Tower defense indie games

Sketch Defense

Wacky Games

Draw your towers. Defend your doodled castle. Try not to panic. A playful tower defense with 20 campaign pages, drawings that affect your defenses, and online 1v1 Doodle Duels where you sketch an army and send it at a friend.

Defend the Sacred Well

Yang

Defend the Sacred Well in a single-player action defense game. Choose from three heroes and three maps, combine skills and alliance bonuses, dodge boss attacks, and protect the well through twenty waves. Then take your build into Endless Mode.

Grurong Random Defense

PlayBear

Summon a random squad and hold the line for 100 waves. Every summon is a gamble — nine unit ranks, and the strongest ones are rare. Upgrade mid-run, level up your squad between runs, and break five boss waves. Let 80 enemies pile up on the field and it's over.

Spirit Route

Curious Forge

Escort your Spirit Nexus to its destination while building towers and tiles to stop incoming monsters. Combine unique Nexus abilities, random shop choices, and strategic path building in this tower defense adventure.

Desktop Monsters

Ludolark

Turn your desktop into a digital battlefield. Build 5 attack towers and a Firewall Barrier, face 24 threats across 3 battlefields, conquer a 24-wave campaign and 7 challenges, or survive Endless. Local LAN multiplayer adds sabotage, virus deployment and Retaliation Mode.

GRIDMINE

Waterboat

2 titles on Steam

GRIDMINE is a short, retro tower defense built around incremental progression. Survive for as long as possible, then return to your skill tree to spend extracted resources on tower-based upgrades and abilities.

Qiang Gu: Ghost Festival

LILIWEI

Defend the Ghost Festival tower in a free-to-play 2D pixel-art strategy RPG. Build your lineup, assign distinct classes, collect loot, trade for supplies, and survive waves of fantasy enemies in tactical auto-battles.

The Town is Overrun

Lockstead Studios

Defend your town from waves of relentless aliens overrunning the town. Build, upgrade, and strategically place defenses to stop the invasion before they destroy your town.

OnGrid()

Paranormality UK

Build, expand, and defend a finite grid while dynamically reshaping enemy paths. Every decision matters as escalating Colossus waves push your defenses to the limit. How long can you remain OnGrid()?

Delenar TD: Remastered

Batholith Entertainment

Delenar TD Remastered is an old school Grid based Tower Defense game, where you control the path of the mobs. Build towers, place mazing rocks, and adapt to the mobs in each level. The game is difficult, but the strategy of solving each level is completely up to you!

Magnyard

Bakogame

A management and automation game built like a tower defense: the assault is a queue of trucks, the turrets are shredders. Build an automated recycling yard, equip your drones, and swallow waves of waste that only get heavier. One jammed queue and the yard shuts down.

IZIO: The Pixel Kishi

N Studio

IZIO: The Pixel Kishi is a challenging 2D pixel-art action game inspired by Sekiro and Dark Souls. Study your enemies, learn their attack patterns, and turn a well-timed parry into your opening to strike.

Mechabot Defender

Spargit Studio

Deploy your turrets and defend against an ever-growing mechanical horde! Upgrade your turrets separately in unique ways, use unique character abilities, and create powerful synergies.

VALDIS

Whale Rock Games

Valdis is a fast-paced sci-fi hybrid of tower defense and third-person shooter. Defend your space station’s energy core from relentless zombie waves, combine turrets and elements to trigger devastating reactions, grab your shotgun, and survive at all costs!

Ghost Villa

Claudio Norori

Hunt hellish ghosts through the four rapidly changing seasons, build up your turrets during the day, by night you will fight endless hordes that want to haunt your home. A round based FPS with tower defense, roguelike, and farming elements. How many nights will you survive?

Bandit Simulator TD

游戏养家工作室

This is a "Tower Defense + Base Building" game where you establish a bandit stronghold from scratch. With "Tower defense" at its core, you can ambush travelers, develop characters through profession and equipment systems, and expand your stronghold by researching, forging, and constructing!

Lightholm

Lalen

A tower defence where every enemy has a weakness and every tower can overheat. Slow, burn or shock an enemy to open it up, then bring it down. Twelve boards, four tower types, element pads, a skill tree between runs, and an Endless mode on every board you beat.

Torreta

Ricardson Albuquerque

Tower defense where the maze is yours to build and the ammunition is yours to manufacture. 16 towers, a factory of belts and assemblers fed by enemy debris, and a card every wave. Reach wave 50 — then find out that Hard was the easy one.

Hack 'n' Stack

Triple Boris Inc.

Physics meets tower defense in this chaotic party game up to 4 players. Craft barricades and turrets with whatever you can find. But beware: relentless waves of enemies are coming to tear down everything you build.

Who Guards the Demon Castle?

DK.Lee

Build facilities, raise monster companions, and command the defense of your demon castle in this isometric strategy game. Read enemy routes, manage resources, and grow with your crew across a 30-day story campaign. Choose Korean or English in the in-game settings.

Tower Survivors: Fortress

Berraco

You are humanity's last hope in this tower auto battler inspired by the popular Warcraft 3 mod. Every 30 seconds eight new potential upgrade cards appear. Your build must turn the tower into a fortress while ever-stronger enemies close in. In Fortress mode, every run grants permanent upgrades.

Taerim's Blueberry Defense

taerim_k

First game from this studio

Sweep away the swarming blueberry horde! Taerim's Blueberry Defense is a bullet heaven incremental defense game bursting with flashy effects. Hammer your skills to clear the field, evolve maxed-out skills for a different build every run, and spend Essence to unlock new skills.

Tower Tactics II

asraworks

The fusion of deck-building roguelike and tower defense returns, bigger than ever! Build your deck with powerful new cards, unlock unique trinkets, and deploy enhanced towers to overcome relentless waves of enemies and new strategic challenges.

Touhou Gensokyo Defense

Erosion

An auto-battle roguelike defense set in Gensokyo. Field up to five Touhou heroines, choose where each one stands, and the danmaku flies on its own. Every level-up pauses the fight for three cards that reshape your build. Beat a boss and she joins you. Forty stages.