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Good Mood Games · 2025 · Windows, Linux
Steam: 73 % positive of 312 reviews, as of Oct 28
City Defense Z combines base-building and base defense in a roguelite progression loop. Build by day, defend by night, and face a growing zombie threat. Every defeat unlocks permanent upgrades, helping you rebuild smarter and push further each time. See how many days you can last.
24 games that play like City Defense Z and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: YORG.io, Rogue Tower and Minimalist Tower Defense.
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Plays and looks like City Defense Z
Close to it by gameplay and by look, so it appears in both lists below.
By gameplay
Plays like City Defense Z
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
YORG.io
90 % positive of 662
Shared: Zombies · Tower Defense · Strategy
Rogue Tower
82 % positive of 5,789
Shared: Rogue-like · Rogue-lite · Tower Defense
Minimalist Tower Defense
94 % positive of 1,867
Shared: Tower Defense · Post-apocalyptic · Survival
Zombie Defense
84 % positive of 2,178
Shared: Zombies · Tower Defense · Survival
Monsters are Coming!
78 % positive of 2,798
Tower Factory
88 % positive of 1,233
Shared: Rogue-like · Rogue-lite · Tower Defense
Rise to Ruins
87 % positive of 7,248
Shared: Rogue-like · Tower Defense · Survival
Nordhold
86 % positive of 2,917
Shared: Rogue-like · Rogue-lite · Tower Defense
Cataclismo
88 % positive of 3,960
Shared: Strategy · Resource Management · Tactical
Infection Free Zone
80 % positive of 16,741
Shared: Zombies · Post-apocalyptic · Time Management
Mindustry
94 % positive of 25,013
Shared: Tower Defense · Survival · Strategy
They Are Coming
89 % positive of 646
Shared: Zombies · Tower Defense · Post-apocalyptic
More matches
- Emberward95 % positive of 4,421Shared: Rogue-like · Rogue-lite · Tower Defense
- Ratropolis87 % positive of 5,193Shared: Rogue-like · Rogue-lite · Tower Defense
- Tower Dominion85 % positive of 5,222Shared: Rogue-like · Rogue-lite · Tower Defense
- Mineral Defense90 % positive of 222Shared: Rogue-like · Rogue-lite · Tower Defense
- Outpost87 % positive of 795Shared: Rogue-like · Rogue-lite · Tower Defense
- Core Defense76 % positive of 342Shared: Rogue-like · Rogue-lite · Tower Defense
- The King is Watching88 % positive of 9,261Shared: Rogue-like · Rogue-lite · Tower Defense
- Vectorio Classic93 % positive of 1,472Shared: Tower Defense · Survival · Strategy
- Thronefall96 % positive of 23,211Shared: Tower Defense · Strategy · Base-Building
- YORG.io 365 % positive of 312Shared: Zombies · Tower Defense · Strategy
- clickyland85 % positive of 634Shared: Tower Defense · Survival · Strategy
- Core Defense: Prelude87 % positive of 211Shared: Rogue-like · Rogue-lite · Tower Defense
By look
Looks like City Defense Z
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
Here Comes The Swarm
85 % positive of 370
Diplomacy is Not an Option
84 % positive of 11,018
Outpost
87 % positive of 795
Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor
86 % positive of 46,596
Zero-K
92 % positive of 4,426
Taur
78 % positive of 2,018
Starship Troopers: Terran Command
86 % positive of 9,261
Rogue Command
88 % positive of 1,053
Tempest Rising
86 % positive of 10,124
After Long Night
71 % positive of 382
Conquest Dark
89 % positive of 2,583
Sir, We Have an Orc Problem
85 % positive of 4,749
More matches
- Calyx86 % positive of 491
- Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation75 % positive of 2,712
- From Glory To Goo96 % positive of 1,852
- Northend Tower Defense74 % positive of 1,309
- Empyrion - Galactic Survival77 % positive of 29,240
- Greedland83 % positive of 2,984
- Stranded: Alien Dawn83 % positive of 9,786
- Planetary Annihilation: TITANS84 % positive of 11,426
- Project Lazarus79 % positive of 1,344
- Surviving the Aftermath71 % positive of 3,157
- Machinefall83 % positive of 125
- Ash & Adam's Existential Treads92 % positive of 352
At a glance
What games like City Defense Z have in common
- The tags they share most often with City Defense Z: Tower Defense (21 of 24), Rogue-like (12) and Rogue-lite (11).
- They came out between 2016 and 2026, one of them after City Defense Z (2025).
- Best rated by Steam players: Thronefall (96 % positive of 23,211).
How these matches work
Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.