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.
5. 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.
4. 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.
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.
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.
There are heaps of these games out there, but these five are my favourites.
Go forth and kill the creeps!
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Uhm Desktop Defense was the originator of the idea, so its funny seeing it as #2.
Original does not mean it is the best
No it wasn’t. Tower defense games have been around for DECADES.
Um no, The origanal concet came from warcraft mods. I doubt that counts as “DECADES”.
Correct!
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
@Adam
lol i was gnna say tht to Sean but then i read your reply
@scott
yeah SC and WC3 are both blizzard so pretty much it dont matter but SC was 1st
Bloons tower defense 3 should definately be on top 5
I made bloons tower defense and im only 12 years old.
@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
your game sux b e case ure 12 and u dont how to build it so it last long
why does everyone criticize him??? i mean seareisly does it madder there all tower defence games right so stop with the criticism.
wow you all are a bunch of idiots.
garden defense is better than all of these.
i really like this TD.
http://www.sho.com/site/tudors/tudorsdefense.do
come on the third and fourth tower defences games are for the dick
@Chris
really?
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.
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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.
Rampart for the Atari or some shit was the first true Tower Defense game.
try random defense!
Warzone Tower Defense is (by far) THE BEST I’ve ever played. And I’ve been playing since the 80’s…
@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.
New TD games I would recommend Fieldrunners, Geodefense (both iPhone) and Plants Vs. Zombies – not quite tower defense but similar in many respects.
New Champ: Plants vs Zombies
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
yo yo yo yo yo i love the game onslaught
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
@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.
@Chris
I love you bloons tower defense is AMAZING
your kidding right ? ..
you guys do know there were games like this for the commodore64 and apple 2 in the mid 80s ya talkin about warcraft being the origin of TD really shows you’re all kids but hey that’s cool games are for kids all good.
I feel like this list should be re done at this point now that so many new tower defense games have come up. Desktop tower defense was really good, but now there is gemcraft, bloons, etc. Just my thought on that.
@Ryan
I’ve thought about doing that for a while now… One day!
The original, first of all (after the version on the warcraft games) was flash element TD.
@Woz
The first TD game i’ve ever played was an arcade game called Rampart and that was back in 1990. I don’t think there were any earlier than that. If so, they weren’t widely distributed or mainstream… My top three are:
(3)Warzone Tower Defense (2)Vector (1)Gemcraft. After playing Gemcraft, it’s hard to tolerate any other anything less than innovation in these legacy titles that pop up what seems like daily.
I disagree that onslaught is the best I thing Flash Element is much much better number 1 and number 2 are awesome
@Chris
uhm.guess what hombre, ive seen the dude that made the bloons series, and i assure you hes not 12, so go lie to your parents instead of making stuff up on here to get attention. ;0
Onslaught is a poor excuse for a tower defense game.. it’s too easy. I got to wave 84 with minimal effort, it only got hard at wave 99 and that’s when I basically gave up.
Would make a try on this defense games, as am fond of games right now. Thanks!
YEAH! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO STARCRAFT! i think i’m gonna play that now instead of desktop tower defense, which is by far my favorite td game. another sort-of td game thats cool is the space game.
@Woz
lol you are funny in your stupidity. Since 70’s? Muahaha! If “tower defense game genre has been around since the 70’s.” as you say, so please give me a name of a computer tower defense game from 70’s. Otherwise shut up, you are making yourself a fool
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crystal defenders is the best
Hey, guys… I think this series of comments proves that far too many computer-maniacs with repressed anger, violence and frustration find a primary way of releasing their feelings by criticizing everything they can on public forums, blogs, etc. Learn to post civilised comments and maybe something constructive will come out of it, too.
As far as I am concerned, I have to agree with the choice of Onslaught as top TD game, I just played non-stop for the last 3 hours, got seriously addicted and that was only 2 maps (no challenges yet). Desktop Tower Defense had me addicted before, now I have a new challenge.
Hey guys… I think that last comment proves that douche bags fresh out of high-school psychology classes with superiority complexes think that using words like repressed anger will make them seem like they know what they’re talking about when they really just want to do the EXACT same thing they’re bitching at everyone else for doing while pretending they’re somehow above it.
Me, I like bitching. It’s fun. What I can’t stand is hypocritical bitchers. Bitches. =D
On an actually-related note, why does everybody want the bloon D series to be up there? In most of them, you can beat it by just stacking one or two different kinds of towers. I remember beating one of them using nothing but that tower that shoots spikes in all directions past level 4 or so. How is that good? -.-
@Sean
Lol the first defense games were on Starcraft dumbass.
ok what Starcraft are we talking about here I thought it was an RTS not a TD game……