Core Defense
Games like Core Defense

Games like Core Defense

A roguelike tower defense with deckbuilding, a reward-and-upgrade loop, difficult waves, and high replayability.

Mineral Defense
A relaxed yet deep science-fantasy tower-defense roguelite with randomized maps, upgrade paths, and synergy-chasing runs that reviewers sank roughly 8–21 hours into.
2024-11-15
- Science fiction

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Core Defense
Games like Core Defense

Games like Core Defense

A roguelike tower defense with deckbuilding, a reward-and-upgrade loop, difficult waves, and high replayability.

Mineral Defense
A relaxed yet deep science-fantasy tower-defense roguelite with randomized maps, upgrade paths, and synergy-chasing runs that reviewers sank roughly 8–21 hours into.
2024-11-15
- Science fiction

Strategy

Indie

Hexguardian

A single-player roguelite tower defense game where building hexagonal tile maps and funneling enemies is key, offering short casual sessions and substantial long-term play.

2024-05-02

Action
Puzzle
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric

Rogue Tower

A brutal single-player tower defense with roguelike elements, an expanding path, and a luck-driven loop that keeps players engaged for dozens of hours.

2022-01-28

Survival
Strategy
Fantasy
Bird view / Isometric
Tactical
Indie

Tower Tactics: Liberation

A single-player deck-building roguelike tower defense about deploying towers, collecting trinkets, and casting spells against the Salkoth, with very positive reviews and a potentially lengthy playtime.

2023-02-06

Strategy
Indie

Cobalt Core

A single-player sci-fi roguelike deckbuilder with turn-based spaceship tactics and a time-loop mystery, offering a cute and challenging ~23-hour experience for reviewers.

2023-11-08

Science fiction
Puzzle
Strategy
Tactical
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)
Card & Board Game

Shapebreaker - Tower Defense Deckbuilder

A short single-player strategy fusion of tower defense and roguelike deckbuilding, where cards build and upgrade towers, with surprising depth despite a basic presentation.

2023-05-02

Strategy
Indie
Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Card & Board Game

Cartridge Defense

A cyberpunk tower defense deckbuilder with campaign and rogue-like modes; challenging, sometimes buggy, with a typical reviewer playtime around 6 hours.

2022-09-03

Strategy
Indie

There Are No Orcs

A single-player RTS-roguelike auto-battler where building placement and unit-commander combos create a balanced, replayable run-based strategy game.

2025-11-05

Strategy
Indie

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)

Siegebreaker

A compact single-player tower defense game about building unique towers and upgrading them to defeat fallen gods, with balanced difficulty and a manageable ~8-hour campaign.

2024-07-19

Strategy
Fantasy

Dr. Professor Scientist's Weapons Testing Facility

A run-based tower defense game about building one super-tower from countless projectile-modifier combos to repel hordes and uncover northern secrets.

2022-03-08

Science fiction
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Tactical
Simulator
Turn-based strategy (TBS)

Tower Dominion

A single-player roguelike tower defense where you design terrain, pick from 30 heroes, and upgrade towers against alien waves, with heavily randomized runs that reviewers spent dozens of hours exploring.

2025-05-07

Action
Warfare
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric

Mineral Defense