Games like Defendor
If Defendor is your kind of game, the closest matches are Spacey Vade, Ultra Mission™ and 2nd Shot — 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 Defendor: Defendor is a throwback to the fast paced arcade games of the 80s.A retro style, arcade shooter where you upgrade your base to increase the capabilities of your ship, unlock new weapons, ships and cause more mayhem.Defend your base until everyone makes it into the escape ship.
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Spacey Vade
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Top pick for Defendor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Defendor.
Synth-wave styled physics based 2D puzzle shooter filled with nods to the golden era of classic arcade games. Think upside down Peggle crossed with Space Invaders and enemies crafted from the blended remains 70's, and 80’s gaming.
Ultra Mission™
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Second-strongest match for Defendor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Defendor.
Embark on a dangerous investigation in Ultra Mission™, the latest game by Gumbo Machine™. As an agent of the Stellar Exchange Commission, you must traverse the 20 dizzying levels within Otto Labs, each littered with powerful automatons and questionable experiments. This is going to be a blast!
2nd Shot
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Third-strongest match for Defendor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Defendor.
In the vast depths of space, lies a man with a dark past. Setting himself apart from that old life, and seeking justice against wrongdoing instead of being the cause of it, Captain Righteous uses the Freedom Fighter, his trusty space fighter to search for and combat the evil Captain Buster!
Frenzy
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Ranked #4 for Defendor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Defendor.
In this simple riff on an arcade classic, released in 1983 for the ZX Spectrum by famed game developer/publisher Ocean Software, search labarinthine levels for the exit, while surviving an ever-increasing onslaught of deadly robots.
Dead End City
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Ranked #5 for Defendor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Defendor.
A post-apocalyptic arcade shooter. Collect fuel and dodge enemy fire as you fight back against the evil Scorpio gang. Mixes cars, shmups and themes that would have been right at home in 80's anime and arcades..
DoDonPachi Resurrection Reignite
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Ranked #6 for Defendor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Defendor.
CAVE's arcade bullet hell shooter returns as DoDonPachi Resurrection Reignite. New stages, a new character, new music, and other new elements set the stage for a new challenge.
Martian Invaders
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Ranked #7 for Defendor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Defendor.
WE HAVE ALIENS, YOU DON'T—Blast Martian invaders and flying saucers across 30 stages with robotic voice effects. Use your destructible shield, rescue army men for bonus points, and chase the high score.
Netherspace
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Ranked #8 for Defendor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Defendor.
A sci-fi shoot'em'up game with heavy focus on upgrades experimentation, featuring two unlikely heroes that must work perfectly together, despite their share of secrets, to surpass their limits and succeed in eliminating a threat that might destroy both Earth and Andraxia if left unchecked.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Defendor at current Steam store prices.
Miss Neko
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Priced ~51% under Defendor on Steam right now. Shares Action with Defendor.
Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)
QUICKERFLAK
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Priced ~51% under Defendor on Steam right now. Shares Action with Defendor.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Gachi Heroes
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Priced ~51% under Defendor on Steam right now. Shares Action with Defendor.
Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?
Trip to Vinelands
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Priced ~51% under Defendor on Steam right now. Shares Action with Defendor.
Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.
Shotgun Legend
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Priced ~51% under Defendor on Steam right now. Shares Action with Defendor.
Eugene must battle aliens and the undead in search of a truck rim, as it seems to be his ticket home.
Love wish
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Priced ~51% under Defendor on Steam right now. Shares Action with Defendor.
Love Wish is an easy, fun and challenging jigsaw puzzle.♪(^∇^*) Put the pieces together to restore the full picture of the girls. Collect their photos and animations and remember this wonderful moment❤
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Defendor.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Defendor.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Defendor.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Defendor.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
The Lab
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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!
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
Tails Noir: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
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Frequently asked about Defendor
- How much does Defendor cost?
- Defendor is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Defendor?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Defendor are Spacey Vade, Ultra Mission™, 2nd Shot.
- Who developed Defendor?
- Defendor was developed by almostApixel.
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