Tower Defense (shorten TD) is a subgenre of Strategy video game where the task of the player to defend his castle, territories, or possessions by destroying the enemy attackers. The player can place defensive structures along or on the path of the enemies, building different towers that automatically fends off, attack, impedes and demolish foes. Tower defense also serves as the Real-time Strategy’s subgenre, due to its real-time assets, many tower defenses games feature the elements of turn-based strategy. The primary objective of the player is to rescue his territories against hordes of incoming foes. There are core elements in the tower defense games such as possessions and territories that must be guarded, and the base survives against incoming foes and accurate placement of towers. Most of advance tower defense games evolved a real-time strategy to the turn-based gameplay, introducing distinct phases such as build, repair and defend. Many games include smart enemies that run through a complex maze to destroy the player’s territories, and the player must place the towers strategically to fend off the enemies.

24 Best Tower Defense Games for Mac OS

#1 Kingdom Rush

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Kingdom Rush is a wonderful Tower Defense video game by Armor Games. The game takes you to a Medieval Fantasy-based setting and allows you to build Towers of different types, assign different characters (Mages, Archers, Barracks and Artillery Men) on the towers and defend your keep against the hordes of monsters. Kingdom Rush lets you have money for upgrades via killing the boss monsters and to keep on defending until all the waves of enemies are neutralized. The game allows you to earn some extra cash by calling the enemy waves earlier or you can simply sell your built towers to earn money and upgrade the existing ones. After completing a level, Kingdom Rush awards you with 3 stars and unlocks some cool and exciting game modes such as Heroic Mode and Iron Challenge etc. Furthermore, Kingdom Rush offers a Campaign mode in which it lets you have 20 lives, more hardcore enemies, and difficult to defend locations. With all the fantastic game visuals, realistic sounds and amazing perks, kingdom Rush is one of the best Strategy and Tower Defense video games to play and enjoy.

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#2 Garden Rescue

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Garden Rescue is another Strategy and Tower Defense video game that lets you defend your own garden against a huge variety of insects by placing the towers in an order of your choice. The garden was once peaceful but now it is a battlefield as the pests have attacked from all directions. You must use your “Garden Rescue Squad” and eliminate the threat. The green defenders must not let the insects live of roam freely in the garden or else the plants and resources will be wasted. The game lets you deploy different plants as your towers and ever tower acts with unique sets of abilities. The insect (Ants, Bugs, Beetles and Bees) must not be able to reach your resources keep. If they reach down to the resources keep, the garden will turn into a wasteland. Garden Rescue allows you to enjoy multiple difficulty levels, engage yourself into action against a number of different types of pests, great 3D graphics and a game-play with a lot of options.

#3 Sanctum

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Sanctum is an Action, Strategy and Tower Defense video game by Coffee Stain Studios. The game beautifully amalgamates Tower Defense, RPG and First Person Shooter elements together and provides with an engaging game-play in which your duty is to build towers, pathways like mazes and defend your posts against the intruding enemies by using your skills, best tactically strategic approaches in a 4 player co-op environment. With amazing visuals, engaging game-play and wonderful mechanics, Sanctum offers 87 achievements, a lot of hidden power-ups, upgrades and a lot of other cool things. For a brilliant Tower Defense experience, do try this game. It’ll blow your mind away with all the wonderful things it has to offer.

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#4 Plants vs Zombies

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Plants vs Zombies is a Strategic and casual Tower Defense video game developed by PopCap Games that lets you build your defenses with different types of plants against incoming waves of zombies to defend your home. Every plant has its own special defensive and offensive property that you can use against the zombies by placing it strategically in your garden horizontally. The playing field consists of five horizontal lanes and you can place any plant on anyone of these lanes. The plantation of the plants costs “Suns” so, you must collect all of them in order to plant more plants. You can also play the game in single, multiplayer and adventure mode to earn money that you can spend to buy more seeds and plants from the in-game store. Plants vs Zombies provides you with a lot of levels with different details and environments, an amazingly engaging and addicting game-play and best graphics for a game of this type. Because of being super easy to play and enjoy, Plant vs Zombies attracts a lot of players and keeps them bound to their gaming consoles for a good amount of time. Do try it out if you haven’t played it yet and enjoy the ultimate Tower Defense fun.

