Games like This Isn't Just Tower Defense
If This Isn't Just Tower Defense is your kind of game, the closest matches are Particul, Monster Manor and Gamblers Table — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its incremental upgrades feel satisfying, chill and contemplative. 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 This Isn't Just Tower Defense: Defend your base with placeable towers that can be upgraded endlessly. Automate your production and make sure there's enough power to keep everything running.
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Particul
WHY THIS
Shares idle automation, idle progression and a chill mood with This Isn't Just Tower Defense.
Top pick for This Isn't Just Tower Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with This Isn't Just Tower Defense.
Click to mine particles and watch your pile grow. Turn resources into profit, automate extraction, research new technologies and trade. Can you mine the rarest particle and ascend? There is just one way to find out.
Monster Manor
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Second-strongest match for This Isn't Just Tower Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with This Isn't Just Tower Defense.
Deploy defense towers to defeat monsters, capture them for your automated farm, and earn growing profits. Expand your Monster Manor in the sidebar during work breaks or downtime!
Gamblers Table
WHY THIS
Shares idle progression, meta progression, indie and a chill mood with This Isn't Just Tower Defense.
Third-strongest match for This Isn't Just Tower Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with This Isn't Just Tower Defense.
Gamblers Table is an incremental game where you toss coins to earn money. Buy bigger and better coins, unlock upgrades and hire little helpers to automate the process and take care of all the busy flipping work for you. Simple. Satisfying. Strangely compelling...
Widget Inc.
WHY THIS
Shares idle progression, upgrade system, indie and a chill mood with This Isn't Just Tower Defense.
Ranked #4 for This Isn't Just Tower Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with This Isn't Just Tower Defense.
A hybrid factory builder / incremental clicker game. Starting from humble beginnings, master the many crafting processes to build up resources and expand your factory. Then, using your newly automated production, unlock new technology and grow ever closer to your goal of spreading to the stars.
Incredicer
WHY THIS
Shares idle automation, idle progression, indie and a chill mood with This Isn't Just Tower Defense.
Ranked #5 for This Isn't Just Tower Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with This Isn't Just Tower Defense.
Incredicer is a short, incremental dice game where you roll dice, earn money, upgrade and buy helper hands to automate and increase your income.
Goblin Buster: Incremental Tower Defense
WHY THIS
Shares tower defense, wave based combat, tower defense and a chill mood with This Isn't Just Tower Defense.
Ranked #6 for This Isn't Just Tower Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with This Isn't Just Tower Defense.
Goblin Buster is an incremental tower defense game with deep upgrade mechanics. Obliterate annoying goblins, collect materials, discover powerful relics, invest in unique buildings and spend your resources to upgrade towers and magical spells with a massive skill tree!
Idle Monster TD
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with This Isn't Just Tower Defense.
Ranked #7 for This Isn't Just Tower Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with This Isn't Just Tower Defense.
An endless Tower Defense game of epic Monsters vs evil War Machines. Unlock and upgrade tons of unique elemental Monsters (Water, Air, Earth, and Fire) to defend your home from an infinite swarm of robots. Strategize the most effective placement of Monsters to synergize their elemental abilities.
Legends of Wasteland
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Shares idle progression, meta progression, indie and a contemplative mood with This Isn't Just Tower Defense.
Ranked #8 for This Isn't Just Tower Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with This Isn't Just Tower Defense.
Legends of Wastelands is an idle RPG where you shape your hero’s growth. Choose among six classes, master 100+ skills, and combine talents and gems for unique synergies. Idle for rewards or dive into boss fights and shifting wastelands, with pets and gear adding endless build variety.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below This Isn't Just Tower Defense at current Steam store prices.
The Test
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Priced ~72% under This Isn't Just Tower Defense on Steam right now.
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?
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~86% under This Isn't Just Tower Defense on Steam right now. Shares Casual with This Isn't Just Tower 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.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under This Isn't Just Tower Defense on Steam right now. Shares Casual with This Isn't Just Tower Defense.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Nodebuster
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Priced ~57% under This Isn't Just Tower Defense on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Casual with This Isn't Just Tower Defense.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under This Isn't Just Tower Defense on Steam right now. Shares Casual with This Isn't Just Tower Defense.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under This Isn't Just Tower Defense on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Casual with This Isn't Just Tower Defense.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Superflight
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under This Isn't Just Tower Defense on Steam right now. Shares Casual with This Isn't Just Tower Defense.
Superflight is an intense, easy to learn wingsuit game with an infinite number of beautiful procedurally generated maps. A great game to relax for half an hour and chase your latest highscore!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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?
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.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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!
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with This Isn't Just Tower Defense.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with This Isn't Just Tower Defense.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with This Isn't Just Tower Defense.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
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Frequently asked about This Isn't Just Tower Defense
- Does This Isn't Just Tower Defense work on Steam Deck?
- This Isn't Just Tower Defense is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does This Isn't Just Tower Defense cost?
- This Isn't Just Tower Defense is listed on Steam at 6.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to This Isn't Just Tower Defense?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside This Isn't Just Tower Defense are Particul, Monster Manor, Gamblers Table.
- Who developed This Isn't Just Tower Defense?
- This Isn't Just Tower Defense was developed by Pri Games.
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