Games like Cosmic Dust & Rust
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Cosmic Dust & Rust is a tower defence game set in space. Upgrade your ship, build turrets and defence systems, undergo side missions and take control of your ship manually and use its cannons and super weapons to destroy your enemies.
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$9.99Stellar Initiative
May 27 · Five Head Games
Both: Tower Defense · Difficult · Pixel Graphics
Stellar Initiative is a roguelike tower defense game where you land on the planet and use your orbit ship to deliver buildings and support you with fire. Complete missions, install new upgrades, discover powerful artifacts, and find the best strategy!
Tower DefenseRoguelikeStrategyDifficultSci-fiPixel Graphics2DBase BuildingMechsProcedural Generation👍 406
$9.99Cluckmech Oasis
May 9 · BlackLight
Both: Tower Defense · Pixel Graphics
Cluckmech Oasis, a top-down shooting Roguelike tower defense game. Play as the Warcluck and lead your team of animal heroes in a fight for survival. Collect, build and upgrade defenses, and engage in intense battle against waves of plant enemies.
StrategyRoguelikeTower DefensePixel GraphicsTop-Down ShooterCuteRogueliteBuildingActionShooter👍 3,078
$5.99Frontline Crisis
Aug 14 · BCQT
Both: Tower Defense · Pixel Graphics
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
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
-20%$15.99SENTRY
Mar 25 · Fireblade Software
Both: Tower Defense
SENTRY is an action-defense first person shooter where you defend your spaceship against invading aliens. Plot an escape route through hostile space and battle the enemy across your vessel with the support of traps, turrets and environmental destruction.
Tower DefenseStrategyFPSSci-fiSurvivalActionColorfulStylized3DFirst-Person👍 847
$14.99Mineral Defense
Nov 15 · Corestone Games
Both: Tower Defense
Mineral Defense combines tower defense with roguelite elements and procedural generation. Build paths, unlock upgrades, and unleash powerful synergies to conquer evolving challenges in an ever-expanding world.
StrategyRogueliteTower DefenseCard GameRoguelike3DBase BuildingCasualDeckbuildingProcedural Generation👍 220
-70%$2.39Necrosmith 2
Mar 27 · Alawar
Both: Tower Defense
Like a dead man reanimated by dark sorcery, the necromancer simulator is back! Give the undead the ability to fly over mountains and swim across rivers, explore a fully generated world at night and fend off enemy hordes during the day. Start a new, uhm, life.
Tower DefenseStrategyRogueliteReal-TimeBullet HellManagementSimulationTop-DownActionExploration👍 1,316
-30%$8.39From Glory To Goo
Apr 2 · Stratagem Blue
Both: Tower Defense
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
$24.99Outpost: Infinity Siege
Mar 26 · Team Ranger
Both: Tower Defense
Command Mobile Outpost and take XEN Firearm to venture deep into the Signet surveillance off-limit area. Collect unique Weapon Units. Amp up the firepower of the Outpost that fights with you. This is an FTD game - FPS, Tower Defense, Base Building and much more all at the same time.
Robots3DTower DefenseBase BuildingFPSResource ManagementCo-opSingleplayerPost-apocalypticSci-fi👍 11,637
$7.99Northend Tower Defense
Sep 4 · Northend Games
Both: Tower Defense
Jump into a realtime strategy, action filled battlefield, deploy relentless soldiers, unlock powerful troops and vehicles, upgrade your army, decimate the enemy. If that's not enough, jump into a chaotic Zombie mode, with traps, fun upgrades, and a new gameplay!
Tower DefenseIndieStrategyAuto BattlerWarAction RTSReal Time TacticsManagementTacticalMilitary👍 1,308
$14.99Tower Factory
Nov 7 · Gius Caminiti
Both: Tower Defense
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
-90%$1.19Hexguardian
May 2 · Split Second Games
Both: Tower Defense
Hexguardian is a roguelite, tower defense game where you build your own maps with hexagonal tiles! Build and upgrade towers, recruit armies, learn spells, construct wonders and place hexagonal tiles to create a path to enhance your defenses. With plenty of game modes and talents to unlock!
