Games like Tower Lab
If Tower Lab is your kind of game, the closest matches are Legacy of Defense, Axom: Conquest and ploink — 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 Tower Lab: 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.
Players who liked Tower Lab also play
Steam players who put hours into Tower Lab 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.
Legacy of Defense
WHY THIS
Top pick for Tower Lab fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tower Lab.
Become the hero who protects the fantasy world and stop the monster invasion! 'Legacy of Defense' combines defense with deck-building. Build your deck, use powerful skills, gain experience, upgrade, clear stages, and defeat the final boss. Ready to test your strategy and luck?
Axom: Conquest
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Tower Lab fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tower Lab.
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.
ploink
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Tower Lab fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tower Lab.
A chaotic plinko inspired roguelike with a focus on wacky items and creative setups. Design a board of random crap and fill the screen with balls and numbers. There are no bad items you just gotta figure out how to use them.
白蛇之子 | The Son of White Snake: Roguelike Deckbuilder
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Tower Lab fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tower Lab.
Leifeng Pagoda is no tower—it is an ancient serpent still breathing. Read enemy intent and forge card–relic engines in this Chinese cosmic-horror deckbuilder. Descend alone or online with up to 4 players.
Hungry Ghosts
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Tower Lab fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tower Lab.
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.
Deck of Haunts
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Tower Lab fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tower Lab.
Deck of Haunts invites you to become a malevolent Haunted House. Lure humans into your cursed halls, manipulate their fears, and drain their essence to grow your power. Use strategy to build your mansion and expand your dark influence, turning your home into a terrifying, inescapable nightmare.
Tinker Shot
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Tower Lab fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Tower Lab.
A turn-based skill-crafting dungeon crawler roguelike, where you combine crazy effects and upgrades for your skills and use them on enemies. With a strategic physics-based gameplay, unlock and grow your arsenal of spells and items to overcome the challenging dungeon of Underground Ruins!
Slay the Spire 2
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Ranked #8 for Tower Lab fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tower Lab.
The iconic roguelike deckbuilder returns. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, and discover relics of immense power in Slay the Spire 2!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Tower Lab at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Tower Lab on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tower Lab.
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 ~44% under Tower Lab on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Tower Lab.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Tower Lab on Steam right now. Shares Action with Tower Lab.
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.
How to Fish
WHY THIS
Priced ~45% under Tower Lab on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Tower Lab.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Tower Lab on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tower Lab.
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 ~44% under Tower Lab on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Tower Lab.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under Tower Lab on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Tower Lab.
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 ~44% under Tower Lab on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Tower Lab.
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.
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 Action and Indie with Tower Lab.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tower Lab.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Tower Lab.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
The Lab
WHY THIS
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!
OnlyCans: Thirst Date
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tower Lab.
Feel The Fizz Inside You™ with the brand new Shize™ Collection!
Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tower Lab.
The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...
No Results Found
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tower Lab.
Search, dig deeper, and search again. Can you reach the end of the truth?
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Tower Lab.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Legacy of Defense
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tower Lab.
Become the hero who protects the fantasy world and stop the monster invasion! 'Legacy of Defense' combines defense with deck-building. Build your deck, use powerful skills, gain experience, upgrade, clear stages, and defeat the final boss. Ready to test your strategy and luck?
Deck of Haunts
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tower Lab.
Deck of Haunts invites you to become a malevolent Haunted House. Lure humans into your cursed halls, manipulate their fears, and drain their essence to grow your power. Use strategy to build your mansion and expand your dark influence, turning your home into a terrifying, inescapable nightmare.
Slay the Spire 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tower Lab.
The iconic roguelike deckbuilder returns. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, and discover relics of immense power in Slay the Spire 2!
Frequently asked about Tower Lab
- Does Tower Lab run on Steam Deck?
- Tower Lab 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 Tower Lab cost?
- Tower Lab is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Tower Lab?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Tower Lab are Legacy of Defense, Axom: Conquest, ploink.
- Who developed Tower Lab?
- Tower Lab was developed by Devon Powell, Xueer Zhu and published by Devon Powell, Xueer Zhu.
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 Tower Lab.
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