Games like Home Defender
If Home Defender is your kind of game, the closest matches are Xonix Casual Edition, Enoki and Live Labyrinth — 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 Home Defender: Home Defender is an adventure game where you play as a young boy who is alone in his home at a winter night. Your goal is to protect your home from two burglars who are trying to get you.
Players who liked Home Defender also play
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Xonix Casual Edition
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Top pick for Home Defender fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Home Defender.
Remake of a classic old-school hit from 80s, one of the first arcade games ever!
Live Labyrinth
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Third-strongest match for Home Defender fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Home Defender.
A living maze is drawn during its passage, and only at the end of the path do you understand what it wants to tell you
Dick Ranger
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Ranked #4 for Home Defender fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Home Defender.
Experience an amazing adventure with Dick Ranger, who set off in search of his lost father William, a valued explorer and anthropologist. Travel with the hero through different lands and places.
Time Knight Adventures
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Ranked #5 for Home Defender fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Home Defender.
A single screen retro platformer with a ticking clock, large maps to explore, upgrades to find and lots of secrets.
AtmaSphere 2
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Ranked #6 for Home Defender fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Home Defender.
Embark on a frosty medieval journey! Guide your ball through snowy platforms, conquer obstacles, and collect pickups. With stunning graphics and immersive gameplay, brace yourself for a chilling adventure! Roll to victory in this winter realm!
Retro Classix: Bad Dudes
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Ranked #7 for Home Defender fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Home Defender.
Play as the Bad Dudes pursuing ninjas through the New York City streets, a moving big rig truck, a large storm sewer, a forest, a freight train on an old Southern Pacific line, a cave, and into an underground factory in order to save President Ronnie in the classic arcade beat 'em up.
Below The Ocean
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Ranked #8 for Home Defender fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Home Defender.
Dive into the world 'Below the Ocean'! Master thrilling moves like tether-swinging, bubble-jumping, bungee-bouncing, and sling-shot in a mesmerizing underwater adventure. Solve intriguing puzzles and seek hidden treasures. Are you ready to embark on this unforgettable journey?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Home Defender at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~83% under Home Defender on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Home Defender.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~50% under Home Defender on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Home Defender.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
The Test
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Priced ~67% under Home Defender on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Home Defender.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~75% under Home Defender on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Home Defender.
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
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Priced ~83% under Home Defender on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Home Defender.
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.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
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Priced ~50% under Home Defender on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Home Defender.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Super Hexagon
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Priced ~50% under Home Defender on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Home Defender.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
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Priced ~67% under Home Defender on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Home Defender.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Home Defender.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Home Defender.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Home Defender.
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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Home Defender.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Home Defender.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Home Defender.
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.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Home Defender.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
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!
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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Frequently asked about Home Defender
- How much does Home Defender cost?
- Home Defender is listed on Steam at 5.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Home Defender?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Home Defender are Xonix Casual Edition, Enoki, Live Labyrinth.
- Who developed Home Defender?
- Home Defender was developed by Retro Revenge Ltd.
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 Home Defender.
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