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A tactical roguelite tower defense about trading safety for power, where you draft Risk Cards, shape enemy routes, and evolve towers—praised by its first reviewer.

Drill Core
A strategic planet-mining colony sim that mixes base management with tower defense, balancing resource extraction against escalating alien attacks.
2025-07-17
- Science fiction
- Strategy

Indie

Side view

Sandbox

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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

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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

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Axon TD: Uprising - Tower Defense

A strategic tower defense game where you expand the map to funnel enemies and place specialized towers, offering single-player, co-op, and roguelite modes; sampled reviewers logged roughly 26–30 hours.

2024-09-27

Science fiction
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie

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Core Defense

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

2020-07-30

Strategy
Tactical
Indie
Arcade

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Gem Miner TD

A single-player tower defense that mixes gem mining, merging towers, maze design, and roguelike perks — with all building happening between waves.

2026-01-20

Strategy
Fantasy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie

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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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Towerful Defense: A Rogue TD

A run-based single-player tower defense focused on one tower, loadout-building, and alien hordes, with a hands-on, trade-off-heavy feel.

2024-07-29

Action
Strategy
Indie

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Guardians of Holme

A single-player tower defense with deckbuilding and roguelite elements, focused on terrain-based trap placement against endless waves; a familiar but engaging run-based strategy game, with one reviewer logging ~21 hours.

2023-12-13

Adventure
Strategy
Indie

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Digs TD

A single-player roguelike tower defense with mining, terrain shaping, and card upgrades, though RNG-heavy combat draws mixed reviews.

2023-10-19

Strategy
Indie

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Repel The Rifts

A roguelite tower defense game on an alien world where you draft upgrades, reveal terrain, and build defenses across short, RNG-driven runs.

2025-11-24

Science fiction
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Tactical
Indie

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Hold The Mine

A single-player roguelike survival strategy game about defending a mine from monster waves until sunrise, with resource management and hero deployment; reviewers find it fun but repetitive, with a median playtime of about seven hours.

2026-02-17

Strategy