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Top 5 Tower Defense Games

04 June 2007 ~ 383 Comments Games,

Tower Defense games have been very popular lately, so I thought I’d take a look at my Top 5 Tower Defense Games.

I believe the idea behind tower defense games comes from Warcraft 3. Basically you need to build different type of towers in order to destroy the “creeps”. Usually the towers have different properties and upgrade opportunities.

Tower Defense5. Tower Defense is very basic with very simple graphics. All creeps are grey circles that move at the same speed.

There’s not much to this one, but it’s the first TD game I played so it makes the list because of the addictiveness.


Flash Element TD4. Flash Element TD has basic graphics which a variety of different looking creeps. There are two types of creeps, land and air based. So some towers can only hit land targets, some only air and some can hit both.

This one includes a monetary bonus depending on how much you have left in the bank after each wave of creeps. So it’s to your benefit to survive a wave by spending the least amount of money. You really need to do this to go far in the game.

3. Flash Circle TD is the sequel to Flash Element TD but a different game all together. The graphics and sound are much better and it’s kept the cool monetary bonus.

What makes this different is that there are endless waves of creeps that keep walking around the map. You lose once 100 creeps are on the screen.

Flash Circle TD

2. Desktop Tower Defense is unique in that you determine which path the creeps have to take. All the want to to is cross the screen so it’s up to you to put towers in their way making it a long journey for them.

The downside to Desktop Tower Defense is the graphics. The just aren’t that special, however trying to create a long path is quite addictive.

Desktop Tower Defense

1. Onslaught like Desktop Tower Defense isn’t very special graphically, but it does offer so much more.

Onslaught has 8 different maps to play. Towers have 3 upgrade options (Damage, Range, Fire Rate) where others have just 1. Different towers can work together to make much stronger attacks.

There are a lot of aspects to Onslaught that need to be mastered to go far and get your name on the leader board.

Onslaught

There are heaps of these games out there, but these five are my favourites.

Go forth and kill the creeps!

383 Responses to “Top 5 Tower Defense Games”

  1. Slapper of Bitches 11 October 2009 at 9:31 pm Permalink

    Can you bitches stop bitching?
    Who gives a fuck where the games came from? No-one’s testing your knowledge on the history of TD, so shut up and enjoy them for what they are!

  2. Slapper of Slapper of Bitches 19 October 2009 at 2:55 am Permalink

    Will you stop slapping these bitches? Who gives a fuck if there bitching. No-ones testing your knowledge of bitch-ness, so shut up and let them be bitches.

  3. Slapper of whiners 24 October 2009 at 5:55 am Permalink

    A small hint, if you want to give a review of something, make sure you state it’s your persoanl view on the subject, otherwise you’ll have people like slapper of bitches whining because he needs the attention.
    Other than that, it’s great, Circle defence is one of my favourite flash td to play while there’s nothing to do at work ^^

  4. lollz 7 November 2009 at 1:49 am Permalink

    Yes Starcraft was there first.
    Yes the list is good.
    No I have not found a flash defence game even slightly close to how good the starcraft ones were.

  5. The Slapper God of Slappers 9 November 2009 at 9:22 am Permalink

    stfu all of u or ill send zues down to rape ur families :)

  6. Slapper of anyone whos name has "Slapper" in it 12 November 2009 at 10:07 am Permalink

    The only two tower defense games worth playing are whitboard tower defense and Desktop tower defense so STFU EVERYONE!!!!! or ill slap u slappers

  7. Andrea 25 November 2009 at 7:13 am Permalink

    I Think the best tower defence are:

