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.

393

games

platforms

Fieldrunners 2

WIN 2013-01-10

Defense Grid 2

WIN 2014-09-23

Plants vs. Zombies

GEN 2013

Harvest: Massive Encounter

WIN 2008-03

X-Morph: Defense

XBOX1 2017-08-30

TowerMadness

ANDR 2009-06

Gratuitous Space Battles

LIN 2011

Anomaly 2

LIN 2013-05-15

Desktop Tower Defense

FLA 2007-03

Shad'O

WIN 2012-09-04

Fieldrunners

IOS 2008-11-24

The Castle Game

PS4 2015-08-05

"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

Games by year

The first Tower Defense video game was released in 1990.

Trendy Entertainment, Origin8 Technologies and 11 bit studios published most of these games.

Related site

Wikipedia article

Platforms

Linux		139
Windows		79
Android		35
Mac OS X		32
iOS		24
X360		12
PS4		12
Flash		7
Xbox One		6
PS3		5
Wii U		5
Wii		4
PSP		3
3DS		3
Nintendo DS		3
Mega Drive		2
Zeebo		2
NES		2
Master System		1
Switch		1
Lynx		1
GBC		1
Atari ST		1
MS-DOS		1
Internet Only		1
Ouya		1
GBA		1
Amiga		1
Amstrad CPC		1
BSD		1

Most common companies

Trendy Entertainment	11
Origin8 Technologies	11
11 bit studios	8
Ironhide Game Studio	8
Electronic Arts	7
Knuckle Cracker	7
Subatomic Studios	7
Square Enix	6
Positech Games	5
SMG Studio	5
Robot Entertainment	5
Q-Games	5
505 Games	5
Level up Labs	5
Chillingo	4