Games like Holder of Place
If Holder of Place is your kind of game, the closest matches are Against the Horde, Renegade Run and Become the Moon — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and immersive. 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 Holder of Place: Holder of Place is a Roguelike Auto-Battler Card game. Recruit different follower cards, arrange them, watch them fight ever-stronger enemies. Along the way, unfold a dark science-fantasy tale of a ruined kingdom, meet strange characters, and visit exotic locations.
Players who liked Holder of Place also play
Steam players who put hours into Holder of Place 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.
Against the Horde
WHY THIS
Top pick for Holder of Place fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Holder of Place.
A roguelike deckbuilder where you can customise your deck with thousands of unique cards. Upgrade, draft, and buy new cards, and use powerful items on a unique battlefield that favours battlefield movement and card play. Master the five factions and stand Against the Horde.
Renegade Run
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Holder of Place fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Holder of Place.
Renegade Run is a rogue-lite deckbuilder that puts you in the pilot seat of an experimental starship. Discover anomalies, carve your path, and face powerful enemies as you battle your way back to Sector 0.
Become the Moon
WHY THIS
Shares auto battle, deck building and atmospheric with Holder of Place.
Third-strongest match for Holder of Place fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Holder of Place.
Become the Moon is a challenging, deckbuilding auto battler. Choose from 10 unique characters, each with their own distinct playstyles. Assemble a team of powerful minions & cast cosmic spells where every run takes you one step closer to the moon.
Fortuna
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Holder of Place fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Holder of Place.
A roguelite deck-builder based on "Daifugo". If you can't play a card, you take damage: (Field Total) x (Multiplier). Use battle rewards to customize your deck and special cards in the shop. Strategize and upgrade to defeat even stronger enemies!
CATARACT - Autobattler Roguelite Deckbuilder
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Holder of Place fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Holder of Place.
Experience JRPG-inspired autobattles featuring unique combat mechanics. Recruit characters, level them up, choose their skills, loot monsters, and achieve perfect synergy to finally free the realm from the Allseeing's gaze.
StrategySteam ↗Dead Star Prison
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Holder of Place fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Holder of Place.
Dead Star Prison is a unique combination of Deck Building and strategy based Auto-Battling. Build you deck of prisoners and be sure to place them in the most strategic position on the battleground to conquer your enemies in either PVP mode or the single player story mode.
UniverseV: Star Domination
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Ranked #7 for Holder of Place fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Holder of Place.
Conquer the galaxy and defeat the mysterious elder race in this amazing 2D turn-based strategy game. To do this, you will have to build your fleets with different ships equipped with modules of your choice. Your conquest will be supported by special game cards different for each race.
Wyldernook
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Holder of Place fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Holder of Place.
Explore the secrets of the Wyldernook in a multiplayer trading card game for up to 4 players. Build decks around your favorite champions and outwit opponents in simultaneous turn gameplay that keeps every match strategic and engaging.
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Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, procedural generation and an immersive mood with Holder of Place.
Reviewers of Holder of Place cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Holder of Place.
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!
Risk of Rain (2013)
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Holder of Place.
Reviewers of Holder of Place cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Holder of Place.
Risk of Rain is an action platformer with roguelike elements. With permanent death as a primary feature, players will have to play their best to get as far as possible. Fight on a mysterious planet with randomly spawning enemies and bosses, either alone or with 3 friends in online co-op.
Risk of Rain 2
WHY THIS
Shares build variety with Holder of Place.
Reviewers of Holder of Place cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Holder of Place.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Holder of Place at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Holder of Place on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Holder of Place.
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 ~50% under Holder of Place on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Holder of Place.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Holder of Place on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Holder of Place.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Holder of Place on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Holder of Place.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Holder of Place on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Holder of Place.
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 ~50% under Holder of Place on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Holder of Place.
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.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Holder of Place on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Holder of Place.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Holder of Place on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Holder of Place.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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 Holder of Place.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Holder of Place.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Holder of Place.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Holder of Place.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
Cube Escape: Paradox
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Holder of Place.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
Tails Noir: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Holder of Place.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
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Frequently asked about Holder of Place
- Does Holder of Place run on Steam Deck?
- Holder of Place 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 Holder of Place cost?
- Holder of Place is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Holder of Place?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Holder of Place are Against the Horde, Renegade Run, Become the Moon.
- Who developed Holder of Place?
- Holder of Place was developed by Ardent Fields and published by Alibi Games.
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