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Chess Defense Saga
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Games like Chess Defense Saga

A compact chess-themed tower defense with classical no-save restart-on-death structure, delivering a short strategic session around 220 minutes.

Defend the Rook
A single-player roguelike that blends turn-based tactics and tower defense, with short ~80-minute runs of building towers and commanding units against enemy waves.
2021-10-26
- Strategy
- Fantasy

Bird view / Isometric

Indie

Turn-based strategy (TBS)

Role-playing (RPG)

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Decently Bad Tower Defense

A short, casual tower defense game with three towers and three enemy types where strategic placement wins.

2020-05-25

Strategy
Indie

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Immortal Defense

A story-driven tower defense game about sacrificing yourself to defend your home world, with punishing difficulty and an emotionally resonant narrative; reviewers' median playtime is about 7.5 hours.

2015-08-31

Action
Science fiction
Strategy
Indie
Side view

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Royal Defense

A single-player medieval tower defense game about defending a dwarven castle from troll hordes with towers and spells, featuring a short campaign and mixed player reception.

2014-11-10

Shooter
Puzzle
Strategy
Fantasy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Historical
Kids

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1BIT CASTLE

A short, simple single-player tower defense game about defending a castle from monsters, with mixed reviews over missing features.

2019-10-25

Indie

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Classic Tower Defense 2

A single-player medieval tower defense with roguelike progression, a praised campaign, and an unbalanced endless mode.

2026-02-09

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Gigachess

A compact chessboard hero-defense puzzler where you command chess pieces against endless pawn waves, with a catchy soundtrack and escalating difficulty.

2015-12-15

Puzzle
Strategy
Indie
Turn-based strategy (TBS)

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Defence to death

A brief single-player tower defense game where you defend a castle from monster waves, but reviewers find it tedious.

2017-05-11

Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie

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No Kings Tiny Defenders

A cozy roguelike tower defense with unique runs, strategic depth, and charming visuals.

2025-11-19

Adventure
Strategy
Indie
Simulator

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War Land TD

A tactical single-player tower-defense card battler in which deckbuilding, gold management, and hero/boss summons defend one tower across 12 levels and 4 locations, with a reviewer playthrough around 15 hours.

2025-12-12

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Pan's Survivor Chess

A brief single-player strategy game mixing auto-battler and vampire-survivor elements in a tower-defense style, with mixed reviews and very short play sessions.

2023-08-17

Strategy

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Chest Mate

A challenging precision-aiming tower defense/puzzle game where you manually control a cannon and optimize defenses to protect your mate in short play sessions.

2022-04-08

Action
Strategy