Games like Dungeon Defenders
If you like Dungeon Defenders (tower defense, co-op and loot), these 10 games are similar in what you do and how you play. They go from most to least similar.
Bloons TD 6
- In common: progression and co-op
- Difference: less action
When you want relaxed strategy with substance: a game lasts as long as you like, from a short while to an afternoon.
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
- In common: progression and thinking
- Difference: less co-op
When you have a short break and want to think a bit without stress: each level lasts a few minutes.
Orcs Must Die!
- In common: action and progression
- Difference: less co-op
When you want to think a bit and then watch your traps shred waves, in twenty-minute levels.
Kingdom Two Crowns
- In common: co-op and long sessions
- Difference: less action
When you want calm strategy without menus: it's controlled with two buttons and played at a leisurely pace.
Valheim
- In common: co-op and progression
- Difference: more exploring
When you have a long afternoon, ideally with friends: building the village together is one of the most satisfying things in the genre.
Don't Starve Together
- In common: co-op and progression
- Difference: more exploring
When you have friends and an afternoon ahead to survive together in a world that wants you dead.
Monster Hunter: World
- In common: co-op and progression
- Difference: more exploring
When you have energy and an hour or more: a hunt lasts about 20-40 minutes and always leaves materials to upgrade your gear.
Raft
- In common: co-op and progression
- Difference: more exploring
When you want relaxed survival with friends, in afternoons of expanding the raft and exploring islands.
Grounded
- In common: co-op and progression
- Difference: more exploring
When you want survival with friends, with an adventurous tone and 90s-film humour.
PlateUp!
- In common: co-op and thinking
- Difference: less action
When you have friends online and an hour for a restaurant run that keeps growing.
How we pick them
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About Dungeon Defenders
Pick a hero from four classes and defend the Eternia Crystals: before each wave you place defences paid for with mana, then join the fight yourself, grab loot and level up. Four-player co-op, online or split screen.
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