Games like The White Laboratory
by Laboratory Systems
The White Laboratory is a sandbox style physics-based tower defense and RTS game in which you modularly build and command robotic structures. Use them to defend against or conquer other disobedient mechanical blocks on a facility floating in the atmosphere of a remote gas planet.
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-30%$8.39From Glory To Goo
Apr 2 · Stratagem Blue
Both: RTS · Tower Defense · Real-Time with Pause
From Glory To Goo is a Sci-Fi survival RTS set on an alien world. Serve as humanity's bulwark by establishing a colony and supporting your colonists still in orbit. But beware, for The Goo, a relentless and shape-shifting force approaches from all sides, even above and below.
Base BuildingRTSTower DefenseReal-Time with PauseAction RTSResource ManagementColony SimCity BuilderStrategySandbox👍 1,796
$14.99Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal
Mar 27 · Knuckle Cracker
Both: Tower Defense · RTS · Sci-fi
Creeper World 3 is what happens when cellular automata takes over a strategy simulation. Instead of discrete units that attack your base, a fluid-like substance spreads over the terraformable terrain. Your base, your weapons, your strategy... you must adapt them all.
Tower DefenseStrategyIndieRTSSingleplayerSci-fiReal-Time with PauseSimulationBase BuildingLevel Editor👍 4,098
$9.99DG2: Defense Grid 2
Sep 23 · Hidden Path Entertainment
Both: Tower Defense · Sci-fi · RTS
Great strategy is timeless. Build, adapt, and defend across dynamic maps, solo or online - every session brings new strategies, new solutions, and new surprises. Now is the perfect time to enter the grid.
Tower DefenseStrategyActionSci-fiTacticalBase BuildingRTSStylizedCombatReal Time Tactics👍 2,704
$11.99Protolife
Jun 15 · Volcanic Giraffe
Both: Tower Defense · RTS · Sci-fi
Protolife is an unique tower-based strategy game which gives you a direct control over the builder robot in a struggle against the hungry proto-life organism.
Tower DefensePixel GraphicsRTSStrategyBase BuildingSci-fiIndieSingleplayerTop-DownAliens👍 446
$14.99Tower Factory
Nov 7 · Gius Caminiti
Both: Tower Defense · RTS
Tower Factory is a tower defense and automation game with roguelite elements. Optimize resource production using conveyor systems while defending against monster waves. Can you find and destroy the enemy tower before it's too late?
AutomationTower DefenseStrategyRTSRogueliteRoguelikeBase BuildingResource ManagementManagementCrafting👍 1,221
$9.99CARNAGE OFFERING Tower Defense
Sep 17 · Futurtech
Both: Tower Defense · RTS
The replicator robots are back! It's 2528. The machines are increasingly infecting the planets with genetically modified monsters. Challenge them and try to stop the onslaught. Upgrade buildings and heroes, mine resources, discover technology and fight to save humanity!
Tower DefenseStrategyRTSActionAdventureIndieCrafting👍 288
$14.99IDUN - Frontline Survival
Jan 20 · IDUN Interactive
Both: Tower Defense · RTS · Sci-fi
A defense RTS where you can move turrets at will. Extract resources, upgrade technology, and defend against enemy swarms in a gripping space campaign. Hold the line, set up your turrets, and brace for screen-filling hordes!
3DBuildingWargameTower DefenseStrategyRTSSurvivalBase BuildingMiningSci-fi👍 685
$14.99Infested Planet
Mar 6 · Rocket Bear Games
Both: Tower Defense · RTS · Sci-fi
Command a team of 5 elite soldiers against an alien horde of 100,000. Surrounded on all sides, you must outmaneuver and outsmart the enemy.
StrategyTower DefenseActionRTSIndieSingleplayerTop-DownSci-fiAliensTactical👍 2,468
$11.99Dig or Die
Jul 10 · Gaddy Games
Both: Sandbox · Tower Defense
Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.
SurvivalOpen World Survival CraftSandboxCrafting2DOpen WorldIndieTower DefenseStrategyAction👍 3,864
$5.99Frontline Crisis
Aug 14 · BCQT
Both: Tower Defense · RTS
Defend humanity's last hope, pilot a powerful mech, in Frontlines Crisis! A battlefield swarming with insects makes strategic and combat decisions crucial. Each decision will determine your fate. Defend humanity's last sanctuary, fight fiercely, and uphold human honor with wits and courage!
Tower DefenseTop-Down ShooterRTSStrategyPixel GraphicsSpaceMechsLocal Co-OpAction RTS1980s👍 348
-40%$10.49Tower Dominion
May 7 · Parallel 45 Games
Both: Tower Defense · RTS
Build and design the terrain while defending your stronghold against alien invasion in this unique Roguelike tower defense. Choose from 30 heroes, survive enemy waves, and upgrade a variety of destructive towers to hold the line!
Tower DefenseStrategyBase BuildingRoguelikeRTSTacticalRogueliteChoices MatterProcedural GenerationResource Management👍 5,124
-50%$9.99Space Engineers
Feb 28 · Keen Software House
Both: Sandbox · Physics
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
SandboxBuildingSpaceSurvivalSimulationPhysicsOpen WorldMultiplayerBase BuildingSingleplayer👍 102,609
$2.99Planet TD
Jan 6 · MD Games
Both: Tower Defense · RTS
6 different types of towers! 4 planets with different characteristics! 25 different enemies. Drones, Tanks, Biorobotic enemies and many different ground and air vehicles! Snowy and Glacial maps, Desert and Arid lands! Prepare to defend the solar system against invaders!
Tower DefenseReal Time TacticsAuto BattlerTactical3D PlatformerCasualStrategyRTS2D PlatformerWargame👍 124
$5.99Phantom Signal — Sci-Fi Strategy Game
Jan 16 · Veslo Games
Both: Tower Defense · Sci-fi · RTS
Phantom Signal is a real-time sci-fi strategy game with unusual mechanics. Explore mysterious star systems and reveal the secret of the phantom signal.
StrategyCasualSimulationTower DefenseSpaceSci-fiIndieSingleplayerSpace SimRTS👍 134
$19.99Axon TD: Uprising - Tower Defense
Sep 27 · Element Studios
Both: Tower Defense · RTS · Sci-fi
Axon TD lets you expand the map boundaries themselves. A huge arsenal of towers and a wide variety of enemies clash in a battlefield that grows to your whims. Engage in single, cooperative, and roguelite gameplay.
Tower DefenseReal Time TacticsRogueliteStrategyPvERTSRoguelikeOnline Co-OpSci-fiTactical👍 707
$14.99Particle Fleet: Emergence
Sep 29 · Knuckle Cracker
Both: RTS · Real-Time with Pause · Sci-fi
Build and design your own fleets and stand opposed to the Particulate in this physics/strategy/RTS/fleet hybrid. Build partially destructible and self repairing ships that interact with enemies less controlled by some scripted logic and more driven by a real time massive physics particle simulation.
StrategyIndieSimulationSpaceRTSReal-Time with PauseSci-fi2DSingleplayerPixel Graphics👍 1,198
$14.99Anomaly 2
May 15 · 11 bit studios
Both: Tower Defense · Sci-fi · RTS
Anomaly 2 is a sequel to the critically acclaimed Anomaly Warzone Earth. Maintaining the core elements of the original, Anomaly 2 adds plenty of new features: unit morphing, over million tactical combinations, post-apo world and tower defense vs tower offense multiplayer mode.
StrategyIndieActionTower DefenseSci-fiSingleplayerMultiplayerRTSTouch-FriendlyTactical👍 439
