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Sanctum 2
Action 15 May 2013
Continuation of the original production of Coffee Stain studio from 2011, which is a unique combination of classic FPS shooter with tower defense strategy elements. In terms of mechanics, Sanctum 2 does not introduce any revolutionary changes to the gameplay, focusing in particular on the new set of maps. The game still boils down to the proper deployment of defensive structures to prevent the next waves of aliens from destroying the energy nucleus, located in the central part of each location.
Crystal Defenders
Strategy 27 January 2009
An interesting strategic production from the tower defense sub-genre taking place in one of the worlds of Final Fantasy. We get a number of units and we have to stop the approaching waves of enemies trying to steal crystals.
Defense Grid: The Awakening
Strategy 08 December 2008
Variation on the popular strategy game Tower Defense. This time, however, in 3D graphics, with eye-catching environments, spectacular explosions and graphic effects, and a dynamic and energetic soundtrack.
X-Morph: Defense
Action 30 August 2017
Developed by an independent studio called Exor, X-Morph: Defense is an original twin-stick shooter with tower defense elements. The game shows an unpleasant vision of the future, in which the Earth has fallen victim to an alien invasion. Instead of defending the Blue Planet, the player assumes control over an Alien ship with an objective to face waves of human adversaries and defend enormous devices extracting resources and altering the Earth’s atmosphere.
Aegis of Earth: Protonovus Assault
Strategy 02 July 2015
An economic strategy game taking place in a post-apocalyptic world, where humanity has locked itself in fortified cities - the only way of surviving the attacks of alien monsters. The game was developed by Acquire, a Japanese studio known from Way of the Samurai, Tenchu, and Shinobido. In Aegis of Earth: Protonovus Assault, the player takes control of his own city, and fights against continuous waves of huge monsters. The cities are composed of a few districts that can be rotated 360 degrees.
Iron Grip: Warlord
Action 05 November 2008
Iron Grip: Warlord is the first game of the Isotx group, known mainly for modifications to popular productions such as Half-Life 2 or C&C Generals: Zero Hour. It belongs to the genre of action/FPP games, but it also has some elements of strategy.
GemCraft: Frostborn Wrath
Strategy 10 January 2020
GemCraft: Frostborn Wrath is a fantasy tower defense strategy. During the game, the player takes on the role of the wizard who must fight off the monsters attacking him. For this purpose, he uses the gems.
CastleStorm II
Strategy 23 September 2020
CastleStorm II is the next installment of the game combining elements of the gameplay straight from Angry Birds and the tower defence genre from Zen Studios. In the continuation we will visit the fairytale and colorful lands again, this time there is a new threat on our way - undead.
Necrosmith 2
Strategy 27 March 2024
A sequel to a strategy game from 2022, with additional tower defense and roguelite elements. Necrosmith 2 has us play as a necromancer. Our primary goals are to defend the tower, collect resources, command the armies and create new undead units from various body parts.
Cataclismo
Strategy 16 July 2024
A combination of an RTS and a tower defense game. Cataclismo is set in a fantasy world, tasking the player with defending the last human city from nightly assaults of horrible monsters.
Dungeon Defenders
RPG 19 October 2011
Dungeon Defenders is an action game with elements of cRPG and tower defense strategy, produced by independent developer studio Trendy Entertainment. The player directs the actions of one of the young heroes who foolishly woke up the primeval evil and brought danger to the inhabitants of the fantastic world of Etheria. The creators envisaged several variants of the game, including a mode of play in four-person cooperation.
Gratuitous Tank Battles
Strategy 17 May 2012
Gratuitous Tank Battles is a tower defense strategy. The plot of the game assumes that the First World War never ended and in the world of Gratuitous Tank Battles it continues in 2114.
Defense Grid 2
Strategy 22 September 2014
Continuation of Defense Grid: The Awakening - a popular tower defense strategy created in 2008 by Hidden Path Entertainment studio. The plot of the game continues the threads started in the predecessor and tells the story of the commander struggling with the next foreign forces. Just like in the first installment of the game, our actions are commented on by artificial intelligence, known as Fletcher.
