Games Like Gnomes

Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.

Why similar: Dwarves 38.2% ★, Colony Sim 16.9%, City Builder 14.6%, Base Building 11.1%, Survival 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive deep-simulation colony builder featuring complex dwarf management and base construction.

Dungeon of the ENDLESS™ is a Rogue-Like Dungeon-Defense game, in which the player and their team of heroes must protect the generator of their crashed ship while exploring an ever-expanding dungeon, all while facing waves of monsters and special events as they try to find their way out...

Why similar: Tower Defense 31.9%, Roguelike 21.4%, Procedural Generation 11.6%, Pixel Graphics 8%, Strategy 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines roguelike exploration, tower defense, and survival in a pixel-art style that mirrors the intensity of defending against hordes.

A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, City Builder 20.6%, Economy 16.1%, Base Building 15.2%, Survival 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite city-builder that perfectly captures the procedural survival and base-management loop found in Gnomes.

Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?

Why similar: Tower Defense 24.4%, Colony Sim 21.8%, City Builder 16.1%, Base Building 11.7%, Roguelike 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on mining, colony management, and tower defense within a roguelite structure.

Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.

Why similar: Turn-Based 31.6%, Tower Defense 23.2%, Base Building 12.3%, Roguelike 9.9%, Roguelite 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based tactical defense game that emphasizes roguelike progression and surviving waves of enemies.

Isle of Arrows is a Puzzle Tower Defense game in which you build a fortress in the sky. Place towers, expand the isle, and build your own paths. Can you find the perfect spot for each tile to beat the RNG and defend against waves of invaders?

Why similar: Tower Defense 34.4%, Procedural Generation 16.4%, Roguelike 15.8%, City Builder 12.6%, Roguelite 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based tower defense game that uses roguelike mechanics and board-game style placement.

A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.

Why similar: Tower Defense 26.6%, Colony Sim 23.5%, City Builder 19.3%, Base Building 10%, Survival 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines colony management with tower defense and survival mechanics in a challenging environment.

Rogue Tower is a tower defense game with roguelike elements and a continuously expanding path which you can influence. Unlock, build, upgrade, expand, defend.

Why similar: Tower Defense 45%, Roguelike 16%, Procedural Generation 12.9%, Base Building 9.9%, Strategy 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A pure tower defense experience with roguelike progression and procedural map generation.

Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.

Why similar: Tower Defense 30.1%, City Builder 18.6%, Colony Sim 17.4%, Base Building 12%, Survival 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Side-scrolling base-building and defense game with a strong focus on survival and expansion.

A roguelike tactics board combat combined with tower defense elements. Defeat the invading hordes to stay alive and save the land! Enjoy more tactics than a normal TD game, combined with the added challenge of building towers and fighting off waves of enemies!

Why similar: Turn-Based 22.4%, Tower Defense 20.3%, City Builder 15.7%, Base Building 11.1%, Roguelike 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Blends tactical RPG combat with tower defense and roguelite city-building elements.

Hexguardian is a roguelite, tower defense game where you build your own maps with hexagonal tiles! Build and upgrade towers, recruit armies, learn spells, construct wonders and place hexagonal tiles to create a path to enhance your defenses. With plenty of game modes and talents to unlock!

Why similar: Tower Defense 29%, Procedural Generation 17.1%, City Builder 14.5%, Roguelike 13.9%, Roguelite 10%

Why You'll Like It: A tower defense game that incorporates roguelite progression and strategic map placement.

A fusion of roguelite, tower defense, city-building, and deck-building! We created a new kind of real time strategy game filled with addictive and fast-paced gameplay. Create your deck, defend your city, and build the largest Ratropolis in history!

Why similar: Tower Defense 24.5%, Roguelike 15.2%, Roguelite 13.3%, City Builder 12.9%, Difficult 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: A unique mix of card-based city-building and tower defense survival.

We fused deck-building roguelikes and tower defenses in a way never seen before - deploy your towers, collect valuable trinkets and cast powerful spells to defend yourself against the Salkoth!

Why similar: Tower Defense 42.9%, Roguelike 18.2%, Procedural Generation 13.6%, Roguelite 10.5%, Strategy 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Integrates card-battler mechanics into a turn-based tower defense framework.

