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Games like Dungeon Warfare

If Dungeon Warfare is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dreadful Defenders, Bioguard and Gregg: Tower Defence — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and intense. 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 Dungeon Warfare: Dungeon Warfare is a challenging tower defense strategy game where you become a dungeon lord to defend your dungeons with deadliest of traps and insidious contraptions against greedy adventurers and wanna-be heroes.

2015StrategyIndie9.99 USDWindows · macOS · Linuxby Valsar
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Steam players who put hours into Dungeon Warfare 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. Dreadful Defenders

    WHY THIS

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

    Choose an ancient deity to worship and use its power to defeat the unbelievers. Find Relics with eldritch abilities. Summon dreadful Defenders with unique traits, control the path by placing them, and combine their Benedictions to create otherworldly synergies!

    StrategySteam ↗
  2. Bioguard

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Dungeon Warfare.

    Second-strongest match for Dungeon Warfare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dungeon Warfare.

    Bioguard is a tower defense roguelite with a biological theme. Help the immune system using a variety of towers, skills and special cards. Develop your strategy to protect your body from invading pathogens and prevent their passage to vital organs!

    2024StrategyIndie2.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Gregg: Tower Defence

    WHY THIS

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

    Play as Gregg. Gather, build and destroy your slimy enemies in this thrilling pixel art tower defence!

    2024ActionStrategy3.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Anx Defense

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Dungeon Warfare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dungeon Warfare.

    Defend your Nexus by placing mirrors and buildings on the path of your projectiles. Deflect, empower, manage and solve each map using your creative and strategic mind.

    2023StrategyIndieCasual9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Dwarven Village

    WHY THIS

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

    Dwarven Village is a tower defense game that you place your units to enemy paths and towers to the sides to support, Open chests, Unlock new troops & towers and use synergies between them

    2026StrategyCasualSteam ↗
  6. 主动防御(Active Defense)

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Dungeon Warfare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dungeon Warfare.

    This is a strategy tower defense game where players need to choose the appropriate defense towers based on different maps and enemies. The game also offers a variety of defense towers, maps, and an endless mode waiting to be unlocked by the players!

    2023StrategyIndieCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Hex Tower Boogie

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Dungeon Warfare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dungeon Warfare.

    Hex Tower Boogie is a tower defense game about stacking absurd combos. A cannon that one-shots everything every 10 seconds? Sure. A homing splash tower? Take it. Homing + multishot + piercing + bonus damage on one bullet? ...yeah, you can have that too.

    2026StrategyIndieCasualSteam ↗
  8. Oh My Gore!

    WHY THIS

    Shares an intense mood with Dungeon Warfare.

    Ranked #8 for Dungeon Warfare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dungeon Warfare.

    Control the Powers of Evil to crush the Good Guys! Take control of the revived God of War Raelius, recruit evil minions, build bastions of doom and command your groveling servants.

    2016StrategyIndie1.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Dungeon Warfare

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Orcs Must Die!

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Dungeon Warfare.

    Reviewers of Dungeon Warfare cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dungeon Warfare.

    Slice them, burn them, skewer them, and launch them - no matter how you get it done, orcs must die in this fantasy action-strategy game from Robot Entertainment.

    2011ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Orcs Must Die! 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares endless mode and an intense mood with Dungeon Warfare.

    Reviewers of Dungeon Warfare cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dungeon Warfare.

    You’ve tossed, burned and sliced them by the thousands – now orcs must die more than ever before! Grab a friend and slay orcs in untold numbers in this sequel to the 2011 AIAS Strategy Game of the Year from Robot Entertainment.

    2012ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Orcs Must Die! 3

    WHY THIS

    Shares an intense mood with Dungeon Warfare.

    Reviewers of Dungeon Warfare cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dungeon Warfare.

    Slice, burn, toss, zap, grind and gib massive hordes of repugnant orcs in this long-awaited successor to the award-winning Orcs Must Die! series.

    2021ActionStrategyIndie29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Dungeon Warfare 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Dungeon Warfare.

    Reviewers of Dungeon Warfare cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dungeon Warfare.

    Become a dungeon lord to defend your dungeons with the deadliest of traps and insidious contraptions against greedy adventurers and wannabe heroes.

    2018StrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Tower Tactics: Liberation

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Dungeon Warfare.

    Reviewers of Dungeon Warfare cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dungeon Warfare.

    We fused deck-building roguelikes and tower defenses in a way never seen before - deploy your towers, collect valuable trinkets and cast powerful spells to defend yourself against the Salkoth!

    2023StrategyIndie6.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Spirits of the Hellements - TD

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Dungeon Warfare.

    Reviewers of Dungeon Warfare cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Dungeon Warfare.

    Assemble legendary Spirits and defend against the endless hordes of Hell. A tower defense where you must shape the battlefield and create a maze using the three Hellements. Use Fire, Lightning, and Wind tiles to trap your enemies, or augment your defenses.

    2022Strategy11.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Dungeon Warfare cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Dungeon Warfare.

    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.

    2009Strategy4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Dungeon Warfare 3

    WHY THIS

    Shares endless mode and an atmospheric mood with Dungeon Warfare.

    Reviewers of Dungeon Warfare cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Dungeon Warfare.

    Forge invincible defenses with lethal traps and devious machines, and crush relentless waves of adventurers in the ultimate tower defense showdown!

    2025ActionStrategy18.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dungeon Warfare at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Dungeon Warfare on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dungeon Warfare.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Dungeon Warfare on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dungeon Warfare.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Dungeon Warfare on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dungeon Warfare.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Dungeon Warfare on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dungeon Warfare.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~90% under Dungeon Warfare on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dungeon Warfare.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Dungeon Warfare on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Dungeon Warfare.

    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.

    2009Strategy4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Dungeon Warfare on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dungeon Warfare.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Brotato

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Dungeon Warfare on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dungeon Warfare.

    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.

    2023ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dungeon Warfare.

    The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dungeon Warfare.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dungeon Warfare.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

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

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dungeon Warfare.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dungeon Warfare.

    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.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dungeon Warfare.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Steam Engine Simulator

    WHY THIS

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

    The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.

    2023SimulationFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Dungeon Warfare

How much does Dungeon Warfare cost?
Dungeon Warfare is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Dungeon Warfare?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dungeon Warfare are Dreadful Defenders, Bioguard, Gregg: Tower Defence.
Who developed Dungeon Warfare?
Dungeon Warfare was developed by Valsar.

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 Dungeon Warfare.

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