Games Like Lumencraft

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: Post-apocalyptic 32.9%, Tower Defense 26.9%, Procedural Generation 17.6%, Exploration 8.2%, Action 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Combines underground mining and frantic resource management with wave-based defense against alien onslaughts.

The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.

Why similar: Tower Defense 24.6%, Base Building 23.8%, Action RPG 14.4%, Sandbox 13.4%, Procedural Generation 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a grander scale of top-down base building and tower defense on a hostile alien planet.

Explore the mysterious Wall World on your giant robospider: mine for valuable resources, upgrade your equipment to fight off hordes of monsters, and discover exotic biomes in-between attacks. Will you be able to survive and learn the secrets of the Wall World?

Why similar: Mining 35% ★, Tower Defense 20.9%, Roguelite 14%, Procedural Generation 12.5%, Exploration 6%

Why You'll Like It: Features a similar loop of mining rare resources from a massive shifting wall while defending your mobile base.

Explore dungeons, fight hordes of monsters and survive on a huge map. This is Ocean Keeper - an action roguelike with tower defense elements. Mine resources in caves, customize your Mech Spider, upgrade different weapons and face dangerous bosses that won't leave you a chance!

Why similar: Mining 27% ★, Procedural Generation 13.1%, Post-apocalyptic 12.9%, Top-Down Shooter 12.6%, Action Roguelike 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Pits you against underwater threats while you mine the ocean floor for survival and upgrades.

ENDLESS Dungeon™ is a Rogue-lite Tactical Action game, set in the award-winning ENDLESS Universe™. Recruit a team of shipwrecked heroes, plunge into a long-abandoned space station, and protect your crystal against never-ending waves of monsters… or die trying, get reloaded, and try again.

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 22.4%, Tower Defense 21.2%, Action RPG 12.8%, Action Roguelike 12.1%, Roguelite 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines squad-based tactical action and tower defense elements as you fight to escape a dangerous space station.

Unique fusion of a top-down shooter and tower defense strategy. You are the invader! Use destructive weapons or lead your enemies into a maze of towers. Strategize in the build mode by carefully selecting various types of alien towers or throw yourself right into the heat of the battle.

Why similar: Tower Defense 26.5%, Twin Stick Shooter 20.5%, Local Co-Op 14.7%, Top-Down Shooter 13.8%, Shooter 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Blends intense top-down shooter action with intricate strategic tower defense placement.

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 28.8%, Base Building 18.5%, Roguelite 16.1%, Sandbox 11.4%, Strategy 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Fuses colony-sim mining with tower defense strategy as you protect your deep-earth operations.

Acid Planet is a caustic blend of horde-survival, tower-defense and strategy. Build, fight and evolve to survive against rampaging swarms of monsters and fearsome Kaiju.

Why similar: Tower Defense 20.8%, Base Building 15.3%, Action Roguelike 13.5%, Top-Down Shooter 13.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: Challenges you to build up defensive bases and survive overwhelming hordes in a harsh, toxic environment.

Defend your castle in this fast-paced tower defense/action hybrid game with stunning pixel art graphics! Play as alchemically enhanced warrior Bellator, set traps, build towers, craft powerful weapons, and defend your home! The fate of the castle lies in your hands!

Why similar: Tower Defense 30.1%, Top-Down Shooter 22.4%, Action RPG 18.7%, Top-Down 11.1%, Strategy 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Combines top-down action RPG combat with strategic tower defense building mechanics.

Dig by day, fight by night in this blend of mining and Tower Defense. As the last Spotter at a ruined gas station, hold back mutant hordes, scavenge the wasteland, and repair your receiver to capture the President’s vital message and humanity’s last hope.

Why similar: Mining 23.1% ★, Underground 21.4% ★, Tower Defense 16.1%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Base Building 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes physics-based underground mining, building, and tower defense survival against hostile creatures.

Decision: Red Daze is an action RPG with a unique mix of survival and tower defense mechanics. Explore an apocalyptic wasteland, build a safe haven, and lead your team of specialists in a hopeless world, searching for a cure for the infectious disease that turns people into monsters.

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 24.1%, Tower Defense 18.2%, Base Building 14.3%, Post-apocalyptic 14.2%, Action RPG 13.2%

Why You'll Like It: Combines open-world survival, base building, and top-down action against zombie hordes.

