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24 alternatives to Town Defense

Defend your town from some nasty Piggydog invaders

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Town Defense launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

  1. 1

    A fun & relaxing town-building game

    2020 · its alternatives →

  2. 2FD
  3. 3

    Protect your general. Capture enemy generals to defeat them.

    2016 · its alternatives →

  4. 4MA

    A few months ago (82 days to be exact!) I posted a link on HN to my game, Meatshields. A bunch of you commented and played my game and gave me some wonderful feedback. Over the last few months I've been playing with many of you and implementing the best of everybody's suggestions. So, thank you, HN for all your help! I feel this is an extreme overhaul I couldn't have done without your input. Since then, I have: Dramatically improved our hosting platform (So it HOPEFULLY won't go down this time (oops.)), Added two new units, Rebalanced all existing units, Added many more maps, Improved the…

    2017 · its alternatives →

  5. 5

    Pokémon-inspired tower defense with long-term progression

    Dec 2025 · pokepath.site · its alternatives →

  6. 6

    Good old tower defense game

    2022 · its alternatives →

  7. 7
    Mines▲83

    A modern take on Minesweeper

    2015 · its alternatives →

  8. 8

    A prequel to one of the most addictive tower defense games

    2014 · its alternatives →

  9. 9

    Kill your time with a challenging and simple gameplay

    2021 · its alternatives →

  10. 10

    City-building strategy survival game

    2015 · its alternatives →

  11. 11

    Risk-like strategy game against real humans

    2016 · its alternatives →

  12. 12

    A game of explosive railway action

    2016 · its alternatives →

  13. 13

    Cyber Attack Response Game

    2025 · its alternatives →

  14. 14

    Kill all viruses and defend your city gate as best you can!!

    2021 · its alternatives →

  15. 15SI
  16. 16

    Defend your forest against endless waves of evil demons

    2016 · its alternatives →

  17. 17DT
  18. 18PG

    I made a simple webservice to allow applications to be automatically aware of other users nearby. I made a demo of an HTML5 tankwars game to show it off. Play it here www.battlewith.me.uk Find the source code here https://github.com/fmstephe/location_server If anyone would be interested in using this to build something, mobile apps are the best target, give me a shout. I am very keen to see other people building on this.

    2012 · its alternatives →

  19. 19

    A word-based strategy game

    Oct 2025 · truncate.town · its alternatives →

  20. 20MA

    I made an in-browser game called Meatshields (https://meatshields.com) which allows players to play a turn-based strategy game against many different players simultaneously. The game is heavily inspired by Advance Wars and I wanted to give people the multiplayer experience I loved from my childhood. I couldn't find an online version of the gameplay that I really loved (Advance Wars By Web (AWBW) is FANTASTIC, but there are actually a few gameplay mechanics in Advance Wars that I take issue with that I wanted to try to balance myself), so I decided to make my own. It's still pretty…

    2017 · its alternatives →

  21. 21NM
  22. 22

    Place Pokémon, defend paths, defeat legendary bosses

    Jan 2026 · pokepathgame.com · its alternatives →

  23. 23

    Turn your neighbourhood into a real-time strategy game

    Jun 2026 · goio.app · its alternatives →

  24. 24

    Play Tower Defense Games online

    Dec 2025 · pokepath-td.com · its alternatives →

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