Games Like The Riftbreaker

Command Mobile Outpost and take XEN Firearm to venture deep into the Signet surveillance off-limit area. Collect unique Weapon Units. Amp up the firepower of the Outpost that fights with you. This is an FTD game - FPS, Tower Defense, Base Building and much more all at the same time.

Why similar: Base Building 24.5%, Tower Defense 23.3%, RTS 15.6%, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: It perfectly mirrors the Riftbreaker experience by combining first-person shooter combat with complex base-building and tower defense mechanics.

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

Why similar: Base Building 25%, Tower Defense 21.8%, Resource Management 9%, Sandbox 7.5%, Building 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It blends resource-based automation with tower defense, forcing players to build supply chains to feed their defensive turrets.

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 35.4%, Tower Defense 18.2%, RTS 17.5%, Survival 12.1%, Building 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses heavily on the survival and tower defense aspects, requiring precise base layout to withstand massive swarms of enemies.

Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

Why similar: Base Building 34.7%, Sandbox 13.1%, Crafting 12.2%, Resource Management 11.8%, Survival 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: As the gold standard for automation and base-building, it shares the core loop of resource management and defending your industrial footprint from hostile wildlife.

Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

Why similar: Base Building 32.4%, Crafting 13.5%, Building 11.6%, Multiplayer 11.4%, Sandbox 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a first-person perspective on industrial automation and base-building that emphasizes exploration and efficient resource management.

Sanctum 2 is the sequel to the world’s first Tower Defense/FPS hybrid game. Pick from four unique character classes and embark on a mission to protect the oxygen-producing Cores from hordes of deadly aliens who are threatened by their existence.

Why similar: Tower Defense 60.8%, Online Co-Op 17.9%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Strategy 6.7%, Survival 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: This title is a definitive hybrid of first-person action and tower defense that requires players to participate directly in the combat alongside their defenses.

Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.

Why similar: Base Building 43.4%, Building 18.2%, Sandbox 14.5%, Resource Management 13%, Strategy 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game excels in the automation and logistics genre, offering a grand scale of base-building that mirrors the research and expansion goals of The Riftbreaker.

Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.

Why similar: Base Building 22.7%, Online Co-Op 14.9%, Survival 13.3%, Crafting 10.9%, Multiplayer 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar isometric action-RPG feel combined with extensive base-building and survival elements in a hostile open world.

Lumencraft is a unique combination of a top-down, rogue-like shooter and base building with tower defense elements. Dig and light up dark halls of a fully destructible environment on procedurally generated maps and campaign levels to find precious Lumen - humanity's only chance for survival.

Why similar: Base Building 22.9%, Tower Defense 22.2%, Action RPG 16.4%, Sandbox 14.5%, Survival 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: It features destructible terrain and mining mechanics paired with action-oriented tower defense, capturing the frantic survival feel of the seed game.

Slice, burn, toss, zap, grind and gib massive hordes of repugnant orcs in this long-awaited successor to the award-winning Orcs Must Die! series.

Why similar: Tower Defense 48.3%, Online Co-Op 17.3%, Co-op Campaign 15.7% ★, Multiplayer 10.8%, Strategy 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: It is a pure action-tower defense hybrid where you must use both traps and personal combat skills to prevent enemies from reaching your base.

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: Base Building 21.8%, Tower Defense 21.8%, RTS 17%, Building 10.6%, Survival 10%

Why You'll Like It: This survival RTS emphasizes defending a colony against massive hordes, sharing the high-stakes pressure of managing defenses during enemy waves.

Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.

Why similar: Base Building 18.7%, Online Co-Op 15.2%, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 10.7%, Sandbox 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: It combines action-RPG exploration with base-building and survival in an underground setting that rewards both combat and resource gathering.

Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.

Why similar: Base Building 18.8%, Online Co-Op 16.6%, Co-op Campaign 15.5% ★, Survival 10.7%, Crafting 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: This survival-crafting game focuses on base-building and exploration within a hostile facility, emphasizing the need to research and craft to survive.

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 62.5%, Isometric 24%, Strategy 10.9%, Singleplayer 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: This title uniquely blends top-down shooter action with tower defense, requiring players to actively fight while managing their defensive structures.

Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.

Why similar: Base Building 20.4%, Tower Defense 18.7%, RTS 15.1%, Isometric 12.2%, Building 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on brick-by-brick castle building and strategic defense against waves of monsters, mirroring the tactical base-building needs of the seed game.

A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.

Why similar: Base Building 24.2%, Online Co-Op 18.8%, Survival 11.9%, Crafting 11.4%, Building 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the survival and base-building aspects of the seed game, focusing on terraforming a hostile environment through resource gathering.

A minimalist game about building and defending your little kingdom.

