Games like Packed Lair
If Packed Lair is your kind of game, the closest matches are SkyShard: City Battler, 坍塌世界 and Exark — 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 Packed Lair: You are an evil lord with a hero problem and not nearly enough floor space. Draft buildings, pack them into your cramped lair, toil to earn money to expand, create powerful monster synergies, and send your chaotic army of minions to repel wave after wave of heroic do-gooder pests.
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SkyShard: City Battler
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Top pick for Packed Lair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Packed Lair.
City Building Auto Battler! Build your kingdom with powerful weapons, walls, houses, and endless synergies, then battle other players in asynchronous multiplayer, or overcome various solo challenges.
坍塌世界
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Second-strongest match for Packed Lair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Packed Lair.
"Collapsing World" is an innovative tower defense game blending deck-building and roguelike mechanics. Recruit unique companions, craft powerful skill decks, and tackle randomized stages. Deep strategy breaks the traditional TD mold—every run is a fresh challenge!
Exark
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Third-strongest match for Packed Lair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Packed Lair.
Exark is a run-based engine builder where you command a gigantic ark-ship. Construct buildings, hire crew with unique skills, and exploit powerful synergies to survive your voyage to the rim of the world.
Bermuda Bastion
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Ranked #4 for Packed Lair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Packed Lair.
Survive 33 days in the heart of the Bermuda Triangle! Build triangular structures to defend against malevolent squares, pentagons, and other geometric monsters. In this chaotic city-builder roguelike, every mistake pulls your Bastion closer to the depths.
Brofish: Fishing Autobattler
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Ranked #5 for Packed Lair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Packed Lair.
Autobattler Tower Defense Rogue-like about fishing! Reel in creatures with unique abilities and create an overpowered build to fight off waves of undead!
Poly TD
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Ranked #6 for Packed Lair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Packed Lair.
Classic Warcraft III TD customs meet roguelike strategy. Summon and merge units to evolve them into legendary figures like Joan of Arc, Guan Yu, and Lovecraft—Legendary heroes from across time and space await! Prove your ultimate synergy against endless waves of enemies.
Underground Security Inc
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Ranked #7 for Packed Lair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Packed Lair.
Build the most profitable dungeon while repelling parties of adventuring "heroes". Manage minions, mine ores, build traps and collect ancient tomes in this roguelite dungeon defense game.
Aurora Defense
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Ranked #8 for Packed Lair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Packed Lair.
A unique roguelike deckbuilder + base-building tower defense game. Build powerful defenses in the last bastion of light, fend off relentless waves of darkness, and protect the final goddess!
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Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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?
Magic Archery
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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.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Packed Lair.
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!
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Packed Lair.
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!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
A Park Full of Cats
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to 'A Park Full of Cats,' a hidden object game that invites you to revel in the enchanting world of amusement parks! Experience the thrill and excitement of the rides and give those cats the fun they truly deserve!
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- What games are most similar to Packed Lair?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Packed Lair are SkyShard: City Battler, 坍塌世界, Exark.
- Who developed Packed Lair?
- Packed Lair was developed by Fables of Wits.
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