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.

377

games

platforms

WIN 2017-06-20

WIN 2010

X360 2012-03-07

WIN 2009-07-27

FLA 2011

PS4 2015-08-05

WIN 2016-05-26

WIN 2013-09-14

Sentinel 4: Dark Star

ANDR 2015-01-15

GemCraft - Chasing Shadows

FLA 2014

iBomber Defense

WIN 2011-05-26

Harvest: Massive Encounter

WIN 2008-03

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

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Wikipedia article

Platforms

Linux		135
Windows		70
Android		35
Mac OS X		32
iOS		24
PS4		12
X360		12
Flash		7
Xbox One		6
PS3		5
Wii U		5
Wii		4
Nintendo DS		3
PSP		3
3DS		2
NES		2
Zeebo		2
Ouya		1
GBA		1
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

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