Free games like Tower Dwellers
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Tower Dwellers, ranked by player overlap and content similarity. No purchase or Steam login required to view the list. Every pick is a full free-to-play title — not a demo, trial, or time-limited giveaway. imho.run's catalogue refreshes daily, so newly free or newly popular titles surface here without manual editing.
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Ranked picks
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The Riftbreaker: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to Tower Dwellers — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Strategy with Tower Dwellers.
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.
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Bloons TD Battles 2
Free-to-play alternative to Tower Dwellers — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Strategy with Tower Dwellers.
From the creators of Bloons TD6... Bloons TD Battles 2 is a brand new installment of the top-rated head-to-head tower defense game. Gather your Hero, choose your team of powerful Monkey Towers, and prepare to battle one on one against other players and relentless waves of Bloons!
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Bloons TD Battles
Free-to-play alternative to Tower Dwellers — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Strategy with Tower Dwellers.
Go head to head with other players in a Bloon-popping battle for victory. From the creators of best-selling Bloons TD 5, this all new Battles game is specially designed for multiplayer combat, featuring the ability to control bloons directly and send them charging past your opponent's defenses.
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Yet Another Zombie Defense
Free-to-play alternative to Tower Dwellers — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Strategy with Tower Dwellers.
Darkness is coming. How long can YOU survive? Build your base by day, defend it by night. Play in online or local co-op. Stay alive as long as you can.
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Time Clickers
Free-to-play alternative to Tower Dwellers — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Tower Dwellers.
Time Clickers is what's called an 'incremental game'. There's always a fun upgrade to look forward to, and the numbers keep getting bigger! Hire a team to fight for you, even when you're offline!
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Sang-Froid - Tales of Werewolves
Free-to-play alternative to Tower Dwellers — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Strategy with Tower Dwellers.
Combining action and strategy in a unique way, Sang-Froid: Tales of Werewolves transports you into an epic folktale co-written with best-selling Canadian author Bryan Perro (Amos Daragon, Wariwulf), in which two feuding brothers will have to put aside their differences to save their sister, who is pursued by the Devil himself!
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Zombie Defense
Free-to-play alternative to Tower Dwellers — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Strategy with Tower Dwellers.
A modern hybrid of the classic RTS and modern Tower Defense. Recruit soldiers, place them on slots and let them shoot incoming waves of zombies by their own. Order supplies, throw grenades, order airstrikes and many more... Perfect mix of strategy, tactics and micromanagement.
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One Troll Army
Free-to-play alternative to Tower Dwellers — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tower Dwellers.
Play as a giant troll in One Troll Army - a defense game about building forts, upgrading your troll, and fighting off waves of enemies. Play Against The Twitch Chat!