Games like Refence
Below are 8 hand-picked alternatives to Refence for fans of strategy, indie, simulation, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in Refence also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
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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Ranked by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries plus content overlap on genres, tags, and developers.
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Feudal Fantasy Incremental
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.
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Pioneer Clicker
Second-strongest match for Refence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Refence.
Clicker game played at the bottom of the screen. A village chief is lost on the road after his village is destroyed by demons. The lord of the village gives him an order to open up a new frontier and cultivate the land. The village chief's hell of endless cultivation begins.
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Goblin Buster: Incremental Tower Defense
Third-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!
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Click Legends
Ranked #4 for Refence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Refence.
Join your Legendary Heroes in a battle for strength in CLICK LEGENDS. A Clicker - Incremental - Management game. Battle your way through a variety of enemies by leveling up your heroes, empowering them, and finding them equipment! Click your way to victory!
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Clicky Coven
Ranked #5 for Refence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Refence.
Clicky Coven is an incremental game about building a witch coven. Assign witches to gather ingredients, brew potions, and sell them to earn gold. Spend gold to get more witches and pick from upgrades to enhance them. Use prestige upgrades to strategize on how you want your coven to become rich.
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Crown Siege
Ranked #6 for Refence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Refence.
A short incremental tower defense game centered around growing and strengthening armies, to defend your kingdom and stop endless waves of enemies.
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CyberTD
Ranked #7 for Refence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Refence.
Mutant viruses threaten the very heart of cyberspace! You'll need the right tactics and the "help" of your support drone to build a deck of terrific upgrades in this innovative deckbuilding tower defense game packed with roguelite elements!
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(the) Gnorp Apologue
Ranked #8 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.
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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, Pioneer Clicker, Goblin Buster: Incremental Tower Defense.
- 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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