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Hidden Path Entertainment · 2008 · Windows

Steam: 96 % positive of 5,142 reviews, as of Oct 18

Defense Grid: The Awakening is a unique spin on tower defense gameplay that will appeal to players of all skill levels. A horde of enemies is invading, and it's up to the player to stop them by strategically building fortification towers around their base.

24 games that play like Defense Grid: The Awakening and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: DG2: Defense Grid 2, Tower Dominion and Minimalist Tower Defense.

Player tags

  • Tower Defense
  • Strategy
  • Sci-fi
  • Singleplayer
  • Indie
  • Aliens
  • Futuristic
  • Addictive
Map region: Tower Defense
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Best matches

Plays and looks like Defense Grid: The Awakening

These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.

By gameplay

Plays like Defense Grid: The Awakening

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. 2112TD: Tower Defense Survival87 % positive of 402Shared: Tower Defense · Strategy · Sci-fi
  2. No Creeps Were Harmed TD88 % positive of 450Shared: Tower Defense · Strategy · Sci-fi
  3. Refactor85 % positive of 450Shared: Tower Defense · Strategy · Sci-fi
  4. CARNAGE OFFERING Tower Defense91 % positive of 311Shared: Tower Defense · Strategy · Sci-fi
  5. Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense95 % positive of 7,084Shared: Tower Defense · Strategy · Singleplayer
  6. Nordhold89 % positive of 2,140Shared: Tower Defense · Strategy · Replay Value
  7. Kingdom Rush Vengeance - Tower Defense94 % positive of 9,793Shared: Tower Defense · Strategy · Singleplayer
  8. Revenge of the Titans81 % positive of 1,227Shared: Tower Defense · Strategy · Sci-fi
  9. Thronefall96 % positive of 20,544Shared: Tower Defense · Strategy · Controller
  10. Legion TD 2 - Multiplayer Tower Defense86 % positive of 13,550Shared: Tower Defense · Strategy · Sci-fi
  11. Rift Riff98 % positive of 206Shared: Tower Defense · Strategy · Controller
  12. AOD: Art Of Defense78 % positive of 376Shared: Tower Defense · Strategy

By look

Looks like Defense Grid: The Awakening

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Command & Conquer™ 3: Kane’s Wrath94 % positive of 5,072
  2. Grey Goo67 % positive of 4,274
  3. Supreme Commander 288 % positive of 12,431
  4. Anomaly Defenders77 % positive of 638
  5. Executive Assault85 % positive of 1,455
  6. 2112TD: Tower Defense Survival87 % positive of 402
  7. Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus91 % positive of 13,509
  8. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Anniversary Edition (Classic)88 % positive of 12,774
  9. Ground Control II: Operation Exodus89 % positive of 291
  10. Brigador: Up-Armored Edition93 % positive of 5,462
  11. Vanquish89 % positive of 7,191
  12. Ancient Planet Tower Defense82 % positive of 1,129

At a glance

What games like Defense Grid: The Awakening have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Defense Grid: The Awakening: Tower Defense (24 of 24), Strategy (24) and Sci-fi (12).
  • They came out between 2011 and 2025, 24 of them after Defense Grid: The Awakening (2008).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Kingdom Rush Frontiers - Tower Defense (96 % positive of 9,408).

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.

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