Best Castle Defense Games

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Defenders of the RealmWindows 10 tower-defense games can be a fun way to pass the time and challenge your skills at strategy. The Windows Store is packed full of these games, in which you defend a stronghold from wave after wave of enemy attacks.

You may be facing formidable forces of orcs, werewolves, zombies, trolls or toy soldiers. Defensive structures range from archery towers to cannons and missile launchers. Regardless of the theme of the game, the goal is consistent throughout the tower defense category: wipe out the enemy before they overtake your position. These are the best tower defense games for Windows 10.

Updated April 2017: We made a few changes to this article based on new releases, reader input and staff debate. There are some new titles in the mix, as well as those that we continue to view as the best from the Windows Store.

Royal Revolt 2 is a wonderfully animated tower-defense game for Windows 10 in which you not only have to defend your castle from invaders but also get to attack enemy strongholds.

Available for Windows 10 PC and Mobile, this free game offers a strong assortment of tower defenses that range from archer towers, bomb launchers, frost towers and more. You can also defend your castle with troops ranging from knights, paladins, ogres and gargoyles.

The troops you recruit and train can also follow you into battle with magical attacks available to give your efforts an explosive boost.

Royal Revolt 2 offers a nice blend of a city-builder, tower-defense and combat games. Signing into the game with your Facebook account opens up a social media aspect and the ability to synchronize gameplay between Windows 10 devices. Overall, Royal Revolt 2 is a feature-rich, visually appealing tower-defense game to help pass the time with.

Prime World: Defenders

Prime World: Defenders is a wonderfully drawn up tower-defense game that is available for Windows 10 PC and Mobile. 3D graphics are full of detail with the ability to zoom and rotate around the battlefield.

Prime World: Defenders includes 36 types of invading monsters, 26 different defensive towers and 25 levels of upgrades for those towers. On top of the physical defenses, the game also makes available 13 spells that can be cast to wreak widespread havoc on your enemies.

This Windows 10 tower-defense game also takes on a slight Role Playing Game (RPG) twist, with the ability to enhance weapons by placing them on magical elements and leveling up your talents at defense.

Prime World: Defenders' storyline includes 23 mission, boss battles and side missions to tackle. However, to fully appreciate the detail of this free game's graphics you need to play Prime World: Defenders from a Windows 10 PC (it works great on the Surface Tablet.

Bugs Defense

Bugs Defense is a classic tower defense game that pits you against wave upon wave of creepy, crawly bugs determined to rob your treasure stash. Available for Windows 10 Mobile, the free game sports challenging maps to defend and graphics with a slight minimalist approach.

Bugs Defense has four different types of defensive units (cannon, laser, bomb launcher and paralyzer tower) and gobs of bugs to destroy. Bugs range from spiders to scorpions and ants, each with a range of strengths, speed and attacks.

Defensive towers can be placed on the map just about anywhere, and you can disturb the bug's path to create choke points. The points slow down the bugs, making them a little easier to destroy. Towers are upgradeable and many of the bugs can shoot plasma-like balls at the towers to damage or destroy them. Should a bug reach your treasure pile and steal an item, you can destroy the bug as it tries to escape and recover your treasure item.

Bugs Defense offers a nice balance of strategy, tower management and treasure recovery. Each round has multiple waves of bugs to contend with, and each wave is more intense and challenging than the previous one. All in all, Bugs Defense is a fun Windows 10 Mobile game to lose track of time with.

Digfender

Digfender takes a rather unique approach to tower-defense games in which you must protect your castle from enemies that rise up from beneath your Keep.

To establish your defensive units, you dig beneath the castle. Gold is discovered to help fund additional defensive units or upgrade existing units. The further down you dig, the more intense your enemy becomes. Along with the defensive towers, Digfender includes an assortment of booby traps and support structures to aid in your defense.

Digfender includes over 70 levels of play in the story mode and eight upgradeable defensive towers. There is also a survival mode available once you pass level 11 in the story mode. The survival mode throws everything at you to see how long you can keep the enemy troops at bay.

Digfender is a free game, available for Windows 10 Mobile. It may have your enemies attacking from an unconventional approach, but that only adds to the game's challenge.

