Games like Lesson Learned
If Lesson Learned is your kind of game, the closest matches are Lesson Learned: Cult of the Elizabeth, Bober Constructions and Wild Ice — 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 Lesson Learned: Help Frank travel through history in this unique approach to the tower defense genre. Enter a bizarre daydream world in co-op or solo mode. Gather resources, build defense towers, and manage your minions. Take up the challenge and defeat the incoming enemies!
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Lesson Learned: Cult of the Elizabeth
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Top pick for Lesson Learned fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lesson Learned.
Help Amelia defeat Elizabeth Bathory's henchmen in this amazing Tower Defense game. Enter a bizarre daydream world in co-op or solo mode. Gather resources, build defense towers, and manage your classmates. Take up the challenge and defeat the incoming enemies!
Bober Constructions
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Lesson Learned fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lesson Learned.
Bober k***w. Patrz jakie bydle! And even more than just one. 4 beaver-builders, and you can control one of them. Create structures, manage time and resources, watch out for obstacles, and remember, fast action is the key to success!
Wild Ice
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Third-strongest match for Lesson Learned fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lesson Learned.
Zombie apocalypse meets hockey in this open-world action tower defense adventure. Humanity's survival is left to the blades of its most unlikely heroes: small-town hockey players. Explore, slap pucks, deploy brutal hockey themed traps, and body-check undead hordes to restore heat to a frozen world.
Rock of Ages 2: Bigger & Boulder™
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Ranked #4 for Lesson Learned fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lesson Learned.
The greatest rock-racing, tower defense, art history game is back! Like the title says, Bigger & Boulder cranks up the surrealism and gameplay with chaotic 4P multiplayer, new time periods, and improved graphics, physics, and destructibility powered by UE4 to be, well… BIGGER AND BOULDER.
Rock of Ages
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Ranked #5 for Lesson Learned fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lesson Learned.
A rock-solid combination of rock-rolling action, deep strategy, and captivating art and music from different ages of history, this is a game of crush or be crushed!
Cinnabunny
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Ranked #6 for Lesson Learned fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Lesson Learned.
Cinnabunny is a cozy life simulator game where you play as a bunny who runs a bakery. Unlock new recipes, go birdwatching, collect mushrooms, and charm your community. Save up enough carrots to help your family move.
Aegis Defenders
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Ranked #7 for Lesson Learned fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lesson Learned.
Take on wild beasts, ruthless soldiers, and ancient gods in this 2D Action-Platformer inspired by Tower-Defense combat.
Dungeon Defenders: Awakened
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Ranked #8 for Lesson Learned fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lesson Learned.
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?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Lesson Learned at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~50% under Lesson Learned on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Lesson Learned.
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 Lesson Learned on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Lesson Learned.
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 Lesson Learned on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lesson Learned.
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 Lesson Learned on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Lesson Learned.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under Lesson Learned on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lesson Learned.
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 Lesson Learned on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Lesson Learned.
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 Lesson Learned on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lesson Learned.
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 Lesson Learned on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Lesson Learned.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lesson Learned.
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 Casual with Lesson Learned.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lesson Learned.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lesson Learned.
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.
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 Lesson Learned.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lesson Learned.
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!
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Other recommendable Steam games by MadGamesmith, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Gallic Wars: Battle Simulator
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Another title from MadGamesmith, the studio behind Lesson Learned. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lesson Learned.
Time to conquer ROME! Become a commander of Gallic Warriors and destroy Roman Empire in this Rouge-like strategy game.
Bouncy Bob: Episode 2
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Another title from MadGamesmith, the studio behind Lesson Learned. Shares Indie and Casual with Lesson Learned.
Bouncy Bob 2 is a crazy couch co-op game for up to 4 players. Choose one of 12 different characters. Customize your color, choose one of 14 arenas and get ready for the ultimate bouncy bobbing.
Gallic Wars: Battle Simulator Prologue
WHY THIS
Another title from MadGamesmith, the studio behind Lesson Learned. Shares Strategy with Lesson Learned.
Time to conquer ROME! Become a commander of Gallic Warriors and destroy Roman Empire in this Rogue-like strategy game.
Lesson Learned: Cult of the Elizabeth
WHY THIS
Another title from MadGamesmith, the studio behind Lesson Learned. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lesson Learned.
Help Amelia defeat Elizabeth Bathory's henchmen in this amazing Tower Defense game. Enter a bizarre daydream world in co-op or solo mode. Gather resources, build defense towers, and manage your classmates. Take up the challenge and defeat the incoming enemies!
Frequently asked about Lesson Learned
- Does Lesson Learned run on Steam Deck?
- Lesson Learned 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 Lesson Learned cost?
- Lesson Learned is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Lesson Learned have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Lesson Learned supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Lesson Learned?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Lesson Learned are Lesson Learned: Cult of the Elizabeth, Bober Constructions, Wild Ice.
- Who developed Lesson Learned?
- Lesson Learned was developed by MadGamesmith and published by Gaming Factory.
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