Games like Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense
If Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense is your kind of game, the closest matches are Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense, Kingdom Rush Vengeance - Tower Defense and Kingdom Rush 5: Alliance TD — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its addictive gameplay, colorful art style and strategic tower placement. 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 →Kingdom Rush is a tower defense strategy game released in 2014 by Ironhide Game Studio, priced at $9.99. Players defend their kingdom against waves of orcs, trolls, and evil wizards across varied landscapes. The game features a hero system, diverse tower types with specialization and upgrade paths, and challenging wave-based combat. Reviewers highlight the strategic depth of tower placement, and players describe the experience as both epic and whimsical, with witty voice lines adding humor. The colorful art style and addictive gameplay loop keep players engaged through its medium-length campaign. The game runs in a playable state on Steam Deck and holds a 96% positive rating from over 4500 Steam reviews.
About Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense: Get ready for an epic journey to defend your kingdom against hordes of orcs, trolls, evil wizards and other nasty fiends using a vast arsenal of towers and spells at your command!Fight on forests, mountains and wastelands, customizing your defensive strategy with different tower upgrades and specializations!
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Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense
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Shares a whimsical mood with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.
Top pick for Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.
Command your elven army and defend mystical lands from sea serpents, evil sorcerers, and wave after wave of gnoll tribesman, all with the help of brand-spankin’ new towers, heroes, and spells to fend off every last baddie.
Kingdom Rush Vengeance - Tower Defense
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.
Second-strongest match for Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.
It's payback time! Lead your mighty dark army and make the Kingdom tremble with every step. Build powerful towers, choose your arsenal for destruction, and find the deadliest combination - train legendary heroes and lead them to victory!
Kingdom Rush 5: Alliance TD
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.
Third-strongest match for Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.
While a formidable evil emerges, an unexpected alliance is taking shape! It will take the finest warriors of Linirea and the relentless Dark Army to stop it. Beware! Though they may journey side by side the ever-changing winds of fate could swiftly alter their course.
Pixel Fortress: Tower Defense
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Ranked #4 for Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.
Pixel Fortress is a retro-inspired tower defense game packed with fast-paced real-time strategy. Build your defenses, command powerful abilities, and unleash devastating energy blasts to hold off relentless enemy waves. Can you master the battlefield?
Age of Defense: Prehistory
WHY THIS
Shares tower upgrading and a funny mood with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.
Ranked #5 for Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.
The most addicting tower defense game, packed with monsters and tough defenders, all of which fit perfectly into the cartoonish environment. Prehistory is a prologue for the main story Age of Defense.
Lord Clicker
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Ranked #6 for Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.
Lord Clicker combines Clicker and Tower Defense in one game. Click to accumulate gold coins and make your choice: buy populace to generate wealth on your behalf, or hire men to defend your village.
Relic Guardian - Tower Defense
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.
Ranked #7 for Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.
"Relic Guardian" is a fantasy style strategy tower defense game. As the builder on the battlefield, summon a variety of defense towers and spells with reliable hero companions to complete this epic and guarding adventure!
Monster Battle Quest
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Ranked #8 for Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.
Recruit and evolve the perfect monster team to destroy opposing enemy. Defeat enemy monsters to earn gold, increase your strength, and dominate the monster world.
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DG2: Defense Grid 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.
Reviewers of Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.
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.
GemCraft - Legacy Collection
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Reviewers of Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.
Experience the original three GemCraft games in one collection. GemCraft 1, GemCraft 0, and GemCraft Labyrinth! Forge and combine magical gems, build deadly defenses, and survive relentless waves in one of the most beloved Flash-era tower defense series!
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Kingdom Rush Frontiers - Tower Defense
WHY THIS
Shares hero system, level design and an epic mood with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.
Reviewers of Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.
Command your troops through an epic (mis)adventure as you defend exotic lands from dragons, man-eating plants, and ghastly denizens of the underworld -all with flashy new towers, levels, heroes, and more goodies to help you crush your foes in this Fantasy Action Tower Defense game!
