9 Best Tower Defence Games On PS5

Summary

• Tower Defense games for PS5 offer strategic challenges, ranging from traditional to RPG and roguelike genres.
• Players can enjoy co-op action in games like Dungeon Defenders: Awakened, Defense Grid 2, and Bloons TD 6 on PS5.
• Games like PixelJunk Monsters 2, Warpips, and Orcs Must Die! 3 offer unique gameplay experiences in the tower defense genre.

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.

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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.

9 Dungeon Defenders: Awakened

• Developer: Chromatic Games
• Released: 2020

Dungeon Defenders: Awakened is a four-player co-op tower defense game that 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 to choose from several heroes on your missions as you build up your defenses with traps, blockades, and everything you can find to ensure your base is protected. There is also a tonne of weapon variety, including loot such as swords, axes, grenade launchers, and much more.

8 Defense Grid 2

• Developer: Hidden Path Entertainment
• Released: 2014

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 an incredible 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 can experiment with a huge variety of towers, such as the boost towers, which let you build on top of them and add 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.

7 PixelJunk Monsters 2

• Developer: Q-Games Ltd.
• Released: 2018

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 is more challenging than you might think as 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.

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Withstand waves of enemies from the comfort of your personal computer.

Another interesting challenge that this game comes with is that all 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.

6 Warpips

• Developer: Skirmish Mode Games
• Released: 2022

Warpips mixes elements of tower defense with a 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 it a 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.

5 Wild Seas

• Developer: DuDeeki
• Released: 2023

Wild Seas is a 2D tower defense game mixed with a few roguelike features. It comes with an old-school pixel 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.

4 The Riftbreaker

• Developer: EXOR Studios
• Released: 2021

The Riftbreaker is not your traditional tower defense game as 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 is a large variety of towers to choose from to 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 can upgrade these towers even further and modify them to suit your playstyle.

3 Bloons TD 6

Bloons TD 6

The Bloons series is one of themost legendary tower defense games of all time and Bloons TD 6 is also available on the PS5 after a long wait. Along with a large variety of towers, this game also consists of more 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.

2 Towers And Powers

• Developer: Jetdogs Studio
• Released: 2023

Towers and Powers is a virtual reality tower defense game that can be played on the PS5 with the PS VR2 headset. You play the role of a God in 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 easily move around the battlefield, pick up objects, place towers, and use magic to 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.

1 Orcs Must Die! 3

• Developer: Robot Entertainment
• Released: 2021

Orcs Must Die! 3 is one 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.

From shock traps to lava pools and meat grinders, you can let your morbid creativity loose in this game and experiment with many different towers and traps to complete the missions as well as have fun doing it. The vast 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.

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