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2014PEGI 12PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck verified86 % positive9.75 €

A classic tower defense game where smart tower placement and upgrades hold off waves of alien invaders. A campaign plus co-op and PvP modes add plenty of variety.

  • Building and crafting
  • Tactical depth
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Lavish presentation
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Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Defense Grid 2 special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Cannon Brawl

87 %Match

2014PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch92 % positive15.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Defense Grid 2: building and crafting, tactical depth as well as a bright tone.

A 2D real-time strategy game where you command from an airship, building cannons and towers, capturing mines and pounding the enemy amid destructible terrain and big explosions. It offers a campaign and multiplayer.

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Sanctum 2

Sci-fi setting

A blend of tower defense and first-person shooting where you design mazes of towers and walls, then grab your guns and fight the alien waves yourself. It shines in four-player co-op, rewarding both smart layouts and sharp aim.

Legion TD 2

Linear, curated structure

A tower defense strategy game where you place units during a build phase and they fight automatically against waves of enemies. You also send fighters at the rival king, playing in teams or head-to-head, with lots of planning, prediction and coordination.

Forts

Linear, curated structure

Forts is a physics-driven real-time strategy game where you engineer your own fortress and smash your opponent's structures with an arsenal of weapons. Structural design, weapon choice and timing decide who stands and who collapses.

Axon TD: Uprising

Sci-fi setting

A mazing tower defense from the makers of Element TD 2 where you expand the map itself, reshaping paths and tower placement. It offers solo, co-op and roguelite modes with a large variety of towers and enemies.

Automachef

Linear, curated structure

You design automated kitchens from machines and conveyor belts that fulfil orders efficiently, all for a robot boss who thinks he's human. A funny engineering and optimization puzzler with growing complexity.

Creeper World 4

Sci-fi setting

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.

Sanctum

Sci-fi setting

Sanctum fuses tower defense with first-person shooting: you build mazes of turrets, then join the fight yourself against waves of aliens. Especially fun in co-op.

Bloons TD 6

Linear, curated structure

A bright, cheerful tower defense game where you combine monkey towers with three upgrade paths and leveling heroes to pop ever-tougher waves of bloons. Tons of maps, modes and challenges make it an endlessly replayable strategy puzzle, solo or in four-player co-op.

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