Games like Desperate Place
If Desperate Place is your kind of game, the closest matches are IDUN - Frontline Survival, Time Circuit and Kingdom Two Crowns — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, stressful and tense. 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 Desperate Place: Desperate Place is a strategic tower defense game where you play as a crew member who wakes up early on a damaged colonization starship. Stranded on an unknown planet, you must gather resources, repair the ship, and defend against alien monsters to survive and escape.
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Steam players who put hours into Desperate Place 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.
IDUN - Frontline Survival
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Desperate Place.
Top pick for Desperate Place fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desperate Place.
A defense RTS where you can move turrets at will. Extract resources, upgrade technology, and defend against enemy swarms in a gripping space campaign. Hold the line, set up your turrets, and brace for screen-filling hordes!
Time Circuit
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Desperate Place fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Desperate Place.
Deep integration of city builder and tower defense. Time is the most crucial resource in this world. Lead your clan to construct a base in the dazzling circuit world and fend off waves of enemy attacks!
Kingdom Two Crowns
WHY THIS
Shares tower defense, resource management and an atmospheric mood with Desperate Place.
Third-strongest match for Desperate Place fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desperate Place.
Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.
Sky Fleet
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Desperate Place fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desperate Place.
Sky Fleet is an online co-op action RTS. Work together to build a base and defend it from attacking drones. Mine resources to upgrade your ship and destroy the drone's base.
Armed to the Gears
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Desperate Place.
Ranked #5 for Desperate Place fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desperate Place.
Control a fully armed Mech and fight through cyberpunk cities, military bases and industrial ruins. Capture and defend territories, build turrets and structures, and wage war against powerful enemies!
Mars or Die!
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Desperate Place fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desperate Place.
Control two characters simultaneously! Survive, gather, collect upgrades, fight all sizes of one-eyed Martians, build defensible outposts and conquer Mars, in this glorious mix between roguelite and tower defense.
Surviving Mars
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Desperate Place fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Desperate Place.
There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.
They Are Billions
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Desperate Place fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Desperate Place.
They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Desperate Place at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Desperate Place on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Desperate Place.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Desperate Place on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Desperate Place.
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!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Desperate Place on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desperate Place.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Desperate Place on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desperate Place.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Desperate Place on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Desperate Place.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~91% under Desperate Place on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Desperate Place.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Desperate Place on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Desperate Place.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~73% under Desperate Place on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Desperate Place.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Desperate Place.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Desperate Place.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Desperate Place.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Desperate Place.
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.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Desperate Place.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Desperate Place.
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.
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Frequently asked about Desperate Place
- Does Desperate Place run on Steam Deck?
- Desperate Place is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Desperate Place cost?
- Desperate Place is listed on Steam at 10.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Desperate Place?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Desperate Place are IDUN - Frontline Survival, Time Circuit, Kingdom Two Crowns.
- Who developed Desperate Place?
- Desperate Place was developed by BruceGalaxy.
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 Desperate Place.
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