Games like Trash Wars
If Trash Wars is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Endless Harvest, D for Defender and Endless Escalation — 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 Trash Wars: Your turrets don't fire themselves. A tower defense clicker where every shot is yours to take. Build defenses, manage your island economy, and send pollution crashing into the enemy island before they bury you.
Players who liked Trash Wars also play
Steam players who put hours into Trash Wars 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.
The Endless Harvest
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Top pick for Trash Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Trash Wars.
The Endless Harvest is an idle village-builder crossed with a tower defense. Build a farm that earns money on its own, invest it in towers and upgrades, and survive waves of raiders that grow stronger every round. Production continues while the game is closed — how far will you get?
D for Defender
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Second-strongest match for Trash Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trash Wars.
A Tower Defense with no respite, no waves, no end. Facing monsters that learn from your placements and adapt in real time to every one of your weaknesses, build and upgrade your defenses freely to create the perfect trap.
Endless Escalation
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Third-strongest match for Trash Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trash Wars.
A strategy-driven incremental where choices actually matter. Upgrade costs scale together, forcing meaningful trade-offs instead of blindly upgrading everything. Build defenses, specialize your army, and adapt to overcome ever-evolving enemy forces.
OUTWORKS
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Ranked #4 for Trash Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trash Wars.
Build a towering 3D fortress and hold the line. Stack floors, raise walls, and place turrets by altitude to survive escalating swarms of ground and flying machines closing on your core — then watch one collapsing tower take everything with it. A lean, neon, code-built base-defense roguelite.
Overwork Empire
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Ranked #5 for Trash Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trash Wars.
Manage, defend, exploit! As the boss, use cards to build, assign staff, and force overtime for profit in this sim/tower defense/card blend. Experience overtime culture from the boss view.
Axom: Conquest
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Ranked #6 for Trash Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trash Wars.
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.
Remnant Afterglow Tower Defense
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Ranked #7 for Trash Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Trash Wars.
This is a creative and challenging real-time strategy tower defense game where players need to constantly expand, build complex battle lines on the map, and fight against groups of enemies. The game has unique rules and beautiful pixel style, with each level filled with tense and exciting battles.
Chicken Siege
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Ranked #8 for Trash Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Trash Wars.
The chickens have unionised, armed themselves and declared war on your farm. Spend egg income on defences, survive wave after wave of increasingly ridiculous poultry, and climb the live daily leaderboard. Runs are quick, the chaos escalates, and every chicken has a plan. Your farm does not.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Trash Wars at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~86% under Trash Wars on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Trash Wars.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~57% under Trash Wars on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Trash Wars.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
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Priced ~46% under Trash Wars on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Trash Wars.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
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Priced ~72% under Trash Wars on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Trash Wars.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~79% under Trash Wars on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Trash Wars.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~86% under Trash Wars on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Trash Wars.
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.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
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Priced ~57% under Trash Wars on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Trash Wars.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
A Short Hike
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Priced ~43% under Trash Wars on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Trash Wars.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Trash Wars.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Trash Wars.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Trash Wars.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Trash Wars.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Trash Wars.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Trash Wars.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Trash Wars.
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.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Trash Wars.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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Frequently asked about Trash Wars
- How much does Trash Wars cost?
- Trash Wars is listed on Steam at 6.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Trash Wars?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Trash Wars are The Endless Harvest, D for Defender, Endless Escalation.
- Who developed Trash Wars?
- Trash Wars was developed by Particle Games LLC.
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 Trash Wars.
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