Enemies are coming! Every decision matters: build your city, grow the economy, and prepare for enemy waves. Strengthen your defenses, adapt your strategy, and unleash your hero’s full potential. This unique Tower Defense will test your skills – are you worthy to claim a place at Valhalla?

Why similar: Tower Defense 28.5%, City Builder 18.5%, Base Building 14.1%, Roguelike 12.5%, Roguelite 10%

Why You'll Like It: A dark fantasy strategy game featuring tower defense and roguelite progression.

Stellar Initiative is a roguelike tower defense game where you land on the planet and use your orbit ship to deliver buildings and support you with fire. Complete missions, install new upgrades, discover powerful artifacts, and find the best strategy!

Why similar: Tower Defense 33.6%, Roguelike 15.2%, Base Building 13.4%, Difficult 12.2%, Procedural Generation 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based tower defense game with roguelike elements and challenging combat scenarios.

Tower Factory is a tower defense and automation game with roguelite elements. Optimize resource production using conveyor systems while defending against monster waves. Can you find and destroy the enemy tower before it's too late?

Why similar: Tower Defense 26.5%, City Builder 16.1%, Base Building 13.6%, Procedural Generation 13.5%, Roguelike 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines tower defense with automation and base-building mechanics.

Build twisting mazes with tetromino blocks and deploy unique towers in this strategic roguelite tower defense adventure!

Why similar: Tower Defense 33%, Base Building 16.4%, Procedural Generation 14%, Roguelike 13%, Roguelite 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A tower defense game with roguelite elements and base-building customization.

Rebuild your kingdom and explore a vibrant fantasy world in this roguelite city builder. Defeat hordes of monsters with a unique team of defenders as you harvest, build, mine, cook, brew, and grow. But if your defenses should fail, be prepared to watch it all burn!

Why similar: Turn-Based 31.8%, Procedural Generation 18.5%, Roguelike 16.6%, Difficult 12.7%, Roguelite 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused roguelike that emphasizes fantasy kingdom management and defense.

Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4%, City Builder 18.1%, Base Building 16.8%, Procedural Generation 15.8%, Survival 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A pixel-art colony sim that emphasizes survival, base-building, and resource management.

Mine. Maze. Merge. Survive. Dig for powerful gems, merge them into game-breaking towers, stack buffs, and pick roguelike perks to build wild synergies. Do not let enemies drag your miner to the lava!

Why similar: Dwarves 41.2% ★, Tower Defense 24.6%, Roguelite 8.3%, Roguelike 8.3%, Difficult 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A mining-themed tower defense game with roguelite replayability.

Take on the ultimate tower defense challenge in Digs, a roguelike game where you shape the battlefield, mine resources, and strategize against a variety of enemies. Manage your actions, customize your arsenal with upgrade cards, and explore diverse levels. Can you dig in and emerge victorious?

Why similar: Dwarves 39.5% ★, Tower Defense 21.3%, Procedural Generation 10.7%, Difficult 8.4%, Roguelike 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A difficult tower defense game centered on dwarf-themed mining and survival.

Explore and defend your mine against waves of monsters in this innovative roguelike survival game! Collect and manage your resources, discover buildings with unique effects and unleash mighty heroes to hold monsters out of the mine until the sun rises.

Why similar: Dwarves 50.3% ★, Tower Defense 19.9%, Base Building 11.2%, Roguelite 7.5%, Roguelike 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features mining and dwarf-themed base defense with tower defense elements.

Build and command your own party of Dwarves in this mix of Auto Battler, Strategy, and RPG. Prepare formations, assign equipment, and decide the fate of up to 10 Beardlings, as you lead the raid party through reckless runs filled with Glory, Death, and Loot!

Why similar: Dwarves 74.3% ★, Roguelike 7.5%, Procedural Generation 7.4%, Roguelite 4.2%, Pixel Graphics 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: An auto-battler featuring dwarf customization and roguelike progression.

Build by day, defend by night! Kingdom's Deck is a card-based city builder where you build and protect your Kingdom from the enemy siege. Build your deck, deploy your cards wisely, defend your walls, manage your resources, and respond to various events that will shape your Kingdom!

