Games like Monsters are Coming!
If Monsters are Coming! is your kind of game, the closest matches are Aeriea, Gold and Bricks and Bullet Meltdown — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, competitive and immersive. 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 →Monsters are Coming! is a tower defense roguelite developed by Ludogram and published by Raw Fury. Players protect a mobile city from waves of monsters in arcade-style survival runs that last approximately 30 minutes, fitting into short gaming sessions. The game features base-building mechanics with build variety and a corruption system that adds strategic depth. Multiple characters and town layouts provide unlockable content, while players must balance hero progression alongside city development. Reviewers highlight the tactical importance of unit positioning and note that the developers actively support the game with free updates. The game is verified for Steam Deck and holds an 82% positive rating from 1,055 Steam reviews. Players describe the experience as both competitive and whimsical.
About Monsters are Coming!: Beware, Monsters are Coming! In this Tower-Survivor rogue-lite, you protect an ever-moving city from unrelenting hordes. Gather resources, fortify defences, and survive for as long as you can. Will you reach the Ark?
Players who liked Monsters are Coming! also play
Steam players who put hours into Monsters are Coming! 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.
Aeriea
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Top pick for Monsters are Coming! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Monsters are Coming!.
DRIVE YOUR FORTRESS TO THE BATTLEFIELD! This casual action game centers around Fortress Building + Roguelike + Survivor core gameplay. Enjoy endlessly fun combat with simple, intuitive controls!
Gold and Bricks
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Second-strongest match for Monsters are Coming! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Monsters are Coming!.
Gold and Bricks is a small game that mixes elements of city builder, roguelite, strategy and tower defense. Plan the layout, manage your economy and invest your gold in defensive towers to protect yourself from the hordes of enemies invading your village.
Bullet Meltdown
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Third-strongest match for Monsters are Coming! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Monsters are Coming!.
Brotato meets Tower Defense in a fast-paced bullet heaven arena shooter with base building and AI-controlled troops. Get stronger every run, evolve your favorite units, collect rare weapons and survive insane boss fights.
ActionSteam ↗Space Bross
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Ranked #4 for Monsters are Coming! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Monsters are Coming!.
Your chicken has been kidnapped, and that’s all it takes to send a retired astronaut into full galactic mayhem. Space Bross is a hand-drawn 2.5D tower defense & action roguelite where you’ll build bases, fend off alien hordes, and blast your way across planets to bring your feathery friend back.
Sineus Arena Survivors
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Ranked #5 for Monsters are Coming! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Monsters are Coming!.
Fight hordes and defend your Stronghold in a bullet heaven survivor-like with co-op and tower defense. Gain power-ups every level, collect random artifacts from chests and grow stronger to survive, defeat the boss and claim a top spot on the Sineus Arena leaderboards!
BALL x PIT
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Shares procedural generation and an immersive mood with Monsters are Coming!.
Ranked #6 for Monsters are Coming! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Monsters are Coming!.
BALL x PIT is a brick-breaking, ball-fusing, base-building survival roguelite. Batter hordes of enemies with ricocheting balls and gather the riches of the pit to expand your homestead, generate resources and recruit unique heroes.
Quiet Bruise
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Ranked #7 for Monsters are Coming! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Monsters are Coming!.
Play as dumb plushies trying to keep a collapsing factory alive in this tower defence factory automation game. Build chaotic production lines, fight off hordes of cats and crocs, survive your own terrible decisions and keep the factory running.
Misty Land
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Shares tower defense, difficulty scaling, indie and a competitive mood with Monsters are Coming!.
Ranked #8 for Monsters are Coming! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Monsters are Coming!.
Develop and expand your town as you fend off eerie creatures from the mist. Choose from a variety of buildings and strategies, make tactical decisions, join defensive battles personally, protect your town and fulfill your ultimate goals.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Monsters are Coming! at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~44% under Monsters are Coming! on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Monsters are Coming!.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
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Shares procedural generation and an immersive mood with Monsters are Coming!.
Priced ~44% under Monsters are Coming! on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Monsters are Coming!.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~50% under Monsters are Coming! on Steam right now. Shares Action with Monsters are Coming!.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~44% under Monsters are Coming! on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Monsters are Coming!.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~44% under Monsters are Coming! on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Monsters are Coming!.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~89% under Monsters are Coming! on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Monsters 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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
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Priced ~44% under Monsters are Coming! on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Monsters are Coming!.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~67% under Monsters are Coming! on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Monsters are Coming!.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Monsters are Coming!.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Monsters 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.
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 Monsters 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.
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 Monsters are Coming!.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Monsters are Coming!.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Monsters are Coming!.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Monsters are Coming!.
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!
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More from Ludogram
Other recommendable Steam games by Ludogram, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Tabletop Game Shop Simulator
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Shares resource management and a whimsical mood with Monsters are Coming!.
Another title from Ludogram, the studio behind Monsters are Coming!.
Run your own tabletop game shop! Stock shelves, glue & paint minis, battle customers on game night, and grow your store into the ultimate nerd paradise.
Worlds of Aria
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Shares a whimsical mood with Monsters are Coming!.
Another title from Ludogram, the studio behind Monsters are Coming!.
Lead your own DnD-like adventuring party on an epic adventure narrated by Laura Bailey. Invite your friends for free to the group with the Friends Pass, or strike out on your own. Cooperation, betrayal, and the luck of the dice… what wild escapades will you and your teammates get up to?
Firebird
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Another title from Ludogram, the studio behind Monsters are Coming!. Shares Indie with Monsters are Coming!.
Firebird is a narrative road trip that takes place in Slavic folklore, in an adventure that ressembles a traditional tale. Aboard your truck, travel to the far north, meet colorful characters, and face the creatures inhabiting these sacred lands.
A Better World
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Another title from Ludogram, the studio behind Monsters are Coming!.
A Better World Company is hiring! We’re looking for a skilled new recruit to alter the past and reshape the future! Use our Computer to travel back in time, and make game-changing choices to make the world a better place! You decide what to do… as long as you follow our internal policies.
Invokyr
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Another title from Ludogram, the studio behind Monsters are Coming!. Shares Action and Indie with Monsters are Coming!.
A forgotten board game. A haunted house. Play with up to 3 friends. Roll the dice, survive the horrors that are summoned, and beat the Gamemaster to win your freedom.
Ascenders: Beyond the Peak
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Another title from Ludogram, the studio behind Monsters are Coming!. Shares Strategy and Indie with Monsters are Coming!.
ASCENDERS: BEYOND THE PEAK is a turn-based exploration roguelite where survival is vertical. Lead a team of alpinists to recover ancient artifacts from cursed peaks, prepare your expedition, evolve your climbers, master rope mechanics, and face H.P. Lovecraft-inspired horrors within the mountain.
Frequently asked about Monsters are Coming!
- Is Monsters are Coming! verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Monsters are Coming! is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Monsters are Coming! cost?
- Monsters are Coming! is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Monsters are Coming!?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Monsters are Coming! are Aeriea, Gold and Bricks, Bullet Meltdown.
- Who developed Monsters are Coming!?
- Monsters are Coming! was developed by Ludogram and published by Raw Fury.
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