Games like Kingdom Eighties
If Kingdom Eighties is your kind of game, the closest matches are Kingdom Two Crowns, Scarecropia and Towers & Goblins: The Last Stand — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its 80s aesthetic, distinct art and story and atmospheric. 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 →Kingdom Eighties is a side-scrolling action-strategy game developed by Fury Studios and published by Raw Fury. Set in a 1983 town bathed in neon, this standalone expansion to the Kingdom series tasks players with defending their settlement against waves of Greed through resource management and tactical positioning. The game features character-befriending mechanics, procedurally generated elements, and cutscenes that drive a short narrative centered around uncovering family secrets. Reviewers highlight the distinctive 80s aesthetic, noting the vivid art and story differ from previous entries, and players describe the experience as atmospheric and nostalgic. The chill difficulty makes it more accessible than earlier titles, according to player feedback. It runs verified on Steam Deck, supports solo play, and costs $11.99 USD. It holds a 78% positive rating from 1,331 Steam reviews.
About Kingdom Eighties: Kingdom Eighties is a short story-based standalone expansion set in the Kingdom universe. A rad adventure of micro-strategy and base building in vivid ‘80s neon. Defend your town against the mysterious Greed and discover the secrets of your family lineage!
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Kingdom Two Crowns
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Shares procedural generation, resource management and an atmospheric mood with Kingdom Eighties.
Top pick for Kingdom Eighties fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Eighties.
Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.
Scarecropia
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Second-strongest match for Kingdom Eighties fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Kingdom Eighties.
Here is Scarecropia! Lead at most 400 people to build a settlement. Arm your village to fight against the Goblin army, or invest limited resources in yourself to become unparalleled! Take every cost to survive!
Towers & Goblins: The Last Stand
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Third-strongest match for Kingdom Eighties fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Eighties.
Build towers, manage resources, and lead units to defend your kingdom against goblins. Every decision you make determines your kingdom's fate.
Drill Core
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Shares procedural generation and resource management with Kingdom Eighties.
Ranked #4 for Kingdom Eighties fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Eighties.
Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?
Solar Kingdoms: Human Survival
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Ranked #5 for Kingdom Eighties fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Kingdom Eighties.
Solar Kingdoms is a real-time strategy game where you command forces across solar systems, engaging in large battles both in space and on the surfaces planets. Establish colonies, find resources and artifacts, and fight up to 8 factions in skirmish, large campaign, missions, and multiplayer.
From Glory To Goo
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Shares procedural generation, resource management and an atmospheric mood with Kingdom Eighties.
Ranked #6 for Kingdom Eighties fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Eighties.
From Glory To Goo is a Sci-Fi survival RTS set on an alien world. Serve as humanity's bulwark by establishing a colony and supporting your colonists still in orbit. But beware, for The Goo, a relentless and shape-shifting force approaches from all sides, even above and below.
Plebs and Pillagers
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Ranked #7 for Kingdom Eighties fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Eighties.
Rebuild your kingdom in this village management game. Command your loyal villagers to help you on your quest, and to expand your realm while defending it from unknown threats. The king has returned!
Kingdom: New Lands
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Kingdom Eighties.
Ranked #8 for Kingdom Eighties fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Eighties.
Kingdom: New Lands builds upon the award-winning gameplay and mystery of Kingdom by introducing an abundance of new content to the IGF-nominated title while maintaining the simplicity and depth that legions of monarchs have come to experience and enjoy.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Kingdom Eighties at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~58% under Kingdom Eighties on Steam right now. Shares Action with Kingdom Eighties.
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!
R.E.P.O.
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Priced ~42% under Kingdom Eighties on Steam right now. Shares Action with Kingdom Eighties.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~63% under Kingdom Eighties on Steam right now. Shares Action with Kingdom Eighties.
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.
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~48% under Kingdom Eighties on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Eighties.
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
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Priced ~58% under Kingdom Eighties on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Eighties.
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.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~92% under Kingdom Eighties on Steam right now. Shares Action with Kingdom Eighties.
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 ~58% under Kingdom Eighties on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Eighties.
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 ~75% under Kingdom Eighties on Steam right now. Shares Action with Kingdom Eighties.
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 Kingdom Eighties.
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 with Kingdom Eighties.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Kingdom Eighties.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Kingdom Eighties.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Kingdom Eighties.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Kingdom Eighties.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Kingdom Eighties.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Kingdom Two Crowns
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation, resource management and an atmospheric mood with Kingdom Eighties.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Eighties.
Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.
Drill Core
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and resource management with Kingdom Eighties.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Eighties.
Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?
Kingdom: New Lands
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Kingdom Eighties.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Eighties.
Kingdom: New Lands builds upon the award-winning gameplay and mystery of Kingdom by introducing an abundance of new content to the IGF-nominated title while maintaining the simplicity and depth that legions of monarchs have come to experience and enjoy.
Frequently asked about Kingdom Eighties
- Is Kingdom Eighties verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Kingdom Eighties is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Kingdom Eighties cost?
- Kingdom Eighties is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Kingdom Eighties have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Kingdom Eighties 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 Kingdom Eighties?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Kingdom Eighties are Kingdom Two Crowns, Scarecropia, Towers & Goblins: The Last Stand.
- Who developed Kingdom Eighties?
- Kingdom Eighties was developed by Fury Studios and published by Raw Fury.
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