DG2: Defense Grid 2 similar games & best alternatives

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DG2: Defense Grid 2

PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Oculus Rift, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch • 2014

Should you play it?

Great strategy is timeless. Build, adapt, and defend across dynamic maps, solo or online - every session brings new strategies, new solutions, and new surprises. Now is the perfect time to enter the grid.

What works

  • Deep strategic gameplay with tower customization
  • Multiple game modes and challenges
  • Cooperative and competitive multiplayer
  • Level editor and community maps
  • Engaging sci-fi setting and voice acting

Things to keep in mind

  • Small and inactive multiplayer community
  • Randomness in tower upgrade drops
  • Limited number of campaign maps
  • Some ui and menu complexity
  • Story considered weak or unengaging

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • No Creeps Were Harmed TD

  • X-Morph: Defense

  • 8-Bit Hordes

  • 9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far

  • Fight The Dragon

  • Creeper World 4

More intimate

Games that feels like DG2: Defense Grid 2 but with more focus on close relationships

  • Eximius: Seize the Frontline

  • TDS - Tower Defense Strategy

  • Colony Siege

  • Sol Survivor

  • Sanctum 2

  • Nuclear Dawn

Less social

Games that feels like DG2: Defense Grid 2 but with less teamwork and cooperation

  • Defense Grid: The Awakening

  • Sintopia

  • Cataclismo

  • Heart of the Machine

  • Earth 2150 Trilogy

  • Anomaly 2

More dominating

Games that feels like DG2: Defense Grid 2 but with more domination over others

  • Constructor Plus

  • Voxel Turf

  • Command & Conquer Red Alert™ 2 and Yuri’s Revenge™

  • Executive Assault 2

  • Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars™

  • Supreme Commander 2

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Similarity map

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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.
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  • 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).

DG2: Defense Grid 2: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Violence. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Intimacy, Domination.

Last update: 03/08/2026