Games like Refence
If Refence is your kind of game, the closest matches are Feudal Fantasy Incremental, Goblin Buster: Incremental Tower Defense and Idle Colony — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chill, competitive and contemplative. 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 Refence: Refence is a roguelite based idle defense game, where you can choose heroes and their traits, upgrade your castle, and manage resources to fend off enemies from the Demon Realm who are trying to attack your castle.
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Steam players who put hours into Refence 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.
Feudal Fantasy Incremental
WHY THIS
Shares prestige system, wave based combat, indie and a chill mood with Refence.
Top pick for Refence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Refence.
Feudal Fantasy is a short active incremental game in which you rebuild a town once lost to tragedy as its lord, by managing upgrades, new buildings and recruiting the wisdom of fantasy races.
Goblin Buster: Incremental Tower Defense
WHY THIS
Shares tower defense, wave based combat, grindy and a chill mood with Refence.
Second-strongest match for Refence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Refence.
Goblin Buster is an incremental tower defense game with deep upgrade mechanics. Obliterate annoying goblins, collect materials, discover powerful relics, invest in unique buildings and spend your resources to upgrade towers and magical spells with a massive skill tree!
Idle Colony
WHY THIS
Shares automation, idle progression, indie and a chill mood with Refence.
Third-strongest match for Refence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Refence.
A condensed incremental experience, where you build a colony to collect and merge bigger and bigger fruits. Combine game-changing technologies and special upgrades to find the best synergies and take your cash flow to another dimension.
Don Duality
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Refence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Refence.
Don Duality is a Chaos Manager game with card mechanics. Send your gangsters to the heist and launder money in your restaurant. Hire staff and upgrade your establishment, but remember that life like a roulette wheel and not everything can be fully controlled in Don's journey.
(the) Gnorp Apologue
WHY THIS
Shares prestige system, resource management and a contemplative mood with Refence.
Ranked #5 for Refence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Refence.
(the) Gnorp Apologue is the journey of the gnorps as you guide them towards their goal of delightfully excessive wealth accumulation.
Samawa Idle
WHY THIS
Shares prestige system, automation, grindy and a competitive mood with Refence.
Ranked #6 for Refence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Refence.
Unleash the power of specialized towers to annihilate hordes of monsters in this idle game with roguelike elements. Collect gold, level up your towers, face powerful bosses, and refine your strategy with an evolving skill tree.
Idle Monster TD
WHY THIS
Shares prestige system and a relaxing mood with Refence.
Ranked #7 for Refence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Refence.
An endless Tower Defense game of epic Monsters vs evil War Machines. Unlock and upgrade tons of unique elemental Monsters (Water, Air, Earth, and Fire) to defend your home from an infinite swarm of robots. Strategize the most effective placement of Monsters to synergize their elemental abilities.
Idle Tower Defense
WHY THIS
Shares prestige system, tower defense, grindy and a chill mood with Refence.
Ranked #8 for Refence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Refence.
Idle Tower Defense is a game where you control a single tower to fight off hordes of enemies. No randomization. Choose from a variety of modules to create unique builds and upgrade modules and survive endless waves.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Refence at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Refence on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Refence.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Refence on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Refence.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Refence on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Refence.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Refence on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Refence.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Refence on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Refence.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Refence on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Refence.
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!
Super Hexagon
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Refence on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Refence.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Refence on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with Refence.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
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 Indie with Refence.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Refence.
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?
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 Refence.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Refence.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Refence.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Refence.
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.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Refence.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Frequently asked about Refence
- Does Refence run on Steam Deck?
- Refence 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 Refence cost?
- Refence is listed on Steam at 5.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Refence?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Refence are Feudal Fantasy Incremental, Goblin Buster: Incremental Tower Defense, Idle Colony.
- Who developed Refence?
- Refence was developed by Muurou Tech.
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 Refence.
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