Cower Defense vs Rise to Ruins
Cower Defense
Cower Defense is a incredibly hilarious tower defense game that's set on the planet of cows. An alien invasion is currently underway on this planet and as cowering as they are, the inhabitants would like to fight back. It now falls on your to help the cows fortify their village (the one at the frontlines) and to set up willing cows as sentries along the path leading into the village.Aside from the amusingly nonsensical storyline, the game has a nice selection of cow-defenders that you can set up prior to starting the wave of alien invaders, each of them has a special advantage against a certain type of alien. The positions of your cow sentries are also important since the aliens may try to take you off-guard and attack from another alternate path instead. Best yet, you get to control the town’s sheriff and will have access to the list of abilities he has at his disposal.
Cower Defense is as close to perfect as it can get for a free-to-play tower defense game with in-game purchases and it is humorous to boot! So, don’t miss out on this amazing game and save Planet Cow today!
Rise to Ruins
Rise to Ruins is a godlike empire-building strategy game that incorporates some elements of tower defense (during night time). Inspired by games like Towns, Gnomoria, Banished and Dwarf Fortress, you will need to build a thriving empire, recruit new nomads to join you, manage your empire's resources, and ensure that your people are content in this game. During the night, however, enemies will start hammering at your gates, and as such, set up proper tower-defense-like defenses to funnel your enemies into easily manageable "slaughter zones" as well as appoint guards to patrol your empire's parameters.There are also tons of fun little features that made this game so engaging to play, including your special godlike powers which you can use to help your little people survive or to cause them a huge amount of distress, and how the creatures and people in the game react to the presence of godly powers. You can even completely change the landscape of a map if you wish. The game has a ton of maps and game modes, even in its early access form, for you to play around with as well!
Rise to Ruins is still a work in progress but the game seems almost completely done and ready for launch. So, although it's still technically in early access, you can rest assured that the game is in its playable stage of development - you can immediately dive right in after purchasing the game!
P/S: There's also a trick that you can use to stop enemies from proliferating at all on the map you play on if you fancy a peaceful sort of game.