Tower DefenseCartoonyRogueliteRoguelikeStrategyHex GridProcedural GenerationTacticalRTS3D👍 617
$14.99IDUN - Frontline Survival
Jan 20 · IDUN Interactive
Both: Tower Defense
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
$9.99Topple Tactics
Oct 20 · Braian Strak
Both: Tower Defense
Topple Tactics is a physics-based multiplayer tower defense game where one huge player controls the map by placing towers and using abilities, whilst the little players level up their stats and equipment to reach the end of the map and defeat the huge player!
PhysicsComedyColorfulTower DefenseMultiplayerCasualPvPStrategyFunnyAction👍 1,369
$23.99ShapeHero Factory
Sep 17 · Asobism.Co.,Ltd
Both: Tower Defense
In ShapeHero Factory, you’re the engineer of an ever-evolving paint-fuelled factory that spits out magical, shape-based warriors. Send them into battle - to death or glory - then build an even better factory on your next run.
AutomationBase BuildingTower DefenseRogueliteResource Management2.5DCuteStrategyBuildingSimulation👍 991
$19.99Creeper World IXE
Dec 12 · Knuckle Cracker
Both: Tower Defense
The unstoppable alien force known as The Creeper has returned, devouring thousands of worlds in its path, and yours is next. Battle against the Creeper fluid in a groundbreaking pixel-level simulation to prove that humanity will rule the galaxy forever!
RTSTower DefenseWargameReal Time TacticsSandboxSpace1980sWarPhysicsStrategy👍 855
$19.99Void War
Jun 2 · Tundra
Both: Difficult
Command an ancient starship and fight your way to the heart of a dying Empire. Fend off attacks from demented cultists, craven space pirates, and xenophobic Imperial soldiers. Discover powerful artifacts and use them to build your ship into a fearsome war engine.
SpaceRoguelitePerma DeathChoices MatterStrategyDifficultReplay ValueRoguelikeResource ManagementReal-Time with Pause👍 3,661
-40%$7.79Odinfall
Mar 11 · Ember Paw Games
Both: Pixel Graphics · Difficult
Ragnarok was just the beginning… of the end! Odinfall is a Viking-themed, rogue-lite, twin-stick shooter. Blast your way through procedurally generated levels, upgrade your character, modify your weapons and take down robotic Norse gods to earn your freedom!
Early AccessRoguelitePixel GraphicsIndieDifficultBullet HellActionTop-Down ShooterShoot 'Em UpAction Roguelike👍 193
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$4.99Samawa Idle
Nov 13 · Samharia Studios
Both: Tower Defense
Unleash the power of specialized towers to annihilate hordes of monsters in this idle game with roguelike elements. Collect gold, level up your towers, face powerful bosses, and refine your strategy with an evolving skill tree.
IncrementalIdlerRogueliteAuto BattlerTower DefenseRPGRoguelikeCharacter Customization2DTop-Down👍 600
$4.99Kingdom Contracts Tower Defense Incremental
Aug 14 · Day 1 to 100
Both: Tower Defense
You are the Kingdom’s Commander. Choose new contracts strategically. Use towers but save your gold. Use 12 powerful God/saint spells. Finish Contracts quickly. Stack gold and reputation rapidly. Choose and upgrade 36 perks blessed by 12 Gods/saints. Become the Legend of the Kingdoms.
Tower DefenseMinimalistStrategyRogueliteRelaxingSingleplayerAtmosphericCasualIndie3D
$7.99Swarm Grinder
Apr 22 · Last Bite Games
Both: Pixel Graphics
An action roguelite game with alien swarms and mechs. Battle enemies to make your way through a mass of spreading and evolving cells hosting dormant enemies. Collect a variety of game-changing skills and upgrades to create unique builds.
RoguelikeRogueliteAction RoguelikeBullet HellMechsProcedural Generation2DPixel GraphicsControllerAction RPG👍 1,164
-15%$8.49Crown Siege
3 days ago · JOrbits Games
Both: Tower Defense
A short incremental siege game centered around growing and strengthening an army to defend your kingdom. Seize the crown from an endless wave of enemies for your best chance at survival!