Why similar: Tower Defense 20.7%, Colony Sim 20.2%, City Builder 19.8%, Base Building 14.7%, Roguelike 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that utilizes deckbuilding mechanics to manage your colony and defenses.

Everwarder is a refreshing take on the tower defense genre, blending roguelite mechanics with a time-based survival concept. Fight against the encroaching darkness and fend off emerging enemies. Collect artifacts, buy upgrades, discover ancient structures, unlock new units and more!

Why similar: Tower Defense 25.6%, Procedural Generation 14.7%, Roguelike 10.5%, Survival 10.5%, Roguelite 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused tower defense game with building mechanics and roguelite progression.

Build and design the terrain while defending your stronghold against alien invasion in this unique Roguelike tower defense. Choose from 30 heroes, survive enemy waves, and upgrade a variety of destructive towers to hold the line!

Why similar: Tower Defense 35.5%, Base Building 17.4%, Procedural Generation 15.8%, Roguelike 14.5%, Roguelite 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: An RTS-inspired tower defense game with base-building and roguelike elements.

Block Tower TD is a roguelike tower defense strategy game with interesting innovations. Build a world out of blocks, choose random upgrades to make every run unique.

Why similar: Tower Defense 24.3%, City Builder 18.5%, Roguelike 11.6%, Procedural Generation 10.2%, Base Building 8%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox-style tower defense game with city-building and roguelike elements.

Strategic tower defense where you play a witch, place class-based towers, equip them with items that grant powerful abilities, combine them, create unique builds & deal ridiculous amounts of damage! Customize your builds with a deep stat system and giant skill tree!

Why similar: Tower Defense 43.1%, Roguelike 18.1%, Difficult 9.5%, Survival 8.4%, Strategy 8%

As the kingdom's most promising pioneer, embark on a legendary journey to tame the frontier! Build thriving towns across various landscapes, fending off waves of diverse enemies until you establish a firm foothold and have explored everything the eye can see!

Why similar: Tower Defense 32.9%, City Builder 24%, Base Building 17.5%, Roguelite 7.9%, Pixel Graphics 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval-themed tower defense game with city-building and base-management.

Tower Defense Rogue-like. Defend a temple on a procedural map with variety of towers. Craft your strategy through Boon and Curse cards. With every run earn faith to upgrade the weapons. Many progression paths keep you engaged and entertained without getting stuck.

Why similar: Tower Defense 39.4%, Procedural Generation 23.4%, Roguelike 20.7%, Base Building 7.7%, Strategy 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelike tower defense game featuring procedural generation and strategic planning.

Onwards to revolution in this challenging deck-building roguelite. Free your gnome comrades, assemble your squad, mind wieners (supplies), slay the slavers, and take down the fiercest of them all – Snow White! FREEDOM TO GNOMES!

Why similar: Dwarves 44.6% ★, Turn-Based 26.6%, Roguelike 11.6%, Roguelite 7.5%, Strategy 4.6%

Gather resources, craft weapons, and build a castle. Then defend your castle against monsters who will try to siege, sap, and smash their way in. All in a procedurally generated 3D block world that allows for extensive crafting and total construction and destruction of the terrain.

Why similar: Dwarves 81.5% ★, Colony Sim 5.3%, Procedural Generation 3.8%, Base Building 3.8%, Strategy 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation-heavy colony builder focused on dwarf management and base construction.

Repel the Rifts is a roguelite tower defense game where you lead a commander through an alien world, uncovering new terrain each wave, drafting powerful upgrades, and constructing defenses to hold back the chaos.

Why similar: Tower Defense 35.1%, Turn-Based 29.6%, Roguelike 15.9%, Roguelite 9.3%, Strategy 4.9%

Mineral Defense combines tower defense with roguelite elements and procedural generation. Build paths, unlock upgrades, and unleash powerful synergies to conquer evolving challenges in an ever-expanding world.

Why similar: Tower Defense 31.2%, Procedural Generation 16.1%, Base Building 16%, Roguelike 14.8%, Roguelite 11%

(the) Gnorp Apologue is the journey of the gnorps as you guide them towards their goal of delightfully excessive wealth accumulation.

