The best Tower Defense board games 🗼 2023
You know the gameplay of computer games and are looking for a really good tower defense board game 🗼? Then we have just the thing - a list of 30 best tower defense games 2023.
What are tower defense games?
Tower defense games actually originated in the computer game world (e.g. Dune 2, Starcraft, Warcraft 3), but now there are many good board games that have adapted this mechanic to the analog world.
The goal of tower defense games (abbreviated to "TD") is to defend a player's territories or possessions by hindering or killing enemy attackers. This is usually accomplished by placing defensive structures such as turrets (hence the name) on or along the enemy's attack path. This usually means building a variety of different structures designed to block, hinder, attack or destroy the enemy.
List of the best tower defense board games 2023 🗼
Project: ELITE
Nominated for 2 awards.
More details for Project: ELITE- 1 - 6 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Easy to learn
Legendary Encounters: An Alien Deck Building Game
Nominated for 5 awards.
More details for Legendary Encounters: An Alien Deck Building Game- 1 - 5 Players
- 30 - 60 Minutes
- 17+ years old
- Medium difficulty
Video reviews for Legendary Encounters: An Alien Deck Building Game
Keep the Heroes Out!
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Keep the Heroes Out!- 1 - 4 Players
- 40 - 50 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Easy to learn
Castle Panic
Nominated for 2 awards.
More details for Castle Panic- 1 - 6 Players
- 30 - 60 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Easy to learn
🔥 Great price!60€ at.de
My First Castle Panic
Nominated for 2 awards.
More details for My First Castle Panic- 1 - 4 Players
- 20 Minutes
- 4+ years old
- Immediately playable
Castle Panic: Big Box
- 1 - 6 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Easy to learn
Kraken Attack!
Nominated for 3 awards and won 1.
More details for Kraken Attack!- 1 - 4 Players
- 25 Minutes
- 7+ years old
- Immediately playable
Last Bastion
- 1 - 4 Players
- 45 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Medium difficulty
Video reviews for Last Bastion
Ottoman Sunset: The Great War in the Near East
Nominated for 2 awards.
More details for Ottoman Sunset: The Great War in the Near East- 1 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 13+ years old
- Easy to learn
Set a Watch
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Set a Watch- 1 - 4 Players
- 45 - 80 Minutes
- 13+ years old
- Easy to learn
Pavlov's House
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Pavlov's House- 1 - 3 Players
- 60 - 75 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Medium difficulty
Castle Itter: The Strangest Battle of WWII
- 1 Players
- 45 - 60 Minutes
- 13+ years old
- Easy to learn
Tiny Epic Defenders (Second Edition)
- 1 - 4 Players
- 30 - 60 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Easy to learn
Star Trek Panic
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Star Trek Panic- 1 - 6 Players
- 90 Minutes
- 13+ years old
- Easy to learn
Ghost Stories
Nominated for 5 awards.
More details for Ghost Stories- 1 - 4 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Medium difficulty
Defenders of the Realm
Nominated for 2 awards.
More details for Defenders of the Realm- 1 - 4 Players
- 90 Minutes
- 13+ years old
- Medium difficulty
Gorbachev: The Fall of Communism
- 1 Players
- 30 - 60 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Easy to learn
Fantasy Defense: The Stone King
- 1 - 2 Players
- 15 - 20 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Easy to learn
Hapsburg Eclipse
- 1 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 13+ years old
- Easy to learn
Village Attacks
- 1 - 5 Players
- 30 - 180 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Medium difficulty
Video reviews for Village Attacks
Island Siege
- 2 Players
- 45 Minutes
- 13+ years old
- Easy to learn
Castle Rampage
- 2 Players
- 15 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
Tiny Epic Defenders
- 1 - 4 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 13+ years old
- Easy to learn
Tiny Epic Defenders: The Dark War
- 1 - 4 Players
- 20 - 60 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Medium difficulty
🔥 Great price!26€ at.de
Bad Bones
- 1 - 6 Players
- 30 - 45 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Easy to learn
Video reviews for Bad Bones
XenoShyft: Dreadmire
🔥 Deal: 18% cheaper than the best Geizhals deal, likely for a short time only!
More details for XenoShyft: Dreadmire- 1 - 4 Players
- 30 - 60 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Medium difficulty
🔥 Great price!82€ at.de
XenoShyft: Onslaught
- 1 - 4 Players
- 30 - 60 Minutes
- 13+ years old
- Medium difficulty
Dawn of the Zeds (Third Edition)
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Dawn of the Zeds (Third Edition)- 1 - 5 Players
- 90 - 120 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Hard to learn
Fantasy Defense
- 1 - 2 Players
- 15 - 20 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Easy to learn
Orcs Orcs Orcs: Reinforcements (Expansion 1)
- 2 - 4 Players
- 13+ years old
- Easy to learn
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