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Tile Tactics is a roguelike tower defense game where everything is a tile and you gamble for new tiles

Liam Dawe — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 11:44:39 +0000

I simply love how indie developers constantly come up with new weird and wonderful combinations. Tile Tactics looks like it will properly hook me in.

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Wire up various modules to survive in Wireworks - a base-defense roguelike auto-battler

Liam Dawe — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 16:42:25 +0000

Wireworks went straight into my wishlist, I couldn't click it fast enough. Love the idea with this base-defense roguelike auto-battler.

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NodalBastion is a delightful mixture of tower defense and incremental progression

Liam Dawe — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 12:32:10 +0000

Taking inspiration from incremental games with a long progress tree to unlock, NodalBastion is a tower defense game that just keeps on going.

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Aquatic tower defense Operation Octo moves release to September 10 due to Hollow Knight: Silksong

Liam Dawe — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 14:58:39 +0000

Operation Octo from developer Klub Kofta Studio recently shifted the release date to September 10th, to give Hollow Knight: Silksong a little space.

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Monsters are Coming! Rock & Road is easily going to be my next complete obsession

Liam Dawe — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 12:58:42 +0000

Monsters are Coming! Rock & Road has just planted itself right at the top of my wishlist for the excellent combination of survivor-likes with tower defense.

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SuperWEIRD is a co-op mixture of automation, tower defense and adventuring

Liam Dawe — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:18:59 +0000

SuperWEIRD is the next planned game from developers Luden.io, merging together a few different genres into something thoroughly odd.

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Operation Octo is an upcoming frantic aquatic Tower Defense with big boss fights

Liam Dawe — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 09:33:26 +0000

Need a fresh Tower Defense game to try out? Here's another tip for you! Operation Octo arrives in September with a chance to try it early.

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Rift Riff is a beautifully designed tower defense game about pumping juice

Liam Dawe — Wed, 14 May 2025 12:47:04 +0000

Rift Riff is all about jumping through portals (okay Rifts, whatever) and extracting precious juice. Monsters don't like you doing that though but the juice must flow. It's out now with Native Linux support.

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Don't sleep on Cataclismo, building up fortresses like LEGO to defend against hordes is great

Liam Dawe — Wed, 07 May 2025 12:00:58 +0000

Cataclismo is a game where you design and build a fortress to face off against waves of enemy hordes. The LEGO-like building system is a lot of fun, really letting your creativity shine.

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GNOMES is my new favourite tower defense game that blends in roguelike mechanics

Liam Dawe — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 14:16:59 +0000

If you don't hear from me much over this week (or for the rest of this month), it's because I'm dedicating my time to playing GNOMES. A new tower defense roguelike hybrid from developer DYSTOPIAN with ever-expanding biomes to battle through.

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Rogue Kingdoms blends tower defense with Vampire Survivors action and will have full Steam Deck support

Liam Dawe — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 13:51:20 +0000

With an upgrade system that's a little inspired by the popularity of Vampire Survivors and all the games that followed, Rogue Kingdoms combines some interesting looking tower defense gameplay with direct hero control and roguelike elements.

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Try the new demo and trailer for Rift Riff, a fast and "strategically tight" tower defense game

Liam Dawe — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 16:56:25 +0000

If you love tower defense games, you're going to want to check out the new demo and trailer for the upcoming Rift Riff. A "strategically tight" game, the developer says.

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Everwarder is a fresh tower defense roguelite hybrid about clearing the darkness

Liam Dawe — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 15:09:19 +0000

Everwarder asks: how long will your light last? Not very long in some of my attempts. It's a fresh feeling spin that merges tower defense with a bit of roguelite action together, as you attempt to break through the darkness.

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Chrysalis is a unique hybrid of tower defense and rogue-lite RPG action where you possess plants and creatures

Liam Dawe — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 11:32:43 +0000

Chrysalis from developer Metamorph Games wins top marks for some originality here, and if you're a fan of cute tower defense games that mix in some exploration this is one for you.

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Modding support returns to Dome Keeper in the latest update

Liam Dawe — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 11:21:37 +0000

While the developers keep working away on multiplayer for Dome Keeper, you can now get back to filling your game up with mods as support has returned.

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Melt Them All is a bit like a retro action rogue-lite Factorio with tower defense

Liam Dawe — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 12:38:38 +0000

Stripping down automation sims to the basics, adding in some tower defense and a little rogue-lite action with retro visuals and you have Melt Them All.

