Games like Neon Colony
If Neon Colony is your kind of game, the closest matches are Parallax Blue, Biofactory and CypherWars — 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 Neon Colony: Neon Colony is an isometric tower defense game where you build your own road to access and harvest the resources of an alien planet. Deal with the resistance of the local population and fulfill this noble mission for your generous corporate benefactors.
Players who liked Neon Colony also play
Steam players who put hours into Neon Colony 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.
Parallax Blue
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Top pick for Neon Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Neon Colony.
A strategy tower defence where you create the towers! Gather resources, build towers, defeat bugs, and survive. Unlock new weapons, create towers, gather resources, and die. Don't fall short of the Company's expectations... these resources are worth more than any life, including yours.
Biofactory
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Neon Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Neon Colony.
Build your living factory using organs and fleshy biomachines. Combine your pulsating machines to automate and scale up production. Mine, harvest, produce and assemble weird materials in a grimdark biopunk setting. You are an evolving hive-mind brain, driven by one instinct: The factory must grow.
CypherWars
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Neon Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Neon Colony.
Buy low, sell high, maximize your profits, but don't get caught in this cyberpunk arbitrage simulator roguelite!
Null and Void
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Ranked #4 for Neon Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Neon Colony.
Null and Void is a darkly satirical deckbuilding tower defence where even death doesn't free you from debt - your clone just inherits the bill. Only mining pays enough to survive and that means destroying entire worlds, but hey, there are always more planets.
Axom: Conquest
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Ranked #5 for Neon Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Neon Colony.
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.
Kev-Inn's Packaging Facility
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Neon Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Neon Colony.
Kev-Inn's Packaging Facility is a block-dropping strategy roguelike that involves scoring boxes on a grid. Use different combinations of boxes and items to up your score, and gain combo to earn even more points! Purchase wacky upgrades for boxes, and navigate around your limited inventory!
Incremental Orbits
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Ranked #7 for Neon Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Neon Colony.
A short and relaxing incremental game about discovering and exploring the planets of our solar system
Cubic Currency
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Ranked #8 for Neon Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Neon Colony.
Get dice, use abilities, make deals- then profit! Cubic Currency is a game all about trading dice for cash- chasing after an ever increasing rent payment week-after-week, and dealing with all the insanity the future has to offer! From aliens, to tech, to cultish corporate leaders!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Neon Colony at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Neon Colony on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Neon Colony.
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 ~62% under Neon Colony on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Neon Colony.
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!
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~42% under Neon Colony on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Neon Colony.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~52% under Neon Colony on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Neon Colony.
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 ~62% under Neon Colony on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Neon Colony.
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 ~62% under Neon Colony on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Neon Colony.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~92% under Neon Colony on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Neon Colony.
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 ~62% under Neon Colony on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Neon Colony.
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.
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Neon Colony.
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!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Neon Colony.
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.
PlanetSide 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
PlanetSide 2 is an all-out planetary war, where thousands of players battle as one across enormous continents. Utilize infantry, ground and air vehicles, and teamwork to destroy your enemies in this revolutionary first-person shooter on a massive scale.
Supermarket Together
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Neon Colony.
The multiplayer supermarket has arrived to your neighbourhood for free! Stock your shop space, unlock perks and franchises, hire employees or chase those pesky shoplifters. The more players, the more action!
Kingdom: Classic
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Neon Colony.
Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.
Mr.Mine
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Neon Colony.
Explore the depths of the earth and uncover hidden treasures in this addictive idle mining game. Unlock the power of your drill with hundreds of upgrades, discover mysterious relics, and unearth priceless gems. Can you master the mines and reveal their deepest secrets? Dive in and dig deep!
Endless Sky
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Neon Colony.
Endless Sky is a 2D space trading and combat game inspired by the classic Escape Velocity series. Work your way up from a relatively wimpy shuttle, cargo ship, or fighter, to a highly upgraded and customized flagship or to a massive fleet of warships or freighters.
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Frequently asked about Neon Colony
- How much does Neon Colony cost?
- Neon Colony is listed on Steam at 12.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Neon Colony?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Neon Colony are Parallax Blue, Biofactory, CypherWars.
- Who developed Neon Colony?
- Neon Colony was developed by ABCA Studios.
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