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 2011-12-16

ANDR 2015-11-18

PS4 2015-08-05

ANDR 2009

WIN 2015-08-03

SMS 1991

WIN 2007

WIN 2014-06-13

Myth Defense: Light Forces

ANDR 2009

Shad'O

WIN 2012-09-04

Commando Jack

WIN 2014-08-22

Anomaly 2

OSX 2013-05-15

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, 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
PSP		3
Nintendo DS		3
Zeebo		2
3DS		2
NES		2
GBC		1
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

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