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Games like Next Level: Tower Defense

If Next Level: Tower Defense is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ages TD, Last Front and Soul Tides — 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.

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About Next Level: Tower Defense: Race-based tower defense. Build your army, defend your king, and send waves at your rivals. Up to 8-player FFA, 2v2 & 4v4 teams, and singleplayer. Crossplay on Windows, Linux, macOS & Steam Deck.

2026StrategyIndieCasualWindows · macOS · Linuxby Ronnie
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Steam players who put hours into Next Level: Tower Defense 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.

  1. Ages TD

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Next Level: Tower Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Next Level: Tower Defense.

    Spears become ballistae, ballistae become railguns. Defend one world through three ages as it grows around your towers — and find out why the horde keeps returning. A story-driven tower defense about a world worth 800 years of war, and the Reaper who farms it.

    StrategyIndieSteam ↗
  2. Last Front

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Next Level: Tower Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Next Level: Tower Defense.

    Modern armies, unique commanders, tactical battles. In Last Front, each faction offers its own style of war and exclusive units. Build your base, lead your army, and prove your superiority on the battlefield.

    2026StrategySteam ↗
  3. Soul Tides

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Next Level: Tower Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Next Level: Tower Defense.

    Command dark armies in this tug-of-war auto-battler. Build your base, summon units, customize abilities, and push the battlefield toward your enemy’s stronghold. Adapt your strategy each match and dominate in PvP, co-op, or Trials mode.

    2026StrategySimulationEarly AccessSteam ↗
  4. Battles of Chaos

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Next Level: Tower Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Next Level: Tower Defense.

    Battles of Chaos is a medieval fantasy real time strategy and tactics hybrid game, blending the best elements of the two genres. Play great, realistic open-field battles or sieges in single-player, cooperative or PvP mode, where the emphasis is on combat, with base building elements.

    2027StrategyEarly AccessSteam ↗
  5. Reforged TD - Tower Defense

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Next Level: Tower Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Next Level: Tower Defense.

    Single or multiplayer tower defense with high replay value. Build and upgrade towers, use special items and discover the extensive talent tree for your characters and towers. Ideal for strategists!

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure12.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Lord Wars

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Next Level: Tower Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Next Level: Tower Defense.

    No tedious fog of war. Outwit foes with terrain ambushes and shifting weather, build elite armies and wrap up intense medieval RTS matches quickly.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  7. Age of Bricks

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Next Level: Tower Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Next Level: Tower Defense.

    A real-time strategy multiplayer classic. Build your base brick by brick, then raise an army against your friends online. Or save your friendship and team up together to defeat a hard army.

    StrategySimulationSteam ↗
  8. Cold Response

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Next Level: Tower Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    Explore and survive a war torn Sweden through the eyes of an unknown soldier, alone or with friends.

    ActionAdventureSimulationSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Next Level: Tower Defense.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Next Level: Tower Defense.

    A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Next Level: Tower Defense.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Next Level: Tower Defense.

    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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Coloring Pixels

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Next Level: Tower Defense.

    A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.

    2018IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  8. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Next Level: Tower Defense.

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Next Level: Tower Defense

Does Next Level: Tower Defense have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Next Level: Tower Defense supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
What games are most similar to Next Level: Tower Defense?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Next Level: Tower Defense are Ages TD, Last Front, Soul Tides.
Who developed Next Level: Tower Defense?
Next Level: Tower Defense was developed by Ronnie and published by Next Level.

imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Next Level: Tower Defense.

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