Bloons Monkey City similar games & best alternatives

Bloons Monkey City

Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac • 2020

Should you play it?

Create, upgrade, and customize your very own Bloons Monkey City in this groundbreaking blend of city building and tower defense awesomeness!

What works

  • Free to play
  • Engaging blend of tower defense and city building
  • Addictive progression and upgrades
  • Relaxing and accessible gameplay
  • Active community and multiplayer features

Things to keep in mind

  • Grindy and slow progression especially late game
  • Long wait times for upgrades and buildings
  • Some performance issues and bugs reported
  • Pay-to-win elements via microtransactions
  • Limited cooperative gameplay

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Aurora Dusk: Steam Age

  • Hunger Dungeon

  • Hero's Hour

  • Deadly Days: Roadtrip

  • Ninja Kiwi Archive

  • Bloons Adventure Time TD

Less idle-friendly

Games that feels like Bloons Monkey City but with less of an idle filler feel

  • Relic Guardian - Tower Defense

  • Kingdom Rush Frontiers - Tower Defense

  • Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense

  • Monster Tiles TD: Tower Wars

  • Kingdom Rush Vengeance - Tower Defense

  • Cluckmech Oasis

Less dominating

Games that feels like Bloons Monkey City but with less domination over others

  • Cursed Treasure 2 Ultimate Edition - Tower Defense

  • Broken Universe - Tower Defense

  • These Doomed Isles: The First God

  • Tower Factory

  • Triple Town

  • Skeleseller

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Bloons Adventure Time TD

  • Bloons TD Battles

  • Ninja Kiwi Archive

  • Bloons TD 5

  • Bloons TD Battles 2

Similarity map

How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Bloons Monkey City: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Idle, Relaxation. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Story.

Last update: 03/08/2026