Games like Neon Grid Defenders
If Neon Grid Defenders is your kind of game, the closest matches are Axom: Conquest, Tower Lab and Astro Company — 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 Neon Grid Defenders: Neon Grid Defenders is a sci-fi roguelite tower defense game featuring a free and unique upgrade system, decision based path generation and a strong but static difficulty curve. Build your path, place your towers, hook them up with upgrades and melt your enemies!
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Axom: Conquest
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Top pick for Neon Grid Defenders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Neon Grid Defenders.
Build and defend your fortress while expanding out in this hold-out tower defense roguelite. Battle across a procedural alien homeworld, fight back corrupted terrain, discover hundreds of structures and upgrades as physics-driven swarms threaten to wipe out humanity.
Tower Lab
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Second-strongest match for Neon Grid Defenders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Neon Grid Defenders.
Enemies have no health, push them off instead. Weaponize physics in this roguelite tower defense game. Draft a deck, chain towers into living contraptions, grow and shrink every projectile, and launch hordes of robots off the edge.
Astro Company
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Third-strongest match for Neon Grid Defenders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Neon Grid Defenders.
Build the path. Defend the Core. Combine towers, cards, and artifacts into broken synergies in an endless tower defense roguelike.
Path Defenders: More Than Just Tower Defense
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Ranked #4 for Neon Grid Defenders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Neon Grid Defenders.
A single-player MMORPG fused with tower defense. Recruit heroes, Build bizarre but devastating towers, and fight beside them in real-time 3D combat against waves of enemies.
Break Of Dawn
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Ranked #5 for Neon Grid Defenders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Neon Grid Defenders.
A hex-grid tower defense deck builder. Every card places a building, every rank is paid for in enemies taken alive or destroyed in battle, and between waves you pick which enemy type joins the army marching on you. Thirty waves, ten lives, and one tower per run that you can crown.
Hungry Ghosts
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Ranked #6 for Neon Grid Defenders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Neon Grid Defenders.
Hungry Ghosts is a wild tower defense roguelike where you exorcise hungry ghosts with magical desserts and drinks! Play as a fearless witch and her various companions with unique powers, upgrade your dishes, and unleash powerful synergies to survive haunted waves and defeat bosses.
TowerKeep - Tower Defense
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Ranked #7 for Neon Grid Defenders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Neon Grid Defenders.
In a living land of magic and monsters, the world itself is your greatest weapon. Gather from the land, build your defenses, and hold back the horde. A tower defense where no two lands are ever the same.
StrategySteam ↗Biletide
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Ranked #8 for Neon Grid Defenders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Neon Grid Defenders.
An atmospheric tower-defence strategy game about holding back an oozing toxic Tide. A distant mining colony has awakened a living flood that seeps from breaches in the ground. Dig for resources, raise defensive terrain, and burn your way to seal the breaches. Can you survive the Biletide?
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- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Neon Grid Defenders are Axom: Conquest, Tower Lab, Astro Company.
- Who developed Neon Grid Defenders?
- Neon Grid Defenders was developed by NikIndieDev.
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