Games like Prime World: Defenders
If Prime World: Defenders is your kind of game, the closest matches are Monster Battle Quest, Miryam: The Polluted Land and Tales of Valoris: Swallow's Defenders — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its lightning towers are overpowered, atmospheric and challenging. 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 Prime World: Defenders: Fight off hordes of monstrous mutants created from a strange cataclysmic event in the new tower defense game, Prime World: Defenders. Join a group of exile treasure hunters who have ventured into the capital of an ancient empire, vast with mystery and danger.
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Monster Battle Quest
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Top pick for Prime World: Defenders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prime World: Defenders.
Recruit and evolve the perfect monster team to destroy opposing enemy. Defeat enemy monsters to earn gold, increase your strength, and dominate the monster world.
Miryam: The Polluted Land
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Second-strongest match for Prime World: Defenders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prime World: Defenders.
A narrative-driven tower defense game that plunges you into a cursed realm. Guide a 10-year-old girl, scarred by relentless school bullying and family neglect, as she battles monstrous embodiments of her inner torment in a desperate quest to recover her lost brother—and ultimately, herself.
Tales of Valoris: Swallow's Defenders
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Third-strongest match for Prime World: Defenders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prime World: Defenders.
Swallow’s Keep is a place of great prosperity; however, not all lands share in its wealth, and it has caught the eye of ambitious adversaries. Can you defend your home against the bandits?
Unpredictable Star
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Ranked #4 for Prime World: Defenders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prime World: Defenders.
Unpredictable Star is a strategy adventure game. Players need to protect their base in the unpredictable star domain, manage the cafe inside the base, recruit new partners, explore and battle.
Prime World: Defenders 2
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Shares a challenging mood with Prime World: Defenders.
Ranked #5 for Prime World: Defenders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Prime World: Defenders.
Defenders 2, - an exciting hybrid of Tower Defense and CCG, - is now available on Steam! Challenge endless hordes of monsters: build an impassable defense on their path and protect your mines. Collect all the unique towers and prove that even a tornado is not an obstacle for you.
Etherlords II
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Shares a challenging mood with Prime World: Defenders.
Ranked #6 for Prime World: Defenders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prime World: Defenders.
The saga continues! Etherlords II takes you back to the world of Ether and into a whole new realm of fantastic possibilities. Lead your hero on an unforgettable journey through lands filled with unsurpassed beauty and danger to unlock the ultimate mystery.
EF Universe: Reclaiming the World
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Prime World: Defenders.
Ranked #7 for Prime World: Defenders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prime World: Defenders.
An idle game with a collectible card theme. Open booster packs, collect cards, build an elaborate stat chain, manage 6 different currencies, battle your way across 9 different regions, and reclaim the world!
Affogato
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Shares a challenging mood with Prime World: Defenders.
Ranked #8 for Prime World: Defenders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prime World: Defenders.
Affogato is a RPG featuring a unique 'reverse tower defense' mechanic. Play as a sorceress managing a café in Arorua. Meet customers from all walks of life, hear their stories and travel into their minds to help them defeat their inner demons. Experience a city life that exudes magic and excitement.
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Prime World: Defenders 2
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Shares a challenging mood with Prime World: Defenders.
Reviewers of Prime World: Defenders cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Prime World: Defenders.
Defenders 2, - an exciting hybrid of Tower Defense and CCG, - is now available on Steam! Challenge endless hordes of monsters: build an impassable defense on their path and protect your mines. Collect all the unique towers and prove that even a tornado is not an obstacle for you.
Revenge of the Titans
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Prime World: Defenders.
Reviewers of Prime World: Defenders cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prime World: Defenders.
The ultimate mash-up of Real-time Strategy and Tower Defense!
Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Prime World: Defenders.
Reviewers of Prime World: Defenders cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Prime World: Defenders.
Play with friends or AI as you travel across fantastic planes to take on new encounters & opponents. Magic 2013 features ten customizable decks, individual records, new items & more!
Orcs Must Die!
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Shares a challenging mood with Prime World: Defenders.
Reviewers of Prime World: Defenders cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prime World: Defenders.
Slice them, burn them, skewer them, and launch them - no matter how you get it done, orcs must die in this fantasy action-strategy game from Robot Entertainment.
Orcs Must Die! 2
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Shares a challenging mood with Prime World: Defenders.
Reviewers of Prime World: Defenders cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prime World: Defenders.
You’ve tossed, burned and sliced them by the thousands – now orcs must die more than ever before! Grab a friend and slay orcs in untold numbers in this sequel to the 2011 AIAS Strategy Game of the Year from Robot Entertainment.
Space Run
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Shares a challenging mood with Prime World: Defenders.
Reviewers of Prime World: Defenders cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prime World: Defenders.
Space Run is a «real-time spaceship construction strategy game». Space Run takes the well-known Tower Defense-style gameplay and twists it, challenging you to manage and protect a spaceship and its cargo against the hazards of deep space!
X-Morph: Defense
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Prime World: Defenders.
Reviewers of Prime World: Defenders cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prime World: Defenders.
