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Mindustry

An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.

★ COLONY SIEGE ★ MOB FACTORY ★ VECTORIO ★ CREEPER WORLD 3: ARC ETERNAL ★ DG2: DEFENSE GRID 2 ★ PROTOLIFE ★ RIFT RIFF ★ TOWER FACTORY ★ RUSTED WARFARE - RTS ★ TAUR ★ MARZ: TACTICAL BASE DEFENSE ★ CARNAGE OFFERING TOWER DEFENSE ★ WE ♥ IT 
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Colony Siege

93% 👍 OF 259
About This Game

Colony Siege combines the best of RTS and tower defense, including base building, mazing, and unit physics. Defend Earth's remaining colonies using an arsenal of deadly weapons to torch, slice, throw, and impale swarms of alien invaders.

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Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal

96% 👍 OF 4.8K
About This Game

Creeper World 3 is what happens when cellular automata takes over a strategy simulation. Instead of discrete units that attack your base, a fluid-like substance spreads over the terraformable terrain. Your base, your weapons, your strategy... you must adapt them all.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Outbuild the Creeper
  • …Link Guns to Power
  • …Reshape the Terrain
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DG2: Defense Grid 2

87% 👍 OF 3.5K
About This Game

Great strategy is timeless. Build, adapt, and defend across dynamic maps, solo or online - every session brings new strategies, new solutions, and new surprises. Now is the perfect time to enter the grid.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Shape Alien Paths
  • …Upgrade Tower Effects
  • …Defend Power Cores
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Tower Factory

90% 👍 OF 1.3K
About This Game

Tower Factory is a tower defense and automation game with roguelite elements. Optimize resource production using conveyor systems while defending against monster waves. Can you find and destroy the enemy tower before it's too late?

Player reviews say you can…

  • …push back the fog with beacons to uncover hidden crystals you need to trigger the win condition.
  • …swap production buildings between two recipes to pivot your whole factory without rebuilding it.
  • …speed-run the map and destroy the enemy tower before you even finish setting up tier 2 supply chains.
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Rusted Warfare - RTS

96% 👍 OF 7.6K
About This Game

{{An RTS inspired by the classics of the past!}} Making up for it's subpar retro graphics with fun gameplay and modern multi-threaded tech enabling huge battles to run smooth... Featuring singleplayer challenges, skirmish, sandbox, 10-player multiplayer & workshop modding.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …drop 10,000 units on the map and still have it run smoothly.
  • …capture a weird alien outpost with a tiny ground unit, and trigger dragons or orbital tech ships you can control.
  • …install an 8 MB workshop mod that turns the whole game into a different RTS.
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Taur

80% 👍 OF 2.1K
About This Game

Taur is an action-strategy sci-fi game. Control the Prime Cannon and unlock all of its powerful weapons and abilities. Build turrets, droids, aircraft and more as you fight to protect the homeworld of the Tauron droids against a relentless invasion. Will your Taur stand against the Imperion warmachine?

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Aim the Prime Cannon
  • …Build Droid Defenses
  • …Deploy Aircraft Squadrons
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MarZ: Tactical Base Defense

78% 👍 OF 888
About This Game

Build your defense base to fight back the undead hordes of Mars and secure the future of the red planet. MarZ is a game of strategy and tactical defense where you must carefully manage your crew and resources as you try to uncover the terrible secrets of the undead.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Staff Your Towers
  • …Power the Defenses
  • …Hold Off Undead
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CARNAGE OFFERING Tower Defense

91% 👍 OF 335
About This Game

The replicator robots are back! It's 2528. The machines are increasingly infecting the planets with genetically modified monsters. Challenge them and try to stop the onslaught. Upgrade buildings and heroes, mine resources, discover technology and fight to save humanity!