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Games like Keep Keepers

Below are 16 hand-picked alternatives to Keep Keepers for fans of action, strategy, indie, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in Keep Keepers also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, and Steam Deck–friendly options. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.

About Keep Keepers: Tower Defense meets Base Management. Strategically place your defenses. Craft wacky ammunition like fiery peppers and boomerang bananas. Discover amazing weapons and automate your economy while defending against waves of enemies. Can you handle the chaos?

2024ActionStrategyIndieCasual11.69 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Thunderrock Innovations
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    Bone's Cafe — Steam game cover

    Bone's Cafe

    Top pick for Keep Keepers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Keep Keepers.

    Bone's Cafe is a fast paced, 1-4 Players couch co-op, cooking game. Customize the layout of your kitchen to guarantee your success. Specialize your menu in ingredients and recipes to design your ultimate cafe. Put your necromancy skills to the test and raise your own undead kitchen staff.

    2022ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
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    Ooglians — Steam game cover

    Ooglians

    Second-strongest match for Keep Keepers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Keep Keepers.

    Ooglians are coming! Nothing excites an ooglian more than smashing machinery. Protect your machinery with more machinery which attracts even more ooglians. How unfortunate.

    2022ActionStrategyEarly Access1.99 USDSteam ↗
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    PlateUp! — Steam game cover

    PlateUp!

    Third-strongest match for Keep Keepers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Keep Keepers.

    Cook and serve your dishes, design and decorate your restaurants, and expand your culinary kingdom with new unlocks, abilities and dishes in procedurally-generated locations. Classic cooking action with permanent roguelite progression. Hire your friends - or do it all yourself!

    2022ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
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    30XX — Steam game cover

    30XX

    Ranked #4 for Keep Keepers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Keep Keepers.

    Jump, shoot, and slash your way through 30XX, the roguelike action platformer you can play with a friend! Explore lush, ever-changing worlds that mix precise platforming with fevered combat. Destroy fearsome Guardians. Master unique Powers. Rediscover the thousand years we've lost.

    2023ActionIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
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    ENDLESS™ Dungeon - Definitive Edition — Steam game cover

    ENDLESS™ Dungeon - Definitive Edition

    Ranked #5 for Keep Keepers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Keep Keepers.

    ENDLESS™ Dungeon is a Rogue-lite Tactical Action game, set in the award-winning ENDLESS™ Universe. Recruit a team of shipwrecked heroes, plunge into a long-abandoned space station, and protect your crystal against never-ending waves of monsters… or die trying, get reloaded, and try again.

    2023ActionStrategy14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
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    PixelJunk™ Nom Nom Galaxy — Steam game cover

    PixelJunk™ Nom Nom Galaxy

    Ranked #6 for Keep Keepers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Keep Keepers.

    Welcome to SoupCo, Astroworker! In Nom Nom Galaxy, construct and automate gigantic soup factories on unexplored planets throughout the universe, harvest flora and fauna to turn them into artisanal soups, and rocket your product into the gullets of the galaxy!

    2015ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
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    One Step From Eden — Steam game cover

    One Step From Eden

    Ranked #7 for Keep Keepers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Keep Keepers.

    Build a powerful deck, cast spells on the fly, battle evolving enemies, find game-changing artifacts, make friends or make enemies, just make it to Eden.

    2020ActionStrategyIndie7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
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    Factorio — Steam game cover

    Factorio

    Ranked #8 for Keep Keepers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Keep Keepers.

    Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation35.00 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Keep Keepers

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

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    Overcooked — Steam game cover

    Overcooked

    Reviewers of Keep Keepers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Keep Keepers.

    Overcooked is a chaotic couch co-op cooking game for one to four players. Working as a team, you and your fellow chefs must prepare, cook and serve up a variety of tasty orders before the baying customers storm out in a huff.

    2016ActionIndieSimulation16.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
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    Ship of Fools — Steam game cover

    Ship of Fools

    Reviewers of Keep Keepers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Keep Keepers.

    Ship of Fools is a seafaring cooperative roguelite. Set sail, man the cannons and battle sea monsters through the tempestuous seas of the Archipelago. Are you fool enough to stop the Aquapocalypse?

    2022ActionIndie11.19 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
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    PlateUp! — Steam game cover

    PlateUp!

    Reviewers of Keep Keepers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Keep Keepers.

    Cook and serve your dishes, design and decorate your restaurants, and expand your culinary kingdom with new unlocks, abilities and dishes in procedurally-generated locations. Classic cooking action with permanent roguelite progression. Hire your friends - or do it all yourself!

    2022ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

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    PlateUp! — Steam game cover

    PlateUp!

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with Keep Keepers.

    Cook and serve your dishes, design and decorate your restaurants, and expand your culinary kingdom with new unlocks, abilities and dishes in procedurally-generated locations. Classic cooking action with permanent roguelite progression. Hire your friends - or do it all yourself!

    2022ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
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    ENDLESS™ Dungeon - Definitive Edition — Steam game cover

    ENDLESS™ Dungeon - Definitive Edition

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with Keep Keepers.

    ENDLESS™ Dungeon is a Rogue-lite Tactical Action game, set in the award-winning ENDLESS™ Universe. Recruit a team of shipwrecked heroes, plunge into a long-abandoned space station, and protect your crystal against never-ending waves of monsters… or die trying, get reloaded, and try again.

    2023ActionStrategy14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
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    PixelJunk™ Nom Nom Galaxy — Steam game cover

    PixelJunk™ Nom Nom Galaxy

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with Keep Keepers.

    Welcome to SoupCo, Astroworker! In Nom Nom Galaxy, construct and automate gigantic soup factories on unexplored planets throughout the universe, harvest flora and fauna to turn them into artisanal soups, and rocket your product into the gullets of the galaxy!

    2015ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
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    One Step From Eden — Steam game cover

    One Step From Eden

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with Keep Keepers.

    Build a powerful deck, cast spells on the fly, battle evolving enemies, find game-changing artifacts, make friends or make enemies, just make it to Eden.

    2020ActionStrategyIndie7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
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    Factorio — Steam game cover

    Factorio

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Keep Keepers.

    Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation35.00 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Keep Keepers

Does Keep Keepers run on Steam Deck?
Keep Keepers 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 Keep Keepers cost?
Keep Keepers is listed on Steam at 11.69 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does Keep Keepers have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Keep Keepers supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Shared/Split Screen Co-op).
What games are most similar to Keep Keepers?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Keep Keepers are Bone's Cafe, Ooglians, PlateUp!.
Who developed Keep Keepers?
Keep Keepers was developed by Thunderrock Innovations.

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