    Bloons Tower Defence 4: http://en.farmgames.net/games/732/bloons-td-4

    and

    Terrain Defence: http://en.farmgames.net/games/600/terrain-defense

  8. Slapper (lol my name is andres) 26 November 2009 at 1:18 pm Permalink

    Hay “slapper of anyone whos name has “slapper” in it”

    stop slapping yourself stop slapping yourself
    LOL

  9. Tower Defense Games 4 December 2009 at 6:41 am Permalink

    Its still kind a blurry. I mean – I just can’t get it…Is there any official division of these games, or this is just your personal opinion…
    I mean – I wouldn’t know how to group them … They look all the same to me…
    Cheers

  10. bloons kinda guy 25 December 2009 at 3:11 pm Permalink

    Lol.you “slapper” ppl are strange,just came in to say that,and that bloons tower defense 4 is the best tower defende game out there.dont believe me?google it and play it on ninjakiwi.com and tell me u dont get addicted.

  11. slapper of the slapped 31 December 2009 at 1:46 pm Permalink

    wtf its a game biatches

  12. td complainer 7 January 2010 at 7:28 am Permalink

    wtf… bloons tower defense kicks ass

  13. Kikinaak 10 January 2010 at 5:19 am Permalink

    Theres all these flash-based TD games, and then theres Defense Grid: The Awakening. It was made with the same engine as fallout 3 and the quality shows. Not saying the flash games are bad, but theres a ton of potential in the TD genre just waiting for someone to come along and take it to new heights. We aint seen nothing yet.

  14. henry 13 January 2010 at 10:58 am Permalink

    where is gem craft?????

  15. slapper of slappers with slippers 20 January 2010 at 11:12 pm Permalink

    LOL.. this slapper shit has gone way too wrong.. I wanna slap all of you slappers with slippers!

    Plants vs. zombies is the best flash td game! is there anything better?

  16. jon kill ass hole 24 January 2010 at 2:04 pm Permalink

    i think balloon tower defence 4 kicks ass

  17. austin 25 January 2010 at 11:24 am Permalink

    cody :Hey guys i think you should all get off the computer and get a life i mean look at you guys uhh this game is addictive its so much fun. Guys u need to get off the computer and get a life. Go meet som girls instead of playing on the computer your whole life!!

    who needs a life more the people talking about flash games or the random guy that is reading these and calling everybody losers?

  18. Game 2 February 2010 at 4:14 am Permalink

    Nice collection of tower defense games. I have seen some other lists but they weren’t really great. I like Onslaught and Desktop Tower defense. Must try those!

  19. slapshitman 9 February 2010 at 4:57 am Permalink

    bloons 4 meh?
    i don’t like it, and i don’t like those slapping bitches neither

  20. sage 28 February 2010 at 10:51 am Permalink

    there is no game better than plants versus zombies

  21. Brian 9 March 2010 at 9:21 am Permalink

    Nice selection of games, even though Gemcraft isn’t listed, and the bloons tower defense series is the best one.

  22. wow 9 March 2010 at 9:27 pm Permalink

    nice top5! Flash Element TD my live!

  23. Sammy Hendron 17 April 2010 at 9:32 pm Permalink

    Good job, i am seeing here different commands also thanks for sharing.

  24. matt 20 April 2010 at 6:03 am Permalink

    @lollz try creeper world

  25. The Most Epic of Slapping Slappers, King Slapp-a-Bitch! 21 April 2010 at 5:39 am Permalink

    Alright, you wanna’ be slappers; Cut the crap, or get slapped! Tower Defense games in general are a great way to waste time at school, work, or at home when resting from your World of Warcraft dailies… Oh, yeah… Dailies…

  26. emo-man 23 April 2010 at 10:56 pm Permalink

    try warzone tower defence

  27. SlappinSlap 11 June 2010 at 12:01 am Permalink

    love onslaught. i have also tried the bloons games. they are very fun as well :)

