Games like Isle of Arrows
If Isle of Arrows is your kind of game, the closest matches are Nordhold, Rogue Tower and Citadelic — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its faction rules add replayability, atmospheric and challenging. 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 Isle of Arrows: Isle of Arrows is a Puzzle Tower Defense game in which you build a fortress in the sky. Place towers, expand the isle, and build your own paths. Can you find the perfect spot for each tile to beat the RNG and defend against waves of invaders?
Players who liked Isle of Arrows also play
Steam players who put hours into Isle of Arrows 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.
Nordhold
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Isle of Arrows.
Top pick for Isle of Arrows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Isle of Arrows.
Enemies are coming! Every decision matters: build your city, grow the economy, and prepare for enemy waves. Strengthen your defenses, adapt your strategy, and unleash your hero’s full potential. This unique Tower Defense will test your skills – are you worthy to claim a place at Valhalla?
Rogue Tower
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Isle of Arrows.
Second-strongest match for Isle of Arrows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Isle of Arrows.
Rogue Tower is a tower defense game with roguelike elements and a continuously expanding path which you can influence. Unlock, build, upgrade, expand, defend.
Citadelic
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Isle of Arrows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Isle of Arrows.
Citadelic is a base building and defending strategy game with roguelite elements. Survive against waves of constantly evolving enemies while expanding your base and managing resources.
Oasis: Dark Forest
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Isle of Arrows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Isle of Arrows.
Darkness rules the land. Defend your holy tree. Plant trees to defeat the ghost army. Explore and collect resources in a randomly generated forest world. Upgrade your technology tree. You are the light in the darkness.
Hexa Puzzle Saga
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Isle of Arrows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Isle of Arrows.
A block hexa puzzle roguelike where you optimize hexagon puzzles by putting cities together and extending roads to help your kingdom endure. Daily leaderboards show off the greatest rulers.
Tower Tactics: Liberation
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Isle of Arrows.
Ranked #6 for Isle of Arrows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Isle of Arrows.
We fused deck-building roguelikes and tower defenses in a way never seen before - deploy your towers, collect valuable trinkets and cast powerful spells to defend yourself against the Salkoth!
TerraScape
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Isle of Arrows.
Ranked #7 for Isle of Arrows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Isle of Arrows.
Build gorgeous kingdoms on floating islands by strategically placing buildings in this cozy, medieval City-Puzzler. Discover secret combinations, take on weekly challenges and explore randomly generated maps in various single- and multiplayer game modes.
Islantiles
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Isle of Arrows.
Ranked #8 for Isle of Arrows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Isle of Arrows.
Islantiles is a cozy but compulsive roguelike deckbuilder. Unlock powerful technology cards, shape your deck to craft game-breaking combos, and grow your settlements to glory in this ultra-satisfying roguelike!
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Defense Grid: The Awakening
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Isle of Arrows.
Reviewers of Isle of Arrows cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Isle of Arrows.
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.
Rogue Tower
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Isle of Arrows.
Reviewers of Isle of Arrows cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Isle of Arrows.
Rogue Tower is a tower defense game with roguelike elements and a continuously expanding path which you can influence. Unlock, build, upgrade, expand, defend.
Artisan TD
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Isle of Arrows.
Reviewers of Isle of Arrows cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Isle of Arrows.
Artisan TD is a puzzle-oriented Tower Defense game where you must survive by building mazes.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Isle of Arrows at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Isle of Arrows on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Isle of Arrows.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Isle of Arrows on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Isle of Arrows.
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!
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~42% under Isle of Arrows on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Isle of Arrows.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under Isle of Arrows on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Isle of Arrows.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Isle of Arrows on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Isle of Arrows.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Isle of Arrows on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Isle of Arrows.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Isle of Arrows on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Isle of Arrows.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Isle of Arrows on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Isle of Arrows.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Isle of Arrows.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Isle of Arrows.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Isle of Arrows.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Isle of Arrows.
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.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Isle of Arrows.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Isle of Arrows.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
An Arcade Full of Cats
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Isle of Arrows.
Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.
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Frequently asked about Isle of Arrows
- Does Isle of Arrows run on Steam Deck?
- Isle of Arrows 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 Isle of Arrows cost?
- Isle of Arrows is listed on Steam at 12.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Isle of Arrows?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Isle of Arrows are Nordhold, Rogue Tower, Citadelic.
- Who developed Isle of Arrows?
- Isle of Arrows was developed by Gridpop.
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 Isle of Arrows.
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