Games Like The Defenders: The Second Wave

The Defenders: The Second Wave

Fight the ghosts through 50 waves of growing danger. Play as a powerful wizard, a mighty warrior, or a strategic builder to stop the ghost invasion. Evolve your character in the direction you want. Survive until dawn, or die trying.

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Manor Lords

84% 👍 OF 91K
About This Game

Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Lay Out Gridless Towns
  • …Add Gardens To Homes
  • …Manage Seasonal Supply
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Total War: ATTILA

82% 👍 OF 37K
About This Game

Against a darkening background of famine, disease and war, a new power is rising in the great steppes of the East. With a million horsemen at his back, the ultimate warrior king approaches, and his sights are set on Rome… The next instalment in the multi award-winning PC series that combines turn-based strategy with real-time tactics,...

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Defend a Crumbling Empire
  • …Burn Cities to Ash
  • …Lead a Migrating Horde
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Dota 2

81% 👍 OF 2.8M
About This Game

Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's always something new to discover. With regular updates that ensure a constant evolution of gameplay, features, and heroes, Dota 2 has taken on a life of its own.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Choose 100+ Heroes
  • …Scout With Wards
  • …Practice Against Bots
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Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun

96% 👍 OF 38K
About This Game

Shadow Tactics is a hardcore tactical stealth game set in Japan around the Edo period. A new Shogun seizes power over Japan and enforces nationwide peace. In his battle against conspiracy and rebellion, he recruits five specialists with extraordinary skills for assassination, sabotage and espionage.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …queue one command per character, then hit a button to make the whole squad act at once for a synchronized multi-kill.
  • …walk through hostile areas in a disguise, stop to chat with guards, and hold them in place while teammates slip behind them.
  • …throw down a bottle of sake to lure a guard, or send out a pet tanuki to pull enemies away from a locked-down area.
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They Are Billions

85% 👍 OF 51K
About This Game

They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build Fortified Colonies
  • …Manage Colony Resources
  • …Pause and Command
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown

93% 👍 OF 58K
About This Game

The XCOM: Enemy Unknown - Slingshot Pack is Now Available!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …capture aliens alive, interrogate them, autopsy them, and turn their bodies into new weapons and armor.
  • …infect civilians into zombies that burst into new aliens, spreading the outbreak across the map.
  • …blow holes through walls and erase enemy cover with rockets and grenades.
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Frostpunk

93% 👍 OF 137K
About This Game

Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

Player reviews say you can…

  • …replace whole work crews with automatons that work all night and don't care about the cold.
  • …sign laws that let you put children to work in mines, kitchens, and coal piles to keep the city alive.
  • …build watchtowers, propaganda centers, and prisons, then run the city on fear when hope and warmth stop working.
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Buckshot Roulette

95% 👍 OF 126K
About This Game

Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …saw off the shotgun mid-match to double the damage on the next blast.
  • …shoot yourself on purpose to try to earn an extra turn if it's a blank.
  • …steal an item from the dealer with an adrenaline shot and immediately use their own tool against them.
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Banished

90% 👍 OF 43K
About This Game

In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …accept nomads into a town hall and watch your food reserves collapse overnight.
  • …run out of tools and have your economy grind to a halt within a year.
  • …have a lone 22-year-old woman become the foundation of a town for 60 years.
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Dota Underlords

82% 👍 OF 90K
About This Game

Hire a crew and destroy your rivals in this new strategy battler set in the world of Dota. Introducing Season One: Explore White Spire and earn rewards on the Battle Pass. Pick from several different game modes, play on your own or with friends, and take advantage of crossplay on PC and mobile.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build Hero Alliances
  • …Lead with an Underlord
  • …Solve City Crawl
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Total War: SHOGUN 2

92% 👍 OF 66K
About This Game

Total War: SHOGUN 2 is the perfect mix of real-time and turn-based strategy gaming for newcomers and veterans alike.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …import British marines through a single foreign-trade port, buy an ironclad, and mow down elite samurai with Gatling guns and cannons.
  • …grow powerful enough that allies and vassals flip on you, then fight off a coordinated dogpile ordered by the Shogun himself.
  • …recruit a new general from the rank and file when leaderless troops win battles, promoting a regular soldier into command.
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Sid Meier's Civilization® V

96% 👍 OF 211K
About This Game

Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …open your borders to Gandhi, then watch him pillage your land, annex cities, denounce you, and launch nukes anyway.
  • …send a nuclear fleet across the world, punch through a submarine blockade, fire the warheads, then drop XCOM squads to seize the top superpower's capital before the space race ends.
  • …absorb a nearby city-state instantly, then trigger a chain-reaction war where your allies help wipe out an empire.