Games like They Are Coming
If They Are Coming is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rotten Tide, ZedFall: Outbreak and Survive the Horde — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its free mobile version available, challenging and intense. 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 They Are Coming: They Are Coming is a hybrid game that combines roguelike, tower defense, and base building in a side-scrolling shooter format. It offers a straightforward gaming experience for pure enjoyment.
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Rotten Tide
WHY THIS
Top pick for They Are Coming fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with They Are Coming.
Rotten Tide is a horizontal 2D tower defense game where players must protect the world from the attacks of all kinds of monsters who are threatening the humans in big cities all around the world.
ZedFall: Outbreak
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for They Are Coming fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with They Are Coming.
Cut through thousands of undead and survive until rescue. ZedFall: Outbreak is a co-op twin‑stick roguelite where levelling and evolving upgrade cards unleash chaotic builds. Fight to the chopper, hold the generator in Tower Defence, or Scavenge supplies. Play solo or with up to 7 of your friends.
Survive the Horde
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for They Are Coming fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with They Are Coming.
Face overwhelming hordes of the undead in a hyper-realistic post-apocalyptic world. Build defenses, wield devastating weapons, and unleash powerful abilities as you tear through swarms of zombies in this adrenaline-fueled first-person survival shooter.
Haunt Monster
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for They Are Coming fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with They Are Coming.
Haunt Monster is a FPS Action Roguelike game in a random generated environment. Build, defend and survive waves of zombies, monsters and aliens. Play solo or co-op with a friend to survive.
Crimson Deluge
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Ranked #5 for They Are Coming fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with They Are Coming.
Hold the walls. Survive the night. The horde doesn’t stop. Top-down zombie wave defense: fortify your base, manage ammo and survivors, and unleash heavy firepower before the dead climb over their own corpses.
Sci-Fantasy Defence
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for They Are Coming fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with They Are Coming.
Combine physics-based traps, weapons and magic to defend against horde of thousands enemies in this roguelike tower defense with procedurally generated levels and switching between building/combat. Do it solo in VR or with up to 4 players in one PC through local co-op.
Crystal Storm
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Ranked #7 for They Are Coming fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with They Are Coming.
Defend your castle, mine for minerals, and level up your wizarding powers in this thrilling action-roguelike game. Grab your wand and prepare to fight off magical foes in this epic battle for survival!
Arcane Spellforge: Core Defense
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Ranked #8 for They Are Coming fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with They Are Coming.
Forge spells with your hands, build tactical defenses, and unleash devastating power in VR. Upgrade modular weapons and towers, adapt your strategy, and survive relentless waves of robotic enemies attacking your core from every direction.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below They Are Coming at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under They Are Coming on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with They Are Coming.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~50% under They Are Coming on Steam right now. Shares Indie with They Are Coming.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under They Are Coming on Steam right now. Shares Action with They Are Coming.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under They Are Coming on Steam right now. Shares Indie with They Are Coming.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~67% under They Are Coming on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with They Are Coming.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bit Blaster XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under They Are Coming on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with They Are Coming.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under They Are Coming on Steam right now. Shares Indie with They Are Coming.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with They Are Coming.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with They Are Coming.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with They Are Coming.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with They Are Coming.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with They Are Coming.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with They Are Coming.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
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Frequently asked about They Are Coming
- Does They Are Coming run on Steam Deck?
- They Are Coming 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 They Are Coming cost?
- They Are Coming is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to They Are Coming?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside They Are Coming are Rotten Tide, ZedFall: Outbreak, Survive the Horde.
- Who developed They Are Coming?
- They Are Coming was developed by OnHit Developments.
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