#5 Kingdom Rush Frontiers

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Kingdom Rush Frontiers is a Fantasy-based, Tower-defense and Single-player video game played from an isometric perspective created and published by Ironhide Game Studio. It takes place in the stunning Kingdom and introduces a variety of new levels based on fast-paced gameplay. The player can create his army and command them to protect his land from dragons, ghastly denizens, man-eating plants and more. There are different defenses available, and the player can use them to fend off enemies by reaching and destroying his kingdom. Up to nine legendary heroes are featured, and the player can choose from one of them to get into the game. It has three level difficulties such as Easy, Medium and Hard. More than eighteen tower abilities are present, and the game takes place in new environments like deserts, underworld, and jungles. The game becomes desperate to play, as the player advanced through it and unlocked further content to play and enjoy. Kingdom Rush Frontiers offers core features such as 10 Towers, 40 Enemies, Tower Upgrades, 9 Heroes, Special Units, Upgrade System and more. With addictive gameplay, superb mechanics, and brilliant controls, Kingdom Rush Frontiers is the fantastic game to play.

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#6 Creeper World

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Creeper World combines the Tower-Defense and Real-time Strategy elements by Knuckle Cracker for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS. The game has a Single-player mode and takes place in the stunning world threatened by an enemy that is everywhere like a giant. You assume the role of the hero and your primary objective is to hold back the antagonist, which has already demolished most of the humanity and his next target in your Odin City. You must keep your city secure by placing different towers onto the playfield with shoot the antagonist and fend off him by destroying the city. There are a variety of levels, and each level needs a completion of certain tasks to progress. You have to connect your base to energy totems through the use of relays and energy collectors. The game becomes challenging, as you advance through the match. Creeper World offers core features such as various Towers, challenging Levels, Upgrades, Weapons, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

#7 Dungeon Defenders

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Dungeon Defenders is an Action Role-playing, Strategy, Tower-defense and Single-player video game developed by Trendy Entertainment and published by Reverb Triple XP. The game takes place in the fantasy-themed world and puts you in the role of the protagonist who is a warrior and his main objective is to fight against hordes of monsters to defend his city. It is a mix of RPG, High Fantasy, Tower-defense and Adventure where up to players can work together to rescue more than one Eternia Crystal from being demolished by hordes of enemies including ogres, globins, orcs, and more. There are a variety of levels consist of five waves such as Campaign, Challenges, Final Wave, Boss Battle and more. The game rewards you with XP points you kill the enemy. It has different towers and you must create your strategy and place the tower at the right place to fend off waves of foes. Dungeon Defenders offers prominent features such as four player Online, Customization, Four different Character Classes, Level-up System, Tons of Enemies, Mission-based Gameplay, and more. With smooth Controls, brilliant mechanics, and superb graphics, Dungeon Defenders is the best game to play and enjoy.

#8 Plants vs. Zombies Goty Edition

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Plants vs. Zombies Goty Edition is a wonderful Action, Strategy and Tower Defense video game. The game lets you defend your home against the invading zombies by using the zombie killing plants like peashooters, cherry bombs etc. In order to save your home from zombies, you must act fast and strategize your every move and plant the plants in a special order or else you’ll lose the game. As the zombies move on tracks, you must deploy the plants with different abilities to deal with the different types of zombies. With an amazingly challenging and fast-paced game-play, Plants vs. Zombies Goty Edition offers 50 amazing game levels, five game modes, over 50 unique power-ups, great visuals etc. For an amazing tower defense and strategic game-play experience, do try this game out. You’ll love it for sure.

#9 Fieldrunners

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Fieldrunners combines the elements of Tower-defense, Strategy and Single-player developed and published by Subatomic Studios LLC. There are three different maps from which you could select such as Crossroads, Grasslands and Drylands. In the game, you must save your land from enemies, place powerful towers to fend off enemies by attacking you. Defend your base, train your armies and equip them with destructive weapons. Earn points and use them to upgrade your towers. Use defense strategically and crush your enemies. It has eight stages each with unique environments and challenges. It has beautiful and hand-painted levels you must complete at any cost. The game lets you use a massive variety of strategies and tactics against hordes of enemies, air combats, and unique land. Collect enough points and become the master of tower defense. Retina Support, New Soundtracks, Glorious Battles, Seven Devastating Weapons, Stunning Graphics, Epic achievements, Center Integration, etc. are the exciting features of Fieldrunners. Try it out.

