I've never been much of a fan of this sort of thing, mostly because it takes a long time and most of them look the same.

Sanctum kind of changes this for me with how it's an FPS Tower Defense deal. I've only played a demo, but that's enticed me to have more.

What tower defense games are unique to you?

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Dungeon Defenders is my new love right now.

12 years ago
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Dungeon Defenders is too cool for school

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Definitely gonna have to try it at some point.

12 years ago
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Free demo, give it a shot! If you do buy, it can get pretty grindy if you are trying to get maxed gear. Also, there is tons of DLC, which some users complain is way too much and the DLC comes up to costing nearly as much as the game. The game is great fun with friends and figuring out how to exactly set up towers is challenging!

12 years ago
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Bloons Tower Defense 3 <333333333333 But it'll always have a special place in my heart. Otherwise, I'm looking forward to trying Sanctum and Dungeon Defenders<3

12 years ago
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Bloons Tower Defense 5 is out, and although I don't like the new cutesy cartoon look, it is a great game.

12 years ago
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I only really fell in love with Bloons Tower Defense 3, but I wanna get the new DSiWare version on my 3DS :3

12 years ago
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bloons! definitely my favorite. also used to like desktop tower defense, haven't played that in FOREVER though. orcs must die was fun :D

12 years ago
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Dungeon Defenders and Defense Grid: The Awakening are probably the best Tower Defense games on Steam right now. And I have BOTH! :D

12 years ago
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and sol survivor

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Orcs musts die! is good too. It is kinda like Dungeons Defenders, but single player only.

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Since Sanctum (very fun game) and DD have already been mentioned, MOBAs are a kind of tower defense that you might find interesting. DOTA, League of Legends, Heroes of Newerth...that sort of thing. They'd be more like tower defense meets rpg/strategy I guess.

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I never really saw DOTA as tower defense. League of Legends I never even gave a glance at beyond "I probably won't enjoy it." Maybe I should give it a shot at some point.

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I felt the same way about LoL, but then I took an arrow to the kne...actually it was a lot more fun than I thought it would be. Very polished and straightforward with quick matches, so I found it addictive fairly quickly. :)

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MOBA ain't Tower Defense at all. You're not placing the towers, so it's a completely different genre. >.>

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You don't place towers in Orcs Must Die! (they're traps), you can win a map in DD by simply owning mobs with your weapon at high levels (yeah, leveling in TOWER DEFENCE). MOBA games are reverse tower defence, games where YOU try to get to the core and destroy towers. So they can be referred as a KIND of tower defence (as it was said by Bunny).

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DOTA is an RTS. Rofl.

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My thought exactly, it's not a tower defense hence why it's not in the tower defense genre.

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Umm, its also a MOBA. Action-RTS and MOBA = Same thing
Dota 2 = Action RTS

12 years ago
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Orcs must die! and Defense Grid - the best tower defense games on Steam, IMO.

12 years ago
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Dungeon defenders and Orcs must die :)

12 years ago
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^This, Sanctum might be another good game, haven't played it yet but i bought a 4 pack on xmas and still haven't played it...

12 years ago
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Plants vs. Zombies should be mentioned as well.

12 years ago
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Anomaly Warzone Earth

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Anomaly is so underrated it makes me mad. I think that game is one of the best imo, it adds a fresh idea on an old genre with top notch graphics and gameplay.

12 years ago
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I remember this. The demo was badass.

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Defense Grid: The Awakening is a good tower defense game.

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I would say Sanctum is the most unique and that it's my favorite tower defense game (that, sadly, is lacking players). Wasn't into tower defense games until I played Sanctum. Now, I own Dungeon Defenders, Plants vs. Zombies, Revenge of the Titans, and Orcs Must Die, all of which further got me into tower defense games (except plats vs. Zombies, which I have yet to play).

I wish I could say I own Defense grid as well, but I don't own it, sadly (no money for it at the moment).

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Your missing out on DG btw .

12 years ago
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Plants vs Zombies and Defence Grid are my all-time-favs

also, Revenge of Titans looks good and Anomaly - Warzone Earth is tower defence from other way.

12 years ago
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I'm with you on PvZ and DG. Defense Grid was my first tower defense game, and I haven't found anything which I quite enjoy that much in that style (I didn't like Sanctum). Plants vs. Zombies has a different style but I enjoy it a lot. Had in on the PC and recently bought it on my phone, where it's even better thanks to the touch interface.

12 years ago
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Defense Grid: The Awakening, easily the best tower defense game I've ever played.

12 years ago
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desktop dungeons and gem td

12 years ago
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I loved those TDs found in Warcraft III <3.

12 years ago
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I've always loved tower defence. I own Sanctum, Orcs Must die, Defence Grid, and Dungeon Defenders to name a few...

Hint would be to buy Orcs must die, if you enjoy soloing. If you want coop go for Dungeon Defenders. Sanctum is very short lived, same with defence grid.

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How is Defence grid short considering you get to play other modes on those maps too ? I mean theres like 8 modes or something per map you cant tell me youve beaten all of them perfectly and thats short for you .

12 years ago
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Orcs Must Die is a third person Tower Defense game. It also has a demo available on steam and has been as low as $3.74.

12 years ago
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Dungeon Defenders <3

12 years ago
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well I don't know about uniqueness, I hear/read "tower-Defense game" sentence then Defense Grid comes to my mind

12 years ago
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Really? What comes to mind instantly are the thousands of custom maps in Starcraft. Sad that there's only a handful of good ones in SC2 and with Heart of the Swarm coming up with that 'premium shop' of maps.. uhh.. I guess there would be better ones, but even then paying for a single custom map? nope.avi

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All the steam ones I was going to mention are.. well said already! However, a lot of Warcraft III TD maps are amazingly fun to play. http://armorgames.com/play/12200/castaway-island-td IS a LOT of fun, its a little different from the 'normal' TD's, but I enjoyed it quite a lot.

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I think Sanctum and Dungeon Defenders are pretty unique but my favourite is and will always be Defence Grid (and that sc2 td map :P). I enjoyed Plants vs Zombies and Revenge of the Titans too.

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Defense Grid is the best and has a tonload of modes and maps and also dlc wich icreases it by another ton . Ive seen people with 3000 hours played on this although ive onl y invest like 5 hours so far and im nowhere near half way of this . Orcs must die is my favorite for single player third person-ish TD game with lots of humour and again the competitivity in this is getting top scores on the leaderboards . Revenge of the titans is also pretty unique it used to be hellmode untill they introduced some patches though its still hard but atleast not hell . You could also play dungeon defenders , if you like playing with other people , the thing i dont like about that game is that its very limited to build spots and it turns into a hack and slash kinda thing instead of a TD at the point where you max out everything .

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Defence Grid : The Awakening
Sol Survivor
Anomaly Warzone Earth
Orcs must Die

12 years ago
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Anomaly - it's Tower Offense game, not defense. :)

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