Protect My Cheese

Protect My Cheese

Homesick Games · October 10, 2022 · Strategy, Action, Turn-Based Strategy, Tower Defense, Stylized

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About Protect My Cheese

Protect My Cheese is a stunning and chaotic tower defense strategy game where we play as cats to defeat the cheese-hungry rats. A limitless variety of unique towers and enemies set in a vast abandoned area will unleash the power of cats vs rats.
Set in an abandoned place, rats are nesting for a long time until they ran out of food stock. They noticed a very tasty cheese and devised a plan to steal the cheese with their armies.

Key Features

  • Bringing back the old & classic tower defense, with all the modern trimmings and theme
  • Strategic and challenging gameplay
  • Authentic various levels & areas
  • Unique tower variation & customization
  • Multiple enemies with epic bosses
  • Multiple game difficulties to fulfill player's needs
  • Over 40+ unique achievements

Protect My Cheese — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Playable
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Aug 7, 2025
A straightforward tower defense game with some small store upgrade options to help you push through those boss-like enemies. A few notes that might help: - Towers can sometimes be positioned closely together, allowing their attacks to overlap and increase effectiveness. - The last tower you unlock is the fog tower, which hits all unit types. Maxing out your store upgrades for it and pairing with the glue tower can really boost your damage ratio. I liked to place two fog towers near the entrance and dropping gluer's and a buff tower for good measure. With this setup, you can breeze through most tough levels. - Peanons will have the longest reach, so focusing on quantity over quality until you unlock foggers can be fun and effective. It’s satisfying to watch, and it also helps you work toward the 800-build achievement! Best of luck with the grind and god speed!
Recommended Aug 2, 2025
Never been fan of TD games, but boy oh boy where do I even begin. Yanto... honey, my pookie bear. I have loved you ever since I first laid eyes on you. The way you drive into the paint and strike fear into your enemies eyes. Your silky smooth touch around the rim, and that gorgeous jumpshot. I would do anything for you... *edit, i tried to play it again after i left it untouched for 2 years, still good, brings up memories. But i do have a little bit of concern of how its resolution works, i tried to swap it to windowed mode but it was still on fullscreen mode (maybe it was windowed fullscreen?) I hope you can figure it out on that matter (i just want to enabled windowed mode, my lcd had some dead pixel at the bottom T_T)
Recommended Jan 28, 2025
Fairly fun, it's free, can't complain. It is clearly unfinished, which is why I think they set it to free. It has the look and polish of a game that, once finished would have been worth a few bucks, no doubt. The maps are so far kind of cramped, but not horribly so. You start with three towers, I have unlocked a fourth. There seems to be more to unlock, no clue if the work. As is though, a well put together TD game, and easy thumb up.
Recommended Jan 23, 2025
This game brings me back to the old days where iPad games are popular. Game design, art style, gameplay are similar with the style in 2000's games.
Recommended Aug 17, 2024
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Recommended Aug 2, 2024
A very simple tower defense game, recommended for casual players

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