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.

369

games

platforms

Fieldrunners

PSP 2009

Commando Jack

WIN 2014-08-22

Defense Grid: The Awakening

WIN 2008-12-08

Dungeon Defense

WIN 2010

Dungeon Defenders: First Wave

ANDR 2010-12-16

Unstoppable Gorg

WIN 2012-01-19

GeoDefense Swarm

IOS 2009-08-30

Aegis Defenders

WIN 2018-02-08

Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2

PS4 2016-02-23

Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten

WIN 2012

Dungeon Defenders

WIN 2011-10-19

Dungeon Defenders

X360 2011-10-19

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

Origin8 Technologies, Trendy Entertainment and Subatomic 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, Strategy

Related group

Game genre
Tower Offense

Related site

Wikipedia article

Platforms

Linux		135
Windows		69
Mac OS X		32
Android		30
iOS		22
PS4		12
X360		12
Flash		7
Xbox One		6
PS3		5
Wii U		5
Wii		4
PSP		3
Nintendo DS		3
3DS		2
NES		2
Zeebo		2
Atari ST		1
MS-DOS		1
Internet Only		1
Ouya		1
GBA		1
Amstrad CPC		1
BSD		1
TizenOS		1
Arcade		1
SNES		1
WinCE		1
Pandora		1
Mobile		1

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