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The props fight back against the humans in Puropu Defense Squad

Liam Dawe — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 08:31:57 +0000

PlayTogether Studio who made Run Prop, Run! and the Mad Experiments: Escape Room series have put up a demo and release date for Puropu Defense Squad. A mixture of a shooter and tower defense.

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Dome Keeper hits 1 million players - multiplayer and modding support to come

Liam Dawe — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 11:53:17 +0000

Dome Keeper is a real gem with a simple yet highly satisfying gameplay loop, and it seems it's done well for Bippinbits. Even though they're working on the incredible looking PVKK, they're not done with Dome Keeper just yet.

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Terrorformer TD is a seriously good tower defense game where you shape the battlefield

Liam Dawe — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 14:40:35 +0000

It's hard to pull me away from Bloons TD 6, but Terrorformer TD has managed to do it. A tower defense game where you constantly tweak the battlefield as time goes on.

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Tower defense fans should try Nordhold: Origins, a free prologue for a much bigger upcoming game

Liam Dawe — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 14:45:24 +0000

Currently reviewing well from users on Steam is Nordhold: Origins, a free tower defense game with high replayability where you build up a medieval Nordic village.

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Frontline Crisis is a tough but engaging mix of tower defense and top-down shooting with a big mech

Liam Dawe — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 18:15:40 +0000

Developer BCQT released Frontline Crisis earlier in August, and like a lot of smaller games it seems to have flown under the radar but if you love tower defense and top down shooting you need to play this.

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The free game Infinitode 2 - Infinite Tower Defense added Linux support

Liam Dawe — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 10:40:14 +0000

Here's a fun surprise for you today, Infinitode 2 - Infinite Tower Defense is a free to play game that just added Native Linux support on July 30th.

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Steam Tower Defense Fest 2024 has begun

Liam Dawe — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 13:58:49 +0000

While I still grumble that Defense is the accepted spelling as a brit I want to always type Defence but anyway the Steam Tower Defense Fest 2024 is now live.

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Dome Keeper - A Keeper's Duty is a big free upgrade out now

Liam Dawe — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 17:22:28 +0000

While developer Bippinbits are working on their next game that has a title so long it's just hilarious (PVKK: Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant), they are still updating Dome Keeper with a big free update out now.

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Bite-sized roguelike tower defense game Bella Wants Blood releases July 24

Liam Dawe — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 12:53:00 +0000

Developer Sonderland (previously worked on Landnama, Core Defense) announced their roguelike tower defense game Bella Wants Blood is going to release on July 24 and it's a perfect coffee-break game. Note: the developer sent over a key, thoughts will be up around release.

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Drill Keeper seems to have it all with deckbuilding, tower defense and roguelite survival

Liam Dawe — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 16:17:57 +0000

Hooded Horse sure do pick some gems to publish with the latest announcement being Drill Keeper from ShoulderByte GmbH that looks like an intoxicating mix of genres.

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Terrorformer TD is a tower defense roguelite with a map you terraform as you go

Liam Dawe — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 13:48:40 +0000

With a map that erodes and grows as the game progresses, Terrorformer TD puts a rather unique spin on the tower defense genre.

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Bella Wants Blood is a bite-sized "roguelike terror defense" game

Liam Dawe — Wed, 29 May 2024 11:51:30 +0000

After releasing the roguelike tower defense Core Defense in 2020, and then the rogue-lite survival base builder Landnama in 2023 developer Sonderland is back with something weird with Bella Wants Blood.

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Co-op tower defense beat 'em up ChronoDojo adds various Steam Deck improvements

Liam Dawe — Tue, 28 May 2024 11:00:31 +0000

ChronoDojo blends together two genres that I didn't think would work. Putting together tower defense and a beat 'em up sounds a bit odd, but I've seen a lot stranger.

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Towerful Defense: Prologue is like Brotato and Vampire Survivors had a TD baby

Liam Dawe — Thu, 16 May 2024 11:31:30 +0000

I'm apparently a total and complete sucker for anything that allows for short rounds of gameplay, that mixes in elements of Brotato and Vampire Survivors to let me customize my run and Towerful Defense: Prologue has plenty of that.

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Glyphica: Typing Survival brings typing games into the survivor-like era

Liam Dawe — Mon, 13 May 2024 10:13:57 +0000

Survivor-likes, bullet-heaven horde-games are everywhere after Vampire Survivors showed up and now one developer is attempting to do the same with a typing game in Glyphica: Typing Survival.

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Wizard colony-sim tower defense game Artificer's Tower readies Steam Deck support

Liam Dawe — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 11:05:55 +0000

I love indie developers because they keep making some of the most weird and wonderful combinations, and a recent discovery is Artificer's Tower. The devs say it's a "cozy colony sim resource management game that features base-building, tower defense systems, and powerful enemies to defeat".