Why similar: Economy 37.2%, Roguelite 17%, Roguelike 16.2%, Strategy 12.1%, Pixel Graphics 10%

A quirky mix of roguelite and city builder. Build a lively little city above, by looting mystical caves with a team of gnomes below! Use multiple runs to unlock upgrades and abilities to help your gnomes venture deeper into the dangerous underground.

Why similar: City Builder 23%, Economy 16.8%, Base Building 14.7%, Procedural Generation 13.1%, Roguelike 11.1%

Build defenses on randomly generated archipelagos and fend off waves of pirates! Expand land plots, combine defense towers, and collect treasures to strengthen your islands. Guard your treasures and become the wealthiest lord!

Why similar: Turn-Based 30.3%, Tower Defense 29.6%, Roguelike 11.8%, Roguelite 11.7%, Procedural Generation 9.5%

Defend against waves of alien monsters in this unique roguelike action miner. Dig for resources, collect useful gadgets, and upgrade equipment to increase odds of survival – just hurry back before your dome is destroyed!

Why similar: Tower Defense 34.6%, Roguelike 25.6%, Procedural Generation 21.8%, Pixel Graphics 8.7%, Atmospheric 6.3%

Crystal Guardians is a tower defense game with rogue-like elements. Fight of waves and defend the world crystal. Gear up your towers with a powerful combination of items for your strategy. In an ever expanding map, find hidden powers and conquer the enemies.

Why similar: Tower Defense 34.2%, Procedural Generation 16.6%, Roguelike 15.7%, Roguelite 11.5%, Base Building 10.9%

Crystal Guardians prologue (small slice of the full game) is a tower defense game with rogue-like elements. Fight off waves and defend the base crystal. Gear up your towers with a powerful combination of items for your personal strategy. In a procedural map, find hidden powers and conquer the enemy.

Why similar: Tower Defense 32%, Procedural Generation 18.1%, Roguelike 15.1%, Base Building 14.1%, Roguelite 10.3%

Dig! Dig! Dig! Manage the small underground Dwarf base and make it as rich as possible before they meet their inevitable doom. Purchase before May 11th and save!

Why similar: Dwarves 40.9% ★, Tower Defense 15.9%, Colony Sim 15.7%, Base Building 8.4%, Procedural Generation 6.9%

clickyland is a tower defense village builder where clicks are your main resource. Use clicks to harvest resources, fight enemies and manage your village, but use them wisely as you only get 20 clicks every day! Can you reach day 100?

Why similar: Tower Defense 37.2%, City Builder 21.5%, Base Building 20.1%, Strategy 11.7%, Survival 8.2%

Fight big battles in the mines, get to mining and collecting gold and minerals. build and upgrade your towers, power up with treasure chests. Defend your base from looting goblins! using variety of weapons and tower, from RPG, ak47, canons towers, to sawblade towers and more!

Why similar: Dwarves 45.8% ★, Tower Defense 34.1%, Roguelite 10.5%, Strategy 6.7%, Colorful 1.5%

Kingdom: New Lands builds upon the award-winning gameplay and mystery of Kingdom by introducing an abundance of new content to the IGF-nominated title while maintaining the simplicity and depth that legions of monarchs have come to experience and enjoy.

Why similar: Tower Defense 23.7%, Colony Sim 19.4%, Base Building 13.7%, Roguelike 11%, Survival 9.8%

Dwarves hunger for gold, and no mountain shall stand in their way! Mine riches, unearth artifacts, and upgrade your dwarves to devour ever-bigger peaks in this whimsical incremental game.

Why similar: Dwarves 55% ★, Economy 15.9%, Base Building 10.8%, Roguelite 7.4%, Strategy 5.7%

From Glory To Goo is a Sci-Fi survival RTS set on an alien world. Serve as humanity's bulwark by establishing a colony and supporting your colonists still in orbit. But beware, for The Goo, a relentless and shape-shifting force approaches from all sides, even above and below.

Why similar: Tower Defense 22.8%, Colony Sim 17.9%, City Builder 15.3%, Base Building 13.9%, Procedural Generation 10.1%

Defend your Chrysalis from growing hordes of monsters in this hybrid game that combines elements of tower defense, survival, and roguelike RPGs. Explore procedurally generated levels, possess and control animals, and grow deadly gardens. How far can you get before the next wave of monsters?

