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Games like Citadel Anew

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

Players who liked Citadel Anew also play

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. Apocalyptica

    WHY THIS

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

    Fight off starvation, dehydration, and madness. Lose your sanity, and your nightmares become fatal.

    2026ActionAdventureRPGSteam ↗
  2. Enginefall

    WHY THIS

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

    Session based survival where players upgrade and live aboard their own personal trains. Team up with friends, make new ones or go solo. Board colossal Titan Trains to fight, build, craft, gather and steal much needed resources. Fortify and stock your personal train fortress. Will you survive?

    2027ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  3. Encave

    WHY THIS

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

    Build customizable killrooms, scavenge, craft, upgrade and fight off waves of bioengineered monsters, that smash through walls, break your defenses, and carve new paths toward you in this hybrid FPS, tower defense and base builder set in a fully destructible underground biotech facility!

    ActionAdventureSimulationSteam ↗
  4. Mr. Nomad

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 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 ↗
  5. The Old Forge

    WHY THIS

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

    Explore a open world inspired by 1990s Poland. Scavenge, build, craft and dig your way through forests, villages and industrial ruins surviving the zombies, harsh weather and the constant fight for food, warmth and safety.

    2027ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  6. Outbreak Island

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 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 ↗
  7. NightfallZ

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 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 ↗
  8. The Risen Survival

    WHY THIS

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

    The Risen Survival is an open-world survival game featuring intense PvE & PvP, base building, crafting, and relentless zombies. Gather resources, expand your base, fight for valuable loot, and compete with other players in a persistent online world

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗

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. How to Fish

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~59% under Citadel Anew on Steam right now. Shares Action with Citadel Anew.

    A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.

    2026ActionIndieSimulation4.95 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. 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 ↗
  6. 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 USDSteam ↗
  7. 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 ↗
  8. 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 ↗

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. Aircar

    WHY THIS

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

    A simple immersive flying game built for VR. Pilot an aircar through a futuristic cityscape.

    2019IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  6. 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 ↗
  7. 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 ↗
  8. erdetspill

    WHY THIS

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

    Bestefar vil ha 2 is. Du må skaffe de. Det viser seg å være mer komplisert enn du trodde. Et absurd førstepersons-eventyrspill der du navigerer norsk byråkrati, snakker med rare folk og løser meningsløse oppdrag - i en liten norsk bygd.

    2026ActionIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗

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 Apocalyptica, Enginefall, Encave.
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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