Games like Dungeon Defenders: Awakened
If Dungeon Defenders: Awakened is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dungeon Defenders, Dungeon Defenders II and Toaster Defense — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and intense. 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.
Get personalized picks →Dungeon Defenders: Awakened is a challenging tower defense action RPG developed by Chromatic Games, released in 2020 and currently priced at $3.74. Players can experience this long-form experience solo or team up with up to three others in online co-op as they defend the fantasy world of Etheria against waves of enemies. The game features loot-driven progression with rifted gear and fusion bonuses that enable creative tower hybridization builds. Reviewers note hero-kits can be swapped mid-combat for tactical advantage, and players describe the game as intense, challenging, and whimsical depending on the scenario. The game is playable on Steam Deck and holds a 68% positive rating from 2,272 Steam reviews. Players highlight colorful-and-crisp graphics with smooth movement and appreciate modern quality-of-life improvements in the title.
About Dungeon Defenders: Awakened: Dungeon Defenders: Awakened is co-op Tower Defense combined with epic Action RPG combat. You’re able to join forces with up to four players to take on a never-ending army of orcs, demons, and dragons! Are your defenses strong enough to save the world of Etheria?
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Dungeon Defenders
WHY THIS
Shares loot driven progression and a challenging mood with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.
Top pick for Dungeon Defenders: Awakened fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.
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!
Dungeon Defenders II
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.
Second-strongest match for Dungeon Defenders: Awakened fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.
Dungeon Defenders II is a cooperative Action Tower Defense game packed with roleplaying elements like loot, leveling, and pets.
Toaster Defense
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Dungeon Defenders: Awakened fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.
Smash and shoot down robots in this challenging fast-paced game that mixes tower defense and shoot 'em up platforming. Build lamps, fans, and meat tenderizers to aid in your defenses and find the deadliest combination. Do you have what it takes to defend the world's cutest toaster?!
Dark Age Empires
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Ranked #4 for Dungeon Defenders: Awakened fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.
Dark Age Empires is an open world survival game that can be played in single player mode or as an online multiplayer game on a dedicated server.Do you have what it takes to not only survive in this dark age, but to rise up, fight back and create your own Dark Age Empire?
The Riftbreaker
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.
Ranked #5 for Dungeon Defenders: Awakened fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.
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.
Cat Quest II
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.
Ranked #6 for Dungeon Defenders: Awakened fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.
Open-world action-RPG in a fantasy realm of cats and dogs. Sequel to the award-winning original, CAT QUEST II lets you play solo or with a friend, as both a cat and dog! Quest in a world filled with magic, defeat monsters and collect loot in a catventure like never before!
Farm Together
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.
Ranked #7 for Dungeon Defenders: Awakened fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.
Grow your own farm all by yourself, or cooperate with your friends in this unique, relaxing farming experience!
Royal Revolt II
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.
Ranked #8 for Dungeon Defenders: Awakened fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.
Royal Revolt 2 is an asynchronous PvP Reverse Tower Defense game full of medieval magic and action-laden battles.Can you set up your defenses so other Kings and Queens can't crash your castle gates? We're throwing down the gauntlet. Will you pick it up?
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Orcs Must Die!
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Shares a challenging mood with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.
Reviewers of Dungeon Defenders: Awakened cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.
Slice them, burn them, skewer them, and launch them - no matter how you get it done, orcs must die in this fantasy action-strategy game from Robot Entertainment.
Orcs Must Die! 2
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.
Reviewers of Dungeon Defenders: Awakened cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.
You’ve tossed, burned and sliced them by the thousands – now orcs must die more than ever before! Grab a friend and slay orcs in untold numbers in this sequel to the 2011 AIAS Strategy Game of the Year from Robot Entertainment.
Sanctum 2
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Shares a challenging mood with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.
Reviewers of Dungeon Defenders: Awakened cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.
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.
Dungeon Defenders
WHY THIS
Shares loot driven progression and a challenging mood with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.
Reviewers of Dungeon Defenders: Awakened cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.
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!
Dungeon Defenders II
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.
Reviewers of Dungeon Defenders: Awakened cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.
Dungeon Defenders II is a cooperative Action Tower Defense game packed with roleplaying elements like loot, leveling, and pets.
Save The World
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Reviewers of Dungeon Defenders: Awakened cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.
The story is a young man summoned to another world is suffered from the scourge of aggression by monsters,and save the world with the native heroes. Game mode is rogue,you only release your kill desire to kill the monsters all! Special Zhen Fa System,allow you active powerful Zhen Fa to bombing!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dungeon Defenders: Awakened at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~74% under Dungeon Defenders: Awakened on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.
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?
The Test
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Priced ~47% under Dungeon Defenders: Awakened on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~60% under Dungeon Defenders: Awakened on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~74% under Dungeon Defenders: Awakened on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
shapez
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Priced ~74% under Dungeon Defenders: Awakened on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Dungeon Defenders: Awakened on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The Test: Final Revelation
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Dungeon Defenders: Awakened on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.
The third chapter in The Test Trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover who you really are as a person. The Final Revelation is upon us... but are you sure you TRULY want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
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Priced ~47% under Dungeon Defenders: Awakened on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
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Other recommendable Steam games by Chromatic Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Dungeon Defenders
WHY THIS
Shares loot driven progression and a challenging mood with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.
Another title from Chromatic Games, the studio behind Dungeon Defenders: Awakened. Shares Action and Strategy with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.
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!
Dungeon Defenders II
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.
Another title from Chromatic Games, the studio behind Dungeon Defenders: Awakened. Shares Action and Strategy with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.
Dungeon Defenders II is a cooperative Action Tower Defense game packed with roleplaying elements like loot, leveling, and pets.
Dungeon Defenders: Going Rogue
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.
Another title from Chromatic Games, the studio behind Dungeon Defenders: Awakened. Shares Action and Indie with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.
Combining Roguelite, Action RPG, and Tower Defense gameplay into a crazy free-for-all, where it’s you and up to three friends versus hordes of enemies. Select your hero, survive the waves of foes, unlock new weapons and runes, and take on the bosses that await you!
Frequently asked about Dungeon Defenders: Awakened
- Does Dungeon Defenders: Awakened run on Steam Deck?
- Dungeon Defenders: Awakened is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Dungeon Defenders: Awakened cost?
- Dungeon Defenders: Awakened is listed on Steam at 3.74 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Dungeon Defenders: Awakened have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Dungeon Defenders: Awakened supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Shared/Split Screen Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Dungeon Defenders: Awakened?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dungeon Defenders: Awakened are Dungeon Defenders, Dungeon Defenders II, Toaster Defense.
- Who developed Dungeon Defenders: Awakened?
- Dungeon Defenders: Awakened was developed by Chromatic Games.
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