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Games like Citadel Anew

If Citadel Anew is your kind of game, the closest matches are Enginefall, Encave and Mr. Nomad — 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.

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About Citadel Anew: The game is an unholy blend of base defense, tower defense, roguelite elements, and some colony management. Also, mechs.

2025Action11.99 USDWindowsby Radical Byte
Citadel Anew — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Citadel Anew 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. Enginefall

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Citadel Anew fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Citadel Anew.

    Enginefall is a player-driven crafting shooter set on colossal, post-apocalyptic megatrains. Start in the tail alone or with friends as you scavenge, craft, and build your way to First Class. Seize better gear car by car, and escape with high-value loot to upgrade your personal home on the rails.

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. Encave

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Citadel Anew fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Citadel Anew.

    Encave is a hybrid FPS-tower-defense game. Build customizable killrooms in a fully destructible environment to eliminate waves of corporate bioweapon rejects! Strategic base construction, and escalating Lovecraftian threats, Encave delivers a unique blend of action, strategy, and dark humor

    ActionStrategyAdventureSteam ↗
  3. Mr. Nomad

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Citadel Anew fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Citadel Anew.

    Mr. Nomad is a survival base-building, tower defense game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Set a fortified base around your camper, craft, endure brutal zombie raids, hide what is precious to you in underground bunker and embark on dangerous missions in search of resources.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  4. Quiet Bruise

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Citadel Anew fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Citadel Anew.

    Play as dumb plushies trying to keep a collapsing factory alive in this tower defence factory automation game. Build chaotic production lines, fight off hordes of cats and crocs, survive your own terrible decisions and keep the factory running.

    2026ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  5. Outbreak Island

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Citadel Anew fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Citadel Anew.

    Survive on a remote Island, where a mysterious Outbreak awakens bloodthirsty monsters at night. Craft, build and defend your base in the brutal world of Outbreak Island, an open-world sandbox survival horror game.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. NightfallZ

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Citadel Anew fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    This is a top-down survival and building game where you scavenge for resources and construct a base to defend against zombie attacks when nightfall. Warning! The wilderness at night is extremely dangerous; please stay inside your base.

    IndieAdventureSteam ↗
  7. DISTANT VISITANT

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Citadel Anew fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Citadel Anew.

    Survive the alien arrival in DISTANT VISITANT, a top-down open-world sandbox. Master talents from marksmanship to cooking while managing hygiene and hydration. Adapt to seasons where winter freezes crops and lakes. Craft, build, hunt, and find survivors. Prepare for them, this is just the start.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  8. Zombie Graveyard Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Citadel Anew fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Citadel Anew.

    Manage your Graveyard by day as you bury and cremate bodies, maintain graves, fulfill visitor requests, grow crops, run a shop and unlock upgrades. When night falls, face relentless zombie hordes as you build defenses to protect your work and fight to survive in Zombie Graveyard Simulator!

    2025ActionIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Citadel Anew at current Steam store prices.

  1. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Citadel Anew on Steam right now. Shares Action with Citadel Anew.

    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 ↗
  2. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~42% under Citadel Anew on Steam right now. Shares Action with Citadel Anew.

    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 ↗
  3. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under Citadel Anew on Steam right now. Shares Action with Citadel Anew.

    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.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~92% under Citadel Anew on Steam right now. Shares Action with Citadel Anew.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Citadel Anew on Steam right now. Shares Action with Citadel Anew.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Brotato

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Citadel Anew on Steam right now. Shares Action with Citadel Anew.

    Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.

    2023ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Your Only Move Is HUSTLE

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Citadel Anew on Steam right now. Shares Action with Citadel Anew.

    Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. ROUNDS

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Citadel Anew on Steam right now. Shares Action with Citadel Anew.

    Rounds is a 1v1 rogue-lite shooter where each round gets more intense. The losing player of each round unlocks clever upgrades to create a better build to counter their opponent.

    2021ActionIndie5.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Citadel Anew.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Citadel Anew.

    Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Lab

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. Hello Neighbor Alpha 2

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome to Alpha 2 of Hello Neighbor. Play against an advanced, self-learning AI in what eventually became Act 1 of Hello Neighbor - the stealth horror home invasion sim.

    2019StrategyIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗
  5. Outpath: First Journey

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

    2022IndieAdventureCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Riftbreaker: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Citadel Anew.

    The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.

    2020ActionStrategyIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Hog Hunter 2021

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Citadel Anew.

    Hog hunter is a short atmospheric game about catching hogs out in the wild, be careful though not everything in the woods is safe...

    2021ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Shape of Dreams: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Citadel Anew.

    《Shape of Dreams: Prologue》is a unique game that blends action roguelite with MOBA-style gameplay. Edit your character's Memories to create your own champion. Face all challenges alone or play with friends in up to 4-player co-op.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Citadel Anew

How much does Citadel Anew cost?
Citadel Anew is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Citadel Anew?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Citadel Anew are Enginefall, Encave, Mr. Nomad.
Who developed Citadel Anew?
Citadel Anew was developed by Radical Byte.

imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Citadel Anew.

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