#10 Bardbarian

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Bardbarian is an amazing mix up of Tower Defense, Strategy and Action-RPG elements and allows you to be the protagonist Bard who wakes up to the sounds of hi city under siege. After getting into the character, your task is to gather up your party, navigate through the enemy hordes and kill them by the use of your special abilities, loot the resources, go fight against the enemies who are entering the city from a special path. You must run to the places and destroy the enemies to save the decorative crystal and the monument of the city. Strategize your moves, command your party to carry out the tasks, use upgrades and power-ups to enhance your skills and fighting abilities. Bardbarian, with amazing game-play, cool visuals, 12 units to unlock, amazing amounts of loots, 8 epic enemy types, amazing boss battles and a lot of other cool things, is a wonderful game to play and enjoy.

#11 Defend Your Life

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Defend Your Life is an epic Action, Strategy and Tower Defense video game. The game is set inside human body where you’ll have to engage yourself into epic battles between Viruses and Bacteria. You must choose sides and defend your areas by the use of your best strategies, skills and by building towers, mounting weapons etc. As being a fast-paced game, Defend Your Life requires you to act fast, and tactically defeat your enemies on amazing battlefields situated on different parts of the human body like heart, brain, pancreas, appendix, liver etc. Defend Your Life offers great deal of upgrades, power-ups, 17 epic battles, 20 different types of pesky enemies, a lot of character choices, in-game encyclopedia, great visuals, immersive game-play and a great storyline.

#12 Anomaly: Warzone Earth

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Anomaly: Warzone Earth is another great combination of Strategy, Action and Tower Defense elements that tasks you with saving Earth from invading aliens. With a hold on most of the planet, aliens are occupying earth swiftly so you must act fast, make strategies, build towers, deploy weapons and kill them all before it’s too late. In order to defeat the enemies, you must lead your troops and deploy them strategically in every corner of the planet, use your special abilities, think fast and win the epic tactical battles to throw the aliens out of Earth. With an innovative and immersive game-play, amazing visuals and brilliant storyline, Anomaly: Warzone Earth is a masterpiece. Do give it a try.

#13 Swords and Soldiers HD

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Swords and Soldiers HD by Ronimo Games is a super thrilling and quite engaging Action, Strategy and Tower Defense video game. The game allows you to take control of the most Brutal Vikings, Mighty Aztecs or the Shrewd Chinese, use your best strategies, control mighty armies, put on show your amazing magical abilities to devastate the invading enemies or simply reach to their castles and demolish them using your special powers. Swords and Soldiers HD lets you engage yourself into the most epic battles, skirmishes and multiplayer rivalries to prove your supremacy and to conquer the worlds. With an engaging single player campaign, thrilling and quite addictive challenge modes, an immersive game-play, realistic visuals and a great storyline, Swords and Soldiers HD is a wonderful Tower Defense video game to play and enjoy. Try it out and you’ll definitely stick to the console for hours.

#14 Winged Sakura: Mindy’s Arc

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Winged Sakura: Mindy’s Arc is a Hardcore Action, RPG Anime-themed Strategy and Tower Defense Video game. The game lets you get into the character of a young weak girl named as Mindy Akumori and allows you to use the Sakura Platform (a teleportation device) in a building where Mindy is trapped. Move rapidly to different locations, Summon different powerful and magical characters and strategically deploy them on different locations in order to fight against the hordes of attacking enemies. Use upgrades to enhance the skills and abilities of the characters and defeat the enemies. With a good amount of powerful upgrades, over 15 spirits/characters to unlock, more than 20 unique skills and crafting mode, great visuals, sounds and an engaging game-play, Winged Sakura: Mindy’s Arc is a brilliant game to play.

#15 Defenders of Time

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Defenders of Time is another Futuristic Marvel in the line of Strategy and Tower Defense gaming. The game is set in an alternate universe and allows you to be the savior of the Fabric of Time. Your task is to simply go against the enemies alone or team up with your online friends in order to act as a team, build some fancy looking futuristic towers and stop the enemies from reaching to all the Time Beacons. Defeat them by placing your towers strategically on the map in enemy’s path, keep on upgrading your towers in order to enhance their abilities and fire power and defeat the alien foes to save the Fabric of Time. With amazing game maps, multiplayer Co-Op support (8 players max), team-based action, amazingly addictive game levels, great visual details and sounds and an engaging game-play, Defenders of Time is a brilliant new Tower Defense game to play and enjoy.

