Games like Tower Defence: Back to the roots 2
If Tower Defence: Back to the roots 2 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mechs V Kaijus 2, Boitatá: Wilderness Reborn and Biletide — 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 Tower Defence: Back to the roots 2: Tower Defence: Back to the roots 2 is a modern take on classic maze-building tower defense. Build your defense, send monsters, and outplay your opponent in strategic 1vs1 battles focused on economy, pathing, and smart tower placement.

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Steam players who put hours into Tower Defence: Back to the roots 2 also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Mechs V Kaijus 2
WHY THIS
Top pick for Tower Defence: Back to the roots 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Tower Defence: Back to the roots 2.
Mechs V Kaijus 2 is an Hybrid Tower/Base defense, with army vs army (tug of war style) tactics. From the cockpit of a mech, to build a huge base with Reactors, Mines and all type of tower army factories and super weapons.
Boitatá: Wilderness Reborn
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Tower Defence: Back to the roots 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Tower Defence: Back to the roots 2.
A 2D Tower Defense Survival game inspired by Brazilian folklore. Expand your territory, rescue animals to build your defenses, and use Boitatá's abilities to fight waves of invaders in battles that combine strategy, action, and territory management.
Biletide
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Tower Defence: Back to the roots 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Tower Defence: Back to the roots 2.
An atmospheric tower-defence strategy game about holding back an oozing toxic Tide. A distant mining colony has awakened a living flood that seeps from breaches in the ground. Dig for resources, raise defensive terrain, and burn your way to seal the breaches. Can you survive the Biletide?
Von Neumann Project
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Ranked #4 for Tower Defence: Back to the roots 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Tower Defence: Back to the roots 2.
Von Neumann Project is a space based RTS where you build, mine, and expand across the universe in an attempt to find your creator's equals. Play across 4 different sectors with 28 handcrafted missions, with each sector introducing unique enemies, buildings, and missions.
Rush Tower
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Tower Defence: Back to the roots 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Tower Defence: Back to the roots 2.
Rush Tower is a Tower Defense game where new paths are procedurally added over the course of the game. Can you keep up as the enemy builds more paths in this ever more hectic war?
Shelf Stable
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Ranked #6 for Tower Defence: Back to the roots 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Tower Defence: Back to the roots 2.
Helix Dynamics sold the world a miracle product labeled Shelf Stable. It wasn't. Horde-scale tower defense: hold Checkpoint Voss against tens of thousands of infected hosts, research heavier hardware, and come back until nothing is left walking.
StrategySteam ↗Neon Grid Defenders
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Ranked #7 for Tower Defence: Back to the roots 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Tower Defence: Back to the roots 2.
Neon Grid Defenders is a sci-fi roguelite tower defense game featuring a free and unique upgrade system, decision based path generation and a strong but static difficulty curve. Build your path, place your towers, hook them up with upgrades and melt your enemies!
Falling into Meteor Island
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Tower Defence: Back to the roots 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Tower Defence: Back to the roots 2.
You’ll become a fallen star, crashing down onto an island covered in stars. This is a base-building + tower defense game. In a unique 2.5D art style, explore the island, build up your camp, fight the island’s evil forces, and lead the other stars back to the universe.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Tower Defence: Back to the roots 2 at current Steam store prices.
Nodebuster
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Priced ~50% under Tower Defence: Back to the roots 2 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Tower Defence: Back to the roots 2.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
shapez
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Priced ~83% under Tower Defence: Back to the roots 2 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Tower Defence: Back to the roots 2.
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!
Tower Wizard
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Tower Defence: Back to the roots 2 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Tower Defence: Back to the roots 2.
Help a wizard build and upgrade a wizard tower in this incremental game! Use the tower to study magic, summon spirits, create buildings, and influence the world.
Bejeweled® 3
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Tower Defence: Back to the roots 2 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Tower Defence: Back to the roots 2.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
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Priced ~83% under Tower Defence: Back to the roots 2 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Tower Defence: Back to the roots 2.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
Hexcells Plus
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Priced ~50% under Tower Defence: Back to the roots 2 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Tower Defence: Back to the roots 2.
Hexcells Plus is an ambient logic puzzle game for PC, Mac and Linux.
Lords of the Realm II
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Priced ~50% under Tower Defence: Back to the roots 2 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Tower Defence: Back to the roots 2.
The great Lords of England have their eyes on the the English throne! Muster an army and overrun your enemies' castles in this classic, nail-biting strategy game that blends turn-based and real-time gameplay.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Electoral Carnage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Electoral Carnage is an absurd 2D fighting game featuring America's most famous (and infamous) politicians. If you don't download it you hate America. Also JFK can assassinate himself. What more do you need to know?
Handshakes
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Take your brain for a walk in Handshakes, a simple yet tricksy sokoban puzzle game. Guide two hands through puzzles designed to stump, not frustrate, so that they may achieve their dream of a warm, firm handshake.
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Tower Defence: Back to the roots 2.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
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Frequently asked about Tower Defence: Back to the roots 2
- How much does Tower Defence: Back to the roots 2 cost?
- Tower Defence: Back to the roots 2 is listed on Steam at 5.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Tower Defence: Back to the roots 2?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Tower Defence: Back to the roots 2 are Mechs V Kaijus 2, Boitatá: Wilderness Reborn, Biletide.
- Who developed Tower Defence: Back to the roots 2?
- Tower Defence: Back to the roots 2 was developed by Stridgard.
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