Looking for the best tower defense games ever? You’ve just found them. On below, you’ll find the 15 best tower defense games to play in 2023.
Tower Defense is a subgenre of real time strategy games. You simply place towers in strategic positions to repel invasion forces in tower defense games. All that matters is the tower locations, tower types, upgrades, special powers, and heroes. Play your cards right and you will defeat all the enemy waves.
1. Kingdom Rush Series
I’ve played tons of tower defense games throughout years. So, believe me when I say this, Kingdom Rush games are the best of the best. There is no competition between Kingdom Rush and other tower defense games. I say this because of the beautiful graphics, balanced gameplay, tower variety, campaign playtime, heroes, and cool story of Kingdom Rush games.
All in all, it’s a 10 / 10 tower defense game and you shouldn’t miss it if you’re fan of tower defense games.
All Kingdom Rush games in play order:
- Kingdom Rush
- Frontiers
- Origins
- Vengeance
2. Bloons TD 6
Not balloons, its Bloons. Bloons TD 6 is a massive 3D tower defense game. When I say massive, I’m talking about the playtime which is almost neverending. That means, you’re going to be satisfied of tower defense genre if you like the Bloons TD 6.
3. Plants vs. Zombies
4. Defense Grid: The Awakening
5. GemCraft – Chasing Shadows
6. Dota 2 Custom Games
Oh boy, when I was a kid, I played Dota 1 on Warcraft 3 Garena server all day. Of course, Warcraft 3 had many other maps, including tower defense ones. Such as element TD, green TD, commander TD, Azure TD, circle TD, castle TD, etc. Lucky for us, most of these maps imported to Dota 2. Now you can enjoy them with better graphics and mechanics.
Though its little hard to find many players in Dota 2 custom games. If you find people to play, better make sure to add them to your friend list for future games.
Dota 2 tower defense custom games / modes:
- Element TD
- Legion TD
- Random Tower Defense: Oasis
- Spin TD
- Ability TD
7. Legion TD 2
8. Cursed Treasure 2
9. Rogue Tower
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10. PixelJunk
11. Mechs V Kaijus
12. Dungeon Warfare
13. Element TD 2
14. Revenge of the Titans
15. X-Morph Defense