Tower Defense: Difference between revisions

 

* [[Antbuster]]

* [[Bubble Tanks]]: [http://www.kongregate.com/games/HeroInteractive/bubble-tanks-tower-defense Tower Defense]. An updated version (1.5) can be played [http://armorgames.com/play/6338/bubble-tanks-TD-1-5 here].

* Comet Crash

* Create-Your-Own Tower Defense

* [http://armorgames.com/play/12044/crush-the-castle-td Crush The Castle Tower Defense]

* [[Desktop Tower Defense]]

* Fieldrunners

* [[Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles My Life As a Dark Lord]]

* [[Fun Orb]]'s [http://www.funorb.com/info.ws?game=orbdefence Orb Defence]

* ''Gandalf the Sorcerer'' for the [[Commodore 64]] may well have been the first ever example of the genre.

** [http://armorgames.com/play/3527/gemcraft-chapter-0 Gemcraft: Episode Zero]

** [http://armorgames.com/play/10317/gemcraft-labyrinth Gemcraft Labyrinth]

* [[Grim Grimoire]]

* ''[[Heroic Armies Marching]]''

* [[Iron Brigade]] (formerly known as ''Trenched'')

* [http://www.kongregate.com/games/nerdook/kill-the-heroes Kill The Heroes]

* [[Locks Quest]]

* [http://www.kongregate.com/games/fortunacus/mushroom-revolution Mushroom Revolution]

* [[Ninja Town]]

* [http://onslaught.playr.co.uk/ Onslaught 2]

* [[Patch Con]]: Defend the Library is a [[Touhou]] fan game that has elements of Tower Defense games except characters can move. It also has an actual tower defense mode that plays it straight.

* [[Pixel Junk Monsters]]

* [[Pokémon Tower Defense]]

* [[Rampart]]

* [[Savage Moon]]

* Sol Survivor

* Stickman Tower Defense

* [[System Protocol One]]

* [[Tower Madness]]

* [[Video Game/Unstoppable Gorg|Unstoppable Gorg]]

* [http://www.candystand.com/play/vector-td Vector Tower Defense]

 

== Examples of Tower Defense as a [[Mini Game]]: ==

* ''[[Civilization]] IV'' came with a "Civ Defense" mod, in which one starts with a certain number of cities, spends money (rather than the usual "hammers") to add to their fortifications and defenses, and then horde after horde of barbarians come at you.

* ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'' and ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' are probably the [[Ur Example|Ur Examples]]:

* A variation of this appears in Legion's Loyalty Mission in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'', where Mooks must march towards you in a fixed path while you have Legion hack a few turrets around the area to shoot at them.

** Alternatively, you can just cap them yourself.

 

== Examples of Tower Defense games that include the ability to play as the attackers: ==

* [[Anomaly Warzone Earth]]: Considered by many to be the [[Genre Launch|Genre Launcher]] for Tower ''[[Inverted Trope|Offense]]'' games. Here, you upgrade a constantly moving force to [[All Your Base Are Belong to Us|attack an enemy base/garrison]] filled with turrets.

* [[Armored Core]] V: A [[Mech Game]] where most of the online component consists of you assaulting other team's territories akin to a glorified 3D-Tower Defense game. As with everything else however, being intercepted by that territory's owner and prepare for a Team Deathmatch style game instead, with all the turrets present. Like real Turret Defense games, turrets run the gamut from "squishy little targets" to "hard as a barnacle to remove", and combinations of turrets often give even the most experienced players trouble.

* A game literally named Anti-Tower Defense. You select versions of certain robot creeps to casually walk (argh) through a progressively harder tower network.

* ''[[Stronghold]]'', a series of castle-building games which are mostly defensive except for the rare mission where you play an invading army trying to get into an opponent's castle. These also involve setting up a complex supply chain, managing taxes and morale, but for the most part, the aim is to build a big wall around your keep, and stock it with as many archers and crossbowmen as possible to pick off the approaching invaders.

* ''[[Dungeon Defenders]]'' has an event match called 'assault' where, "in an unexpected twist, YOU have to attack THEIR crystal!"

* [[Pokémon Tower Defense]] also features sections where your 'Mons go on the attack.

* ''[http://www.doggnation.com/ Doggnation]'' was originally designed as a Tower Defense game, but this eventually changed into more of a puzzle game where you have to help the "Doggs" carry specific blocks to upgrade their castle.

* [[Game Mod]] ''[[Red Alert 3 Paradox]]'' is unique in that it has BOTH sides of a tower defense game as RTS factions.

* ''Defenders of Ardania'', a Tower Defense game set in the ''[[Majesty]]'' universe, has you do defense with towers and offense with units at the same time.