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.

382

games

platforms

Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2

PS4 2016-02-23

Sentinel 4: Dark Star

ANDR 2015-01-15

Defenders of Ardania

X360 2012-03-07

Ghost Hacker

FLA 2010

Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal

WIN 2013-10-04

Rampart

NES 1992-01

Immortal Defense

WIN 2007

Defense Grid: The Awakening

X360 2009-09-02

Desktop Tower Defense

FLA 2007-03

Orcs Must Die! 2

WIN 2012-07-30

Hordes of Orcs

OSX 2008-04

Defenders of Ardania

WIN 2012-03-14

"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.

The first Tower Defense video game was released in 1990.

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

Parent groups

Defense game, Strategy

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Platforms

Linux		138
Windows		71
Android		35
Mac OS X		32
iOS		24
X360		12
PS4		12
Flash		7
Xbox One		6
PS3		5
Wii U		5
Wii		4
3DS		3
Nintendo DS		3
PSP		3
NES		2
Zeebo		2
Amstrad CPC		1
BSD		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

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