Choose Defend Your Life: TD
Choose Defend Your Life: TD if you want an Action and Indie experience. Defend Your Life: TD launched in 2015.
Defend Your Life: TD vs Haunted Dorm
Defend Your Life: TD and Haunted Dorm both land in Strategy, Casual on Steam, which is why they keep getting compared. The comparison below is built from each game's Steam metadata — release year, genres, categories, Steam Deck status, price, and review score — refreshed daily by imho.run's scraper. Headline differences: Both share Strategy, Casual on Steam. Defend Your Life: TD (2015) is 10 years older than Haunted Dorm (2025). Defend Your Life: TD is currently ~9% cheaper on Steam than Haunted Dorm (9.99 USD vs. 10.99 USD). No login or purchase needed — scroll for the full table, the verdict FAQ, and links to ranked similar games for both titles.
Which should you pick?
Choose Haunted Dorm
Choose Haunted Dorm if it's the newer release (2025) and ships with the modern feature baseline. Haunted Dorm launched in 2025.
Both Defend Your Life: TD and Haunted Dorm sit in Strategy and Casual on Steam, so either pick lands in the same broad neighborhood. Use the side-by-side table for the feature view, or follow the "Games like" links below to see ranked alternatives for either title.
Side-by-side comparison
 Defend Your Life: TD |  Haunted Dorm | |
|---|---|---|
| Released | 2015 | 2025 |
| Genres | Action, Strategy, Indie, Casual | Strategy, Casual |
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux | Windows |
| Steam Deck | Unrated | Unrated |
| Price | 9.99 USD | 10.99 USD |
| Steam reviews | 75.5% positive (241 reviews) | 2 reviews |
| Multiplayer | Single-player only | Single-player only |
| Developers | Alda Games | mihuangame |
Side by side
- Both share Strategy, Casual on Steam.
- Defend Your Life: TD (2015) is 10 years older than Haunted Dorm (2025).
- Defend Your Life: TD is currently ~9% cheaper on Steam than Haunted Dorm (9.99 USD vs. 10.99 USD).
Defend Your Life: TD vs Haunted Dorm — FAQ
- Should I play Defend Your Life: TD or Haunted Dorm first?
- If you want chronology, Defend Your Life: TD (2015) came out before Haunted Dorm (2025). If neither is a sequel to the other, order doesn't really matter — start with whichever fits your current mood, since both share enough on Steam to make either a reasonable opener.
- Are Defend Your Life: TD and Haunted Dorm similar?
- They overlap on Strategy, Casual on Steam, so the catalogue groups them together — but "similar" depends on the specific mechanics. Use the genre + category rows above to decide whether the overlap matches what drew you to the one you've already played.