Games like Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition)
If Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition) is your kind of game, the closest matches are Chess Defense Saga, King Towers and Aurora Dusk: Steam Age — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, immersive and lighthearted. 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 →Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition) is a strategy RPG that combines tower defense gameplay with role-playing mechanics. Players manage a party of characters who gain experience and develop skills through combat, equip gear to customize their capabilities, and solve tactical puzzles across replayable missions while managing resources. Set in a fantasy world, the game emphasizes strategic depth and player choice, with multiple approaches available for each level. Reviewers highlight how the experience blends tower defense and RPG elements into a cohesive whole, and players describe it as atmospheric, immersive, and lighthearted. Originally released in 2012, the DX edition is available for $14.99 and runs at a playable level on Steam Deck, supporting solo play with a medium-length campaign. The game holds a 96% positive rating from 1878 Steam reviews.
About Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition): Defender's Quest is a Tower-Defense/RPG Hybrid tightly focuses on three things: tactical depth, customization, and story
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Chess Defense Saga
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Top pick for Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition).
A chess-themed tower defense game with unique strategies, stories, and illustrations!
King Towers
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Second-strongest match for Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition).
Welcome to King Towers, a challenging Retro Flash Tower Defence. Protect your life, gold and mana from fast and very ugly villagers, knights, evil witches and cows armed to their teeth!
Aurora Dusk: Steam Age
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition).
Third-strongest match for Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition).
An amazing mix of RPG, strategy, simulation, sandbox and survival game. Aurora Dusk looks like many other games, but instead of being alone, you live in a community. You can play one or more villagers and evolve from the Wood Age to the Steam Age.
Defender's Quest 2: Mists of Ruin
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition).
Ranked #4 for Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition).
Rise above the Mirk and protect your ship from dangers unknown in the latest entry in the classic Defender’s Quest tower defense series!
Has-Been Heroes
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Shares resource management with Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition).
Ranked #5 for Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition).
Has-Been Heroes is a challenging, lane-based roguelike game of strategy and action, featuring a band of heroes on a quest to escort the King's twin princesses to school!
Age of Fear 4: The Iron Killer
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Shares an immersive mood with Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition).
Ranked #6 for Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition).
Play as Angela, a fearless young Vampire Hunter on the trail of a brutal murderer. Along with the mysterious Nazell, embark on an epic quest into the heart of the criminal underworld. Age of Fear is a complex turn-based strategy series (full of jokes) that fuses a tabletop wargame with RPG elements.
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
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Ranked #7 for Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition).
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.
Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition
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Shares an immersive mood with Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition).
Ranked #8 for Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition).
The critically acclaimed RPG that raised the bar, from the creators of Baldur's Gate 3. Gather your party. Master deep, tactical combat. Venture as a party of up to four - but know that only one of you will have the chance to become a God.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition) at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~67% under Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition) on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition).
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
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Priced ~67% under Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition) on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition).
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!
PEAK
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Priced ~47% under Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition) on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition).
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?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~50% under Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition) on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition).
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~58% under Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition) on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition).
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!
Inscryption
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Priced ~47% under Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition) on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition).
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...
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~67% under Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition) on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition).
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
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Priced ~67% under Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition) on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition).
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition).
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition).
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition).
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition).
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition).
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition).
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition)
- Does Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition) run on Steam Deck?
- Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition) 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 Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition) cost?
- Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition) is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition)?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition) are Chess Defense Saga, King Towers, Aurora Dusk: Steam Age.
- Who developed Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition)?
- Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition) was developed by Level Up Labs, LLC and published by Level Up Labs.
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