Games like Taur
If Taur is your kind of game, the closest matches are Thukothea Defender, Decimation and Automatrons - Tower Defense — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and hypnotic. 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 →Taur is a 2020 action-strategy indie game where players control the Prime Cannon to defend the Tauron homeworld against an Imperion invasion. The game combines physics-driven combat with modular tower defense, allowing players to construct turrets, deploy droids and aircraft, and recruit mercenaries. Players describe the futuristic minimalist aesthetic as visually striking and note the campaign unlocks an infinite war mode for substantial replayability. Reviewers highlight that modular loadouts enable multiple viable playstyles, from artillery-focused builds to mercenary and rebel tactics. The game features procedural wave generation and resource management in challenging solo sessions. Taur runs at playable resolution on Steam Deck, costs $24.99, and holds a 78% positive rating from 1,193 Steam reviews.
About Taur: Taur is an action-strategy sci-fi game. Control the Prime Cannon and unlock all of its powerful weapons and abilities. Build turrets, droids, aircraft and more as you fight to protect the homeworld of the Tauron droids against a relentless invasion. Will your Taur stand against the Imperion warmachine?
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Thukothea Defender
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Top pick for Taur fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Taur.
A strategic tower-defense where you control powerfull drones. Unlock new tower and use specific technologies to defend your base on Thukothea!
Decimation
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Taur fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Taur.
Sci-fi tower defense meets ARPG-like hero combat. Build towers then fight alongside them with your hero as you battle through a campaign to uncover the fate of a colonization effort on a distant planet.
Automatrons - Tower Defense
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Third-strongest match for Taur fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Taur.
Join our machine legion to conquer the world.
Supreme Commander 2
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Shares a challenging mood with Taur.
Ranked #4 for Taur fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Taur.
Includes 47 Steam achievements, leaderboards, and stats!
Raging Titan
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Ranked #5 for Taur fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Taur.
Build your towers, plan your efforts, watch out for changing paths and strike back against the alien invaders in this challenging tower defense game!
Warpips
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Taur.
Ranked #6 for Taur fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Taur.
Warpips is the ultimate quick to learn but amazingly deep tug-of-war strategy game. Deploy the right composition of soldiers, tanks, helicopters and planes in this tight, streamlined strategy-focused war game. Compose the best army, research the right tech; overwhelm your enemy!
Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Taur.
Ranked #7 for Taur fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Taur.
A massive-scale real-time strategy game where you command entire armies on a dynamic battlefield. Conquer multiple worlds across several single-player campaigns; or play with your friends in multiplayer combat.
Company of Heroes
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Shares resource management and an immersive mood with Taur.
Ranked #8 for Taur fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Taur.
Delivering a visceral WWII gaming experience, Company of Heroes redefines RTS by bringing the sacrifice of heroic soldiers, war-ravaged environments, and dynamic battlefields to life. Please visit the "Company of Heroes - Legacy Edition" page for additional user reviews.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Taur at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~80% under Taur on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Taur.
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.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~60% under Taur on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Taur.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Taur on Steam right now. Shares Action with Taur.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Taur on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Taur.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Taur on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Taur.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Taur on Steam right now. Shares Action with Taur.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Taur.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
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 Taur.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Taur.
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.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Taur.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Taur.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
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!
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Taur.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
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Frequently asked about Taur
- Does Taur run on Steam Deck?
- Taur 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 Taur cost?
- Taur is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Taur?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Taur are Thukothea Defender, Decimation, Automatrons - Tower Defense.
- Who developed Taur?
- Taur was developed by Echo Entertainment.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Taur.
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