#16 Pixel Junk Monsters

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Pixel Junk Monsters is a greatly popular Strategy and tower Defense video game that follows the foot steps of some great games of the same genre. The game allows you to defend against your enemies by placing towers on specific pathways using all your strategic skills and tactics. Enemies enter the map from multiple directions so you must build strong defenses to stop them from reaching to the center point. Pixel Junk Monsters lets you run on all the paths to your keep and construct defensive towers and collect the coins. The attacking Monsters have unique abilities so you must construct the towers that are suitable to eliminate them. The collected coins can be used to buy upgrades for the towers to enhance their power and firing range. The game provides with 40 levels of exciting game-play, a lot of different monsters, a variety of defensive towers and multiple levels of difficulty. Pixel Junk Monsters is one of the best Strategy and Tower Defense video game to play and enjoy.

#17 Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal

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Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal mixes the Real-time Strategy, and Tower-defense elements produced by Knuckle Cracker for multiple platforms. The game offers a series of levels and supports single-player mode only. Instead of using units that attack your base, the game uses a fluid-like substance spread around the terrain. There are different weapons, bases, and strategies available and you must adapt all them to win the competition. It lets you immerse yourself in physics-based gameplay and compete tons to missions to become master. The game takes place in the thrilling world comprises hundreds of star systems, and thousands of worlds. It has hundreds of hand-drawn missions and you must build your base, make strategy and effort to fend off enemies by destroying your bases. The game becomes challenging, as you advanced through the game. Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal offers most prominent features such as Thermodynamic Play, Tons of Missions, Explore Star System, Create unique Map, Terraform the Landscapes, hundreds of Weapons, and more. With addictive gameplay, superb mechanics, and smooth controls, Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal is the best game to play and enjoy.

#18 Creeper World 2: Redemption

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Creeper World 2: Redemption is a Strategy, Tower-Defense and Real-time Strategy video game with Sci-fi elements developed and published by Knuckle Cracker. The game offers an exciting gameplay that you have never played before. There are different types of weapons, defenses, and items available to use. In the beginning, the player needs to places his towers to attack enemies and eliminate them from levels to win rewards and level. As the game progress, it becomes challenging. There are several levels, and each level needs a completion of certain objectives. According to the story, you are the hero, and your responsivity is to save the humanity from vicious enemies. Enemies are planning to wipe out humanity from the planet Earth. Save them before they fulfill their tasks. The game features custom maps and free level editor. It has twenty story missions, and you have to complete each one to progress in the match. Creeper World 2: Redemption offers prominent features such as Ten Bonus Levels, Terrain Excavation, Fluid Enemy, Multiple Game Types, Twenty Missions and more. Try it out, and it’ll entertain you.

#19 Mushroom Wars 2

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Mushroom Wars 2 developed and published by Zillion Whales is a Real-time Strategy, Tower-defense, Single and Multiplayer video game available to play on multiple platforms. It is the sequel to Mushroom Wars video game published in 2016. The game takes place in the fictional world called Woodland populated with mushrooms who must face off enemies in real-time strategy battles. There are a variety of characters and each character offers its unique skills, and personality. To get into the world, you have to select your character with an aim to lead the armies of mushroom and command them to conquer the land of enemies and defend your Empire. The game introduces new features such as Multiplayer Modes, Award system, Ranked Matches, Customizable Settings, and Single-player Campaign. It has four different mushroom tribes such as Proteus, Rudo, Shrooms, and more. Before the match, you needs to select your tribe and start playing the game. Mushroom Wars 2 offers core features such as four different Campaigns, New Environments, Customization and more. Mushroom Wars 2 is the best game to play and enjoy.

#20 Bloons TD 5

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Bloons TD 5 is an immersive, 2D, Strategy, Tower-Defense, Co-op, and Single-player Action video game created and published by Ninja Kiwi for multiple platforms. The game lets you chance to create your awesome towers, select your upgrades, hire special agents, and smash every last bloon in each level. The game introduces new special agents, HD graphics, original soundtracks, new towers, buildings and special missions. Research unique abilities to discover new technology and towers. There are over twenty-one towers, ten special agents, over two-hundred random missions, and new foes such as tougher Camos, etc. that you have seen experience before. Complete a series of levels by smashing blooms, make the strategy, use towers and place them in the right place, defend your unit and complete the level with highest points. Unlock further levels using points and unlock all features to become the master. Bloons TD 5 offers exciting features such as over 50 Achievements, 3 different Modes, 3 difficulty Settings, 10 Missions and more. Bloons TD 5 is the best game for those who love playing Tower-Defense games.

