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Games like Epic Auto Towers

If Epic Auto Towers is your kind of game, the closest matches are Guild of Rogues, Cat God Ranch and Cats & Dice — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its ascensions steadily increase challenge, challenging and intense. 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 Epic Auto Towers: Epic Auto Towers is a turn-based strategy game combining elements of autobattler, deckbuilder and roguelike. Purchase uncommon and rare Towers and build the strongest combo to withstand the monster assault! Discover unusual new Tower combinations as you come back for more.

2024StrategyIndieCasualEarly Access14.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Aleksandr Golovkin
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Steam players who put hours into Epic Auto Towers 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. Guild of Rogues

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Epic Auto Towers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Epic Auto Towers.

    Guild of Rogues is a Roguelike Deckbuilder with Autobattler elements. Strategically build your team of minions to create amazing synergies and defeat all enemies!

    2024StrategyIndieRPG9.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Cat God Ranch

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Epic Auto Towers.

    Second-strongest match for Epic Auto Towers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Epic Auto Towers.

    Lead hundreds of "wise" little animals to pay tribute to the Cat God!! 7 animal families, 100+ animals, 10+ Cat Gods, 100+ items, and various animal combinations waiting for you to explore!

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation5.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Cats & Dice

    WHY THIS

    Shares an intense mood with Epic Auto Towers.

    Third-strongest match for Epic Auto Towers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Epic Auto Towers.

    A roguelike dice-building game where the goal is to overcome an ever-increasing target score each round. Assemble a synergistic set of Cats and dice, go for crazy combos and try to attain as high a score as you possibly can. Master the synergy between cats and dice to win!

    2025StrategyIndieEarly Access7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Balatro

    WHY THIS

    Shares endless mode and an intense mood with Epic Auto Towers.

    Ranked #4 for Epic Auto Towers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Epic Auto Towers.

    The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.

    2024StrategyIndieCasual11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Commander Quest

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Epic Auto Towers.

    Ranked #5 for Epic Auto Towers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Epic Auto Towers.

    Congratulations! You just found a 'one of a kind' roguelike that combines deck-building card game and auto battle strategy game! Consider unit counters, then create powerful synergy by breaking down the boundaries between the battlefield and cards, then lead your army to victory!

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation7.79 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Backpack Battles

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Epic Auto Towers.

    Ranked #6 for Epic Auto Towers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Epic Auto Towers.

    A PvP inventory management auto battler! Buy and craft powerful items, then carefully arrange them in your backpack.

    2025Strategy11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Epic Auto Towers.

    Ranked #7 for Epic Auto Towers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Epic Auto Towers.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Epic Auto Towers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Epic Auto Towers.

    Astrea is a DICE-deck-building roguelike that flips the script on deckbuilders by using dice instead of cards and a unique dual “damage” system: Purification vs Corruption. Build a dice pool strong enough to purify Astrea's out-of-control corruption and save the Star System.

    2023StrategyIndieCasual24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Epic Auto Towers

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Fallout: New Vegas

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Epic Auto Towers cross-mention this title as a similar play.

    Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!

    2010ActionRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Poker Night at the Inventory (2010 Original Version)

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Epic Auto Towers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Casual with Epic Auto Towers.

    Prepare for a different kind of poker night in a very different kind of club and play against familiar faces!

    2010SportsCasualDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. RACCOIN: Coin Pusher Roguelike

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Epic Auto Towers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Epic Auto Towers.

    A coin-pushing dopamine machine. RACCOIN is a roguelike deckbuilder where you combine special coins with powerful items to trigger wildly satisfying combos. Stack shiny towers, spin the lucky wheel, and shake the machine until all the coins drop.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Epic Auto Towers at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Epic Auto Towers on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Epic Auto Towers.

    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 ~67% under Epic Auto Towers on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Epic Auto Towers.

    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. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~53% under Epic Auto Towers on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Epic Auto Towers.

    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.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Epic Auto Towers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Epic Auto Towers.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Epic Auto Towers on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Epic Auto Towers.

    Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Epic Auto Towers.

