Summary
Tower Defense games are an often underrated genre of gaming. These games are quite fun to play while also challenging you strategically. Sadly, there aren’t too many amazing options when it comes to tower defense games for the PS5, but we have still picked out a few popular ones and some overlooked gems that every fan of the genre must try out.
While some of these games are limited to the traditional Plants vs Zombies type of gameplay that many fans are used to, some of them also expand through various genres, such as RPGs and Roguelikes, while also including some elements of tower defense.
9Dungeon Defenders: Awakened
Dungeon Defenders: Awakened is afour-player co-op tower defense gamethat lets you take on all sorts of monsters, ranging from dragons to ogres. The colorful and vibrant art style of this game is incredible and looks at its best on the PS5.
You get tochoose from several heroeson your missions as you build up your defenses with traps, blockades, and everything you can find to ensure your base is protected. There is alsoa tonne of weapon variety,including loot such as swords, axes, grenade launchers, and much more.
8Defense Grid 2
Defense Grid 2 is a game adored by most fans of the Tower Defense genre and while it isn’t specifically designed for the PS5, you can still play it on the console without any trouble.
It features anincredible campaign mode with 21 maps, some of which allow you to be creative and construct your defenses as you like, while others force you to work around certain restrictions, adding another layer of challenge.
You canexperiment with a huge variety of towers, such as the boost towers, which let you build on top of them andadd another strategic layer to the game. The presence of level modifiers, which let you change certain parts of the maps for money, is also a cool addition that we don’t see in other games.
7PixelJunk Monsters 2
PixelJunk Monsters 2 is a simple tower defense game where your goal is to protect the Chibi tribespeople from waves of dangerous monsters such as spiders and golems. This game ismore challenging than you might thinkas these waves can be in the form of ground attacks as well as from the air, which adds a level of tactical depth to it.
Another interesting challenge that this game comes with is thatall the monsters drop coins directly on the spot they die,which means that killing them on easily reachable spots is necessary unless you want all your hard-earned rewards to float down a river.
6Warpips
Warpipsmixes elements of tower defense witha traditional war strategy game.You get to assemble your army, consisting of the infantry, vehicles, and air support, and then watch them battle it out in real time, without any micromanagement.
Every battle in Warpips is different as your and the opponent’s troops always act randomly, which gives ita lot of replayability value. From aerial strikes to tanks to mines, there are hundreds of different ways to blow up your enemies in this game, which makes it even more fun.
5Wild Seas
Wild Seas isa 2D tower defense game mixed with a fewroguelikefeatures.It comes with an old-schoolpixel art graphics style, an amazing retro soundtrack and a simple gameplay loop mostly consisting of finding gold in random boxes and spending it on turrets to take down enemies.
Just like any roguelike,there are several levels you have to get through to complete the game, with each level consisting of a final boss at its end. If you’re looking for a simple, old-school tower defense game that can keep you entertained for a few hours, then Wild Seas is a great option.
4The Riftbreaker
The Riftbreaker isnot your traditional tower defense gameas it spans a variety of genres, including RPG and survival, but there are certainly a lot of tower defense elements to it that make it worthy of a spot on this list.
From Lightning, Plasma, and Minigun, to Artillery and many more, there isa large variety of towers to choose fromto protect your base, and it’s up to you to gather the resources to build these towers as well as supply them with the required ammo. As you level up your tech by exploring more in-game and finding more resources, you may upgrade these towers even further and modify them to suit your playstyle.
The Bloons series is one of themost legendary tower defense games of all timeand Bloons TD 6 is also available on the PS5 after a long wait. Along with a large variety of towers, this game also consists ofmore than 15 different heroes, all with different abilities and upgrade potential.
The single-player mode of Bloons TD 6 is just as entertaining as its multiplayer mode and comes with a huge variety of boss battles, a large number of maps, and regular content updates that keep the game fresh, even after so long.
2Towers And Powers
Towers and Powers is avirtual realitytower defense gamethat can be played on the PS5 with the PS VR2 headset. Youplay the role of a Godin this game, and you have to protect your land and your people from danger, without directly intervening.
The controls of this game are very interactive, and it truly gives you the feeling of being a God, as you can easilymove around the battlefield, pick up objects, place towers, and use magicto cast spells when required. There aren’t too many good options when it comes to tower defense games in virtual reality, but this one gets almost everything right.
1Orcs Must Die! 3
Orcs Must Die! 3isone of the best tower defense games available on the PS5,considering its incredibly large number of features and amazing graphics. The best part of this game is placing traps and towers to kill the attacking orcs in the most horrific ways possible.
Fromshock traps to lava pools and meat grinders, you can let your morbid creativity loosein this game and experiment with many different towers and traps to complete the missions as well as have fun doing it. Thevast variety of modes, such as War Scenario and Scramble,add some much-needed variety to the game and keep you entertained even after you are done with the campaign mode.
