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Top 5 Tower Defense 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!

  1. March 25th, 2009 at 07:42 | #1

    ohh thankss :) )

    werry good

  2. Sean
    March 26th, 2009 at 16:13 | #2

    Uhm Desktop Defense was the originator of the idea, so its funny seeing it as #2.

  3. March 26th, 2009 at 22:16 | #3

    Original does not mean it is the best

  4. Uhhhh
    March 30th, 2009 at 06:11 | #4

    No it wasn’t. Tower defense games have been around for DECADES.

  5. Christian
    March 31st, 2009 at 03:56 | #5

    Um no, The origanal concet came from warcraft mods. I doubt that counts as “DECADES”.

  6. April 4th, 2009 at 23:08 | #6

    Adam :
    Original does not mean it is the best

    Correct!

  7. scott
    April 8th, 2009 at 02:20 | #7

    Actually starcraft had tower defense type games and came out before warcraft. it used marines and bunks as the towers…so really SC is the original as far as I know. either way…blizzard si the best

  8. sags
    April 8th, 2009 at 07:37 | #8

    @Adam

    lol i was gnna say tht to Sean but then i read your reply :P

  9. Kevin
    April 8th, 2009 at 08:28 | #9

    @scott
    yeah SC and WC3 are both blizzard so pretty much it dont matter but SC was 1st

  10. Joseph
    April 9th, 2009 at 01:28 | #10

    Bloons tower defense 3 should definately be on top 5

  11. April 9th, 2009 at 17:11 | #11

    I made bloons tower defense and im only 12 years old.

  12. mark
    April 11th, 2009 at 21:13 | #12

    @Sean
    Uhm, it’s not funny/pecular/wierd/stange/shocking/surprising in anyway.

    “Top 5 Tower Defense Games”
    NOT
    Firt 5 tower defence games”

    -Idiot

  13. Pasha
    April 13th, 2009 at 09:26 | #13

    your game sux b e case ure 12 and u dont how to build it so it last long

  14. me
    April 14th, 2009 at 12:51 | #14

    why does everyone criticize him??? i mean seareisly does it madder there all tower defence games right so stop with the criticism.

  15. pixie
    April 15th, 2009 at 05:18 | #15

    wow you all are a bunch of idiots.

  16. mike
    April 19th, 2009 at 10:22 | #16

    garden defense is better than all of these.

  17. April 21st, 2009 at 07:58 | #17
  18. Aveloth
    April 22nd, 2009 at 01:02 | #18

    come on the third and fourth tower defences games are for the dick

  19. Aveloth
    April 22nd, 2009 at 01:04 | #19

    @Chris
    really?

  20. Woz
    April 25th, 2009 at 12:48 | #20

    Are you guys 15? The tower defense game genre has been around since the 70’s. Warcraft 3 isn’t truly tower defense either, and it cetainly isn’t the genre creator.

  21. April 30th, 2009 at 08:06 | #21

    The comments of the summer camp director are very true. Our kids go to camp each summer and return filthy dirty, with bug bites, sunburns, scrapes, bruises, and once a broken finger. But for a month, there is no electronic entertainment, nobody is babying them, and they have the freedom and authority to plan their days with much less structure than in school. There is much more tolerance for rough-housing than in the feminized Ritalin dispensaries our schools have become. They return happy, enthusiastic, and with visibly increased maturity and self-confidence.

  22. Lee DePriest
    May 5th, 2009 at 17:19 | #22

    Where’s whiteboards tower defense on there? i really thought that one rocked, really simple but never lagged and was still challenging at points. can’t beat the hard version without juggling…period.

  23. James
    May 8th, 2009 at 08:11 | #23

    Rampart for the Atari or some shit was the first true Tower Defense game.

  24. mymom
    May 8th, 2009 at 08:11 | #24

    try random defense!

  25. May 20th, 2009 at 06:48 | #25

    Warzone Tower Defense is (by far) THE BEST I’ve ever played. And I’ve been playing since the 80’s…

  26. Zw00t
    June 4th, 2009 at 10:51 | #26

    @Sean
    K shut the hell up bud original tower deffence games were started in Blizzards, Starcraft, and then followed up in Blizzards, Warcraft 2. Flash tower defence games came after these two. Stop talking.

  27. June 4th, 2009 at 18:41 | #27

    New TD games I would recommend Fieldrunners, Geodefense (both iPhone) and Plants Vs. Zombies – not quite tower defense but similar in many respects.

  28. dsdsds
    June 5th, 2009 at 12:41 | #28

    New Champ: Plants vs Zombies

  29. gamerpro
    June 11th, 2009 at 05:21 | #29

    its hard 2 say wut is the first td game because there are so many out there, besides who knows? maybe the first td game was way back quite soon after stuff like “space invaders” but it just never cot on and was eventually deleted comepletely from the internet. anyways these r HIS top 5 td games not any1 elses HIS. besides who the hell started that thing about the first td game? who gives a damn its almost impossible 2 say so stop talking its pointless

  30. June 13th, 2009 at 10:15 | #30

    yo yo yo yo yo i love the game onslaught

  31. eaonflux
    June 18th, 2009 at 17:20 | #31

    Hi,

    those td games are awesome, got many on mine own website.
    waited along time for flash getting strategic with some nice gameplay.
    like also the review, nice and detailed

    l8ters

  32. June 20th, 2009 at 01:22 | #32

    @Christian
    Actually… Empire Earth had towers long before warcraft lol. Kids today. The first warcraft was good back in the day.. then they ruined it with lame magic shit.

  33. Ben
    June 20th, 2009 at 10:09 | #33

    @Chris
    I love you bloons tower defense is AMAZING

  34. Josh
    June 23rd, 2009 at 08:53 | #34

    Sean :
    Uhm Desktop Defense was the originator of the idea, so its funny seeing it as #2.

    your kidding right ? ..

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