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CLUSTER CHAINS-DEFEND-ENEMY · 3 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2019-08-28

Factory tower defense games

These are factory-automation tower-defense hybrids where players build conveyor-based supply chains, produce materials, and defend structures against enemy waves, supporting solo or co-op play. The cluster's dated history is too thin to read a shape from—only two dated entries exist and one member is undated—so it likely predates the index or lacks source dates. Mindustry leads on traction signals, though its activity metric is 0 stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

AUG 2019: 1AUG 2026: 1SEP 2026: 1
AUG 2019SEP 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 2 hand-coded · 1 unlabelled

Operator · 1 indie · 2 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 3 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01Mindustry0★14 daysliveopen sourceSandbox tower-defense game where players build conveyor-belt supply chains, produce materials, and defend structures from enemy waves alone or with friends.
  2. 02Mindustry0★25 dayslivehand-codedopen sourceFactory-building strategy game where players automate resource chains and defend against enemy waves.
  3. 03Mindustry0★unknownlivehand-codedindieA sandbox tower defense game combining factory automation and combat, where players build supply chains, produce resources, and defend structures from enemy waves.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.