classic RTS and modern Tower Defense. Recruit soldiers, place them on slots and let them shoot incoming waves of zombies by their own. Order supplies, throw grenades, order airstrikes and many more... Perfect mix of strategy, tactics and micromanagement.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 30 Sep 2016
Particle Fleet: Emergence Build and design your own fleets and stand opposed to the Particulate in this physics/strategy/RTS/fleet hybrid. Build partially destructible and self repairing ships that interact with enemies less controlled by some scripted logic and more driven by a real time massive physics particle simulation.

Price -37% 9.36€
Rating 8.8
Release 29 Sep 2016
Out of Ammo Out of Ammo is an intense VR Tower Defense / FPS hybrid strategy game that will have you constructing defenses, calling in artillery, issuing orders, and taking direct control of your soldiers in order to survive a relentless enemy onslaught.

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.9
Release 14 Sep 2016
Iron Sea Defenders Man the guns! The enemy fleet is on the horizon! Defend your fort from attacks – show your tactical skill.

Price 14.79€
Rating 7.6
Release 09 Sep 2016

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