Recommend me a tower defence game

[Raymond Lin]

For an itch to play some tower defence like game.

Not into the depth of Civ, just something to build up a defence and wave after wave of attack comes, with levels may be?

Sounds like a game for the phone rather than Steam (will be playing on either Steam Deck or Mac M4).

Any of these platforms will be fine.

 

[Ollie83]

Orcs must Die or Plants V Zombies would be my suggestions.

 

[Deluxe]

As above, the original Plants vs Zombies is excellent.

Bloons TD6 is quite good. It's single player and online co-op.

 

[loftie]

For an itch to play some tower defence like game.

Not into the depth of Civ, just something to build up a defence and wave after wave of attack comes, with levels may be?

Sounds like a game for the phone rather than Steam (will be playing on either Steam Deck or Mac M4).

Any of these platforms will be fine.

If you're not against an Epic account, the android Epic Launcher currently has Bloons TD6 and Dungeon of the Endless for free. Both good games IMHO, though not played either on Android. Dungeon of the Endless is not without some bugs however and is less of your traditional tower defence.

Dungeon of the ENDLESS™ on Steam

Dungeon of the ENDLESS™ is a Rogue-Like Dungeon-Defense game, in which the player and their team of heroes must protect the generator of their crashed ship while exploring an ever-expanding dungeon, all while facing waves of monsters and special events as they try to find their way out...

store.steampowered.com

Bloons TD 6 on Steam

The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.

store.steampowered.com

Other than that, I like Dungeon Defenders (the original one), Plants Vs Zombies (again the original) and the kingdom rush games which I got for my phone.

As above, the original Plants vs Zombies is excellent.

Bloons TD6 is quite good. It's single player and online co-op.

I've not managed to play it co-op much recently, keeps desyncing annoyingly as I used to be able to. Though looking online it seems to be a feature unfortunately.

 

[Torquar]

Defense Grid and Defense Grid 2.

 

[Kill_Phil]

Defense Grid and Defense Grid 2.

Yeah was going to recommend these myself!

Otherwise plants Vs zombies is also top notch

 

[Minusorange]

Diplomacy is not an option, or Stronghold definitive edition, bit more interesting than tower defence because you build castles, also if you like Zombies, Infection Free Zone is kind of tower defence and you can choose anywhere in a realistic world map to set your base

 

[LostCorpse]

onces that ive played:
plants vs zombies
Dungeon defendors?
they are billions
Orcs Must Die
mindustry
rift breaker
creep world 4


ones i havent played
dome keeper
Diplomacy is Not an Option

 

[AStaley]

2nd/3rd, RiftBreaker, great game and devs keep updating it.

 

[Varys]

Riftbreaker is excellent. Wouldn't call it tower defence though it's a normal RTS

 

[Raymond Lin]

I had Plants v Zombies when It came out on the iPad, played it to death so I think i will try something else.

 

[iron_monkey]

Rift breaker is a great game but don't bother trying it on the deck. I loaded up save with everything on the lowest settings and was getting about 10 fpm that's 10 frames per minute.

I briefly tried orcs must die as well but can't remember why that wasn't working very well.

 

[bobuk]

Sanctum 1 and 2

 

[Yaayuh!]

WC3 days - Azure Tower Defense anyone?

 

[Hellsmk2]

There's only one answer here... The best TD game of all time by a long long way is Bloons TD6. No other comes close.

It might look like a kids game, but it has the deepest gameplay mechanics around, the most balanced towers, the best synergies. It's outstanding.

I don't play it anymore, but I'd put in 1,700 hours by the time I stopped. Not bad for the £0.69 I paid for it.

 

[LostCorpse]

was going to suggest Sanctum as well but figured it might be a bit to old. i dont have a steam deck to test

 

[Raymond Lin]

There's only one answer here... The best TD game of all time by a long long way is Bloons TD6. No other comes close.

It might look like a kids game, but it has the deepest gameplay mechanics around, the most balanced towers, the best synergies. It's outstanding.

I don't play it anymore, but I'd put in 1,700 hours by the time I stopped. Not bad for the £0.69 I paid for it.

What platform did you play it on?

Bah, its £11.99 on Steam (£5 on CD Keys) at the moment, 69p would have been a no brainer!

 

[loftie]

Wait for spring sale - it'll probably be fairly cheap

 

[Hellsmk2]

What platform did you play it on?

Bah, its £11.99 on Steam (£5 on CD Keys) at the moment, 69p would have been a no brainer!

Steam. It does go down in the sales, but I've never seen it go as low as I paid unfortunately. I wouldn't hesitate at £11.99 though. If you get into it, you'll sink a lot of time on it.

 

[LostCorpse]

some others to consider :
Artificial Extinction
Particle Fleet: Emergence
Anomaly: Warzone Earth

not exactly Tower Defence
AI War: Fleet Command / AI War: Fleet Command 2
but pretty close