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 26.8%, Base Building 18.2%, Procedural Generation 14.2%, Roguelite 14.1%, Sandbox 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Mixes automation, factory building, and tower defense strategy in a sci-fi setting.

Command a team of 5 elite soldiers against an alien horde of 100,000. Surrounded on all sides, you must outmaneuver and outsmart the enemy.

Why similar: Tower Defense 47.3%, Strategy 21%, Top-Down 18.2%, Action 7.6%, Singleplayer 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: Presents intense top-down tactical combat focused on reclaiming territory from a massive alien hive-mind.

They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?

Why similar: Base Building 44.4%, Tower Defense 30.5%, Post-apocalyptic 12.2%, Strategy 11.7%, Singleplayer 1.2%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers massive-scale steampunk base building and survival tower defense against swarms of infected.

Age of Darkness: Final Stand is a dark fantasy survival RTS where you must illuminate, build and defend humanity’s last bastion against hordes of Nightmares. Set in the remnants of a kingdom consumed by a deadly fog, you decide. Will you hide in the light? Or take back your world.

Why similar: Tower Defense 49.2%, Base Building 36.9%, Strategy 13.9%

Why You'll Like It: Pits your fortified bases against monstrous swarms utilizing dark fantasy elements and tactical survival.

Bullet Hell Insanity + Tower Defense Strategy. Rogue Star Rescue is a quirky new type of rogue-like shooter. Blast your way through diverse planets while rescuing your teammates and gathering traps for your defense strategy. Play solo or online to stop the Rogue Star before it annihilates everything!

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 25.4%, Top-Down Shooter 15.8%, Tower Defense 14.6%, Action Roguelike 13.2%, Local Co-Op 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: Blends roguelike twin-stick shooting with tower defense base-building elements in space.

A roguelike tower defense where you control a single tower to fight against hordes of aliens coming from all directions. Pick your tower, equip up to 4 skills, and choose from a variety of traits and unique effect items to craft powerful builds that lead you to victory.

Why similar: Tower Defense 25.8%, Action Roguelike 18.6%, Top-Down Shooter 16.1%, Roguelite 13.8%, Action RPG 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Merges roguelite mechanics with intense tower-defense shooting and strategic turret placement.

Repetendium is a top-down roguelike-lite shooter. Select from a rowdy group of characters to play as and wield an ever expanding variety of gear and items to conquer the underworld. Death awaits...

Why similar: Mining 26.7% ★, Top-Down Shooter 21.7%, Action Roguelike 18.8%, Local Co-Op 14.3%, Roguelite 14%

Why You'll Like It: Features intense top-down arena shooting and roguelite mechanics for fast-paced combat.

All heroes got corrupted! Unlock a diverse cast of crafty professionals, use their unique skills, create your own builds and defend your home by eliminating hordes of monsters. Gather materials, rebuild your village and craft your way to the origin of this malignous curse!

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 23.4%, Action RPG 18.2%, Action Roguelike 18%, Roguelite 14.4%, Top-Down Shooter 13.1%

Why You'll Like It: Offers action-packed survival combat with character-driven abilities and base-upgrade loops.

Tunnel of Doom is an action rogue-lite hybrid that mixes tower defense with melee and ranged combat gameplay. Randomly generated, every run is different as you guide Angel on a quest to rescue her husband. Gather resources, discover perks, and use what you find to battle waves of monsters.

Why similar: Tower Defense 20.7%, Action Roguelike 14.6%, Mining 14.4% ★, Action RPG 13.2%, Roguelite 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Mixes roguelike dungeon crawling with tower defense-style preparation phases.

Fight an endless horde of evil minions and survive as long as you can. Collect loot and purchase new upgrades and magic abilities. Summon allies to stand along side you and survive the horde!

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 23.7%, Tower Defense 18%, Action Roguelike 13.7%, Top-Down Shooter 13.1%, Roguelite 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Combines action-roguelike bullet-hell survival with tower defense strategy.

Sequel to the best-seller ​The Red Solstice​. Plan your strategy and infiltrate a real-time tactical battlefield - alone or with up to 7 squad members. Can you demonstrate the combat prowess to survive and secure a future for humanity?

