Games like Hordeguard: Winds of the North
If Hordeguard: Winds of the North is your kind of game, the closest matches are Painted Kingdoms: Tower Defense & Firefighting, Grumpy Hero Grinder and Haamupeli: Wrath of the Iku-Turso — 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 Hordeguard: Winds of the North: Leap into the heart of a Viking fantasy siege where tower defense meets action combat, strategy, and co-op survival. Gather what you can, raise your defenses, fight beside your friends, and hold the line against an unending horde.
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Painted Kingdoms: Tower Defense & Firefighting
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Top pick for Hordeguard: Winds of the North fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Hordeguard: Winds of the North.
Painted Kingdoms is a minimalist strategy game where you paint, build, and defend your Kingdom of paper. Harness the power of paint to protect it from relentless flames and enemy hordes. Will your Painted Kingdom survive the next wave?
Grumpy Hero Grinder
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Second-strongest match for Hordeguard: Winds of the North fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Hordeguard: Winds of the North.
A satirical tower defense roguelite with chaotic real-time combat. Play as a dungeon boss defending your home from hordes of vicious heroes. Place deadly traps, expand your dungeon, grow stronger, and smash the invaders yourself - all to get back to your well-deserved nap!
Haamupeli: Wrath of the Iku-Turso
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Third-strongest match for Hordeguard: Winds of the North fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hordeguard: Winds of the North.
Haamupeli: Wrath of the Iku-Turso is a fantasy-themed action RPG adventure game about vanquishing an ancient threat. Recruit allies, find powerful items, develop your character and interact with the game world and its inhabitants to archieve your goals.
GloomDelve
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Ranked #4 for Hordeguard: Winds of the North fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hordeguard: Winds of the North.
Bring a friend to the couch: a 100-floor roguelite dungeon crawler with true local split-screen co-op (online too). Draft game-breaking power cards, die, descend again. A Mad Wizard mocks your deaths, and every wall, monster and sword is generated by code, so it runs on a toaster.
Blue Dynasty:Town Defense
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Ranked #5 for Hordeguard: Winds of the North fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Hordeguard: Winds of the North.
Blue Dynasty is a Medieval ARPG/Strategy game that blends TD and Hack and Slash genres with Rogue Lite mechanics. Dominate the map by strengthening your equipment, but remember there is no shield stronger than the city walls. If you are looking for challenging discoveries, the dungeons await you.
OKTORAID
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Ranked #6 for Hordeguard: Winds of the North fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Hordeguard: Winds of the North.
A 2-player local co-op base-defense survivor. You're wired together by a power cable — stay close to share power and hit harder. Scavenge scrap, build a fortress of turrets and walls, then survive OKTO's endless robot siege. Fully solo-playable. Couch co-op & Remote Play Together.
Crypt Crawler
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Ranked #7 for Hordeguard: Winds of the North fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Hordeguard: Winds of the North.
Descend 16 monster-filled levels to close the gate to the Underworld in this top-down tower defense dungeon crawler. Gather resources, discover blueprints, and build defensive towers to slice, dice, zap, and explode undead hordes. Play solo or 2-4 player local co-op.
Action & Automation
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Ranked #8 for Hordeguard: Winds of the North fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Hordeguard: Winds of the North.
Fight directly as a Commander while your automated base keeps working. Gather physical Nuts, build modules and logistics routes, and master three asymmetric machine species in a 2D action-strategy battlefield.
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Hordeguard: Winds of the North.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Hordeguard: Winds of the North.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Hordeguard: Winds of the North.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Hordeguard: Winds of the North.
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The Lab
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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!
DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Hordeguard: Winds of the North.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Hordeguard: Winds of the North.
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!
Electoral Carnage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Hordeguard: Winds of the North.
Electoral Carnage is an absurd 2D fighting game featuring America's most famous (and infamous) politicians. If you don't download it you hate America. Also JFK can assassinate himself. What more do you need to know?
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Frequently asked about Hordeguard: Winds of the North
- Does Hordeguard: Winds of the North have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Hordeguard: Winds of the North supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Hordeguard: Winds of the North?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hordeguard: Winds of the North are Painted Kingdoms: Tower Defense & Firefighting, Grumpy Hero Grinder, Haamupeli: Wrath of the Iku-Turso.
- Who developed Hordeguard: Winds of the North?
- Hordeguard: Winds of the North was developed by Black Deer Games and published by Daedalic Entertainment.
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