Why similar: Tower Defense 32%, Procedural Generation 18.5%, Roguelike 15.1%, Base Building 14.2%, Survival 7.9%

This Goblin Tribe Simulator brings a challenging blend of chaos and creativity to the city-building genre. Build dwellings, manage your resources, defend your goblins, and grow your tribe, and please the Gods! Do you have what it takes to control the chaos and rule the unruly?

Why similar: Tower Defense 20.8%, Colony Sim 19.1%, City Builder 17.9%, Base Building 13.5%, Procedural Generation 13.1%

The King is Watching is a roguelite kingdom builder. Rule by the power of your royal gaze! Decide between producing resources, training armies, or balancing both, while adapting to unique events every run

Why similar: Tower Defense 28.1%, City Builder 19.7%, Base Building 17.2%, Roguelike 14.6%, Roguelite 8.8%

Tower Escape is a reverse tower defense game, where instead of defending against incoming enemies, you play the baddies and guide your minions to the exit. Recruit a team of minions, and collect powerful gems and relics that make each run unique.

Why similar: Tower Defense 39.8%, Procedural Generation 17.6%, Roguelike 16.9%, Roguelite 14.8%, Strategy 6.9%

Train your folks, defeat monsters and upgrade your town!

Why similar: Roguelike 45.4%, Pixel Graphics 32.2%, Strategy 22.4%

Your village must survive for 13 days! Gather resources, expand, explore the underground for riches, and train soldiers to defend against hordes of the undead.

Why similar: Tower Defense 39.7%, Base Building 22.2%, Survival 15.8%, Strategy 8.9%, Difficult 8.7%

Goblins have been hunted to extinction by cruel adventurers. Embark on a heartwarming adventure to rebuild their lair and help them thrive in this award-winning turn-based RPG where every decision counts.

Why similar: Colony Sim 39.2%, Base Building 27.5%, Roguelike 22.8%, Colorful 7.6%, Singleplayer 2.9%

Village elder, help us! The Apocalypse is approaching, and we need your guidance to survive. Assign your workers and build a thriving village against the pending doom. DotAGE is the merciless survival roguelite turn-based city builder. Will you fulfill the Prophecy?

Why similar: Turn-Based 26.7%, Colony Sim 18.6%, City Builder 17.3%, Survival 8.5%, Roguelike 8%

Harvest cards to raise land from the sea, build settlements and rain fire upon invaders in this survival city-builder with roguelike deckbuilding mechanics. Choose from 4 gods with unique cards, playstyles and abilities to lead their civilisations to victory in strategic run-based gameplay!

Why similar: Tower Defense 22.4%, Colony Sim 19.5%, City Builder 18.3%, Base Building 11.4%, Roguelike 9.9%

“Natti” is a roguelike tower defense game unfolds in the Otherworld of Korean folktales. Place defense towers, collect equipment, and strategically utilize various heroes to defeat all the monsters and protect the Otherworld with “Natti”, goblins in form of animals.

Why similar: Tower Defense 35.3%, Roguelike 15.8%, Procedural Generation 15.5%, Difficult 11.1%, Base Building 10.4%

Wreak vengeance and retake lost mines from goblins, orcs, skeletons, and demons in this small-scale tactical roguelite RPG. Build the perfect expedition team and turn the underworld red with each challenging, fast-paced run.

Why similar: Dwarves 55.2% ★, Procedural Generation 12.7%, Roguelike 12.6%, Roguelite 9.7%, Strategy 5%

Goblin Buster is an incremental tower defense game with deep upgrade mechanics. Obliterate annoying goblins, collect materials, discover powerful relics, invest in unique buildings and spend your resources to upgrade towers and magical spells with a massive skill tree!

Why similar: Tower Defense 67.2%, Strategy 15.3%, Pixel Graphics 14.6%, Singleplayer 3%

Design your defenses, build your module board, and manage your wires. Combine signals and create synergies to empower your weapons and survive in this base-defense roguelike auto-battler.

Why similar: Tower Defense 48.3%, Roguelike 17.2%, Roguelite 11.4%, Strategy 9.2%, Pixel Graphics 6.6%