Defense Tower Simulator
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.
Welcome to Tower Defense Simulator and prepare yourself to protect your kingdom from different monsters! Join this game and prepare to many exciting missions with this great game!
Anomaly
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Reviewers of Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Anomaly is a horror game inspired by Scanner Somber, the Garry's Mod game mode LiDAR, LiDAR.EXE, and The Backrooms. Try to escape from the level that you are in by finding keys and the exit, while not being killed by the Anomaly!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense at current Steam store prices.
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~50% under Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
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Priced ~50% under Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack
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Priced ~50% under Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.
Command or corrupt an entire galaxy in the definitive Star Wars strategy collection. It is a time of galactic civil war. Will you take up the reins of the Rebellion, assume control of the Empire, or rule the Star Wars Underworld?
Nubby's Number Factory
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Priced ~50% under Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.
A plinko-style roguelike where you work at a number factory. Launch your spherical friend, Nubby, down a pegboard to make bigger and bigger numbers! But beware, if you fail to meet your number quota, the sun will explode.
Monster Train
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Priced ~50% under Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.
Monster Train is a strategic roguelike deck building game with a twist. Set on a train to hell, you’ll use tactical decision making to defend multiple vertical battlegrounds. With real time competitive multiplayer and endless replayability, Monster Train is always on time.
Nodebuster
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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More from Ironhide Game Studio
Other recommendable Steam games by Ironhide Game Studio, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Kingdom Rush 5: Alliance TD
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.
Another title from Ironhide Game Studio, the studio behind Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.
While a formidable evil emerges, an unexpected alliance is taking shape! It will take the finest warriors of Linirea and the relentless Dark Army to stop it. Beware! Though they may journey side by side the ever-changing winds of fate could swiftly alter their course.
Kingdom Rush Frontiers - Tower Defense
WHY THIS
Shares hero system, level design and an epic mood with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.
Another title from Ironhide Game Studio, the studio behind Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.
Command your troops through an epic (mis)adventure as you defend exotic lands from dragons, man-eating plants, and ghastly denizens of the underworld -all with flashy new towers, levels, heroes, and more goodies to help you crush your foes in this Fantasy Action Tower Defense game!
Kingdom Rush Vengeance - Tower Defense
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.
Another title from Ironhide Game Studio, the studio behind Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.
It's payback time! Lead your mighty dark army and make the Kingdom tremble with every step. Build powerful towers, choose your arsenal for destruction, and find the deadliest combination - train legendary heroes and lead them to victory!
Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.
Another title from Ironhide Game Studio, the studio behind Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.
Command your elven army and defend mystical lands from sea serpents, evil sorcerers, and wave after wave of gnoll tribesman, all with the help of brand-spankin’ new towers, heroes, and spells to fend off every last baddie.
Iron Marines
WHY THIS
Another title from Ironhide Game Studio, the studio behind Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.
Real-time strategy battles in amazing sci-fi worlds! Command brave soldiers, mighty mechas and powerful aliens to face the greatest challenges in hostile alien worlds. The galaxy needs you!
Legends of Kingdom Rush
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.
Another title from Ironhide Game Studio, the studio behind Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.
RPG turn-based combat game with deep tactics and bad jokes! Do you have what it takes to save the kingdom?
Iron Marines Invasion
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.
Another title from Ironhide Game Studio, the studio behind Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.
Prepare to take off, soldier! The galaxy needs your strategy! Prove your RTS expertise, explore an entire galaxy and defend it from a threatening invasion.
Frequently asked about Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense
- Does Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense run on Steam Deck?
- Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense cost?
- Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense are Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense, Kingdom Rush Vengeance - Tower Defense, Kingdom Rush 5: Alliance TD.
- Who developed Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense?
- Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense was developed by Ironhide Game Studio.
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