CLUSTER GAME-PLAYERS-WAVES · 64 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2012-02-23
Tower defense games
This cluster comprises 47 tower-defense games spanning casual mobile titles, tactical artillery sims, and themed variants (e.g., plants, monkeys, viruses). The dated history runs from 2009-02 to 2026-07 with a sporadic, low-frequency pattern of single entries per month, showing no dominant release period. Traction leaders, each with 0 stars, are Dima Defense ⚔️, Tower War - Tactical Conquest, and Iron-Nest-Community-Edition-2026.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
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 · 4 ai-built · 2 hand-coded · 14 unlabelled
Operator · 10 hobby · 1 indie · 5 commercial · 3 open source · 1 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 20 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 21trump-bird-mobile0★1 mo—hobbySatirical arcade mobile game in which players defend an iron structure from waves of attacking birds.
- 22Chip Defense0★1 moliveopen sourceTower defense game where players place logic chips to protect a CPU from waves of bits and data attacks.
- 23-0★28 days—hobbyIdle tower defense game where the player earns coins while in bed, builds turrets and upgrades defenses to fend off ghosts.
- 24auren-the-twenty-fourth-siege0★1 moliveindieTower defense and squad-strategy game in which players defend the last Ember Throne across four acts and twenty-four authored stages.
- 25galactic-defense-forge0★1 moliveai-builthobbyTower defense game set in space where players defend against waves of enemies using upgradable defenses.
- 26The Last Carrot0★1 moliveopen sourceOffline tower defense game in which players build and upgrade towers to stop waves of critters from taking the last carrot.
- 27Cell Survivor - Shoot Defense0★2 molivecommercialDefense game where players protect cells from enemy hordes, using blades and choosing ability upgrades after each wave.
- 28nexus0★1 mo—hobbyA hybrid tower defense and real-time strategy game where players defend and attack in solo or multiplayer matches.
- 29opentowerdefense0★1 mo—hobbyTower defense game where players place defenses along a path to stop waves of enemies.
- 30cheesetd0★1 mo—hobbyWave-based tower defense game in the browser where players defend a cheese wheel from rats and mould, upgrading towers along branching paths.
- 31Earth-defender0★2 mo—hand-codedhobbyA game where players defend Earth from enemies, built on Scratch.
- 32Plant Master: TD Go0★2 molivecommercialMobile tower defense game that combines plant merging and hero collection to fight zombies with mutations, bosses, and co-op battles.
- 33bastion2★4 mo—ai-builthobbyTower-defense game where players defend a base from waves, created by an automated multi-agent AI coding pipeline.
- 34Operation WarShell0★6 mostaleliveArtillery base-defense game that puts players in command of a crew defending an objective against escalating waves of enemy units.
- 35Pill Fortress0★4 molivecommercialTower defense game where players place pills to defend against virus waves in an immune-themed world.
- 36Legions War: Art of Strategy0★2 yrabandonedlivecommercialArcade war game that blends tower defense and real-time strategy, tasking players with commanding armies to repel waves of enemies.
- 37Enchanted Fortress0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceMobile game where players build and manage a castle, assign population to tasks, and defend against demon invasions.
- 38Fight For America: Country War0★4 molivecommercialTower defense strategy game in which players defend bases, deploy turrets, and conquer states across America.
- 39TowerDefenseCopilot0★5 mo—ai-builthobbyBrowser-based 3D tower defense game where players build and upgrade towers along a path to stop waves of enemies.
- 40Material-Tower-Defense1★11 mostaleliveai-builthobbyTower defense game where players place and merge towers with abilities like stealth and healing to repel enemy waves.
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