60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Strategy, Singleplayer, Tower Defense, Colony Sim.
Rendered in breathtaking cinematic pixel art, MAPS blends the intimate tension of classic survival games with the strategic depth of a sidescrolling colony builder. A deeply diegetic world keeping you immersed in every moment with its tragic beauty.
Stratum Defence Team
Stratum Defence Team is a local co-op base defense game for up to 4 players, set on hostile worlds. Defend your mineral extraction outpost. Build walls and turrets, fight on the front lines, and adapt through evolving upgrades to withstand intensifying assaults.
Castle Formers
Defend your castle from the attacks of the night creatures. Collect coins, interact with the elements of the game, discover, explore, learn and survive for 30 days or try again.
Stratum Defence Team is a local co-op base defense game for up to 4 players, set on hostile worlds. Defend your mineral extraction outpost. Build walls and turrets, fight on the front lines, and adapt through evolving upgrades to withstand intensifying assaults.
Why similar: Co-op Campaign 26.6% ★, Colony Sim 20.7%, Local Co-Op 17.7%, Tower Defense 15.9%, Base Building 8%
Defend your castle from the attacks of the night creatures. Collect coins, interact with the elements of the game, discover, explore, learn and survive for 30 days or try again.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, Tower Defense 16.6%, Base Building 14.5%, Survival 12.2%, Pixel Graphics 7.8%
Astro World is a side-scrolling co-op game where the players will have to build their colony on a planet full of danger, valuable resources and alien artifacts, using which the player can explore new technologies and equipment to arm their colonists with.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22%, Tower Defense 13.6%, Side Scroller 11.6%, Survival 11.2%, Co-op 11.1%
Phoenix Hope is a pixel art 2D real-time, side-view strategy game in which you must develop your colony during the day and repel waves of monsters at night.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6%, Tower Defense 17.4%, Base Building 15.3%, Survival 11.2%, Side Scroller 10.1%
Are you worthy of being a king? Test your mettle in this city-builder and resource management game as you develop your kingdom. Face challenges at every turn and transform your village into something mighty. Protect your subjects. Slay your enemies. Be a king!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7%, Tower Defense 17.6%, Base Building 17.3%, Side Scroller 16.5%, Exploration 6.1%
Until We Die is a side-scrolling strategy game about defending your base where you have to run around as Ivan, assign tasks to people, and fight mutants in the post-apocalyptic subway!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, Tower Defense 17.3%, Base Building 16.2%, Side Scroller 14.1%, Survival 13.1%
Fight, upgrade, explore, and build your way out of a dangerous planet in this 2D pixel art side scroller. Stream of foes will keep you on your toes while beating them will reward you with much needed resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2%, Tower Defense 16.6%, Base Building 12.9%, Side Scroller 12.8%, Survival 9.1%
The Crow King is a 2D side-scrolling action-strategy with a unique Handmade style, where you have to explore and gather resources to improve your strength until you lead your army to victory.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.2%, Tower Defense 21.7%, Side Scroller 11.4%, Strategy 10.5%, Adventure 6.1%
Kingdom Eighties is a short story-based standalone expansion set in the Kingdom universe. A rad adventure of micro-strategy and base building in vivid ‘80s neon. Defend your town against the mysterious Greed and discover the secrets of your family lineage!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6%, Tower Defense 16.3%, Local Co-Op 15.6%, Base Building 13.4%, Side Scroller 11.9%
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: Colony Sim 21.7%, Tower Defense 17.2%, Base Building 13.9%, Side Scroller 11.3%, Survival 9.6%
Gather exotic resources, build defenses, research new technologies, and explore the mysteries of the void, all while being chased by the darkness from the end of time.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.1%, Tower Defense 20.1%, Base Building 17.7%, Survival 15.5%, Strategy 10.1%
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 22.9%, Colony Sim 20.5%, Base Building 12.8%, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Co-op 9%
The Wild Age is a micromanagement strategy game with tower defense gameplay mechanics. The game is designed mainly for a peaceful and relaxed gaming experience that offers a break from the busy realities of life.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3%, Tower Defense 19.7%, Base Building 17.9%, Survival 13.1%, Strategy 7.4%
Run your own Adventurer's Guild in this fantasy colony sim with a focus on dynamic storytelling. Recruit heroes to explore a ruined city, but keep an eye on those murder hobos. An unhappy hero could turn to arson, violence, and jaywalking.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.1%, Base Building 17.9%, Survival 12.8%, Nonlinear 11.9%, Strategy 6%
Sands of Supremacy is a singleplayer, side-scrolling strategy/resource management hybrid 2D game set in a desert landscape on an unknown, futuristic planet. The game combines survival, strategy, and resource management elements to create a challenging and engaging gameplay experience.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, Tower Defense 17.5%, Side Scroller 12.2%, Survival 11.7%, Base Building 10.8%
Nyric is a third-person survivalcraft where your words shape the world. Type a phrase—“A storm-haunted wasteland”—and step into a procedurally generated realm built from your imagination. Survive harsh climates and strange hazards using Faebots— AI companions with unique powers tied to their moods.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8%, Base Building 15.5%, Online Co-Op 13%, Survival 11.7%, Open World 11.3%
Celestial Odyssey is a cooperative 2D arcade game with a short but touching plot, where you will need to repair a space bus falling apart on the fly alone or with a friend while flying between tiny planets. Monitor the fuel level, manage to patch up the holes and break the record!
