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Try the new demo and trailer for Rift Riff, a fast and "strategically tight" tower defense game

By Liam Dawe,
If you love tower defense games, you're going to want to check out the new demo and trailer for the upcoming Rift Riff. A "strategically tight" game, the developer says.

Everwarder is a fresh tower defense roguelite hybrid about clearing the darkness

By Liam Dawe,
Everwarder asks: how long will your light last? Not very long in some of my attempts. It's a fresh feeling spin that merges tower defense with a bit of roguelite action together, as you attempt to break through the darkness.
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Chrysalis is a unique hybrid of tower defense and rogue-lite RPG action where you possess plants and creatures

By Liam Dawe,
Chrysalis from developer Metamorph Games wins top marks for some originality here, and if you're a fan of cute tower defense games that mix in some exploration this is one for you.

Modding support returns to Dome Keeper in the latest update

By Liam Dawe,
While the developers keep working away on multiplayer for Dome Keeper, you can now get back to filling your game up with mods as support has returned.

Melt Them All is a bit like a retro action rogue-lite Factorio with tower defense

By Liam Dawe,
Stripping down automation sims to the basics, adding in some tower defense and a little rogue-lite action with retro visuals and you have Melt Them All.

The props fight back against the humans in Puropu Defense Squad

By Liam Dawe,
PlayTogether Studio who made Run Prop, Run! and the Mad Experiments: Escape Room series have put up a demo and release date for Puropu Defense Squad. A mixture of a shooter and tower defense.

Dome Keeper hits 1 million players - multiplayer and modding support to come

By Liam Dawe,
Dome Keeper is a real gem with a simple yet highly satisfying gameplay loop, and it seems it's done well for Bippinbits. Even though they're working on the incredible looking PVKK, they're not done with Dome Keeper just yet.

Terrorformer TD is a seriously good tower defense game where you shape the battlefield

By Liam Dawe,
It's hard to pull me away from Bloons TD 6, but Terrorformer TD has managed to do it. A tower defense game where you constantly tweak the battlefield as time goes on.

Tower defense fans should try Nordhold: Origins, a free prologue for a much bigger upcoming game

By Liam Dawe,
Currently reviewing well from users on Steam is Nordhold: Origins, a free tower defense game with high replayability where you build up a medieval Nordic village.

Frontline Crisis is a tough but engaging mix of tower defense and top-down shooting with a big mech

By Liam Dawe,
Developer BCQT released Frontline Crisis earlier in August, and like a lot of smaller games it seems to have flown under the radar but if you love tower defense and top down shooting you need to play this.

The free game Infinitode 2 - Infinite Tower Defense added Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
Here's a fun surprise for you today, Infinitode 2 - Infinite Tower Defense is a free to play game that just added Native Linux support on July 30th.

Steam Tower Defense Fest 2024 has begun

By Liam Dawe,
While I still grumble that Defense is the accepted spelling as a brit I want to always type Defence but anyway the Steam Tower Defense Fest 2024 is now live.

Dome Keeper - A Keeper's Duty is a big free upgrade out now

By Liam Dawe,
While developer Bippinbits are working on their next game that has a title so long it's just hilarious (PVKK: Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant), they are still updating Dome Keeper with a big free update out now.

Bite-sized roguelike tower defense game Bella Wants Blood releases July 24

By Liam Dawe,
Developer Sonderland (previously worked on Landnama, Core Defense) announced their roguelike tower defense game Bella Wants Blood is going to release on July 24 and it's a perfect coffee-break game. Note: the developer sent over a key, thoughts will be up around release.

Drill Keeper seems to have it all with deckbuilding, tower defense and roguelite survival

By Liam Dawe,
Hooded Horse sure do pick some gems to publish with the latest announcement being Drill Keeper from ShoulderByte GmbH that looks like an intoxicating mix of genres.

Terrorformer TD is a tower defense roguelite with a map you terraform as you go

By Liam Dawe,
With a map that erodes and grows as the game progresses, Terrorformer TD puts a rather unique spin on the tower defense genre.

Bella Wants Blood is a bite-sized "roguelike terror defense" game

By Liam Dawe,
After releasing the roguelike tower defense Core Defense in 2020, and then the rogue-lite survival base builder Landnama in 2023 developer Sonderland is back with something weird with Bella Wants Blood.

Co-op tower defense beat 'em up ChronoDojo adds various Steam Deck improvements

By Liam Dawe,
ChronoDojo blends together two genres that I didn't think would work. Putting together tower defense and a beat 'em up sounds a bit odd, but I've seen a lot stranger.

Towerful Defense: Prologue is like Brotato and Vampire Survivors had a TD baby

By Liam Dawe,
I'm apparently a total and complete sucker for anything that allows for short rounds of gameplay, that mixes in elements of Brotato and Vampire Survivors to let me customize my run and Towerful Defense: Prologue has plenty of that.

Glyphica: Typing Survival brings typing games into the survivor-like era

By Liam Dawe,
Survivor-likes, bullet-heaven horde-games are everywhere after Vampire Survivors showed up and now one developer is attempting to do the same with a typing game in Glyphica: Typing Survival.
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