Toy Defense Free

Toy Defense Free is a Windows 10 Mobile game in which you battle foot soldiers, tanks, armored cars and more to protect your base. The game has a World War I theme with over 70 challenging war missions, nine different enemy types and four historical weapons to use in the defense of your position. Defensive weapons include 24 upgrades to enhance their range, speed and destructive abilities.

Enemies can enter the battlefield from multiple points, creating a nice level of difficulty. Battlefields range from the forest setting to beach front assaults. Weather becomes an element with rain, clear skies and snow events thrown into the mix. Toy Defense Free also includes a weekly tournament mode in which you can battle for Facebook bragging points.

Toy Defense Free sports eye-catching graphics, and units are reminiscent of the toy soldiers many of us played with as kids. Game mechanics are user-friendly and the level of difficulty keeps you on your toes. All in all, this free Windows 10 Mobile game is entertaining.

If you have tried any of these titles, let us know what you think in the comments. The Windows Store is full of entertaining tower-defense games and if we have missed your favorite, feel free to toss out a recommendation.

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Let's face it--there are a lot of tower defense games out there. It seems like anyone with even the slightest bit of interest in game development has pumped one out at some point, often resulting in a pretty lackluster final product that's hardly any different from the pack. But for every dozen or so glorified flash game clogging up the market, there's bound to be one game fresh enough to really be worth your time right?

Where could one learn about these mysterious games with new ideas, undeniable charm, and addicting gameplay? Judging by the fact that you've clicked on this article, we think you know the answer to that. So enough beating around the bush--read on and discover the ten tower defense games that we believe stand above the rest.

10. South Park Let's Go Tower Defense Play! (Xbox 360)

Way, way back before The Stick of Truth blew us out of the water, there was a time when even a decent video game set in the town of South Park seemed like an impossibility. After a middling shooter, boring kart racer, and outright misguided minigame quiz, what chance was there for a tower defense game to avoid mediocrity?

It turns out that just wasn't the case for South Park Let's Go Tower Defense Play! (man, what a name). The game kept the action up by giving players control of characters that not only built towers, but also collected cash and fought on the frontlines. With strong multiplayer and plenty of crude, foul-mouthed humor, it was the first to prove that Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny could find a real home in gaming.

9. Revenge of the Titans (PC, PS Vita)

Sometimes, gamers are like children. We go to the store and see a shiny new toy or weapon upgrade on the shelf and just have to have it. Why should we wait until the end of the game for that upgrade when we can see it there, taunting us with its super-cool, minion-demolishing awesomeness? It's just not fair!

Revenge of the Titans is merciful in this regard, allowing players to purchase tower and resource upgrades at any point through its charming 50 level campaign. Whether you choose to research powerful superweapons, carefully specialized towers, or more resource-collecting refineries than you know what to do with, open-ended strategy is the name of the game. Actually, it's 'Revenge of the Titans,' but you know what we mean.

8. Sanctum 2 (PC, PS3, Xbox 360)

The best hybrid is more than the sum of its parts. While it's easy to take two different genres and mash them together into a single product, what's really important is to isolate and understand the strengths of the styles being combined. More than a unique weapon or some witty, quotable banter, these fundamentals are what will keep an audience entertained hour after hour, round after round.

Don't believe us? Then take a good hard look at Sanctum 2 in action. The game stands above its competitors by marrying the excitement and adrenaline of an FPS with the strategically-satisfying mental gymnastics of a maze defender. The end result is a kind of left-brain right-brain, chocolate and vanilla-type synergy that's often attempted, but rarely pulled off quite so well.

7. Dungeon Defenders (PC, PSN, XBLA)

Dungeon Defenders is another example of a successful hybrid--albeit one that aims quite a bit higher than Sanctum 2. Instead of limiting itself to two genres, it grabs hold of as many features as possible and Frankensteins them into one hulking, improbably enjoyable monster of a game. Tower defense, third-person action, level-ups, skill sets, loot drops, pets, and four person co-op: it's all here, and somehow it's never too overwhelming.

While novel at first, these inclusions serve the more important role of introducing longevity into the game. Fighting wave after wave of enemies becomes infinitely less tiresome when there are skills to improve, weapons to find, and bosses to conquer. It's still technically a grind, but it's one that we're happy to share with some pals late into the night.

