Games like Defending Earth
If Defending Earth is your kind of game, the closest matches are Admirals of Ophiuchus, Attack on Toys and DOUGH: A Crime Strategy RPG — 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 Defending Earth: As the Earth faces the greatest asteroid storm in the solar system, players must strategize and use a variety of weapons, tools and other resources to protect the planet. With a countdown to the incoming storm, players must act quickly and make strategic decisions to save Earth from the asteroids.
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Admirals of Ophiuchus
WHY THIS
Top pick for Defending Earth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Defending Earth.
Design massive ships, bristling with weapons, on a macro scale. Engage in fleet-vs-fleet battles, featuring many different tactics. Play alone or in Coop combat missions, or form two teams of players (each with own fleet) to fight in an arena.
Attack on Toys
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Defending Earth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Defending Earth.
Relive Your Childhood Toys comes to life! Build your Army Toys, make battle scenario, watch the Toys battling each other, and customize your play with Attack on Toys Toy Box. Command your Army Toys to fight againts another toys strategically and keep them alive during battle!
DOUGH: A Crime Strategy RPG
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Defending Earth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Defending Earth.
A crime based 4X strategy game with heavy RPG elements. Money, power, women... in the Prohibition, the world of crime is prospering, but in it, the road to the top is filled with blood. The ruthless competition, the greedy politicians and the pesky policemen, everyone wants to come out on top!
Ares Inception
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Defending Earth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Defending Earth.
You are the eyes and ears of mission control for the ambitious exploration of Mars. Built under the advisement of real astronauts, engineers & planetary scientists, you will choose your mission, design your hab, and manage your crew. Monitor feeds, issue orders, and react when things go sideways.
Above Earth
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Ranked #5 for Defending Earth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Defending Earth.
Above Earth is a science fiction survival game. Experience a struggle for life in the fragile artificial environment of a damaged space station.
Galaxor
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Defending Earth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Defending Earth.
Galaxor is an online sci-fi strategy game where you build planets, research technologies, command fleets and expand your empire across the galaxy. Manage resources, join clans, take part in events and face alien threats in long-term space warfare.
Rank: Warmaster
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Defending Earth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Defending Earth.
Stranded on Mars with next to nothing, build a city, assemble a fleet, and expand your empire to survive a hostile solar system in this new take that combines elements of space combat and RTS inspired by the classics.
Space Reign
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Defending Earth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Defending Earth.
An indie space-sim and strategy game featuring ship and fleet combat mixed with RTS elements. Complete contracts and Claim sectors for your faction in the near-future, where resource exploiting corporations are in a state of constant conflict over territory control.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Defending Earth at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Defending Earth on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Defending Earth.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Defending Earth on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Defending Earth.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~70% under Defending Earth on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Defending Earth.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Defending Earth on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Defending Earth.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Defending Earth on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Defending Earth.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Defending Earth on Steam right now. Shares Action with Defending Earth.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Defending Earth on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Defending Earth.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Defending Earth on Steam right now. Shares Action with Defending Earth.
Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
A Date with Death
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Defending Earth.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Defending Earth.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
OnlyCans: Thirst Date
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Defending Earth.
Feel The Fizz Inside You™ with the brand new Shize™ Collection!
93, Kuindzhi
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Defending Earth.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Defending Earth.
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!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Defending Earth.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
one night, hot springs
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Defending Earth.
Haru is invited by her old friend Manami to spend a night at the hot springs. All Haru wants to do is enjoy the hot springs like everyone else, but she doesn't want to cause any trouble...
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Frequently asked about Defending Earth
- How much does Defending Earth cost?
- Defending Earth is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Defending Earth?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Defending Earth are Admirals of Ophiuchus, Attack on Toys, DOUGH: A Crime Strategy RPG.
- Who developed Defending Earth?
- Defending Earth was developed by Alex Valdes and published by BROSIMPLE LLC.
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