Games like Phoenix Hope
If Phoenix Hope is your kind of game, the closest matches are Night is Coming, Stronghold: Definitive Edition and Kingdom Two Crowns — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 →About Phoenix Hope: 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.
Players who liked Phoenix Hope also play
Steam players who put hours into Phoenix Hope 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.
Night is Coming
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Phoenix Hope.
Top pick for Phoenix Hope fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Phoenix Hope.
Survival strategy game set in a world inspired by Slavic mythology and the nature of Eastern Europe. Build your settlement, protect its dwellers, and help them prepare for the coming Darkness.
Stronghold: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Phoenix Hope.
Second-strongest match for Phoenix Hope fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Phoenix Hope.
Greetings sire! Your stronghold awaits you. Build a castle economy, besiege unforgettable villains and return to the 'castle sim' that started it all. Experience this classic RTS with upgraded visuals, modernised gameplay, Steam multiplayer and a new campaign.
Kingdom Two Crowns
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Phoenix Hope.
Third-strongest match for Phoenix Hope fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Phoenix Hope.
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.
The Wild Age
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Phoenix Hope.
Ranked #4 for Phoenix Hope fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Phoenix Hope.
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.
Stronghold HD (2012)
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Phoenix Hope.
Ranked #5 for Phoenix Hope fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Phoenix Hope.
The original castle sim, Stronghold HD allows you to design, build and destroy historical castles. Engage in medieval warfare against the AI in one of two single player campaigns or online with up to 8 players.
Freaking Meatbags
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Phoenix Hope fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Phoenix Hope.
Land on a planet, pick up some rocks, leave before the solar system explodes. Oh, and don't die in the nightly robot attacks! Freaking Meatbags is a humorous real-time strategy game that's all about building a base, mixing meatbag DNA, then convincing those dolts to help you gather resources.
Kingdoms and Castles
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Phoenix Hope fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Phoenix Hope.
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
From Glory To Goo
WHY THIS
Shares resource gathering, base building and an atmospheric mood with Phoenix Hope.
Ranked #8 for Phoenix Hope fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Phoenix Hope.
From Glory To Goo is a Sci-Fi survival RTS set on an alien world. Serve as humanity's bulwark by establishing a colony and supporting your colonists still in orbit. But beware, for The Goo, a relentless and shape-shifting force approaches from all sides, even above and below.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Phoenix Hope
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Grim Dawn
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Phoenix Hope.
Reviewers of Phoenix Hope cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Phoenix Hope.
Enter an apocalyptic fantasy world where humanity is on the brink of extinction, iron is valued above gold and trust is hard earned. This ARPG features complex character development, hundreds of unique items, crafting and quests with choice & consequence.
KINGDOMS
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Phoenix Hope.
Reviewers of Phoenix Hope cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Phoenix Hope.
KINGDOMS is a procedural medieval RPG in a randomly generated open world. The main feature of KINGDOMS is a smart AI system that completely controls NPC behavior. As the player, you can fully interact with this massive world and become any person you want to be.
Kingdom Two Crowns
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Phoenix Hope.
Reviewers of Phoenix Hope cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Phoenix Hope.
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.
Grim Nights
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Phoenix Hope.
Reviewers of Phoenix Hope cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Phoenix Hope.
Your village must survive for 13 days! Gather resources, expand, explore the underground for riches, and train soldiers to defend against hordes of the undead.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Phoenix Hope at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Phoenix Hope on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Phoenix Hope.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Phoenix Hope on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Phoenix Hope.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~42% under Phoenix Hope on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Phoenix Hope.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under Phoenix Hope on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Phoenix Hope.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Phoenix Hope on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Phoenix Hope.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Phoenix Hope on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Phoenix Hope.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Phoenix Hope on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Phoenix Hope.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Phoenix Hope on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Phoenix Hope.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Phoenix Hope.
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 and Simulation with Phoenix Hope.
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?
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Phoenix Hope.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Phoenix Hope.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Phoenix Hope.
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.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Phoenix Hope.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Phoenix Hope.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Phoenix Hope.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
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Frequently asked about Phoenix Hope
- Does Phoenix Hope run on Steam Deck?
- Phoenix Hope 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 Phoenix Hope cost?
- Phoenix Hope is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Phoenix Hope?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Phoenix Hope are Night is Coming, Stronghold: Definitive Edition, Kingdom Two Crowns.
- Who developed Phoenix Hope?
- Phoenix Hope was developed by Honorable Pixel.
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