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Dungeon Defenders II

PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One • 2017

Should you play it?

Dungeon Defenders II is a cooperative Action Tower Defense game packed with roleplaying elements like loot, leveling, and pets.

What works

  • Engaging cooperative multiplayer
  • Frequent updates and developer support
  • Varied hero classes and strategies
  • Colorful and appealing fantasy art style
  • Free-to-play with fair monetization

Things to keep in mind

  • Grind can become tedious at endgame
  • Limited content and maps currently
  • Some ui and inventory management issues
  • Online-only play with occasional lag
  • Cosmetic microtransactions and bag slot purchases

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Sketchy's Contract

  • Shape of Dreams

  • Citywars Tower Defense

  • LORT

  • Knights of Braveland

  • Shape of Dreams: Prologue

More competitive

Games that feels like Dungeon Defenders II but with more competition against others

  • SUPERVIVE

  • Awesomenauts

  • Iron League

  • SMITE®

  • Battlerite Royale

  • Plants vs. Zombies™ Garden Warfare 2: Deluxe Edition

Less leadership-focused

Games that feels like Dungeon Defenders II but with less leadership over others

  • Muffin Knight

  • Lost Castle 2

  • Rotwood

  • Torchlight II

  • Absolum

  • Atomic Picnic

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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.
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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).

Dungeon Defenders II: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Cooperation, Survival, Leadership.

Last update: 03/08/2026