IncrementalAuto BattlerTower DefenseCasualIdlerActionHack and SlashMedievalSimulationStrategy
$4.99Space Station Tycoon
Nov 1 · Lunheim Studios
Both: Tower Defense
Create a thriving space station in a lost sector. Face thrilling challenges head-on, from pirate raids to asteroid impacts, as you lead your company to new heights.
ManagementSpaceTower DefenseCity BuilderColony SimBuildingCraftingEconomyBase BuildingSpace Sim👍 190
FreeFortress Fury
Jan 21 · Kervado
Both: Tower Defense
Fortress Fury is a survivor multiplayer tower defense roguelite. Endless hordes of enemies want to crush your tower! Buy weapons and upgrades to craft an array of overpowering builds. Will you be able to survive all waves and be the last tower?
StrategyActionTower DefenseBullet HellRoguelite2DTop-DownCuteColorfulMagic
$1.99Critter Chaos TD
Oct 31 · Chaos Creations
Both: Tower Defense
Critter Chaos TD is a fast, frantic and chaotic Tower Defence game in which you must rid the world of the evil Critters. Build stations and guns to fortify your defences and prevent the various types of Critters from reaching your base.
StrategyAction RTSWargameTower DefenseRTSEarly AccessCasualActionIndieBase Building
$19.99The Front
Oct 30 · Samar Studio
Both: Tower Defense
The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.
Open World Survival CraftMultiplayerSurvivalCraftingBase BuildingBuildingOpen WorldTower DefenseSandboxShooter👍 9,553
-15%$4.24Demonic Defense
4 days ago · xHo
Both: Tower Defense
Guard your campfire through the night and feed your rivals' rifts with monsters. A multiplayer tower-defense survival hybrid where deck building, base building, and dueling economies decide who survives and who freezes.
Early AccessCard BattlerTower DefenseReal Time TacticsAction RoguelikeTrading Card GamePvEPvPStrategyTutorial
$2.99Last Bastion Protocol
12 days ago · mr_pancake
Both: Tower Defense
Defend the last evacuation corridors in a tactical tower defense game. Build and upgrade specialized towers, counter varied machine threats, and withstand HECATE's forces across the campaign, Siege, Skirmish, and Endless modes.
StrategyTower DefensePvEIndieAbstractDystopian Level EditorAtmosphericSingleplayerCasual
-25%$11.24There Is mORE
4 days ago · ByteBeyond
Both: Tower Defense
Mine by day, defend by night. Master 25+ spells, sell rare ores for gear upgrades, and grow stronger each run in this procedurally generated roguelite tower defense. Enjoy full controller and Steam Deck support.
RogueliteTower DefenseAction RoguelikeMiningSurvivalProcedural GenerationExplorationMagicBase Building2D
-50%$7.49Shogun Showdown
Sep 5 · Roboatino
Both: Pixel Graphics
Shogun Showdown is a turn-based combat game with rogue-like and deck-building elements. Position yourself and attack at the right time, upgrade your tiles and combo them to get ready to face the Shogun!
Replay ValueStrategy RPGTurn-BasedRoguelikePixel GraphicsTurn-Based StrategyRoguelike DeckbuilderStrategyTurn-Based CombatTurn-Based Tactics👍 6,201
$5.99Rocket Rats
Dec 17 · Gagonfe
Both: Pixel Graphics
Rocket Rats is a survivors-like game where you defeat cheese-based astral bodies in space – as a rat! Clear waves of enemies, collect cheese, upgrade your gear, and conquer the moon!
Action RoguelikeBullet HellPixel GraphicsCasualRoguelite2DSingleplayerActionVampiresShooter👍 2,392
$1.99Mars 2099
3 days ago · Oldschool Tobias
Both: Pixel Graphics · Difficult
Defend humanity's first Mars colony in this fast-paced modern arcade space shooter. Battle asteroid storms, hostile UFOs, complete challenging missions, and master skill-based gameplay inspired by the golden age of arcade classics.
ActionArcadeShoot 'Em UpPixel GraphicsSpaceRetroDifficultControllerSingleplayerMars



