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Games like Grove Keeper

If Grove Keeper is your kind of game, the closest matches are Towers & Goblins: The Last Stand, Ants Times Infinity and Arise Dark Lord — 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.

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About Grove Keeper: In this Dark-Fantasy, RTS game, you play the role of a Forest Deity protecting your Grove against an onslaught of loggers, warriors and poachers. Use your powers to grow trees, summon guardians, set traps, and employ magic to defend, and eventually conquer your human oppressors.

StrategyWindowsby Steep Summit Studios
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Steam players who put hours into Grove Keeper 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.

  1. Towers & Goblins: The Last Stand

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Grove Keeper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Grove Keeper.

    Build towers, manage resources, and lead units to defend your kingdom against goblins. Every decision you make determines your kingdom's fate.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Ants Times Infinity

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Grove Keeper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Grove Keeper.

    Craft your nest underground, finding powerful combinations of chambers and pheromones to build the perfect ant-spawning engine. Then unleash them in their thousands onto the surface, directing workers to fuel the swarm while soldiers and champions push out to conquer enemy territories.

    StrategySteam ↗
  3. Arise Dark Lord

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Grove Keeper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Grove Keeper.

    You are The Dark Lord! Raise an evil army, and crush the race of men. An action-strategy hybrid RTS, blending tower defence, base building and direct control of your Dark Lord avatar, currently in early development.  

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  4. Dwarven Rampart

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Grove Keeper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Grove Keeper.

    Raise massive armies and fight thousands of enemies. Dwarven Rampart is a fantasy roguelite strategy game where you build dwarven cities and fight massive fights. How long can you survive?

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation6.39 USDSteam ↗
  5. Throneguard: Last Stand

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Grove Keeper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Grove Keeper.

    Become the last guardian of the kingdom and defend the throne! Fight on the front lines with your sword, build barricades and towers between waves, and upgrade your hero. Throneguard: Last Stand is a 3D medieval action tower defense game.

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  6. Defend Our Land

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Grove Keeper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Grove Keeper.

    10 Lanes. 1 Base. Classic grid-based tactical defense. Defend Our Land is a high-octane lane-defense strategy game inspired by classic grid-placement mechanics. Build a booming economy, position your units, and hold back relentless enemy waves attacking across 10 front lines simultaneously.

    StrategySteam ↗
  7. Flip TD - Tower Defense

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Grove Keeper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Grove Keeper.

    Flip Tower Defense on it's head in Flip TD. Flip your world upside down to defend with towers, upgrades, modifiers, powers, and more. Build custom worlds with the in-game world builder and share them online to compete for high scores in the community leaderboards.

    2024StrategyIndieCasual3.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Sorcs: Siege Chronicles

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Grove Keeper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Grove Keeper.

    Sorcs: Siege Chronicles is an indie 3D tower defense with: - Free positioning for towers - FPS mode - Configurable AI for towers - 4 skill trees - 25 levels with 3 difficulty modes - 20-25 hours to complete 100%

    2021StrategyIndie12.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. 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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Grove Keeper.

    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!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  3. SuchArt: Creative Space

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Moonring

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    A dark-fantasy, turn-based, retro-fusion of classic turn-based RPGs and roguelikes, all presented with a unique neon aesthetic.

    2023RPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. DFHack - Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Grove Keeper.

    Extensions for Dwarf Fortress, including bugfixes, interface improvements, automation agents, design blueprints, modding building blocks, and other tools.

    2023StrategySimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. 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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Grove Keeper.

    A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!

    2020StrategyIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗
  8. Nazi Zombies

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Nazi Zombies is a cooperative survival game where players fend off escalating waves of Nazi zombies, earning points by killing zombies and repairing barriers to buy weapons, upgrades, perks, and unlock new map areas to maximize their survival.

    2026ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Grove Keeper

What games are most similar to Grove Keeper?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Grove Keeper are Towers & Goblins: The Last Stand, Ants Times Infinity, Arise Dark Lord.
Who developed Grove Keeper?
Grove Keeper was developed by Steep Summit Studios.

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 Grove Keeper.

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