Games like Gamedev Beatdown
If Gamedev Beatdown is your kind of game, the closest matches are Curious Expedition 2, Rogue Waters and Crowntakers — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
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Steam players who put hours into Gamedev Beatdown also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Curious Expedition 2
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Top pick for Gamedev Beatdown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gamedev Beatdown.
Curious Expedition 2 is a turn-based narrative roguelike set in a reimagined version of the late 19th century that uses procedural gameplay and story elements to create completely unique and epic adventures every time you play.
Rogue Waters
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Second-strongest match for Gamedev Beatdown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Gamedev Beatdown.
Rogue Waters is a Pirate Tactical Turn-Based Rogue-lite. Play as Captain Cutter, commanding your ship and crew through procedurally generated encounters to seek revenge. Recruit, train, and upgrade crew, use powerful sea creatures, and engage in dynamic naval and melee combat to gain the upper hand.
Crowntakers
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Third-strongest match for Gamedev Beatdown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gamedev Beatdown.
Crowntakers combines turn-based strategy with RPG elements and takes you at the behest of the crown into a medieval fantasy world full of challenging encounters and epic adventures. With its randomly generated world, Crowntakers offers a varied gaming experience every time you set out to fight evil.
Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager
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Ranked #4 for Gamedev Beatdown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gamedev Beatdown.
Legend of Keepers is the perfect mix between Dungeon Defender and Roguelite. You have been hired as a dungeon manager by the Dungeons Company. Your job is simple: protect their dungeons!
Bionic Dues
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Ranked #5 for Gamedev Beatdown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gamedev Beatdown.
Bionic Dues is a tactical, turn-based roguelite with mech customization. Out-think wide-ranging tactical situations featuring robots with bad GPS, terrible aim, insecurity, a lack of focus, a tendency to backstab, and dozens of other maladies to exploit.
Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles
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Ranked #6 for Gamedev Beatdown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gamedev Beatdown.
Astrea is a DICE-deck-building roguelike that flips the script on deckbuilders by using dice instead of cards and a unique dual “damage” system: Purification vs Corruption. Build a dice pool strong enough to purify Astrea's out-of-control corruption and save the Star System.
Into the Breach
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Ranked #7 for Gamedev Beatdown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gamedev Beatdown.
Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.
For The King
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Ranked #8 for Gamedev Beatdown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gamedev Beatdown.
For The King is a strategic RPG that blends tabletop and roguelike elements in a challenging adventure that spans the realms. Set off on a single player experience or play cooperatively both online and locally.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Gamedev Beatdown at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~50% under Gamedev Beatdown on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gamedev Beatdown.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~50% under Gamedev Beatdown on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Gamedev Beatdown.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~50% under Gamedev Beatdown on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gamedev Beatdown.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~50% under Gamedev Beatdown on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Gamedev Beatdown.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under Gamedev Beatdown on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gamedev Beatdown.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
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Priced ~50% under Gamedev Beatdown on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Gamedev Beatdown.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~70% under Gamedev Beatdown on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gamedev Beatdown.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~50% under Gamedev Beatdown on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Gamedev Beatdown.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gamedev Beatdown.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gamedev Beatdown.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Gamedev Beatdown.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gamedev Beatdown.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Gamedev Beatdown.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gamedev Beatdown.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Gamedev Beatdown.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Gamedev Beatdown.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
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Frequently asked about Gamedev Beatdown
- How much does Gamedev Beatdown cost?
- Gamedev Beatdown is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Gamedev Beatdown?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Gamedev Beatdown are Curious Expedition 2, Rogue Waters, Crowntakers.
- Who developed Gamedev Beatdown?
- Gamedev Beatdown was developed by QYJO.
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