  28. Lol, Cody Got Owned. 29 June 2010 at 12:06 pm Permalink

    Lol you just owned him! :D @austin

  29. Oly 9 July 2010 at 9:33 pm Permalink

    GemCraft0 is the best

  30. zzzzzzz 15 July 2010 at 5:58 am Permalink

    try warzone td, its the best

  31. Cheap Hotels 22 July 2010 at 10:57 am Permalink

    These games are so addictive, it’s crazy

  32. You fucking noobs 4 August 2010 at 11:06 am Permalink

    seriously slappers btd4 is tower defense for people who have no idea what the genre is about. Before you go around saying that the easiest tower defenses are the best go play some REAL tower defenses. a td where you can build spikes on the track and have airplanes bombing the map is not challenging at all, believe me i have beaten the break off map on hard difficulty to show people how easy it is. Go play onslaught or something or even btd1 or 2.

  33. Wyvern 14 September 2010 at 7:57 am Permalink

    If you are a slapper of any kind, stfu before i send a million dragons to destroy everything about you. So shove your mouth full of a chode and i hope you choke. This would bring piece and quite to everyone on this website.

  34. aimless_drifter 23 September 2010 at 9:40 am Permalink

    EPIC TOWER DEFENCE (its a 3D game!!!)

    and how come nobody’s played CURSED TREASURE??!!?? – it is way more addicitve than all the games combined (trust me)!

  35. Tower Defense Fan 18 October 2010 at 8:01 pm Permalink

    Hi,
    my vote from Germany goes to Gemcraft. Hope to see the Gemcraft Labyrinth soon :)

  36. TD Gamer 1 November 2010 at 3:06 am Permalink

    Hello,

    yes Bloons 4 ist one of the best tower defense Games ever!

  37. Red 29 November 2010 at 4:13 am Permalink

    @lollz

    LOL Starcraft was first… So funny. Yea try Atari…

  38. The Slap 6 December 2010 at 7:47 am Permalink

    pwnage to all u slappers

  39. ellie 25 January 2011 at 1:29 am Permalink

    WHEN PENGUINS ATTACK 1/2/3/4/TD ARE THE BEST DEFENSE GAMES I HAVE EVER PLAYED !!

  40. hilleris08 4 February 2011 at 10:20 am Permalink

    Those are good but have you tried… Sketchy Tower Defense from Pixeltroll and Towers from ledge sumthin its in xboxlive.

  41. slapper of slapper of slapper of bitches 6 February 2011 at 12:54 am Permalink

    stop having a go at the slapper of bitches no ones testing your knowledge of slapping of bitch slappers. so shut the fuck up and let the bitch slapping commence..
    i’m so confused!

  42. Mizery De Aria 26 February 2011 at 7:30 pm Permalink

    I think defense games comes from Starcraft since late 1990s.

  43. Mizery De Aria 26 February 2011 at 7:31 pm Permalink

    @Mizery De Aria
    Eh, you can delete this comment. It’s been suggested several times already, although the original STILL article hasn’t been updated.

  44. sabs546 6 March 2011 at 12:42 am Permalink

    try antbuster

    you’ll see how addictive it is when you play it and it’s unique

    here’s the link
    http://www.rstein.org/antbuster/index.php

  45. Slip n slap ill slap you slappers ass 16 March 2011 at 10:36 am Permalink

    LOL I laught for 10 min readind those comment.

  46. Tower Defense 23 April 2011 at 3:28 am Permalink

    Heres my Top Five:

    - Ghost Hacker
    - Cursed Treasure
    - Warzone
    - Vector TD
    - Bloons TD 4

  47. 94studio 14 May 2011 at 4:39 pm Permalink

    Hi,

    I enjoy a lot tower defense games, that bring me on your list,
    i think it’s a good one, but you may update it with the latest tower defense release on the net !

    it’s a real 3d tower defense, open in beta test, if you want to try it follow this link : http://www.94studio.com/TD/ enjoy !

  48. WWW 20 May 2012 at 6:42 am Permalink

    5. bloons td 3
    4.bloons td 4
    3.gemcraft
    2.bloons td 5
    1…….
    KINGDOM RUSH


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