Games like The Rift Tower Defense
If The Rift Tower Defense is your kind of game, the closest matches are Neural Shock, Sanctum 2 and Hexitten — picked from the ranked list below. 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 The Rift Tower Defense: The Rift is a tower defense game with elements of RPG gameplay that will appeal to players of all skill levels. Enemies from an alternate universe are attacking and it's up to the player to stop them by strategically building defensive towers.
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Neural Shock
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Top pick for The Rift Tower Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Rift Tower Defense.
Control your Hero to aid your Turrets and Traps in battle in this grim, dark Tower Defense & Action RPG with a scifi-grindhouse aesthetic. Create deadly weapon barrages and fuse together Bleed, Burn, Shock, Freeze, Stun and many more elements to annihilate your enemies.
Sanctum 2
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Second-strongest match for The Rift Tower Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Rift Tower Defense.
Sanctum 2 is the sequel to the world’s first Tower Defense/FPS hybrid game. Pick from four unique character classes and embark on a mission to protect the oxygen-producing Cores from hordes of deadly aliens who are threatened by their existence.
Hexitten
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Third-strongest match for The Rift Tower Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Rift Tower Defense.
Select your Team, Build your Deck of Abilities, Mod your Ships, Fight the Baddies, Upgrade your Abilities, Level Up your Heroes, and Recruit additional Heroes and Guests along your journey. Discover Events, Side Missions, and each Hero's Story. And finally, time permitting, Save the Universe.
Throbax TD
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Ranked #4 for The Rift Tower Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Rift Tower Defense.
Throbax TD is the "Tower Defense" game you are looking for: Help Ughlar fight his way through 50 levels, buy over 100 upgrades and get all of the 50+ achievements.
Miracle Heroes: Temporal Bounty Hunter
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Ranked #5 for The Rift Tower Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Rift Tower Defense.
Miracle Heroes is a multiplayer light rogue-like game. In the game, players must choose suitable combinations from a rich arsenal of weapons and items, with each playthrough offering a fresh experience.
Wave Defense: Trappist
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Ranked #6 for The Rift Tower Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Rift Tower Defense.
Gear up and get going! Defend your outposts from waves of alien enemies with your mech. Build and upgrade your base, protecting the extraction of the mysterious planetary system’s rich resources!
X-Morph: Defense
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Ranked #7 for The Rift Tower Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Rift Tower Defense.
Unique fusion of a top-down shooter and tower defense strategy. You are the invader! Use destructive weapons or lead your enemies into a maze of towers. Strategize in the build mode by carefully selecting various types of alien towers or throw yourself right into the heat of the battle.
Spaceland: Sci-Fi Indie Tactics
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Ranked #8 for The Rift Tower Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Rift Tower Defense.
Incredibly dynamic turn-based strategy, reviving the traditions of the old school tactics. Lead a team of the most desperate fighters, destroy alien monsters and uncover the secrets of the lost planet.
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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. Shares Indie with The Rift Tower Defense.
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. Shares Action and Adventure with The Rift Tower Defense.
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. Shares Action and Indie with The Rift Tower Defense.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Rift Tower Defense.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Rift Tower Defense.
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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Rift Tower Defense.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Rift Tower Defense.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Rift Tower Defense.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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Samuel Sage: The Mystery at Penby Inn
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Another title from Seam Entertainment, the studio behind The Rift Tower Defense. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Rift Tower Defense.
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Attack on Inirea
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Another title from Seam Entertainment, the studio behind The Rift Tower Defense. Shares Action and Indie with The Rift Tower Defense.
In this family-friendly arcade-style shooter, you will take command of powerful weapons to defend the village of Inirea from hordes of monsters, gaining points and powerups as you progress through the game.
Compadrone: Land Wars
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Another title from Seam Entertainment, the studio behind The Rift Tower Defense. Shares Action and Indie with The Rift Tower Defense.
In this fast-paced roguelite arena shooter with tower-defense twists, control a drone capable of wielding multiple weapons and fight hordes of alien warbots. Collect resources and XP to unlock new weapons, towers, abilities, and drones.
Frequently asked about The Rift Tower Defense
- What games are most similar to The Rift Tower Defense?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Rift Tower Defense are Neural Shock, Sanctum 2, Hexitten.
- Who developed The Rift Tower Defense?
- The Rift Tower Defense was developed by Seam Entertainment.
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