    Priced ~58% under Epic Auto Towers on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Epic Auto Towers.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Epic Auto Towers on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Epic Auto Towers.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Epic Auto Towers on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Epic Auto Towers.

    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 ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Epic Auto Towers.

    Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Virtual Cottage

    WHY THIS

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

    Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.

    2020IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Iron Snout

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Epic Auto Towers.

    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.

    2016ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Epic Auto Towers.

    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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Coloring Pixels

    WHY THIS

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

    A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.

    2018IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  6. An Arcade Full of Cats

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. DORONKO WANKO

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Epic Auto Towers.

    『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.

    2024ActionSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  8. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Epic Auto Towers.

    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!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗

More from Aleksandr Golovkin

Other recommendable Steam games by Aleksandr Golovkin, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. 50 years

    WHY THIS

    Shares an intense mood with Epic Auto Towers.

    Another title from Aleksandr Golovkin, the studio behind Epic Auto Towers. Shares Strategy and Indie with Epic Auto Towers.

    50 Years is a fast-paced alternative to the bigger, longer turn-based strategy games. You can win or lose a game in a single evening. Either way you'll want to play it again.

    2017StrategyIndie4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Realm Revolutions

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Epic Auto Towers.

    Another title from Aleksandr Golovkin, the studio behind Epic Auto Towers.

    Earning coins and resources is more fun than ever with this new idle game inspired by Swarm Simulator and Realm Grinder! Buy buildings and hire people, and be ready for a revolution! Your citizens will be very happy if you deal with their discontent, giving you a production bonus!

    2018Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. Territory Idle

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Epic Auto Towers.

    Another title from Aleksandr Golovkin, the studio behind Epic Auto Towers. Shares Strategy and Indie with Epic Auto Towers.

    Strategic idle game. Develop the kingdom, then abdicate and get gold! For gold, you can buy new tiles and expand the territory.

    2019StrategyIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. DPS IDLE

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Aleksandr Golovkin, the studio behind Epic Auto Towers. Shares Indie and Casual with Epic Auto Towers.

    Collect cards, upgrade cards, defeat monsters, join guilds and hire heroes. Raise your DPS!

    2021IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Underworld Idle

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Epic Auto Towers.

    Another title from Aleksandr Golovkin, the studio behind Epic Auto Towers. Shares Strategy and Indie with Epic Auto Towers.

    An idle dungeon management game, where high tier units can create low tier units.

    2023StrategyIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. 50 Years Classic

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Aleksandr Golovkin, the studio behind Epic Auto Towers. Shares Strategy and Indie with Epic Auto Towers.

    50 Years Classic is a minimalist turn-based strategy game where you can choose from a variety of nations, each with its own unique feature. The game offers fast, engaging gameplay with high replayability. This is a free version of the game "50 years".

    StrategyIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  7. Land Of Opportunities

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Aleksandr Golovkin, the studio behind Epic Auto Towers. Shares Strategy and Indie with Epic Auto Towers.

    Start from zero: no money, no shelter, no ID. Struggle to survive by taking on odd jobs in the subway and at the market until you can scrape together enough to buy a diploma and get to work. Upgrade your IQ by building a computer. And here's a twist: COMPUTER GAMES also boost your IQ in this game!

    StrategyIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Balatro

    WHY THIS

    Shares endless mode and an intense mood with Epic Auto Towers.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Epic Auto Towers.

    The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.

    2024StrategyIndieCasual11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Backpack Battles

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Epic Auto Towers.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Epic Auto Towers.

    A PvP inventory management auto battler! Buy and craft powerful items, then carefully arrange them in your backpack.

    2025Strategy11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Epic Auto Towers.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Epic Auto Towers.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Epic Auto Towers

Does Epic Auto Towers run on Steam Deck?
Epic Auto Towers 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 Epic Auto Towers cost?
Epic Auto Towers is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Epic Auto Towers?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Epic Auto Towers are Guild of Rogues, Cat God Ranch, Cats & Dice.
Who developed Epic Auto Towers?
Epic Auto Towers was developed by Aleksandr Golovkin.

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