Haven’t come across any tower defense games like Plants vs. Zombies yet? No need to worry, we have come to your rescue by providing you some similar types which are easy to learn and play and fill up your leisure time with some super fun premium alternatives.
1. Garden Rescue:
We just had the mention this popular title on our list of all-time great tower defense type of games similar to Plants vs. Zombies. The rules are simple and provide a lot of addictive non-stop fun and entertainment for all ages. You basically have to help the garden plants save their patch of land by wiping out various pests and insects that are determined to destroy their beautiful garden. In order to stop this insect invasion it is your job to command a small army of veggies and other plants to attack and stop these menacing critters such as beetles, flies etc. These are about 30 different levels you have to complete and each level as 3 types of difficulty settings. Make sure you constantly upgrade your weapons and earn enough money (by killing insects) to plant new veggies to improve your defense.
2. The Creeps:
The next on our list is The Creeps which is developed by Super Squawk Software LLC for your apple iPhone or iPad. In this one you have to build towers to defend yourself from different types of monsters and creatures and prevent them from reaching your bed. Upon killing zombies and other creeps you earn cash which allows you to construct more towers and other defense systems and you will also get a chance to upgrade you existing towers to destroy the advancing monsters more effectively which come in waves of about 30-50. You are sure to have loads of fun zapping these weird-looking monsters into the oblivion from which they came.
3. Pixel Junk Monsters:
This is another popular pick which has amazing graphics and 10 unique towers with different abilities to damage monsters such as, the fire tower can throw fire and a laser tower shoots high intensity laser beams at enemies. Your character, is trying to protect his flock from a scourge of deadly monsters by building specific towers to kill both ground and air-borne monsters. There are over 6 different types of lethal monsters to fight against along with a giant Boss monster which comes at the end of every wave. You must remember to continuously keep upgrading your towers by using the gems you get (after defeating certain monsters), so that they can do some serious damage.
4. Defense Grid: The Awakening:
Defense Grid is very similar to most Plants vs. Zombies alternatives. Developed by Hidden Path Entertainment for your PC and Xbox, this one has around 10 new types of Towers which can be built. The main objective is to protect your power ores which can be stolen by swarms of deadly Insectoids. So your mission is to construct defense systems to attack the approaching waves of such creatures, but you have to take care of your towers as they can be destroyed by the Insectoids. But don’t be too discouraged because on killing your alien foes, they will leave behind resources for you to collect which help you to build additional new and improved towers, which deal more damage and can attack enemies from far ranges as well.
5. Master of Defense:
As the name suggests you have to play the role of a master of all your defensive mechanisms, in order to protect your kingdom from the massive army of monsters hell-bent on destruction. The interesting feature of this one is that it features the most amounts of giant-like monsters, weird looking ghouls, witches and bug-like creatures all of which have different attacking abilities. At the start you will have 3 towers basic you will have to build for defense namely, the Land Tower, the Magic Tower and Plant Tower (which you can upgrade up to 3 levels) and 3 additional towers which will get unlocked automatically as you progress in the game. With over 5 different types of locations which you can play in, it will definitely keep you engrossed, along with its great graphics, lighting and sound effects.
6. Plant This:
Always wanted to use your green-thumb? Well here’s your chance. Plant This is another famous release which we added to our games similar to Plants vs. Zombies collection. The central theme of the game is defending your beautiful garden from a notorious gopher, which sends different varieties of insects to harm your precious plantation. So your objective is to prevent this gopher and his legion of insects from destroying the garden by planting special magical flowers that have the ability to kill and completely finish-off any insect which dares to enter your greenery. You will have to plant your flowers in a maze formation, the main idea of which is to slow down the advancing insects from reaching the bottom. If any bug escapes and reaches the bottom, you will end up losing a life. There is also many types of different flowers you can keep planting, which keep getting unlocked after each level you complete, you can even upgrade your flowers by spending cash on upgrades. Obviously cash can be earned upon killing insects; the harder it is to kill a bug, the more is the cash that can earned.
Conclusion:
These just a few of the best games like Plants vs. Zombies we have played and listed out for your benefit. There are many more similar ones like those mentioned above, but go on and check out these top 6 picks for now. They are pretty addictive and guaranteed to keep you playing them for hours on end.