#21 Bloons TD Battles

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Bloons TD Battles is a Tower-defense, Multiplayer, Strategy, 2D, and Free-to-play video game developed by Ninja Kiwi. The game lets you a chance to lead a team of monkeys and fight against other players for victory. It includes over twenty head-to-head tracks and revolves around multiplayer combat. Use different towers to fend off foes by destroying your units and earn points by defeating them. Upgrade your towers, unlock new attacks, boosts, and the ability of lead bloons and send them to conquer your opponent’s defense. There are different modes such as Assault, Defensive, Battle Arena and more. You can create your private matches and invite your steam friend to join you. Earn money and purchase different towers and equipment for your army. The game unlocks other levels as you progress through it, and become more challenging. Bloons TD Battles include core features such as Multiple Modes, Lead your Army, Earn Money, Head-to-Head Play, Twenty Battles, Twenty-two custom Towers, Sixteen exciting Achievements and more. Bloons TD Battles is the best game as compared to other Tower-defense games.

#22 Defender’s Quest: Valley of the Forgotten

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Defender’s Quest: Valley of the Forgotten is another great Action, RPG, Strategy and a bit of Tower Defense video game. The main game focuses on three main aspects, Tactical and Strategic Profundity, Character and environmental Customization and the game Story. The story of the game revolves around the character of a girl named Azra who is slowly dying because of a disease named as “The Plague”. Azra gets thrown into the Pit and there after the orders of the Golden Man, she meets another Plague victim and a berserker named as Slak into the Halfway World, starts fighting off the Plague-Zombies. Your task is to help Azra in defending the Halfway world by erecting Towers on a 2D grid-based map, defeat the waves of enemy zombies, destroy their roots from where they can reach Azra and ultimately reverse her Plague. After that you can return to the normal world, and by the use of your new powers you can visit Halfway World whenever you want and bring back people to normal world who are immune to the plague. With a very well-written story, great visual details, easy controls and a wonderfully engaging game-play, Defender’s Quest: Valley of the Forgotten is a great game to play and enjoy.

#23 Farm for Your Life

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Farm for Your Life is an exciting, free to play indie Management, Farming, Strategy video game that combines zombies, farming and tower defense into one amazing masterpiece. The game is set in a zombie infested virtual world where a recent storm devastated everything and left a handful of survivors to rebuild the city. This is where you get into the game world select a specific path for yourself and begin rebuilding the city. You can redesign whatever you want, create your own farms, and plant crops like fruits, vegetables and raise animals etc. to establish a business and generate some revenue. The game awards you with the required resources for a start and after that leaves you on your own to gather and manage your resources and use them wisely. You can also create buildings like houses, workshops, factories and hotels etc. for your businesses. The game focuses on the hotels you make and allows you to upgrade them and grow your business. You can sell different delicious dishes in your hotel all made up with your own products (vegetables and fruits grown on the farms). Zombies are a big threat in the game so you must make strong defenses against them to keep your crops and yourself safe. The tower defense element in the game allows you to build different kinds of towers and mount weapons on them. With a unique game-play and all the super attractive things in this game, you’ll definitely be entertained to the limits.

#24 300 Dwarves

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300 Dwarves is an Action-Adventure, Tower-defense, Strategy and Single-player video game developed by Artifex Mundi and published by Viva Media, Inc. The game takes place in the beautiful Kingdom of Fairbridge. According to the story, the legends struggle and free their kingdom from enemies by defeating them badly. Now Orcs, Globins, and Troll armies have regrouped and prepared themselves for next brutal war against the Kingdom of Fairbridge. The intelligent inhabitant of the Kingdom crafted Dwarven weapons and enabled the player to use its unique abilities to defeat the enemies and rescue his kingdom. In the game, you assume the role of the legend and your task is to use the towers and lead your army to fend off Goblins while searching for the secrets of their power. The world consists of mountains, desert valleys, castle walls, etc. and introduces a variety of levels each with unique challenges. 300 Dwarves introduces core features such as Thirty-two Towers, Thirty Enemies, Twelve Map Campaign, and more. 300 Dwarves is the best game as compared to other Tower-defense games.