Final Horizon
Strategy 02 December 2014
Final Horizon is a real-time tower defense strategy developed by the Eiconic Games team. The task of players is to build defensive structures and watchtowers in a way that will enable them to repel the attacks of successive waves of enemies.
PixelJunk Monsters Ultimate HD
Puzzle 30 July 2013
Refreshed version of the game known from PlayStation 3 and PSP. Production represents the tower defense genre, in which you have to defend your base, attacked by waves of enemy troops. The title has been equipped with all the additions and patches that have been included in the basic edition.
Zombie Match Defense
Puzzle 22 October 2015
A mobile "match-3" logic game enriched with strategy elements associated with the tower defense genre. Jake Sones, a former employee at Blizzard Entertainment, is the game's co-creator. The player's goal is to defend scientist against hordes of zombies. A path leads to each of the eggheads and several kinds of brains are distributed throughout it; these attract zombies that in turn, eat them.
Kingdom Rush Frontiers
Strategy 05 June 2013
The game provides a continuation to one of the most popular mobile tower defense strategies, which was created by Ironhide. Kingdom Rush Frontiers is based on the gameplay formula of its predecessor. The player's task here is to defend the kingdom against various fantasy creatures. In order to do that, the player builds different defensive structures on their path, sends military units to fight them, but also uses many different spells.
Bloons TD 5
Strategy 15 November 2012
Tower defense production, in which the player's task is to defend the monkey's land against the temptations of the title Bloons. In the course of the game, we set up various units along the paths taken by the opponents - as the game progresses, we obtain the necessary funds to expand the army in our hands and to introduce various improvements.
Deathtrap
Strategy 04 February 2015
A tower defense game featuring a gothic/steampunk setting. Deathtrap was developed by Neocore Games, the studio known for such titles as King Arthur or The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing. The game’s story focuses on battling all sorts of monsters that are trying to invade the real world. The last obstacle on their way is you and your fortress. Consistently with the rules of the genre, gameplay is primarily about building various guard towers that work in many different ways.
SteamWorld Tower Defense
Strategy 05 July 2010
Classic tower defence strategy, set in the original world, combining elements of steampunk and westerns. As a sheriff of the "robotic" town of Cowbot County, we try to stop the invasion of people who are sharpening their teeth on the gold mines in our possession.
Orcs Must Die! Unchained
Action 19 April 2017
A spin-off to the humorous series of action strategy games that focus on fighting Orcs. This time the developers from Robot Entertainment mixed in even more genres by adding MOBA and card games elements. The game focuses on multiplayer and uses a free to play distribution model with microtransactions. Two factions face each other in the game – the Human Order that was rebuilt after the events shown in the second game and the Unchained, faction that consists of various monsters.
Guns Up!
Strategy 19 May 2015
A free-to-play strategy with tower defense elements taking place in an asynchronous turn-based system. In the game we take command over our own military base and army of soldiers, and our task is to find and destroy the enemy base in order to occupy new areas. During combat we can support our soldiers with mines, bombardments, mortars, smokescreens and combat gases.
Toy Soldiers: War Chest
Action 11 August 2015
The third installment in a strategic tower-defense game with action elements. The franchise was created in 2010 by Signal Studios. Gameplay in Toy Soldiers: War Chest is based on the series' token mechanics. You control an army of toy soldiers who have to defend their base from enemy attacks. To that end you must deploy various cannons and guns, which can later be upgraded to increase their fire power. At any moment you can take control of an individual unit, switching the perspective to TPP.
Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time
Strategy 15 August 2013
A full-scale continuation of crazy tower defense/strategy game, which successfully merged the popularity of this causal genre with the never-ending interest in zombies. It has been prepared by the creators of the original title, an experienced developer of budget productions, PopCap Games studio. The main theme of the series is an invasion of the undead, who are craving for human brains and have formed a powerful army to achieve this objective.