Games like Archipelago
If Archipelago is your kind of game, the closest matches are Castles on Clouds, Tower Dominion and ShapeHero Factory — 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 Archipelago: Archipelago is a roguelike tower defense game about defending randomly generated islands. Setup your defenses, manage your income, and find powerful charms to repel the enemy. Archipelago introduces tension and strategy to the tower defense genre.
Players who liked Archipelago also play
Steam players who put hours into Archipelago 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.
Castles on Clouds
WHY THIS
Top pick for Archipelago fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Archipelago.
A Roguelike Tower Defense game set on a user controlled procedurally generated island. Select unique cards and relics that enhance your towers abilities, crafting powerful builds to defend against the growing hordes of enemies.
Tower Dominion
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Archipelago fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Archipelago.
Build and design the terrain while defending your stronghold against alien invasion in this unique Roguelike tower defense. Choose from 30 heroes, survive enemy waves, and upgrade a variety of destructive towers to hold the line!
ShapeHero Factory
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Archipelago fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Archipelago.
In ShapeHero Factory, you’re the engineer of an ever-evolving paint-fuelled factory that spits out magical, shape-based warriors. Send them into battle - to death or glory - then build an even better factory on your next run.
Tower Factory
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Archipelago fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Archipelago.
Tower Factory is a tower defense and automation game with roguelite elements. Optimize resource production using conveyor systems while defending against monster waves. Can you find and destroy the enemy tower before it's too late?
Deep Among the Swarm
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Archipelago fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Archipelago.
Deep Among the Swarm is a challenging survival RTS roguelite about surviving against thousands of enemies. Drill ever deeper underground while fighting the endless onslaught of the Swarm. Can you save humanity?
Warpips
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Archipelago fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Archipelago.
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!
Rogue Tower
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Ranked #7 for Archipelago fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Archipelago.
Rogue Tower is a tower defense game with roguelike elements and a continuously expanding path which you can influence. Unlock, build, upgrade, expand, defend.
Gnomes
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Archipelago fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Archipelago.
Gnomes is a turn-based tower defense with deep roguelike progression, set in ever-expanding, procedurally generated biomes. Build, farm and defend your village as you push deeper into goblin-infested territory. Unlock powerful upgrades and craft your environment to survive the endless goblin horde
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Archipelago at current Steam store prices.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Archipelago on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Archipelago.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Bejeweled® 3
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Archipelago on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Archipelago.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Archipelago on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Archipelago.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
Majesty Gold HD
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Archipelago on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Archipelago.
The High Definition edition of Majesty Gold contains main game, the Northern Expansion Pack as well as 2 new quests and several other graphics and gameplay updates.Majesty is a Real-time strategy game with indirect control – your heroes have a will of their own!
Bomber Crew
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under Archipelago on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Archipelago.
Chocks away! Bomber Crew is a strategic simulation game, where picking the right crew and keeping your bomber in tip top shape is the difference between completing your mission or losing it all! USAAF DLC NOW AVAILABLE! FLY THE ICONIC AMERICAN BOMBER!
Turmoil
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under Archipelago on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Archipelago.
Drill for oil like it's 1899! Turmoil offers players a visually charming, tongue-in-cheek take on the simulation genre inspired by the 19th century oil rush in North America.
Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Archipelago on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Archipelago.
Sid Meier's Civilization III: Complete, the latest offering in the Sid Meier's Civilization III franchise, provides gaming fans with Sid Meier's Civilization III, the highly-addictive journey of discovery.
Party Hard
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Archipelago on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Archipelago.
It's 3:00 a.m. Your neighbours are having a loud party. Stop them. Party Hard is tinyBuild's award-winning stealth strategy game about ruining parties by any means.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Tails Noir: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Archipelago.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Archipelago.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Archipelago.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Archipelago.
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 Archipelago
- Does Archipelago run on Steam Deck?
- Archipelago 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 Archipelago cost?
- Archipelago is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Archipelago?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Archipelago are Castles on Clouds, Tower Dominion, ShapeHero Factory.
- Who developed Archipelago?
- Archipelago was developed by Isaac Lee.
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 Archipelago.
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