Tower Defense

Game genre theme

Strategy sub-genre where player is limited to building defensive towers and has no movable defenses (or moving them is hard/detrimental) to protect something, and never goes on the offense.

356

games

platforms

Creeper World

WIN 2009-07-27

Castle-Combat

LIN 2003-02-09

Savage Moon

PS3 2008-12-24

Revenge of the Titans

WIN 2010

WIN 2011-10-19

WIN 2007

ANDR 2010-10-18

ARCD 1990

X360 2012-01-19

Harvest: Massive Encounter

OSX 2008-03

Rampart

SNES 1992-08

Ghost Hacker

FLA 2010

The first video game about Tower Defense was released in 1990.

Trendy Entertainment, Origin8 Technologies and Ironhide Game Studio has published most of these games

"Tower Defense" was oddly enough trademarked by Com2Us in 2007 (in U.S., serial number 3442002) despite there being plenty of games with tower defense in their title by then. They have enforced this trademark on several occasions since, notably on Apple's platforms.

Parent groups

Defense game, Strategy

Related group

Game genre
Tower Offense

Related site

Wikipedia article

Platforms

Linux		130
Windows		67
Mac OS X		31
Android		29
iOS		22
X360		12
PS4		11
Flash		7
Xbox One		6
PS3		5
Wii		4
Nintendo DS		3
Wii U		3
PSP		3
NES		2
Zeebo		2
BSD		1
3DS		1
TizenOS		1
Arcade		1
SNES		1
WinCE		1
Pandora		1
Mobile		1
Switch		1
Master System		1
Mega Drive		1
Lynx		1
GBC		1
Atari ST		1

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