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.

14 Best Tower Defense Games on Steam

#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 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.

#3 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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#4 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.

#5 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.

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#6 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.

#7 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.

#8 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.

#9 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.

#10 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.

#11 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.

#12 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.

#13 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.

#14 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.