Hidden Gem Tower Defense Games Under $5
Highly rated Tower Defense games on Steam for games under $5, capped at 25,000 reviews. The cap filters out everything you've already heard of.
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Our score adjusts Steam's raw rating for sample size. The fewer reviews a game has, the more its score gets pulled toward the site-wide average, so a tiny game can't fluke its way to #1.
- 1Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)21,10893.72%97.48%
- 2Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense17,23093.04%97.25%
- 3Kingdom Rush Frontiers - Tower Defense10,83491.44%96.68%
- 4Stronghold HD (2012)10,44590.76%95.53%
- 5Bloons TD 511,97790.63%94.68%
- 6Dungeon Defenders19,00490.57%93.09%
- 7Orcs Must Die!8,52690.41%95.84%
- 8Rusted Warfare - RTS7,59790.33%96.33%
- 9Dome Keeper22,47190.14%92.35%
- 10Bad North: Jotunn Edition14,33989.94%93.26%
- 11Orcs Must Die! 219,63789.85%92.23%
- 12Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal4,82989.23%96.38%
- 13Defense Grid: The Awakening5,37589.00%96.09%
- 14Kingdom: Classic22,75488.98%90.64%
- 15Ninja Kiwi Archive5,82588.55%93.30%
- 16Sanctum 214,38988.21%89.90%
- 17Wall World12,70788.19%90.56%
- 18The Riftbreaker: Prologue4,13088.18%95.45%
- 19GemCraft - Chasing Shadows4,41388.16%94.90%
- 20Progressbar953,67488.12%96.14%
- 21Marfusha:Sentinel Girls 3,21487.77%93.96%
- 22Bloons Monkey City6,79687.55%91.04%
- 23Craft The World17,10087.43%88.40%
- 24Rock of Ages4,10487.19%92.08%
- 25Infested Planet3,04887.15%93.60%
- 26Infinitode 2 - Infinite Tower Defense4,24587.00%91.28%
- 27X-Morph: Defense4,24386.99%91.26%
- 28Dungeon Warfare2,02386.97%95.80%
- 29Sanctum3,36386.19%89.21%
- 30Anomaly: Warzone Earth4,69386.14%86.92%
- 31Tower Tactics: Liberation1,25786.06%88.31%
- 32Cluckmech Oasis3,63686.01%88.28%
- 33Atom Zombie Smasher2,10785.98%89.75%
- 34GemCraft - Frostborn Wrath2,87685.95%88.63%
- 35Stronghold: Definitive Edition10,38785.87%86.53%
- 36Bloons Adventure Time TD4,79485.85%87.23%
- 37Warpips5,21485.84%87.11%
- 38Time Clickers5,13085.82%87.08%
- 39CastleStorm1,63385.77%89.34%
- 40Unholy Heights1,65285.75%89.16%
- 41Rock 'N' Roll Defense3,96985.72%87.07%
- 42Bardbarian1,51185.62%88.55%
- 43The Perfect Tower II4,46185.62%86.59%
- 44Sang-Froid - Tales of Werewolves1,93985.59%87.67%
- 45Grim Nights1,55285.56%88.02%
- 46DG2: Defense Grid 23,46485.56%86.63%
- 47Heretic's Fork4,12085.52%84.90%
- 48AI War 21,56385.46%87.27%
- 49The Defender: Farm and Castle1,09585.38%89.32%
- 50Necrosmith5,36685.38%85.74%
- 51Rock of Ages 2: Bigger & Boulder3,69585.38%85.90%
- 52VERSUS SQUAD58385.37%78.39%
- 53Over 9000 Zombies!1,52385.36%86.54%
- 54Super Sanctum TD1,58185.36%86.46%
- 55Kingdom: New Lands12,39985.26%85.32%
- 56Dungeon of the ENDLESS14,05985.22%85.25%
- 57Space Run2,15185.20%85.26%
- 58Ultimate Zombie Defense4,80185.16%85.11%
- 59Tower Escape41585.14%84.10%
- 60Zombie Defense2,17684.96%83.96%
- 613 Minute Heroes22384.93%83.86%
- 62Deathtrap2,27984.93%83.81%
- 63Loopstructor38484.88%83.07%
- 64AI War: Fleet Command1,61184.77%82.25%
- 65Cursed Treasure 2 Ultimate Edition - Tower Defense37584.75%79.47%
- 66Rise of Legions1,62084.74%82.04%
- 67Towerful Defense: A Rogue TD24184.69%73.86%
- 68Warstone TD3,89284.41%82.43%
- 69Yet Another Zombie Defense HD3,71084.33%82.05%
- 70Planet TD27784.33%61.73%
- 71Touhou Big Big Battle4,03784.16%80.16%
- 72Dungeons 25,28684.10%82.07%
- 73Prime World: Defenders 22,19284.06%78.92%
- 74Aegis Defenders1,83084.04%77.81%
- 75Gratuitous Space Battles89083.93%69.89%
- 76Deadly 301,87783.86%76.82%
- 77Samawa Idle62183.83%65.86%
- 78Guns n Zombies97783.75%69.09%
- 79War Planet Online: Global Conquest98183.69%62.39%
- 80They Can't Stop All Of Us1,62583.61%73.91%
- 81Fortified1,73483.60%74.51%
- 82最后的仙门 The last Practice Sect52983.56%52.93%
- 83Northend Tower Defense1,45783.53%73.78%
- 84Get Off My Lawn!1,74783.49%73.84%
- 85WARCANA50883.22%62.60%
- 86The Culling Of The Cows3,44682.85%74.38%
- 87Kingdom Eighties3,34182.72%75.34%
- 88Battle Islands3,46882.63%75.29%
- 89FortressCraft Evolved!3,06682.13%72.18%
- 90The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing II2,63681.81%69.01%
- 91Particula2,80381.80%69.75%
- 92METAL SLUG DEFENSE2,23780.03%57.00%
- 93Dungeon Defenders II22,18179.71%77.24%
- 94Orcs Must Die! Unchained6,10679.28%68.64%
- 95Dungeon Defenders: Awakened4,84078.90%65.93%