Why similar: Co-op Campaign 35% ★, Local Co-Op 20.6%, Online Co-Op 15%, Co-op 14.2%, Side Scroller 6.5%
An online/local 2-player co-op platformer about bungee cord wielding buns climbing and tagging industrial sites. Duos of all skill levels can have a good time in this low-stakes casual game.
Why similar: Co-op Campaign 37.5% ★, Local Co-Op 16.6%, Side Scroller 13.1%, Online Co-Op 12%, Co-op 9.8%
Lure enemies through traps and defend your shrines in this maze-building roguelike tower defense—play solo or with 4 players in co-op. Set in Irish mythology, each campaign brings endless upgrades to combine and randomized tactical challenges that keep every run a new maze to master.
Why similar: Tower Defense 25.9%, Co-op Campaign 18.3% ★, Co-op 15.3%, 2.5D 12.7%, Strategy 9.9%
Tower Defense meets Base Management. Strategically place your defenses. Craft wacky ammunition like fiery peppers and boomerang bananas. Discover amazing weapons and automate your economy while defending against waves of enemies. Can you handle the chaos?
Why similar: Co-op Campaign 22.9% ★, Tower Defense 18.8%, Local Co-Op 16.5%, Online Co-Op 14.2%, Base Building 14%
Colony Siege combines the best of RTS and tower defense, including base building, mazing, and unit physics. Defend Earth's remaining colonies using an arsenal of deadly weapons to torch, slice, throw, and impale swarms of alien invaders.
Why similar: Tower Defense 23.6%, Strategy 18.3%, Co-op Campaign 16.1% ★, Simulation 11.4%, Co-op 10.3%
Baggy Duo is a platformer game where players embark on mysterious dungeon missions under the command of Fairy. The goal is to complete the missions and make it out alive. The game features both single-player and local co-op modes.
Why similar: Co-op Campaign 32.3% ★, Local Co-Op 18.3%, Side Scroller 18.3%, 2.5D 14.1%, Co-op 11.1%
Ringo TD is a tower defense game with a unique twist—only one movable tower, a magical flower you need to water to recharge. Utilize your melee attacks and adapt to different enemy types in this dynamic and strategic adventure.
Why similar: Co-op Campaign 28.1% ★, Tower Defense 24.9%, Local Co-Op 15.4%, Co-op 11.9%, Strategy 7.6%
Take Root is a COOPERATIVE colony simulator where plants and robots survive together in an urban post-apocalypse. Develop your settlement, build outposts, explore a procedurally generated city, and uncover the mystery behind the strange Event.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.9%, Base Building 16.1%, Co-op 15.4%, Online Co-Op 15.1%, Simulation 9.3%
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: Colony Sim 34.5%, Tower Defense 25.3%, Base Building 13.3%, Survival 10.5%, Strategy 6%
Zomboard is a post-apocalyptic colony sim and base defense game. Start with a few survivors, build your settlement, and fortify defenses to survive overwhelming zombie hordes.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.7%, Tower Defense 21.9%, Base Building 19.3%, Strategy 9.2%, Simulation 6.2%
Build a mobile fortress on the back of a giant and mysterious walking Tree and embark on a journey in this merge of tower defense and colony simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.1%, Tower Defense 19.9%, 2.5D 14.2%, Side Scroller 12%, Survival 7.6%
A full immersive hacking sim based on real exploits and C2 tools. Choose missions or pure free-roam. The world adapts to your every move and strikes back. Accept contracts. Hack servers. Earn BTC. Upgrade your gear and avoid getting traced. Play solo or in Co-op / CTF with your friends.
Why similar: Co-op Campaign 27% ★, Local Co-Op 18.4%, Online Co-Op 16%, Co-op 11.3%, Strategy 10.5%
Build and defend villages of vegetable folk from deadly feral beasts in the blighted world of The Hollow. Explore, gather, and fight! You can even invite your friends. Can you craft the perfect village?