6. Anomaly 2 (PC, PS4)

More than once, we've felt a tinge of regret as we mowed down yet another legion of mindless minions. Most don't stand a chance, merely existing as cannon fodder thrown into a devastatingly one-sided massacre beyond their control. If the tables were turned and we were the ones running the gauntlet, would our foes spare a shred of sympathy?

Absolutely not, but that doesn't mean that we can't put up a good fight. Branded as a 'tower offense,' the Anomaly series stands as a refreshing twist on the genre, giving you a course and pitting you against the pre-built defenses of the enemy. The sequel builds on the first with the important addition of an asymmetrical multiplayer mode, a fantastic cat and mouse experience that, frankly, we're surprised hasn't been around for years.

5. Orcs Must Die! 2 (PC)

Much like zombies, robots, Nazis, and aliens, the video game orc exists merely to be slaughtered at the hands of some rugged hero. Barring few exceptions, they're nameless, faceless foes with no ambition in life aside from looking evil and charging into an untimely death. In fact, we here at GamesRadar would be against the prejudiced representation of such a proud, mistreated race... if they just weren't so much gosh-darned fun to kill.

Orcs Must Die! 2 is one of our favorite examples of this timeless practice. The game's inventive traps, diverse third-person combat, and cooperative gameplay maximize our orc-killitude, while the frequent last stands that mark the end of a successful round often trick us into believing that someday these twisted, ugly creatures may actually pose a threat. But let's face it--until the hotly anticipated release of Orcs Are Our Friends Please Stop Killing Them! we'll just have to keep on doing what we do best.

4. Kingdom Rush (PC, iOS)

With the staggeringly large number of tower defense flash games out there, it's not surprising that one managed to rise above the rest. Kingdom Rush doesn't dramatically remake the genre--you still place buildings to kill the enemies running by--but it does execute the standard formula with plenty of finesse.

In fact, it does so in a way that's so deceptively simple that just about anyone can pick it up and find themselves on the path to the more advanced tactics later levels require. There are only four initial types of towers, yet with upgrades the abilities of each splinter until they become entirely unique. Barracks buildings will always create units to slow down and damage oncoming enemies, but their exact placement can make or break a defense. It may be casual at first, but even the early rounds will have the strategic part of your brain running at full speed.

3. Plants vs. Zombies (PC, iOS, PSN, XBLA, Nintendo DS)

You saw this one coming, didn't you? PopCap's relentlessly quirky defense game is nothing short of addictive, and is as fun as they come. We can still remember the first time we giggled at Crazy Dave's garbled gibberish, cried with our wounded Wall-nut as he fell to the hoard, and laughed at the (literally) mindless notes passed on from our would-be brain munchers.

But what good would all that charisma be without an airtight game to back it up? Plants vs. Zombies does away with the mazelike paths of other tower defense games for just a few short rows, minimizing the play field without losing any of its depth. The perfect balance between economy, fire support, and barriers is always in flux, with different scenarios calling for a unique combination of the various militaristic plants. And that's to say nothing of the minigames, puzzles, survival mode, zen garden, and other bits and pieces that make PvZ, without a doubt, an extremely solid package.

2. PixelJunk Monsters (PC, PSN)

What's a weird, turtle-like parent to do when dangerous monsters are threatening to eat his beloved children: sit back and let them chow down, or dance in front of nearby trees until they magically transform into crossbows and cannons? If you answered the latter, then PixelJunk Monsters is the game for you. If you were fine with the first--well, we sincerely hope that you aren't looking into parenthood any time soon.

This charming tower defense may seem innocent at first, but underneath the quaint hood is one the most frantic games of any genre. By giving the building and cash collection responsibilities to the strange playable turtle-man as opposed to a simple high-speed cursor, PixelJunk Monsters becomes a desperate race to jump from responsibility to responsibility. Improvisation is key as the rounds continue, and soon enough you'll be making the tough decisions that no parent should ever have to face.

Best Tower Defense Games 2019

1. Defense Grid (PC, XBLA)

Every once in a while a game will come around that tries to pull a fast one on us. It plops out some pretty graphics and fancy destruction physics and hopes that we don't notice what's underneath--stale ideas, broken mechanics, and the most boring gameplay you can imagine.