Games like The Crafter's Defense
If The Crafter's Defense is your kind of game, the closest matches are Endorfire Tower Defense, Engineered To Purpose and Quiet Bruise — 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 The Crafter's Defense: An active strategy game where you customize your dungeon and defend against waves of invaders. Create your dungeon, place monsters and traps, and protect your core! Take direct control of any of your dungeon's monsters to directly engage in the combat or sit back watch the battle unfold.
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Endorfire Tower Defense
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Top pick for The Crafter's Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Crafter's Defense.
Place your towers to defend yourself against the onslaught of enemies, collect gems to upgrade your towers, and vanquish the evils back to where they came!
Engineered To Purpose
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Second-strongest match for The Crafter's Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Crafter's Defense.
Engineered to Purpose is a new tower defence game where you custom-design towers to defend your base, with millions of builds to explore and refine. Set in the far future, E2P's story of posthumanism, family, and change will open new worlds to explore and survive.
Quiet Bruise
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Third-strongest match for The Crafter's Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Crafter's Defense.
Play as dumb plushies trying to keep a collapsing factory alive in this tower defence factory automation game. Build chaotic production lines, fight off hordes of cats and crocs, survive your own terrible decisions and keep the factory running.
POOR ARTIFACT MAKER
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Ranked #4 for The Crafter's Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Crafter's Defense.
The Poor Artifact Maker is a tower defense game based on Chinese fairy legends. The refiner has to explore the dangerous world in order to find his lost companion. The only way to overcome the endless ferocious beasts in the wilderness is to keep collecting materials to refine Artifacts
Rise Under the Warstorm
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Ranked #5 for The Crafter's Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The Crafter's Defense.
Rise Under the Warstorm is a strategy game focused on automation, production, and base defense. Gather resources, build automated production lines, optimize your economy, train armies, and protect your settlement against enemy waves.
Mob Factory
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Ranked #6 for The Crafter's Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The Crafter's Defense.
Mob factory is an tower defense and automation game for the lazy adventurer. Smelt down enemy loot into turrets & factories to automate an ever expanding dungeon from the comfort of your tower.
Lairchitect
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Ranked #7 for The Crafter's Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Crafter's Defense.
Lairchitect is a reverse dungeon crawler! Build your own lair and protect your precious soul core from heroes that try to raid your dungeon. Distracting heroes and using the right minions to defeat them is key in winning the game.
Illuminaria
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Ranked #8 for The Crafter's Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Crafter's Defense.
Command a swarm of intelligent robots in their quest to save the world. Mine resources, manage, and defend multiple bases. Go on expeditions, fight in auto-battles, research new technologies, and create your army of golems to bring back the light.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Crafter's Defense at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~50% under The Crafter's Defense on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Crafter's Defense.
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 The Crafter's Defense on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Crafter's Defense.
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!
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~55% under The Crafter's Defense on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Crafter's Defense.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~50% under The Crafter's Defense on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Crafter's Defense.
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 The Crafter's Defense on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Crafter's Defense.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under The Crafter's Defense on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Crafter's Defense.
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 The Crafter's Defense on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with The Crafter's Defense.
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 The Crafter's Defense on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Crafter's Defense.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
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 The Crafter's Defense.
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 The Crafter's Defense.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Crafter's Defense.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 with The Crafter's Defense.
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 Action and Indie with The Crafter's Defense.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Crafter's Defense.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Crafter's Defense.
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.).
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Crafter's Defense.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about The Crafter's Defense
- How much does The Crafter's Defense cost?
- The Crafter's Defense is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Crafter's Defense?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Crafter's Defense are Endorfire Tower Defense, Engineered To Purpose, Quiet Bruise.
- Who developed The Crafter's Defense?
- The Crafter's Defense was developed by Dapper Duck Software, LLC.
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