Games like Protecto
If Protecto is your kind of game, the closest matches are Tower Doomer, Crumbling City and Kill It With Fire — 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 Protecto: Build barricades and face spectacular natural disasters in a relaxing physics-based game where every structure can save lives.
Players who liked Protecto also play
Steam players who put hours into Protecto also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Tower Doomer
WHY THIS
Top pick for Protecto fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Protecto.
satisfy your demolishing urges with Tower Doomer ! Complete levels in various environments or create your own demolishing derby in the sandbox mode. Tear down multiple structures by shooting at them or use gravity at your own advantage !
Crumbling City
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Protecto fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Protecto.
Become a giant dinosaur and flatten entire cities before the City Defenders can stop you! Crumbling City is chaos and fun in a physics based destructible world. Rampage across cities as a colossal dinosaur and leave nothing standing! Nature’s revenge has never been this fun!
Kill It With Fire
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Protecto fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Protecto.
Kill It With Fire is a first-person action game about hunting spiders and causing collateral damage.
Excidio The Kaiju Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Protecto fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Protecto.
Bring the cities of the world to their knees as a giant Kaiju. Featuring a fully destructible physics-based sandbox for you to lay waste!
Tentacular
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Protecto fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Protecto.
Tentacular is a VR game about a gigantic but good-hearted tentacled beast trying to figure out its place in the world.
Topple Tactics
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Protecto fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Protecto.
Topple Tactics is a physics-based multiplayer tower defense game where one huge player controls the map by placing towers and using abilities, whilst the little players level up their stats and equipment to reach the end of the map and defeat the huge player!
Goat Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Protecto fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Protecto.
Goat Simulator is the latest in high-tech Goat Simulation technology.
Totally Reliable Delivery Service
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Protecto fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Protecto.
Delivery Attempted. That's the Totally Reliable Delivery Service guarantee! T.R.D.S. is a ragdoll physics simulation about terrible package delivery couriers. Work together using odd machinery, useful gadgets, and the wonders of physics to reliably deliver packages to their destination.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Protecto at current Steam store prices.
Miss Neko
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Protecto on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with Protecto.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Protecto on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Protecto.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Save Jesus
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Protecto on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Protecto.
Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!
Gachi Heroes
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Protecto on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Protecto.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Protecto on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Protecto.
Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.
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 Protecto.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Protecto.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Protecto.
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.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Protecto.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Protecto.
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 Protecto.
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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More from Rivardus
Other recommendable Steam games by Rivardus, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Pick Up Your Masks
WHY THIS
Another title from Rivardus, the studio behind Protecto. Shares Indie and Casual with Protecto.
In this addictive free physics game, help Mimi clean nature by throwing abandoned masks into dumpsters while mastering rebounds, precision and chaos.
Obscurinth
WHY THIS
Another title from Rivardus, the studio behind Protecto. Shares Indie with Protecto.
Explore a massive living labyrinth filled with mysteries, deadly traps, and forgotten relics. Mark your path with lanterns, uncover hidden secrets, improve your legacy, and attempt to free Obscurinth in this unique adventure blending exploration, strategy, and dark fantasy.
Frozen Christmas Magic: Santa’s Hidden Village
WHY THIS
Another title from Rivardus, the studio behind Protecto. Shares Indie and Casual with Protecto.
Discover an ancient magical Christmas village buried beneath the snow for over a century. Dig, uncover forgotten secrets, restore its lights, and watch the village come back to life in a cozy, mysterious, and enchanting adventure filled with magic, discovery, and wonder.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Kill It With Fire
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Protecto.
Kill It With Fire is a first-person action game about hunting spiders and causing collateral damage.
Goat Simulator
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Casual with Protecto.
Goat Simulator is the latest in high-tech Goat Simulation technology.
Totally Reliable Delivery Service
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Protecto.
Delivery Attempted. That's the Totally Reliable Delivery Service guarantee! T.R.D.S. is a ragdoll physics simulation about terrible package delivery couriers. Work together using odd machinery, useful gadgets, and the wonders of physics to reliably deliver packages to their destination.
Frequently asked about Protecto
- How much does Protecto cost?
- Protecto is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Protecto?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Protecto are Tower Doomer, Crumbling City, Kill It With Fire.
- Who developed Protecto?
- Protecto was developed by Rivardus.
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 Protecto.
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