Your top 3 tower defense games

[Rambo]

1. GC:CS
2. Kingdom Rush
3. Dunno

[🔥Liyab🔥]

This and GC:Labyrinth are definitely in the top.
Kingdom Rush is okay for me. Completed the first one and that's about it.

You'd probably be interested in Element TD. The versions I know are mods in Warcraft 3 and DotA 2, as well as one in Android (not sure for iOS)

I probably have played plenty of good TDs but i pretty much forgot.

[Y'shtola Rhul Lv1 Coffee Drinker]

Gemcraft series
Besieged (not to be confused with the Besiege game on Steam)
The Protector series

Honorable mentions: Cursed Treasure, Onslaught2

[GemWeaver404]

These days I mostly play only GC:CS and GC:Labyrinth,
but apart from GC series I did enjoy playing Bloons TD series and Kingdom Rush series as well.

Honorable mention: Cursed Treasure series

[Nanaki Wolf]

1) Deathtrap
2) Gemcraft: Chasing Shadows
3) Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten

Dungeon Warfare is worth a mention. Plain, simple, cheap, and very customisable and flexible.

Bloons Tower Defence 5 is another genuinely good game, with lots of room for using strategies that work for you. The only trouble is that it has several difficulties, and beating it on higher ones doesn't complete the lower ones. It means you have to beat each stage several times, with the challenge never getting harder. This ticks me off a bit due to wasting time so I've stopped playing, but it may not be an issue for everyone.

I'd also mention Orcs Must Die 1 and 2. They're not true Tower Defence games in my opinion, but they certainly are fun. I can't think of any other game that I've played that scratches quite the same itch that OMD does.

[Wafflesaurus Supreme]

Wow, no love for Defense Grid?

[piccolo255]

Originally posted by Nanaki Wolf:

1) Deathtrap
2) Gemcraft: Chasing Shadows
3) Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten

↑ This one knows it. I'd switch 1 & 2, though :)

[Mr Wizzard]

While not a true TD, Creeper Wars is an enjoyable series.

[🔥Liyab🔥]

Originally posted by Mr Wizzard:

While not a true TD, Creeper Wars is an enjoyable series.

Did you mean Creeper World? Oh yeah! I forgot about that one. It's a good series.

[Captain Striker (Empo)]

Don't really have a top 3. Outside Gemcraft, I had a lot of fun with Gem TD and Alchemist TD. Both were severely lacking in various ways but I liked the concept. Shame it was never really fleshed out eventhough Alchemist TD did try to add move depth and control to the concept. RIP towerdefen.se

[Mr Wizzard]

Originally posted by BS004:

Originally posted by Mr Wizzard:

While not a true TD, Creeper Wars is an enjoyable series.

Did you mean Creeper World? Oh yeah! I forgot about that one. It's a good series.

Yeaaah...good catch.

[Rakizael]

Originally posted by BS004:

This and GC:Labyrinth are definitely in the top.
Kingdom Rush is okay for me. Completed the first one and that's about it.

You'd probably be interested in Element TD. The versions I know are mods in Warcraft 3 and DotA 2, as well as one in Android (not sure for iOS)

I probably have played plenty of good TDs but i pretty much forgot.

Oldschool WC3 custom maps had plenty of good ones and Element TD was definitely one of them. I didn't know DotA 2 had mods like that. I wanted to expand on this and share that Starcraft 2 also has Element TD.

[🔥Liyab🔥]

Originally posted by Rakizael:

Oldschool WC3 custom maps had plenty of good ones and Element TD was definitely one of them. I didn't know DotA 2 had mods like that. I wanted to expand on this and share that Starcraft 2 also has Element TD.

Yes, dota 2 supports custom maps, found in the Arcade tab. Lots of community maps there :)
Didnt know about SC2. That's interesting.

You also reminded me of Mineralz. It's a very good survival builder mod :)

[weirdjudge]

there's a lot of great ones mentioned already, so I'm just going to go with: gemcraft chapter 0,
Hero defense (not sure how perfectly it is considered a tower defense game, but it has all the elements)
And for a honorable mention, (really, purely honorable, not quality) Wyzau Circle TD

[Wasserschwein]

1. Gemcraft : Chasing Shadows
2. Defender's Quest
3. Kingdom Rush

[YukoValis]

Gemcraft because of the production value and so many ways to play it.
Defenders Quest for the surprisingly great writing.
Creeper World 3... not fully sure why. It is simple, but fun, and would take you a year to 100%