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.
378
games
35platforms

LIN 2010

WIN 2012-08-13

WIN 2013-05-09

WIN 2014-05-29

WIN 2015-08-03

WIN 2011-05-26

WIN 2013-06-05

ANDR 2009

GEN 1991

SWTC 2018-02-08

WIN 2013-10-10

WIN 2012-01-19
The first video game about Tower Defense was released in 1990.
Trendy Entertainment, Origin8 Technologies and 11 bit studios 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, StrategyRelated group
Game genreTower Offense
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