Why similar: Procedural Generation 40.5%, Top-Down Shooter 35.6%, Strategy 19.4%, Singleplayer 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: Offers tense top-down tactical shooter gameplay where base survival and strategic combat are vital.

Protect vehicles on the road and survive! Road Defense: Outsiders is a game that combines elements of the 'roguelike' and 'tower defense' genres. Upgrade the towers and your own skills to be able to annihilate all the life around you!

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 18.4%, Top-Down Shooter 18%, Tower Defense 15.8%, Action Roguelike 14.7%, Action RPG 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Presents a top-down action roguelike focused on protecting moving convoys with defensive positioning.

SYNTHETIK is an unforgiving tactical shooter rogue-lite where freedom and experimentation is key. Fight in a world overrun by the Machine Legion and their Gods. Experience the next level in gun-play and dive into unparalleled build options and Android upgrades. Can you defeat the Heart of Armageddon?

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 30.2%, Roguelite 18.3%, Action Roguelike 18.1%, Twin Stick Shooter 17.6%, Shooter 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers tactical, gun-focused top-down roguelike shooter action with heavy sci-fi machinery themes.

With science as your super power, charge up your coils and zap into action! Tesla Force is a rogue-lite top-down shooter featuring endless procedural gameplay with tentacle splitting action. Play as Tesla, Curie, Lovecraft and Shelley and blast the cosmic horror back into the galactic abyss!

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 19.6%, Local Co-Op 18.6%, Procedural Generation 18.4%, Roguelite 15.6%, Top-Down 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Combines chaotic twin-stick shooter action with roguelite progression and base-defense upgrades.

Defend the embers of hope in this roguelike strategy game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Recruit and command workers to gather resources, build your camp and set up your defenses during the day. When night falls, fend off waves of deadly creatures with powerful, upgradable weapons.

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 24.8%, Tower Defense 21.1%, Post-apocalyptic 13.6%, Base Building 12%, Shooter 8.8%

Incremental Survivors-like in which you mine valuable resources whilst slaying hoards of enemies.

Why similar: Mining 31.6% ★, Action Roguelike 17.3%, Roguelite 14.1%, Action RPG 13.9%, Shooter 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines mining themes with bullet-hell survival and incremental upgrades.

Cryptark is a 2D sci-fi shooter where you take on the role of a heavily armed privateer seeking to earn government contracts by boarding deadly alien space-hulks. It's up to you to strategize a plan of attack, pick an equipment loadout, and destroy the central core to be victorious.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 27.7%, Twin Stick Shooter 26.7%, Roguelite 12.1%, Strategy 7.4%, Procedural Generation 7%

Why You'll Like It: Challenges you to board and clear procedurally generated alien spaceships using heavy weaponry.

Beware, Monsters are Coming! In this Tower-Survivor rogue-lite, you protect an ever-moving city from unrelenting hordes. Gather resources, fortify defences, and survive for as long as you can. Will you reach the Ark?

Why similar: Tower Defense 25.3%, Base Building 19.1%, Action Roguelike 17%, Roguelite 14.1%, Top-Down 11.5%

Danger Gazers is a post-apocalyptic roguelite top-down shooter where you pave your own path. The choices you make will decide your fate, it will either turn you into the new ruler or... the ashes to be windswept away.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 28%, Post-apocalyptic 11%, Twin Stick Shooter 10.7%, Local Co-Op 9.5%, Top-Down Shooter 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Provides post-apocalyptic top-down roguelike action with heavy emphasis on survival.

Explore alien planets to mine resources, kill alien insects, build defense turrets, and survive waves of insect attacks across the galactic frontier. Astro Looter combines elements of survival, roguelike, and tower defense in a top-down shooter.

Why similar: Tower Defense 22.3%, Top-Down Shooter 19.8%, Roguelite 15.9%, Action Roguelike 15.4%, Shooter 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Blends resource looting and survival arena combat against relentless alien waves.

Woodpunk is an exhilarating roguelike bullet hell retro pixel art shooter in a medieval Woodpunk universe, where the primary energy resource is WOOD.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 23.4%, Twin Stick Shooter 21.1%, Local Co-Op 13.7%, Top-Down Shooter 13.4%, Roguelite 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Offers chaotic top-down destruction and frantic action with craftable weaponry.

Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.

