✓ Fits the tower defense games cluster, with tower defense planning, real-time strategy and historical setting
≠ Where it differs: brings combat magic, fantasy world and setting medieval, while skipping roguelike runs
Defenders of Ardania (DoA) is a next-generation tower defense game set in the rich fantasy world of Majesty, but with a twist.
Where it drifts furthest from Grit & Valor: 1949: combat and setting.
On reception: its Steam reviews are mostly negative, against mostly positive for Grit & Valor: 1949.
It predates Grit & Valor: 1949 by 13 years, with what that implies technically.