Unique fusion of a top-down shooter and tower defense strategy. You are the invader! Use destructive weapons or lead your enemies into a maze of towers. Strategize in the build mode by carefully selecting various types of alien towers or throw yourself right into the heat of the battle.
Warstone TD
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Shares a challenging mood with Prime World: Defenders.
Reviewers of Prime World: Defenders cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prime World: Defenders.
Warstone is a Tower Defense game, with RPG, Strategy, and even city building elements. Detailed Hi-res graphics and beautiful illustrations combine with a deep storyline to draw you into the world.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Prime World: Defenders at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~50% under Prime World: Defenders on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Prime World: Defenders.
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 ~50% under Prime World: Defenders on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Prime World: Defenders.
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!
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~50% under Prime World: Defenders on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prime World: Defenders.
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 ~50% under Prime World: Defenders on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Prime World: Defenders.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under Prime World: Defenders on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Prime World: Defenders.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
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Priced ~50% under Prime World: Defenders on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Prime World: Defenders.
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.
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~70% under Prime World: Defenders on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Prime World: Defenders.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~50% under Prime World: Defenders on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Prime World: Defenders.
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.
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 and Casual with Prime World: Defenders.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Prime World: Defenders.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Prime World: 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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Prime World: Defenders.
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 and Casual with Prime World: Defenders.
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 Prime World: Defenders.
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.
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Blitzkrieg 3
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Shares a challenging mood with Prime World: Defenders.
Another title from Nival, the studio behind Prime World: Defenders. Shares Strategy with Prime World: Defenders.
Blitzkrieg 3 is a WW2 RTS made for true admirers of strategic mastery! Challenge your tactical skills in historical campaigns and defeat powerful Neural Network AI in competitive matches.
Heroes of Might & Magic V
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Shares a challenging mood with Prime World: Defenders.
Another title from Nival, the studio behind Prime World: Defenders. Shares Strategy with Prime World: Defenders.
Witness the amazing evolution of the genre-defining strategy game as it becomes a next-generation phenomenon, melding classic deep fantasy with next-generation visuals and gameplay. In the renowned Might & Magic universe, demon swarms spread chaos over the land in a relentless assault.
Heroes of Might & Magic V: Tribes of the East
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Shares a challenging mood with Prime World: Defenders.
Another title from Nival, the studio behind Prime World: Defenders. Shares Strategy with Prime World: Defenders.
For the first time, play as the Orc faction and recruit heroes, build armies and manage cities as you explore and conquer legendary lands. Use tactics, skills and magic to outsmart fantasy armies while developing your heroes and unveiling the dark plot that threatens to tear the world of Ashan apart.
Blitzkrieg Anthology
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Shares a challenging mood with Prime World: Defenders.
Another title from Nival, the studio behind Prime World: Defenders. Shares Strategy with Prime World: Defenders.
March into the real-time strategy legend, Blitzkrieg, and prepare for war. This legendary WWII RTS blends unprecedented realism and accuracy to form immersive 3D backgrounds and a game where brute force often takes a back seat to strategy and wits.
Blitzkrieg 2 Anthology
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Prime World: Defenders.
Another title from Nival, the studio behind Prime World: Defenders. Shares Strategy with Prime World: Defenders.
Return to the bloody battlefields of World War II in this epic sequel. Blitzkrieg 2 returns you to the gritty realism of WWII battles while pushing your focus into new, strategic opportunities during global war!
Silent Storm Gold Edition
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Prime World: Defenders.
Another title from Nival, the studio behind Prime World: Defenders. Shares Strategy and RPG with Prime World: Defenders.
Silent Storm from leading Russian developer Nival is a true 3D tactical turn-based Role-Playing-Game set against the backdrop of WWII. As the conflict rages on the frontlines, you’ll be leading a small multinational squad behind enemy lines to gather information and wreak havoc on your enemies while trying to thwart a mysterious new...
Heroes of Might & Magic V: Hammers of Fate
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Shares a contemplative mood with Prime World: Defenders.
Another title from Nival, the studio behind Prime World: Defenders. Shares Strategy with Prime World: Defenders.
Take part in a thrilling new adventure in the world of Ashan with the Hammers of Fate expansion. Discover uncharted territories and experience new ways of playing Heroes of Might & Magic V. Introducing a brand-new Dwarves faction, made up of heroic warriors and rune magic adepts who stalk the deepest mountains and most hostile regions of...
Etherlords II
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Prime World: Defenders.
Another title from Nival, the studio behind Prime World: Defenders. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prime World: Defenders.
The saga continues! Etherlords II takes you back to the world of Ether and into a whole new realm of fantastic possibilities. Lead your hero on an unforgettable journey through lands filled with unsurpassed beauty and danger to unlock the ultimate mystery.
Frequently asked about Prime World: Defenders
- Does Prime World: Defenders run on Steam Deck?
- Prime World: 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.
- How much does Prime World: Defenders cost?
- Prime World: Defenders is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Prime World: Defenders?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Prime World: Defenders are Monster Battle Quest, Miryam: The Polluted Land, Tales of Valoris: Swallow's Defenders.
- Who developed Prime World: Defenders?
- Prime World: Defenders was developed by Nival.
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