Why similar: Sandbox 34%, Tower Defense 26.9%, Base Building 18.2%, Strategy 7.8%, 2D 7.3%

An action-adventure roguelike with a bit of RPG tossed in. Adventure deep into the UnderMine and discover powerful relics, deadly enemies, hidden secrets, and a few friends to help along the way.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 39.9%, Roguelite 22.8%, Mining 13.5% ★, Procedural Generation 9.1%, Top-Down 7.5%

CleanFall is a survival rogue-like that prizes player freedom and creativity. Build mobile death machines to fight off ravenous hordes, craft and alchemize gun turrets, and tunnel through subterranean ecosystems crawling with nameless horrors.

Why similar: Tower Defense 19.8%, Post-apocalyptic 15.9%, Base Building 14.4%, Sandbox 12.7%, Procedural Generation 12.3%

Craft Your Ultimate Circular Fortress! Dive into SHOOPER NOVA, where you choose props and components to build a unique fortress. Unlock combos to shape your strategy and battle style. Become an unstoppable barrage machine and obliterate waves of enemies from all directions!

Why similar: Tower Defense 29%, Roguelite 17.8%, Action Roguelike 15%, Top-Down Shooter 10.6%, Strategy 10.4%

A mini action city-builder in a post-post-apocalyptic world. Grow your settlement. Fend off waves of enemies. Restore nature.

Why similar: Tower Defense 24.4%, Top-Down Shooter 18.9%, Base Building 15.3%, Post-apocalyptic 8.9%, Top-Down 8.4%

They Are Coming is a hybrid game that combines roguelike, tower defense, and base building in a side-scrolling shooter format. It offers a straightforward gaming experience for pure enjoyment.

Why similar: Tower Defense 22%, Action Roguelike 15.8%, Base Building 14.8%, Post-apocalyptic 14.2%, Shooter 10.9%

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: Tower Defense 24.9%, Mining 19.4% ★, Top-Down Shooter 14.1%, Roguelite 12.2%, Top-Down 9.2%

Outpost brings the perfect mix between survival and roguelite gameplay. Start the game in a randomly generated environment and try to adapt, and make it through as many nights as possible. How long can you survive?

Why similar: Tower Defense 25.7%, Base Building 15.6%, Procedural Generation 14.2%, Roguelite 12.4%, Sandbox 11%

Machine Mind is an action game in a post-apocalyptic setting with elements of survival and RTS. You will fight, craft modules, build your transport, develop and protect your base. You can control other vehicles to automate operations. Discover all the secrets of the destroyed world!

Why similar: Tower Defense 24.7%, Base Building 19.6%, Action RPG 17.7%, Sandbox 13.9%, Shooter 9.8%

Shatter genre boundaries in this sci-fi survival Roguelite blending bullet-hell action and base-building RTS. Dodge and unleash screen-clearing firepower against alien hordes, while constructing fortresses and real-time automated defenses to crush your enemies.

Why similar: Tower Defense 28.3%, Base Building 23.7%, Action Roguelike 22.5%, Shooter 10.8%, Strategy 9.1%

🔫👽 Adrenaline shooter-roguelike with a survival and suspense atmosphere. Caution and accuracy are as important as conserved ammo and an extra explosion that raises the alarm in the lair. Stock up on oxygen, batteries, and ammo to survive another terrifying night.

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 18.6%, Top-Down Shooter 11.3%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Local Co-Op 10.6%, Action Roguelike 10%

Below the Stone is an extraction roguelike about dwarves on the quest for the deepest depths. A place where each and every descent will lead to new adventures -- and where only the most determined dwarves with many lost lives will be rewarded by the hidden world lying below the stone.

Why similar: Mining 24% ★, Underground 22.6% ★, Action Roguelike 11%, Procedural Generation 9.8%, Action RPG 9%

20 Minutes Till Dawn is a survival roguelite where endless hordes of creatures lurk from the dark. Craft an array of overpowering builds and eradicate waves of Lovecraftian nightmares. Will you be able to survive the night?

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 31.4%, Action Roguelike 30%, Roguelite 20.6%, Strategy 9.6%, Action 5.5%

Walk upon a new world and slay foes endangering it. Rogue : Genesia is an action rogue-lite game, where you fight relentless hordes consisting of hundreds and thousands of monsters, make your build, break the balance, defeat bosses and save one of the many worlds.

