Games like Starlight: Defence Command
If Starlight: Defence Command is your kind of game, the closest matches are Negative Energy, The Fall of Aether Station and Calyx — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Starlight: Defence Command: Take the role of a Defence Commander and protect UPF assets remotely through the use of your Adaptable Nano Tablet in this immersive, PC focused Tower Defence Game. It's designed to be a tough but rewarding experience with character progression and the ability to configure towers to your own liking.
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Negative Energy
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Top pick for Starlight: Defence Command fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Starlight: Defence Command.
Negative Energy is a tower defense game with basic RTS mechanics, where your goal is to defend the construction of a Dyson sphere, while fighting against waves of hundreds of enemies ships.
The Fall of Aether Station
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Second-strongest match for Starlight: Defence Command fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starlight: Defence Command.
Customize your Ships, Upgrade your fleet, and Command your way to victory in this ruthless rogue-lite tower defense/real time strategy hybrid. Take on an enemy that learns from your moves and adjusts its own path. Do you have what it takes to persevere?
Calyx
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Third-strongest match for Starlight: Defence Command fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Starlight: Defence Command.
A strategy game with a new kind of enemy, Calyx puts you in charge of a space mining outpost, locked in battle against powerful plant-aliens. Build your base, gather resources, assemble your forces, and take on the Calyx. With only an out-of-date AI for company, can you survive?
IRON GUARD
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Ranked #4 for Starlight: Defence Command fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Starlight: Defence Command.
A sci-fi roomscale VR Tower Defense game. Strategize to destroy waves of rogue robots and assist the powerful turrets with a handheld drone. Build and collect resources and help evacuate your crew from the alien planet.
Taur
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Ranked #5 for Starlight: Defence Command fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starlight: Defence Command.
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?
Attack on Toys
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Ranked #6 for Starlight: Defence Command fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starlight: Defence Command.
Relive Your Childhood Toys comes to life! Build your Army Toys, make battle scenario, watch the Toys battling each other, and customize your play with Attack on Toys Toy Box. Command your Army Toys to fight againts another toys strategically and keep them alive during battle!
Touhou Monster TD ~ 幻想乡妖怪塔防
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Ranked #7 for Starlight: Defence Command fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starlight: Defence Command.
Easy to learn but hard to master, Touhou Monster TD is a unique Tower defense Game. Control your character, level up and unlock tower skills and character talents, use your wisdom to defeat incoming enemies. Travel the Gensokyo, find out why the “Incident” happened this time.
Control Craft 3
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Ranked #8 for Starlight: Defence Command fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starlight: Defence Command.
Control Craft 3 is a fast paced RTS which brings together quick thinking and clever tactics for some veritable planet conquering action!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Starlight: Defence Command at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~83% under Starlight: Defence Command on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Starlight: Defence Command.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~50% under Starlight: Defence Command on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Starlight: Defence Command.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
The Test
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Priced ~67% under Starlight: Defence Command on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Starlight: Defence Command.
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 ~75% under Starlight: Defence Command on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Starlight: Defence Command.
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.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
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Priced ~50% under Starlight: Defence Command on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Starlight: Defence Command.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Super Hexagon
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Priced ~50% under Starlight: Defence Command on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Starlight: Defence Command.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Nodebuster
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Priced ~50% under Starlight: Defence Command on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starlight: Defence Command.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
Sally Face - Episode One
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Priced ~50% under Starlight: Defence Command on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Starlight: Defence Command.
Delve into a dark adventure following the boy with a prosthetic face and a tragic past. Unravel the sinister mysteries of Sally's world to find the truth that lies hidden beneath the shadows.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Starlight: Defence Command.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Starlight: Defence Command.
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.
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Starlight: Defence Command.
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.
Samsara Room
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Starlight: Defence Command.
You woke up in a mysterious room you have never seen before. Can you find another way out? Samsara Room is a remake of the praised predecessor of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Starlight: Defence Command.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
South Scrimshaw, Part One
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Starlight: Defence Command.
South Scrimshaw is the story of a newborn whale in a vast alien ocean. It is a richly illustrated experimental visual novel, written in the style of a nature documentary.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starlight: Defence Command.
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.
The Last Sovereign
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starlight: Defence Command.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
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Frequently asked about Starlight: Defence Command
- How much does Starlight: Defence Command cost?
- Starlight: Defence Command is listed on Steam at 5.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Starlight: Defence Command?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Starlight: Defence Command are Negative Energy, The Fall of Aether Station, Calyx.
- Who developed Starlight: Defence Command?
- Starlight: Defence Command was developed by Nanite Games.
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