Games Like City Defense Z

City Defense Z

City Defense Z combines base-building and base defense in a roguelite progression loop. Build by day, defend by night, and face a growing zombie threat. Every defeat unlocks permanent upgrades, helping you rebuild smarter and push further each time. See how many days you can last.

★ OUTPOST ★ POLY TD ★ FRANKENSTORM TD: PROLOGUE ★ ELEMENTS AND BUILD ★ TANGY TD ★ ITER-8 ★ MINOS ★ DEATH ROAD TO CANADA ★ TERMINUS: ZOMBIE SURVIVORS ★ CATACLYSM: DARK DAYS AHEAD ★ WE ♥ IT 
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Outpost

87% 👍 OF 795
About This Game

Outpost brings the perfect mix between survival and roguelite gameplay. Start the game in a randomly generated environment and try to adapt, and make it through as many nights as possible. How long can you survive?

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Gather Daytime Resources
  • …Build Night Defenses
  • …Survive Seasonal Nights
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Poly TD

82% 👍 OF 588
About This Game

Classic Warcraft III TD customs meet roguelike strategy. Summon and merge units to evolve them into legendary figures like Joan of Arc, Guan Yu, and Lovecraft—Legendary heroes from across time and space await! Prove your ultimate synergy against endless waves of enemies.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Merge Units into Heroes
  • …Defend a Looping Path
  • …Chase Endless Scores
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FrankenStorm TD: Prologue

88% 👍 OF 357
About This Game

Roguelite TD: all towers & enemies start the same, but you have 1 choice per wave affecting BOTH and stacking up for dramatic variance. Gradually salvage and make some choices permanent to build deeper strategies. Also a unique mazing challenge where wires and towers must be linked to a power source

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Tangy TD

90% 👍 OF 1.5K
About This Game

Strategic tower defense where you play a witch, place class-based towers, equip them with items that grant powerful abilities, combine them, create unique builds & deal ridiculous amounts of damage! Customize your builds with a deep stat system and giant skill tree!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Control a Witch
  • …Reposition Your Heroes
  • …Combine Ability Gear
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MINOS

89% 👍 OF 611
About This Game

Minos is a maze-building roguelite where you, the fabled Minotaur, must defend your sanctuary from bloodthirsty adventurers. Design and re-design deadly labyrinths, set traps, and turn every brave fool into your next victim.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Reshape Enemy Routes
  • …Chain Trap Reactions
  • …Split Enemy Squads
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Death Road to Canada

93% 👍 OF 10K
About This Game

Control a car full of jerks as they explore cities, recruit weird people, rescue dogs, argue with each other, and face gigantic swarms of slow zombies. Randomly generated for a new story and rare events every time you play!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …sacrifice a teammate into a vortex and get back a dog that can wield a chainsaw and a minigun.
  • …keep going after the humans die and finish the road trip as a dog that can drive and scavenge.
  • …recruit a dog in a trench coat, then watch it die and split into three dogs who keep fighting.
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Terminus: Zombie Survivors

94% 👍 OF 4.5K
About This Game

Terminus: Zombie Survivors is a 2D turn-based survival roguelike set during a zombie apocalypse. Each journey is unique, and every decision can mean the difference between life and death. Can you brave hunger, cold, and the undead in order to reach the Terminus and find salvation?

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Scavenge a Changing City
  • …Manage Hunger and Cold
  • …Target Zombie Body Parts
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Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

87% 👍 OF 551
About This Game

The epitome of a modern traditional roguelike: with turn-based play and a RPG-like skill progression system, it hearkens back to some of the major aspects of this genre. This game has an incredible depth, with a deep inventory system, vehicles and boats, NPCs with their own stories, and more.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …gut an RV to build an armored APC with cameras, remote-controlled doors, solar panels, water collection, and a powered turret.
  • …mutate into things like a cyborg, catgirl, or slime-mold creature, with your DNA rewritten over time by serums or radiation.
  • …hotwire or salvage a car, weld a makeshift ram onto it, and smash through a lab wall or a story gate.