Why similar: Tower Defense 40.1%, Base Building 21.2%, Isometric 13.6%, Building 11.2%, Strategy 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist take on the base-building and tower defense genre that forces players to balance economy management with active combat participation.

You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.

Why similar: Base Building 22.2%, Online Co-Op 17.4%, Survival 13%, Crafting 10.3%, Multiplayer 10%

Why You'll Like It: This open-world survival game features robust building mechanics and action-oriented combat that rewards exploration and base development.

A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.

Why similar: Base Building 22%, Online Co-Op 15.6%, Crafting 12.5%, Sandbox 11.6%, Building 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: It features a mobile base-building mechanic where you must manage and defend your drillship while exploring a volcanic island.

Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.

Why similar: Base Building 20.6%, RTS 14.8%, Sandbox 10.7%, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Building 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a unique blend of automation and strategy with a focus on programming units, providing a deeper layer of base management.

Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.

Why similar: Base Building 19.5%, Online Co-Op 15.3%, Crafting 10.6%, Building 10.1%, Sandbox 10%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based automation game that focuses on building massive factories and managing resources in an infinite open world.

A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.

Why similar: Base Building 28%, Crafting 15.1%, Survival 14.7%, Building 12.1%, Multiplayer 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: This survival game centers on a high-tech airship base that you must maintain and defend while exploring a ruined Earth.

Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!

Why similar: Base Building 22.8%, Online Co-Op 15.8%, Crafting 12.4%, Sandbox 11%, Building 10%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the automation and terraforming aspects of survival, requiring players to build complex systems to survive in a harsh environment.

Build. Automate. Defend.

Why similar: Base Building 20.9%, Tower Defense 19.5%, Online Co-Op 16.7%, Sandbox 10.1%, Multiplayer 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A tower defense game that integrates automation and resource logistics to keep your defenses powered and supplied.

Create a hero from one of four classes to save Etheria in this 4-player coop Tower Defense Action-RPG. Includes Steam exclusive Portal gun & TF2 familiars!

Why similar: Tower Defense 23.2%, Online Co-Op 22.7%, Multiplayer 12.9%, Action RPG 9.5%, Strategy RPG 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A classic action-RPG and tower defense hybrid where you level up your hero and place defenses to protect your base.

The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.

Why similar: Base Building 19.2%, Tower Defense 16.9%, Online Co-Op 11%, Crafting 11%, Survival 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: This open-world survival game features extensive base-building and tower defense elements against both players and AI threats.

A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 21.4%, Base Building 18.6%, Survival 13.6%, Building 11.3%, Multiplayer 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: This survival game features a strong emphasis on building and combat, requiring players to manage their base while surviving against increasingly difficult threats.

Wage war across entire solar systems with massive armies at your command. Annihilate enemy forces with world-shattering TITAN-class units, and demolish planets with massive super weapons!

Why similar: RTS 26.3%, Base Building 23.7%, Online Co-Op 18.5%, Building 11.9%, Multiplayer 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: This RTS focuses on large-scale base-building and resource management across entire planets, sharing the grand scope of industrial expansion.

Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

Why similar: Sandbox 21.1%, Survival 16.4%, Multiplayer 14.9%, Crafting 14.5%, Building 13.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep mix of exploration, base-building, and boss-focused combat that shares the progression loop of the seed game.

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: Base Building 26.1%, Online Co-Op 16.2%, Survival 13.4%, Crafting 13.1%, Sandbox 12.1%

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 24.6%, Base Building 21.5%, RTS 15.2%, Building 9.1%, Isometric 8.8%

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 18.5%, Base Building 17.8%, RTS 13.2%, Crafting 8.6%, Isometric 8.1%

The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.

Why similar: Base Building 13.3%, Online Co-Op 11.8%, Tower Defense 9.7%, Hack and Slash 7.6%, Isometric 6.8%

Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.

Why similar: Base Building 21.5%, Online Co-Op 17.8%, Survival 12.8%, Multiplayer 11.7%, Crafting 11.7%

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: Base Building 17.1%, Tower Defense 16%, Isometric 11.3%, Action RPG 8.7%, Crafting 8.7%

FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.

Why similar: Base Building 20%, Crafting 16.2%, Sandbox 16.1%, Building 14.9%, Survival 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: It is a heavy automation and tower defense game that focuses on building massive, complex systems to survive waves of enemies.

Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.

Why similar: Base Building 27.8%, RTS 15.5%, Sandbox 12.4%, Crafting 12.3%, Online Co-Op 12.2%

Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.