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Mining and base defense game Dome Keeper got a huge upgrade

Liam Dawe — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 11:43:48 +0000

Dome Keeper was already pretty great. Giving you a mixture of mining, exploration, base-building and tower defense and now it's quite a lot bigger with a free update out now.

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Heretic's Fork is an unholy blending of deck-building and tower defense

Liam Dawe — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 18:31:59 +0000

I think my love for Vampire Survivor like games has ended, and a new relationship has been made with Heretic's Fork because it's simply brilliant.

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My favourite Tower Defense game Bloons TD 6 is free on Epic

Liam Dawe — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 16:02:12 +0000

Bloons TD 6 is an absolutely wonderful family-friendly Tower Defense game, and if you don't own it already you can grab it free on Epic Games and it works great on Linux.

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Micro-strategy and base building game Kingdom Eighties is out now

Liam Dawe — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 13:10:42 +0000

Kingdom Eighties is at least the 4th game in the series and it's a bit of a standalone spin-off, with a rather different setting compared with previous entries.

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TailQuest Defense is a charming mix of exploration and tower defense

Liam Dawe — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 10:26:58 +0000

After being in development for 5 years, TailQuest Defense is finally here as one of the most ambitious early Godot Engine games.

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Base-building, tower defense and digging — Lumencraft has it all

Liam Dawe — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 11:02:15 +0000

Lumencraft is a pretty gorgeous top-down blending of base-building, where you need to set up defensive towers and a whole lot of digging.

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Tower defense adventure Dwerve adds a whole new classic TD mode

Liam Dawe — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 13:31:52 +0000

Dwerve is an action-adventure with tower defense that released back in May, and they have a major update out now adding in a whole new mode more like classic tower defense games.

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Dome Keeper adds new cave types and little critters to make exploration more interesting

Liam Dawe — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 10:59:54 +0000

Dome Keeper is one of my favourite indie releases this year, blending together casual underground mining with frantic base-defence and a new update just rolled out making it even more interesting.

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Tower-defense base-building mining game Lumencraft adds procedural maps

Liam Dawe — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 12:31:00 +0000

Lumencraft is a really interesting game that blends together elements of tower-defense, base-building, mining and a little Deep Rock Galactic in a top-down view. A big new release is out now and it's Steam Deck Verified with Native Linux support.

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Mixing tower defense with puzzle-platforming, TailQuest Defense has a demo up

Liam Dawe — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 15:46:47 +0000

TailQuest Defense looks like one to pop on your wishlist. After 5 years in development from a two-person team in Godot Engine, a demo is up now.

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Mixing factory management, Tower Defense and RTS - Mindustry 7.0 is out now

Liam Dawe — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 12:50:16 +0000

Easily one of the best open source games around, Mindustry from AnukenDev just had a MASSIVE new release out that took quite some time to make.

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Dome Keeper is a nice twist on base / tower defense

Liam Dawe — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 16:07:36 +0000

Blending together elements of survival, mining, exploration and tower defense — Dome Keeper is worth your attention.

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Mixing action-adventure and tower defense, Dwerve is out now

Liam Dawe — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 12:38:30 +0000

Dwerve is a bit of an odd one, blending together elements of a dungeon-crawling action adventure with tower defense and it's out now.

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Lumencraft hits 20,000 copies in the first week, roadmap detailed

Liam Dawe — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 16:10:59 +0000

Lumencraft, a recent Early Access release from 2Dynamic Games that offers up Native Linux support powered by Godot Engine seems to have been a hit.

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Mixing tower defense and dungeon crawling, Dwerve releases May 31

Liam Dawe — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 16:11:15 +0000

After the success of their Kickstarter back in 2020 and a delay to the release, Half Human Games have now confirmed that Dwerve will launch on May 31.

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Lumencraft blends top-down shooting, Tower Defense and a destructible environment

Liam Dawe — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 17:48:11 +0000

Lumencraft is a brand new release from developer 2Dynamic Games that is going to suck up far too much of my time, and might be a new favourite run blast through on my Steam Deck.

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Send help as I have discovered Bloons TD 6

Liam Dawe — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 10:21:41 +0000

Stepping slightly out of my comfort zone recently to try something different, I picked up a copy of Bloons TD 6 and I think I now may need help to tear myself away from it.

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Fast-paced strategic action in Sky Fleet is out now

Liam Dawe — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 13:59:06 +0000

Melding together elements of a fast-paced action game with the tactics of a tower defence game, Sky Fleet is officially out now.

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