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Games like Artisan TD

2024PC, Steam Deck verified88 % positive−60 % 16.49 € 6.59 €

A maze-style tower defense where you build clever mazes with your towers across more than 40 maps to hold off enemy waves. The appeal lies in planning and optimizing enemy paths.

  • Tactical depth
  • Puzzles and brain teasers

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In short: Games like Artisan TD

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Artisan TD special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Emberward

91 %Match

2026PC, Steam Deck playable96 % positive19.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Artisan TD: tactical depth, puzzles to figure out and gameplay over story.

Emberward is a tower defense game where you build mazes from differently shaped blocks and place towers on them to stop waves of monsters. Its appeal lies in clever path design and distinctive tower mechanics.

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Freeways

Tactical depth

You play a traffic engineer who draws freeway interchanges and ramps to keep cars flowing and jams at bay. A minimalist, brain-teasing planning puzzle with a simulation feel.

Bridge Constructor

Linear, curated structure

As a bridge engineer, you design structures across canyons and rivers, then test them by sending vehicles across. It's all about tinkering and experimenting with physics that can make your bridge hold or collapse.

Bomb Defense

Tactical depth

A tower defense game blended with puzzle elements, where you place traps, bombs, turrets and walls in clever spots to stop enemy waves. It is demanding and rewards careful planning.

Sleep Attack

Tactical depth

A tower defense game with a twist: instead of just placing towers, you shape the battlefield itself and decide the routes enemies take. This turns it into a puzzly, strategic planning challenge.

Shapez

Tactical depth

You build factories on an infinite map that automatically cut, rotate, paint and stack geometric shapes. It rewards clever layout design and optimization, with no combat or time pressure.

Project Hospital

Tactical depth

A detailed hospital management sim where you design the building, run the staff and diagnose patients through exams and lab tests. Solving diagnostic puzzles while keeping the clinic running is the heart of the game.

Great Permutator

Calm and deliberate

A tough engineering puzzle where you build networks of conveyors and devices so colored boxes reach the right destinations in the correct order. Suited to fans of SpaceChem and Manufactoria.

Creeper World 4

Linear, curated structure

A real-time strategy game where you build towers, weapons and energy networks to contain and push back a spreading fluid-like menace. The fluid dynamics turn each map into a tactical puzzle.

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