Games like 36 Nights
If 36 Nights is your kind of game, the closest matches are Wyrd Gun, Rogue Station Defense and Turtle Riders — 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.
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Wyrd Gun
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Top pick for 36 Nights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with 36 Nights.
A roguelite looter shooter where you breed guns, craft perks, and choose mutations, creating powerful synergies to defend against the relentless alien hoarde!
Rogue Station Defense
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Second-strongest match for 36 Nights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with 36 Nights.
A rogue-like sci-fi Tower Defense strategy game with infinite replayability!
Turtle Riders
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Third-strongest match for 36 Nights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with 36 Nights.
Ride giant turtles and aim your weapons at hordes of enemies chasing you while you gather as many resources as you can. Pick your upgrades carefully and create strong builds to survive the long road to the Outpost!
Wall World
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Ranked #4 for 36 Nights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with 36 Nights.
Explore the mysterious Wall World on your giant robospider: mine for valuable resources, upgrade your equipment to fight off hordes of monsters, and discover exotic biomes in-between attacks. Will you be able to survive and learn the secrets of the Wall World?
CD 2: Trap Master
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Ranked #5 for 36 Nights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with 36 Nights.
Become THE Trap Master - play your deck of lethal traps to mow down waves of bizarre creatures and protect your altars! Craft a unique deck of traps and powers, discover treasure of surprise effects, and guard a different base each time until you are ready for the unforgiving boss.
Core Defense
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Ranked #6 for 36 Nights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with 36 Nights.
A roguelike tower defense game with a dash of deckbuilding. Choose a reward, improve your build, survive the next wave, repeat. Highly replayable, difficult, and addictive. You'll want just one more wave, just one more run!
Mineral Defense
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Ranked #7 for 36 Nights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with 36 Nights.
Mineral Defense combines tower defense with roguelite elements and procedural generation. Build paths, unlock upgrades, and unleash powerful synergies to conquer evolving challenges in an ever-expanding world.
Mech Armada
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Ranked #8 for 36 Nights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with 36 Nights.
Create and command custom Mechs to outmaneuver The Swarm in this post-apocalyptic tactical turn-based rogue-lite. Leverage the terrain, learn each Mech's unique skills and use strategy and resources to survive an ever-changing series of battles to give humanity hope.
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Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below 36 Nights at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~80% under 36 Nights on Steam right now. Shares Action with 36 Nights.
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?
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~80% under 36 Nights on Steam right now. Shares Action with 36 Nights.
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.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
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Priced ~50% under 36 Nights on Steam right now. Shares Action with 36 Nights.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
shapez
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Priced ~80% under 36 Nights on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with 36 Nights.
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!
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™
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Priced ~50% under 36 Nights on Steam right now. Shares Action with 36 Nights.
Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~80% under 36 Nights on Steam right now. Shares Action with 36 Nights.
"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!
Bejeweled® 3
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Priced ~80% under 36 Nights on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with 36 Nights.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
Bit Blaster XL
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Priced ~80% under 36 Nights on Steam right now. Shares Action with 36 Nights.
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!
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Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with 36 Nights.
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 36 Nights.
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 36 Nights.
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 36 Nights.
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!
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with 36 Nights.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
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Frequently asked about 36 Nights
- How much does 36 Nights cost?
- 36 Nights is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to 36 Nights?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside 36 Nights are Wyrd Gun, Rogue Station Defense, Turtle Riders.
- Who developed 36 Nights?
- 36 Nights was developed by Isaac Lee.
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