Games like Hold The Mine
If Hold The Mine is your kind of game, the closest matches are The King is Watching, Frogrammer and Gem Miner TD — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its endless mode leaderboard competition, leaderboard competition feels fair and challenging. 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 Hold The Mine: Explore and defend your mine against waves of monsters in this innovative roguelike survival game! Collect and manage your resources, discover buildings with unique effects and unleash mighty heroes to hold monsters out of the mine until the sun rises.
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The King is Watching
WHY THIS
Shares tower defense, wave based survival and a whimsical mood with Hold The Mine.
Top pick for Hold The Mine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Hold The Mine.
The King is Watching is a roguelite kingdom builder. Rule by the power of your royal gaze! Decide between producing resources, training armies, or balancing both, while adapting to unique events every run
Frogrammer
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Hold The Mine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Hold The Mine.
Hire the right Frogrammers and fight off the bugs in this tug-of-war strategy auto-battler. Manage your resources, leverage synergies, exploit enemy weaknesses and fight your way to the source of the horde. Hold on to your tadpoles and SQUASH.THE.BUGS.
Gem Miner TD
WHY THIS
Shares difficulty modes, tower defense, grindy and a competitive mood with Hold The Mine.
Third-strongest match for Hold The Mine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Hold The Mine.
Mine. Maze. Merge. Survive. Dig for powerful gems, merge them into game-breaking towers, stack buffs, and pick roguelike perks to build wild synergies. Do not let enemies drag your miner to the lava!
SkyShard: City Battler
WHY THIS
Shares build variety, skill tree progression, indie and a competitive mood with Hold The Mine.
Ranked #4 for Hold The Mine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Hold The Mine.
City Building Auto Battler! Build your kingdom with powerful weapons, walls, houses, and endless synergies, then battle other players in asynchronous multiplayer, or overcome various solo challenges.
Endless Tactics
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Hold The Mine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Hold The Mine.
A turn-based tactics roguelite about defending a planetary mining expedition, upgrading your starship, and extracting before alien hordes overrun you.
A Dungeon Is You
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Hold The Mine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Hold The Mine.
You died and got reincarnated as a dungeon core! Grow your dungeon, summon minions to defend you and conquer the world. A Dungeon Is You is a modern incremental dungeon management game. With a sprinkle of tower defense and rpg.
Endless Escalation
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Hold The Mine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Hold The Mine.
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.
Pickaxe Friends
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Hold The Mine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Hold The Mine.
《Pickaxe Friends》 is a deck-building roguelike defense game set against the backdrop of cute miners and their intense mining adventures. Design your own synergy decks, master counters and timing, and hold the line against waves of incoming enemies. Thrilling action and deep strategy await you!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Hold The Mine
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The Binding of Isaac
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Hold The Mine.
Reviewers of Hold The Mine cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Now 20% More Evil with the Free Halloween update!
Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Hold The Mine.
Reviewers of Hold The Mine cross-mention this title as a similar play.
You are Tiny, a nerdy inventor, who tries to reclaim his most beloved possession - Grandpa's underpants!
Rogue Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Hold The Mine.
Reviewers of Hold The Mine cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Rogue Legacy is a genealogical rogue-"LITE" where anyone can be a hero. Each time you die, your child will succeed you. Every child is unique. One child might be colorblind, another might be a dwarf with vertigo. But that's OK, because no one is perfect, and you don't have to be to succeed.
Risk of Rain 2
WHY THIS
Shares build variety and a challenging mood with Hold The Mine.
Reviewers of Hold The Mine cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Hold The Mine.
Reviewers of Hold The Mine cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Hold The Mine.
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!
Defense Tower Simulator
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Hold The Mine cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Hold The Mine.
Welcome to Tower Defense Simulator and prepare yourself to protect your kingdom from different monsters! Join this game and prepare to many exciting missions with this great game!
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Hold The Mine.
Reviewers of Hold The Mine cross-mention this title as a similar play.
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!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Hold The Mine at current Steam store prices.
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Hold The Mine on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Hold The Mine.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Hold The Mine on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Hold The Mine.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Hold The Mine.
Priced ~58% under Hold The Mine on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Hold The Mine.
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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Hold The Mine on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Hold The Mine.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Hold The Mine on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Hold The Mine.
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.
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Hold The Mine on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Hold The Mine.
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.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Hold The Mine on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Hold The Mine.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Hold The Mine on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Hold The Mine.
Command or corrupt an entire galaxy in the definitive Star Wars strategy collection. It is a time of galactic civil war. Will you take up the reins of the Rebellion, assume control of the Empire, or rule the Star Wars Underworld?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Hold The Mine.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Hold The Mine.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Hold The Mine.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
《Shape of Dreams: Prologue》is a unique game that blends action roguelite with MOBA-style gameplay. Edit your character's Memories to create your own champion. Face all challenges alone or play with friends in up to 4-player co-op.
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Frequently asked about Hold The Mine
- Does Hold The Mine run on Steam Deck?
- Hold The Mine 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 Hold The Mine cost?
- Hold The Mine is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Hold The Mine?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hold The Mine are The King is Watching, Frogrammer, Gem Miner TD.
- Who developed Hold The Mine?
- Hold The Mine was developed by Hookaria Games and published by Goblinz Publishing, Gamirror Games.
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