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Games like Save the Llama

If Save the Llama is your kind of game, the closest matches are Tep The Destroyer TD, Raging Titan and Totally Defenceless — 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.

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About Save the Llama: Craft the perfect defense upon shifting platforms, turning gears, and railways to save your llamas from alien abduction in this space western tower defense.

2022StrategyIndieCasual9.99 USDWindows · macOS · Linuxby Party Parrot Games
Save the Llama — Steam game cover

Players who liked Save the Llama also play

Steam players who put hours into Save the Llama 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.

  1. Tep The Destroyer TD

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Save the Llama fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Save the Llama.

    TEP the destroyer is a single player tower defense game where you will face alien monsters and ships in ground and space battles! Your strategy will decide the fate of your people in a sci-fi environment of varying difficulties!

    2022StrategyIndieCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Raging Titan

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Save the Llama fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Save the Llama.

    Build your towers, plan your efforts, watch out for changing paths and strike back against the alien invaders in this challenging tower defense game!

    2016StrategyIndieCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Totally Defenceless

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Save the Llama fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Save the Llama.

    Totally Defenceless is a wave-based tower defence game. You will need to protect your energy cores from the invading alien bugs by strategically constructing a maze of towers to alter their path to your advantage.

    2025StrategyIndie7.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Sacred Zodongga Defense

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Save the Llama fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Save the Llama.

    Defend the sacred island of Zodongga against waves of invaders looking to subjugate and colonize them and "liberate" their exotic fruit resources. What's not to love about this challenge?

    2023StrategyIndieCasual14.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. CARNAGE OFFERING Tower Defense

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Save the Llama fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Save the Llama.

    The replicator robots are back! It's 2528. The machines are increasingly infecting the planets with genetically modified monsters. Challenge them and try to stop the onslaught. Upgrade buildings and heroes, mine resources, discover technology and fight to save humanity!

    2023ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Grumpy Gaffer

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Save the Llama fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Save the Llama.

    Join Mr. Gaffer on his mission to protect the peace of his home in this dynamic strategy game. Test your wits and reflexes as you face intense waves of enemies, and compete in thrilling mini-games against other players.

    2024StrategyIndieCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Super Sanctum TD

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Save the Llama fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Save the Llama.

    Super Sanctum TD is a retro-styled Tower Defense game that focuses on strategy, customization and replayability. Build advanced mazes and construct powerful towers to prevent alien hordes from reaching the Core!

    2013StrategyIndieCasual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Defense Grid: The Awakening

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Save the Llama fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Save the Llama.

    Defense Grid: The Awakening is a unique spin on tower defense gameplay that will appeal to players of all skill levels. A horde of enemies is invading, and it's up to the player to stop them by strategically building fortification towers around their base.

    2008StrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Save the Llama at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Save the Llama on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Save the Llama.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Save the Llama on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Save the Llama.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Save the Llama on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Save the Llama.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Save the Llama on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Save the Llama.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~90% under Save the Llama on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Save the Llama.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Save the Llama on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Save the Llama.

    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.

    2009Strategy4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Save the Llama on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Save the Llama.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Brotato

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Save the Llama on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Save the Llama.

    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.

    2023ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Save the Llama.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Save the Llama.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Save the Llama.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Save the Llama.

    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.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  6. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Save the Llama.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Save the Llama.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Save the Llama.

    A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Save the Llama

How much does Save the Llama cost?
Save the Llama is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Save the Llama?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Save the Llama are Tep The Destroyer TD, Raging Titan, Totally Defenceless.
Who developed Save the Llama?
Save the Llama was developed by Party Parrot Games.

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 Save the Llama.

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