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6%, Online Co-Op 16.6%, Open World 14.1%, Survival 14.1%, Base Building 13%
Xeno Conflict is a real-time strategic survival game based on a future background, where players can control different factions compete and cooperate with each other to fight against unknown biological environments.
Why similar: Co-op Campaign 29.5% ★, Tower Defense 18.9%, 2.5D 12.2%, Online Co-Op 11.7%, Co-op 10.9%
Stellarcraft is a sci-fi tower defense adventure: explore alien planets, gather resources, build defenses, and fend off waves of enemies, solo or in 4-player co-op. 🚀
Why similar: Co-op Campaign 33.5% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Online Co-Op 14.5%, Co-op 12.8%, Survival 9.8%
An epic war and strategy game set in the medieval universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.3%, Tower Defense 27%, Base Building 14.8%, Strategy 12.7%, Survival 12.3%
Stonedeep is an 2.5D underground city builder. Dwarfs gather resources, build and fend off monsters. Colonies can specialize in culture, production, military and trading. At start, dwarfs need drinks and rest. With a higher civilization level, they will increase their needs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2%, Base Building 18.2%, 2.5D 17.9%, Survival 11.4%, Open World 8.8%
Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 47.8%, Base Building 20.6%, Survival 9.9%, Open World 7.9%, Strategy 6.9%
Explore an open world, sci-fi sandbox – in PVP, PVE, and co-op. Build and manage colonies on alien planets, and recruit AI survivors with unique personalities and skills. Craft, build, mine, farm, or get your electric death rifle and say hello to your neighbors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3%, Base Building 13.8%, Co-op 13.8%, Side Scroller 12%, Online Co-Op 11.5%
Polylithic is a survival game unlike any other, set in the most pivotal moment in mankind's history: the Stone Age. Experience life as a Paleolithic hunter-gatherer, settle down as a Neolithic farmer, form tribes in co-op multiplayer, or go at it alone in a world where we're not yet apex predators.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.3%, Alternate History 17.3%, Base Building 17.3%, Survival 12.4%, Open World 11.9%
Are you a master of the magical arts? Prove it in this cozy colony-sim wizard tower defense game. Curl up and build your base, keep your mages happy, craft recipes, research new magic spells, and defend your wizard's keep. Will your Artificer's Tower be the envy of all your magical friends?
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.1%, Tower Defense 21.2%, Base Building 15.9%, 2.5D 13.1%, Survival 9.8%
"Luminleaf Chronicles" is a local multiplayer game for 1 to 4 players that combines elements of survival, adventure, and roguelike genres. Acquire items, upgrade your skills, and defeat the continuously appearing bosses to survive tooth and nail in the game world, ultimately face the Skeleton King!
Why similar: Co-op Campaign 28.4% ★, Tower Defense 20.7%, Local Co-Op 16.1%, Online Co-Op 14.1%, Co-op 12.5%
Will you be the savior to purify this land? The Monarch is a lane-defense game where you control a monarch, expand your kingdom, and defend against evil by strategically managing gold resources, recruiting diverse units, and exploring a world filled with mythical threats.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3%, Tower Defense 22.7%, Base Building 17.3%, Side Scroller 13.7%, Survival 12.2%
Whispers in the Forest is a single-player base defense strategy game where you must build, upgrade, and defend your base against demonic creatures in a cursed forest. Manage your resources, lead your troops, and survive the darkness of the night as you fight to protect your only hope for salvation.
Why similar: Side Scroller 18.8%, Survival 18.7%, Strategy 15.8%, Base Building 14.8%, Tower Defense 13.3%
Embark on an adventure and build your village into a fortified stronghold against invaders. Defense isn't enough—venture beyond to uncover the secrets behind these attacks. Traverse perilous landscapes, battle formidable foes, and discover the dark force driving the onslaught—your destiny awaits!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5%, Tower Defense 17.4%, 2.5D 16.1%, Base Building 14.7%, Side Scroller 13.1%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.2%, Base Building 25%, Survival 15.7%, Strategy 3.6%, Simulation 3.5%
Cosmic Castaway is a colony building survival game. Gather scarce resources, rescue and assign your crew, build and defend your outpost from hostile forces, and turn wreckage into refuge to repair your ship and escape back to your home planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30%, Tower Defense 21.3%, Base Building 15.8%, Survival 12.8%, Strategy 7.4%
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Why similar: Colony Sim 41%, Base Building 20.7%, Survival 14.9%, Open World 9.3%, Co-op 6.2%
Explore a land of scattered ruins and city-states. Find your place as a shopkeeper or artisan in the city, or venture into the frontier with a friend in co-op. Prepare carefully as hunger, low spirits, and the bitter cold can doom an expedition. Meanwhile, petty rulers have their own motives...
