Games like The Heart Defenders
If The Heart Defenders is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mob Factory, Phoenix Hope and Grim Nights — 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 The Heart Defenders: Building defender 2D strategy game! Place building and gather resources. Use the resources you collect to then build towers that will defend your heart in the middle of the map. Survive as many levels as you can manage! Good luck!
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Mob Factory
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Top pick for The Heart Defenders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Heart Defenders.
Mob factory is an tower defense and automation game for the lazy adventurer. Smelt down enemy loot into turrets & factories to automate an ever expanding dungeon from the comfort of your tower.
Phoenix Hope
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Second-strongest match for The Heart Defenders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Heart Defenders.
Phoenix Hope is a pixel art 2D real-time, side-view strategy game in which you must develop your colony during the day and repel waves of monsters at night.
Grim Nights
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Third-strongest match for The Heart Defenders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The Heart Defenders.
Your village must survive for 13 days! Gather resources, expand, explore the underground for riches, and train soldiers to defend against hordes of the undead.
Stronghold: Definitive Edition
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Ranked #4 for The Heart Defenders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Heart Defenders.
Greetings sire! Your stronghold awaits you. Build a castle economy, besiege unforgettable villains and return to the 'castle sim' that started it all. Experience this classic RTS with upgraded visuals, modernised gameplay, Steam multiplayer and a new campaign.
Northgard: Definitive Edition
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Ranked #5 for The Heart Defenders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Heart Defenders.
Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!
Farthest Frontier
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Ranked #6 for The Heart Defenders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Heart Defenders.
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
Kingdom Two Crowns
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Ranked #7 for The Heart Defenders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Heart Defenders.
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.
Cataclismo
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Ranked #8 for The Heart Defenders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Heart Defenders.
Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with The Heart Defenders.
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?
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with The Heart Defenders.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
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Frequently asked about The Heart Defenders
- Does The Heart Defenders run on Steam Deck?
- The Heart Defenders is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- What games are most similar to The Heart Defenders?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Heart Defenders are Mob Factory, Phoenix Hope, Grim Nights.
- Who developed The Heart Defenders?
- The Heart Defenders was developed by Harbours Moon.
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