Games like Desperate Place

If Desperate Place scratched a tense and dark itch for you, keep reading. These games are a good place to start.

Minimalist Tower Defense
Gather resources and raise a defense line before darkness falls, then hold it against thousands of enemies until dawn. A minimalist tower defense game with clean geometric shapes, a day and night cycle, weather that changes which towers work, and levels that keep asking more of you. Simple to look at, not simple to beat.
Tense, Replayable
94% of 1,878 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$4.99
Hull Rupture
Earth is gone, and your ship is a living projectile aimed at the alien homeworld. Hull Rupture is a darkly funny tower-defense roguelite where you manage power, resources and human lives to keep the engines burning, build the ship ever bigger, and plug every hull breach before the aliens get in. Keep moving. Whatever it takes.
Tense, Dark, Replayable
75% of 301 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,625$13.49
Project Astra Dominium
Project Astra Dominium is a Tower Defense game with Basebuilding and Automation elements. Build up your base to become a supply hub for Earth's desperately needed materials, gather resources while defending against an unknown alien threat and improve your tower's and AI capabilities.
Replayable
87% of 70 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Last Stand: Defense
"Last Stand:Defense" is a tower defense-themed Rogue-like game. Players need to defend against waves of enemies by building bases, matching talents, and performing delicate operations during battles. Remember, every choice you make will affect the final outcome of the battle!
Tense, Replayable
81% of 116 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Siege of Centauri
Defend against thousands of enemies in this explosive tower defense game. Deploy upgradable towers and unleash powerful orbital abilities as you try to protect Earth's first colony world from destruction.
Tense, Replayable
64% of 352 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Refactor
Refactor is a hard-core tower defense game that combines modular building, route planning, and element composition.
Replayable
83% of 433 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Tower Dominion
A roguelike tower defense where the terrain is your weapon. Tile the map into choke points and kill zones, pick from 30 heroes across three factions, and adapt your defenses wave by wave as the alien invasion keeps coming. Short runs, big decisions, and no two battles alike.
Tense, Replayable
85% of 5,278 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 324$17.49
Space Cycle
Space resources are the battleground for warring factions. As a Space Defense Officer, protect your faction's assets in a vast, hostile universe. Allocate resources, upgrade defenses, and repel relentless enemy attacks! With over 50 unique units and deep strategy, experience real-time tower defense!
Tense, Replayable
93% of 179 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Taur
Taur mixes tower defense with a gun you actually aim. You pilot the Prime Cannon, unlock weapons and abilities, and build turrets, droids and aircraft to hold the droid homeworld against the Imperion invasion. Every wave is a different attack type, so each battle asks for a new plan and a steady trigger finger.
Tense, Replayable
79% of 2,021 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$24.99
Exodus Borealis
In this city builder and tower defense game, you will command a small band of ship wrecked colonists. Progress from struggling to survive the elements to a thriving kingdom that will smash the demon hordes that dare attack your settlement.
Tense, Dark, Replayable
91% of 243 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
ROD: Revolt Of Defense
Explore a random generated space. Find artifacts and treasure maps. Build and develop your base on a flying platform. Attack or defend against enemies and save the universe!
Replayable
80% of 526 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Stellar Initiative
Stellar Initiative is a roguelike tower defense game where you land on the planet and use your orbit ship to deliver buildings and support you with fire. Complete missions, install new upgrades, discover powerful artifacts, and find the best strategy!
Tense, Replayable
76% of 406 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$9.99

Cheaper than Desperate Place

Minimalist Tower Defense

Build your defenses by day, then survive waves of enemies through the night in a clean, tense strategy game that is harder than it looks.

$4.99

Project Astra Dominium

Project Astra Dominium is a Tower Defense game with Basebuilding and Automation elements.

$7.99

Last Stand: Defense

"Last Stand:Defense" is a tower defense-themed Rogue-like game.

$5.99

Space Cycle

Space resources are the battleground for warring factions. As a Space Defense Officer, protect your faction's assets in a vast, hostile universe.

$1.99

Refactor

Refactor is a hard-core tower defense game that combines modular building, route planning, and element composition.

$4.99

ROD: Revolt Of Defense

Explore a random generated space. Find artifacts and treasure maps. Build and develop your base on a flying platform.

$0.99

Stellar Initiative

Stellar Initiative is a roguelike tower defense game where you land on the planet and use your orbit ship to deliver buildings and support you with…

$9.99

Cluckmech Oasis

Lead a squad of animal heroes against rude plants, mixing shooting with tower defense in fast, colorful runs that never play out the same way twice.

$9.99

Stellarcraft

Stellarcraft is a sci-fi tower defense adventure: explore alien planets, gather resources, build defenses, and fend off waves of enemies, solo or in…

$9.99

Broken Universe - Tower Defense

Get ready to rethink all your defense strategies! Build barricades to stop monsters, or lure them into a maze and attack.

$9.99

Frontline Crisis

Defend humanity's last hope, pilot a powerful mech, in Frontlines Crisis!

$5.99

2112TD: Tower Defense Survival

Get ready for the ULTIMATE tower defense onslaught. Build, deploy, research and upgrade your defenses in this epic, old school RTS inspired sci-fi…

$4.79

Hidden gems like Desperate Place

Red Rocket Defencism

You, a military officer from our great autocratic motherland, must protect our precious rockets from the evil capitalist enemy in this revolutionary…

$7.99

Ash & Adam's Existential Treads

A mini action city-builder in a post-post-apocalyptic world. Grow your settlement. Fend off waves of enemies. Restore nature.

$6.99

CleanFall

CleanFall is a survival rogue-like that prizes player freedom and creativity.

$11.99

Space Cycle

Space resources are the battleground for warring factions. As a Space Defense Officer, protect your faction's assets in a vast, hostile universe.

$1.99

The Ember Guardian

Defend the embers of hope in this roguelike strategy game set in a post-apocalyptic world.

$19.99

Minimalist Tower Defense

Build your defenses by day, then survive waves of enemies through the night in a clean, tense strategy game that is harder than it looks.

$4.99

Astral Lords

Shatter genre boundaries in this sci-fi survival Roguelite blending bullet-hell action and base-building RTS.

$12.99

Frontline Crisis

Defend humanity's last hope, pilot a powerful mech, in Frontlines Crisis!

$5.99

Cluckmech Oasis

Lead a squad of animal heroes against rude plants, mixing shooting with tower defense in fast, colorful runs that never play out the same way twice.

$9.99

Tower Dominion

Shape the battlefield into kill zones, hold the line against waves of aliens, and rebuild your defenses every run.

$17.49

Signal Zone

Defend your base against increasingly dangerous enemy waves each night in this minimalist survival strategy.

$11.99

Last Stand: Defense

"Last Stand:Defense" is a tower defense-themed Rogue-like game.

$5.99

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