Why similar: Co-op Campaign 22.8% ★, Local Co-Op 18.6%, Base Building 12.6%, Open World 11.6%, 2.5D 11.3%
You and allies, avian inhabitants of Sanctree City, build structures and production lines on the tree, crafting weapons to fend off subterranean insects. Defense is just the start—dig deeper, destroy nests, fortify new defenses against escalating threats for an impregnable stronghold.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5%, Tower Defense 18.7%, Base Building 17%, Online Co-Op 13.6%, Survival 9.4%
A colony building game with an emphasis on unexpected events, online co-op, and managing a unique community. Build your colony, feed your colonists, research technologies, craft advanced weapons, explore the world, fight enemies and defend your property.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.9%, Base Building 16.8%, Online Co-Op 14.1%, Survival 11.3%, Co-op 7.6%
Build, expand and survive in a magical hand-painted world filled with friends and foes. Grow and manage your settlement in the day, defend it through the night, and rebuild your broken airship to claim your escape!
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.1%, Side Scroller 18.4%, Base Building 15.1%, Tower Defense 14.7%, Strategy 9.9%
The world famous chef Louis is mad! He animates all sorts of inanimate objects to attack the restaurant critic Pablo for an alleged bad review of his restaurant. Luckily, Pablo likes playing tower defense games and knows exactly how to defend himself!
Why similar: Co-op Campaign 39.5% ★, Tower Defense 26.3%, Local Co-Op 18%, Co-op 9.8%, Strategy 3.1%
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: Colony Sim 31.8%, Tower Defense 22.9%, Base Building 15.5%, Side Scroller 15.2%, Strategy 7.6%
Bish Bash Bots is a unique mix of casual tower defense strategy and all-out brawling action. Team up in couch co-op / online play or go it alone and fight to save the world by building upgradable turrets, unlocking gadgets and bashing bots with giant hammers.
Why similar: Co-op Campaign 33.7% ★, Tower Defense 22.5%, Local Co-Op 15.4%, Co-op 13.5%, Online Co-Op 9.7%
DarkSwitch is a vertical survival city builder. Build a city on a great tree and defend it against the Fog. Face the challenges of limited real estate, scarce resources, and tough moral choices as you seek to uncover the mystery of the Shroud. The Tree Provides! The Tree Protects! The Tree Prevails!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.6%, Tower Defense 20.1%, Base Building 16.1%, Survival 12.1%, Cinematic 10.2%
Will you be the savior to purify this land? The Monarch is a lane-defense game where you control a monarch, expand your kingdom, and defend against evil by strategically managing gold resources, recruiting diverse units, and exploring a world filled with mythical threats.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8%, Tower Defense 21.3%, Base Building 16.4%, Side Scroller 12.8%, Survival 11.5%
A “city-building” x “tower defense” SLG by a young girl, Fio. Fio and her guardians, the Flora Bears, are building a city in the last city of humanity. Increase facilities, residents, and resources, and prepare for battle. Withstand enemy attacks and defeat the boss with your big beam cannon!
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.8%, Tower Defense 24.5%, Base Building 21.4%, Strategy 6.3%, Simulation 6.1%
Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8%, Base Building 18.7%, Tower Defense 15.3%, Survival 11.6%, Strategy 10.3%
Embark on an unforgettable journey with your friends around the world in an eco-friendly adventure made specifically for a group of up to 4 people. After the apocalypse due to global warming, the characters realized that in order to survive, they would have to gather in a team and recycle garbage.
Why similar: Co-op Campaign 31.8% ★, Local Co-Op 17.6%, Survival 13.9%, Co-op 12.1%, Tower Defense 10.6%
Tikiman the Forest Defender is in trouble. Hordes of monsters are sweeping through his realm, hoping to chow down on his offspring – and it’s up to you to defend them. By placing weapon towers at strategic points around the landscape, you can destroy the invaders and save the little ones.
Why similar: Tower Defense 54.3%, Local Co-Op 17.2%, Strategy 11.5%, Online Co-Op 8.8%, Co-op 7.4%
You set off with a caravan full of cats to find a safe place to settle! Gather resources, set up a base, defenses, give your cats work to do! Manage your base, expand, defend it from monsters and make it a nice place for your fellow cats!
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.9%, Base Building 23.6%, Colony Sim 16.6%, Side Scroller 11.3%, Pixel Graphics 10.7%
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4%, Base Building 17.1%, Co-op 12.3%, Survival 11.7%, Open World 11.1%