Why similar: Base Building 22.8%, Online Co-Op 18%, Building 12.5%, Crafting 10.1%, Sandbox 10.1%

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 20.8% ★, Base Building 19.9%, Online Co-Op 18.1%, RTS 11.5%, Survival 9.3%

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: Base Building 26.5%, Economy 16.1%, Building 13.8%, Sandbox 13.1%, Survival 12.9%

Command massive armies in this epic mech auto-battler. Draft your troops, customize your units, master your formations, and crush enemies in spectacular 3D battles. All strategy, no clickfest. Outsmart opponents in 1v1, 2v2, free-for-all, or Survival Mode.

Why similar: RTS 49.5%, Multiplayer 30.6%, Strategy 16.2%, Singleplayer 3.7%

Stormgate is a free-to-play real-time strategy game with a full single-player campaign, 3-player co-op, and PvP versus modes on over 60 maps. Our Editor is also freely available for you to craft just about any custom game mode you can imagine. Join our development journey today!

Why similar: Base Building 34.2%, RTS 26.5%, Multiplayer 16.4%, Building 14.3%, Strategy 7.1%

Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.

Why similar: Crafting 21.1%, Building 20.1%, Sandbox 19.9%, Survival 14.1%, Tower Defense 7.4%

Diplomacy is Not an Option is a strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Build your town and defenses, raise huge armies and fight against massive hordes of enemies. How long can you survive?

Why similar: Base Building 30.2%, Tower Defense 17.2%, RTS 13.9%, Resource Management 13.1%, Isometric 12.4%

Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!

Why similar: Base Building 17.9%, Sandbox 14%, Online Co-Op 13.9%, Multiplayer 13.3%, Crafting 12.8%

Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?

Why similar: Base Building 19.2%, Tower Defense 17%, Online Co-Op 17%, Hack and Slash 13.2%, Crafting 11.1%

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: Base Building 20%, Tower Defense 19.8%, Hack and Slash 14%, Isometric 12.8%, Building 10.7%

Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.

Why similar: Base Building 39%, Economy 18.9%, Resource Management 17.1%, Building 11.7%, Strategy 5.9%

'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!

Why similar: Tower Defense 18.2%, Base Building 17.6%, Online Co-Op 16%, Crafting 9.9%, Sandbox 9.5%

Command distinct factions in a desperate struggle for power and resources in Tempest Rising - a classic RTS set on Earth after a nuclear war.

Why similar: RTS 49.8%, Base Building 21.7%, Strategy 12.8%, Multiplayer 7.4%, Isometric 6.9%

Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.

Why similar: Base Building 17%, Online Co-Op 15.9%, Tower Defense 15.2%, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 9.8%

A classic real-time strategy game with an epic single player campaign, multiplayer & coop, set in the alternate reality of 1920+

Why similar: RTS 32.8%, Base Building 32.2%, Online Co-Op 14.6%, Multiplayer 11.2%, Strategy 8.1%

Design and simulate the starships of your dreams! Command your ship or fleet in epic battles and manage your crew while exploring a dangerous galaxy. Play alone or with friends, test your ships in online PvP, and let your imagination reach for the stars!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 27.2%, Building 20.7%, Survival 16.7%, Multiplayer 15.4%, Exploration 8.9%

Shape of Dreams delivers fast-paced top-down roguelite action with chaotic projectile-filled battles, fluid combat, and high-stakes co-op. Play solo or with up to three friends as you dodge overwhelming attacks and unleash devastating builds.

Why similar: Hack and Slash 31%, Online Co-Op 30.8%, Action RPG 20.6%, Multiplayer 17.6%

The King's dimensional orb has malfunctioned, bringing hordes of monsters into the Kingdom. Defend your safeground against the monsters by gathering resources, building defenses, upgrading your arsenal, and surviving long enough to find the source of monsters and destroy it.

Why similar: Base Building 19.8%, Tower Defense 18.9%, Hack and Slash 14.3%, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 10.8%

Pilot a dwarven mech and fly a dragon as you build and defend outposts across a shattered magical realm. Craft, explore, and survive the dangers of floating islands corrupted by the Taint in this action-packed survival RPG with base-building and co-op.

Why similar: Base Building 22.7%, Co-op Campaign 22.5% ★, Hack and Slash 15.8%, Action RPG 13.4%, Crafting 12.9%

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Why similar: Base Building 31.9%, Sandbox 17.9%, Building 17.7%, Survival 16.1%, Resource Management 10.2%

Great strategy is timeless. Build, adapt, and defend across dynamic maps, solo or online - every session brings new strategies, new solutions, and new surprises. Now is the perfect time to enter the grid.

Why similar: Tower Defense 22.4%, Base Building 21.5%, RTS 16.5%, Online Co-Op 13.8%, Building 11.2%

IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?

Why similar: Base Building 25.5%, Survival 17.7%, Building 13.1%, Resource Management 12.5%, Economy 11%