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 32.1%, Action Roguelike 19.5%, Roguelite 15.4%, Procedural Generation 11.7%, Top-Down 8.4%

An action roguelite game with alien swarms and mechs. Battle enemies to make your way through a mass of spreading and evolving cells hosting dormant enemies. Collect a variety of game-changing skills and upgrades to create unique builds.

Why similar: Mining 20.1% ★, Action Roguelike 19.1%, Procedural Generation 16.1%, Roguelite 15.8%, Action RPG 12.6%

In this unforgiving rogue-lite twin stick shooter, death awaits you behind every corner. Fight your way through hordes of monsters, eliminate bosses and loot their valuable items and body parts. With them you can enhance your own body, unlock powerful skills and create your own unique builds.

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 23.6%, Local Co-Op 16.2%, Action Roguelike 13.1%, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Procedural Generation 10.9%

Craft in Abyss is a tower defense rogue-lite game. It allow players to design their own mechanical fortress, gather resources and continuously strengthen the fortress facilities within a sci-fi world.

Why similar: Tower Defense 35.7%, Base Building 20.9%, Roguelite 19.7%, Strategy 12%, Action 6.6%

Delve into the dangerous, ever-shifting labyrinth that is the Undermine. Discover, craft, and combine hundreds of unique items. Pair them with an ever-expanding roster of distinct playable characters for a new run every time! Grab a partner and uncover UnderMine 2's secrets together in local co-op.

Why similar: Mining 29.9% ★, Action Roguelike 20.7%, Roguelite 16.3%, Procedural Generation 14.1%, Top-Down 10.4%

BALL x PIT is a brick-breaking, ball-fusing, base-building survival roguelite. Batter hordes of enemies with ricocheting balls and gather the riches of the pit to expand your homestead, generate resources and recruit unique heroes.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 22.2%, Roguelite 21.6%, Action Roguelike 21%, Base Building 13.6%, Top-Down 10.3%

Command a swarm of intelligent robots in their quest to save the world. Mine resources, manage, and defend multiple bases. Go on expeditions, fight in auto-battles, research new technologies, and create your army of golems to bring back the light.

Why similar: Mining 36% ★, Tower Defense 27.2%, Base Building 24.8%, Strategy 8.7%, 2D 2.1%

An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.

Why similar: Tower Defense 37.3%, Base Building 32.1%, Sandbox 15.2%, Strategy 9.7%, 2D 2.6%

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 28.8%, Sandbox 18.2%, Roguelite 14.5%, Base Building 12.6%, Procedural Generation 12.6%

"Greedland” is a roguelike game mixed with survivor-like elements. It's reminiscent of Crimsonland and Vampire Survivors, and as the battle progresses your character will become a mobile arsenal of destruction!

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 33.7%, Top-Down Shooter 16.3%, Roguelite 15.4%, Local Co-Op 12.5%, Top-Down 9.3%

Witchinour is a roguelite twin stick shooter focused on fast, 60fps action and constantly increasing difficulty. You play as an explorer who comes across a dungeon that an apprentice witch named Nour found herself lost in years ago on a full moon...

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 26.7%, Top-Down Shooter 18.1%, Action Roguelike 14.7%, Procedural Generation 12.6%, Roguelite 11.6%

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 43.3%, Base Building 23.1%, Procedural Generation 15.9%, Strategy 11.2%, 2D 5.3%

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 33.6%, Procedural Generation 20.1%, Roguelite 17.8%, Top-Down 12.5%, Strategy 9.4%

Vortica is a 2D action roguelite set in a solar system overrun by hostile aliens. Loot up, suit up, and shoot up as you battle against enemy hordes, explore derelict outposts, and hunt giant bosses. But remember to bring the right tools for the job!

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 27.9%, Local Co-Op 18.5%, Action Roguelike 16.6%, Roguelite 11.7%, Procedural Generation 10.8%

A tower defense action roguelike where you control a single tower to fight against hordes of aliens coming from all directions. Pick your tower, equip up to 4 skills, and choose from a variety of traits and items to craft powerful builds that lead you to victory.

Why similar: Tower Defense 26.5%, Action Roguelike 18.6%, Action RPG 14.5%, Roguelite 14.5%, Top-Down 8.5%