Games like Forward Defense
If Forward Defense is your kind of game, the closest matches are Para Bellum - Hold the Line, Forgotten but Unbroken and Every Day We Fight — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its enemies fight back aggressively, polished visuals and music and challenging. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Forward Defense: Forward Defense is a top-down 3D singleplayer tower defense game. Join the United Coalition Force and defeat insurgent forces armed with Technicals and Armored Personnel Carriers in a war-torn region of the Middle East.
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Para Bellum - Hold the Line
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Forward Defense.
Top pick for Forward Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Forward Defense.
Para Bellum - Hold the Line is a 3D real time small unit tactics game. Your task is to hold off enemy attacks wave after wave using a variety of different Units and Supports in your arsenal to the best of your abilities in Campaign and Skirmish modes.
Forgotten but Unbroken
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Forward Defense.
Second-strongest match for Forward Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Forward Defense.
A tactical turn-based strategy game inspired by events and stories of forgotten and unsung heroes of WW2. Unique and new-to-genre features offer immersion and deeper protagonists to lead and care for. Lead the resistance against the Axis Forces.
Every Day We Fight
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Forward Defense.
Third-strongest match for Forward Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Forward Defense.
Caught in a time loop, your band of resistance fighters is humanity’s last hope. Real-time exploration meets turn-based tactics and roguelite strategy as you learn new abilities, seek out new weapons, and develop new techniques to overcome the mysterious alien threat.
End State
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Forward Defense.
Ranked #4 for Forward Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Forward Defense.
End State is a turn-based tactics game where you manage a mercenary company tracking down a terrorists in a war-torn country. Hire, gear up and gain experience for your mercenaries. Take on rebels and criminal gangs, do side contracts and explore Brekovia.
XCOM® 2
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Forward Defense.
Ranked #5 for Forward Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Forward Defense.
XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.
Door Kickers 2: Task Force North
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Forward Defense.
Ranked #6 for Forward Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Forward Defense.
Command military Special Ops Teams in gripping tactical combat against a Middle East-based terrorist network. Sequel to RockPaperShotgun's "Best Tactics Game of 2014".
Classified: France '44
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Forward Defense.
Ranked #7 for Forward Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Forward Defense.
Command an elite team of allied special operators in Nazi-occupied France wreaking havoc in the run up to D-Day in this ambitious turn-based tactics game. Take on the might of Germany's war machine and launch daring raids in occupied territory. Can you do enough to ensure Allied victory?
Combat Mission Black Sea
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Forward Defense.
Ranked #8 for Forward Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Forward Defense.
Combat Mission Black Sea is a military grade simulation depicting a fictional series of escalations between Russian and Ukraine which results in open conflict in the summer of 2017
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Forward Defense at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Forward Defense on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Forward Defense.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Forward Defense on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Forward Defense.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under Forward Defense on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Forward Defense.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Forward Defense on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Forward Defense.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~79% under Forward Defense on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Forward Defense.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Forward Defense on Steam right now. Shares Action with Forward Defense.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Forward Defense on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Forward Defense.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
A Short Hike
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Forward Defense on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Forward Defense.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Forward Defense.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Forward Defense.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forward Defense.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Forward Defense.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Forward Defense.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forward Defense.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Forward Defense.
《Shape of Dreams: Prologue》is a unique game that blends action roguelite with MOBA-style gameplay. Edit your character's Memories to create your own champion. Face all challenges alone or play with friends in up to 4-player co-op.
Wires And Whiskers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Forward Defense.
Wires and Whiskers is a local co-op action-puzzle game where two players control a lab-engineered gerbil and its magnetic exosuit. Work together to fight mutated enemies, solve magnetic puzzles, and survive in a ruined, post-apocalyptic trench world.
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Frequently asked about Forward Defense
- How much does Forward Defense cost?
- Forward Defense is listed on Steam at 6.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Forward Defense?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Forward Defense are Para Bellum - Hold the Line, Forgotten but Unbroken, Every Day We Fight.
- Who developed Forward Defense?
- Forward Defense was developed by Pinpoint Interactive.
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