6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Bloons TD 6. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Bloons TD 6.
Release Date: 30/09/2021, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon and Grid
The Last Friend is a strategy fighting game where you defend your team of dogs from the waves of baddies and bosses on a mission to save all the doggos. Play is a combination of managing your turret defences and running around beating up the onslaught...
Release Date: 06/01/2014, updated in 2023
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Hand-Made
Kingdom Rush is a strategy tower defence game where you defend your kingdom against waves of orcs, trolls and evil wizards. You do this by placing (and developing) your arsenal of towers and spells to kill them before they reach you.
Release Date: 11/09/2012
Out Now: Mac, PC and PS3
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon and Grid
Critter Crunch is a matching brain game where you use Biggs' long tongue to feed small creatures to larger ones until they burst. Play is a spin on Puzzle Bobble, but here the sequence of matches is as important as matching the same coloured creatures...
Release Date: 29/04/2021
Out Now: Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Hand-Made
Fly Together is a strategy puzzle game where you need to direct planes to different airports so passengers can get to their destinations. You do this against the clock, by drawing flight paths and avoiding collisions in increasingly challenging action...
Release Date: 21/10/2015
Out Now: Amazon Fire, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Day and Night and Pixels
Kingdom is a retro-look strategy game where you must defend your town from the nightly attack of zombies as you develop your technology and civilisation day by day. But unlike other tower-defence games – where you set up defences and fend off waves of...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Calorie Defenders is a strategy game where you place vegetable traps and shoot sugary food inside the human body. One minute you're defending the body from the sugar while running and jumping across chasms, the next you are strategically placing traps...
23 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Bloons TD 6. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Bloons TD 6.
Release Date: 06/12/2018
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon
Conduct Together is a strategy game where you control toy trains along overlapping train tracks. Each train can be started and stopped with a specific button. Other buttons change different points. The aim is to transport the people from one station to...
Release Date: 02/02/1998, updated in 2023
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS2, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Open World
Age of Empires IV is a strategy game where you command an ancient civilisation in real-time and must develop from hunter-gatherers to advanced forms of defence and war. This is similar territory to Civilization but focuses on...
Release Date: 12/09/2017
Out Now: Mac, PC and PS4
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Open World and Pixels
Tooth and Tail is a real-time strategy game about anthropomorphic animals. Before each match, you choose a commander from four factions and six units from a pool of twenty. You then use these units to build farms, lookouts and gather resources.
Release Date: 05/05/2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Hand-Made
Trash Sailors is a hand-drawn sailing game, where you control a group of castaways after a tsunami flooded the world. You navigate the ocean and build your raft with trash nearby which you can recycle into fuel, raft spare parts, and even weapons....
Release Date: 02/08/2012, updated in 2013
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Clash of Clans is a cartoony strategy war game played on smartphones and tablets. Set in a fantasy world, you take charge of a village and must build defences against attacks from other players. Likewise, you gain resources by attacking others.
Release Date: 31/01/2020
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Hypercharge: Unboxed is a shooting game where you play a small toy from the 1990s in human-sized arenas like a toy shop, back garden and a garage. It combines base defence play with exploration and collection running and jumping in a wide range of...
Release Date: 12/07/2016, updated in 2016
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On
Cannon Brawl is a two-player battle where you collect resources and build weapons and defences, all in real time. It’s shout-out-loud fun where one wrong shot can let your opponent get the upper hand. Each battle is as frantic as it is silly. To win...
Release Date: 02/03/2016
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Cards and Grid
Clash Royale is a real-time strategy game where you collect cards to gain units and powers for a player vs. player battle. It's like a simpler version of Clash of Clans.
Release Date: 11/12/2009, updated in 2021
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, Amazon Fire, Android, Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS3, PS4, PSP, Web, Wii, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One, iOS and iPhone, iPad
Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Angry Birds is a series of puzzle games where you catapult cartoon birds to destroy the pigs who have stolen their eggs. The latest game, Angry Birds Reloaded, is a remake with new levels, graphics, locations, birds, and story elements. The series'...
Release Date: 08/09/2022
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cards, Grid and Hand-Made
Isle of Arrows is a strategy game where you defend a magical crystal from waves of enemies. Using randomly assigned pieces and cards that grant you bonus abilities, you construct the invader's path and then fortify it to travel on with weapons, traps,...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Day and Night, Pixels and Weather
Sons of Valhalla is a strategy base building game. You play the son of a Viking Jarl aiming to conquer England and save the love of your life. Like Kingdom, you incrementally upgrade your fortifications, farming and armies to defend...
Release Date: 24/01/2008, updated in 2018
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS3, PS4, PSP, Switch and Wii U
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
PixelJunk Monsters is a strategy game where you build defensive towers to defeat a linear march of enemies before they reach your base and kill your creatures.
Release Date: 18/02/2021
Out Now: Switch
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Gemini is a fighting game where you defend a Crystal from waves of enemies. It's super simple in both visuals and gameplay. As you defend each wave you can collect coins to upgrade your character and purchase weapons. It's a great introduction to tower...
Release Date: 19/11/2004, updated in 2020
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Jets'n'Guns 2 is a fast arcade-style shooting game where you defeat wave after wave of enemy ships and avoid an endless barrage of bullets. While initially the challenge seems overwhelming, building instincts of how and when to move and upgrading your...
Release Date: 08/09/2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon
Justice Sucks Recharged is an action stealth tower defence game where you are a murdering robot vacuum. You learnt your violent survival technique after (during events of the first game in the series, Roombo: First Blood) fighting off burglars during a...
Release Date: 24/03/2021
Out Now: Mac, PC, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On
Rip Them Off is puzzle game where you build businesses to attract customers. It's an economic management version of tower defence. Rather than stopping soldiers by shooting them, you are stopping citizens by selling them things. You choose locations,...
Release Date: 21/04/2015
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS Vita and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Rymdkapsel is a strategy game where you command a stylised space station filled with minions. You make decisions about to spend your manpower and expand your space station. It's minimalist and intentionally opaque to understand, but through multiple...
Release Date: 28/10/2022
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Skies of Chaos is a frantic shooting game about a pilot on a mission to shoot down enemy planes. It's not a hugely inventive story and doesn't need to be, this is all about the bright frenetic action. To play you quickly move your plane around to shoot...
Release Date: 01/01/2004, updated in 2018
Out Now: Android, Apple TV, Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS3, PS4, PSP, Switch, Wii U, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Sky Force Reloaded is a fast arcade-style shooting game where you defeat enemies, earn money and upgrade your ship. As you shoot down huge opponents and dodge barrages of attacks, you save civilians and upgrade your ship with unique upgrades that make...
Release Date: 24/06/2022
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac and iOS
Components: 3D Third-Person
Air Twister is a shooting game that focuses on aiming and dodging, like the classic Space Harrier game. As you race through a series of exotic locales you chain together multiple targets to score more points. This, and the strategies you need to defeat...
Release Date: 27/06/2020
Out Now: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
Lairchitect is a strategy game where you build defences in your dungeon to prevent heroes from taking your Soul Stones. It's a twist on dungeon role playing games, where instead of playing the hero you are the owner of the dungeon (like the classic...
Release Date: 18/12/2009, updated in 2011
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS and DS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Hand-Made
Starship Patrol (Starship Defense) is a shooting game where you defend your ship from waves of enemy attackers. You have a combination of static guns and defence ships to form an efficient strategy. It's well executed, but most unusual for its hand...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
The Settlings is a strategy management game where you give your tiny workforce tasks to create an ecosystem of production. Taking elements from the classic Lemmings and Settlers game, your challenge is to set up automated networks of workers to gather,...