Games like Pelikeeper
If Pelikeeper is your kind of game, the closest matches are Malón, Hallway Defender and Ash & Adam's Existential Treads — 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 Pelikeeper: Pelikeeper is a tower defense & base building comfort-strategy game where you play as the last pelican in a world swallowed by a shadowy fog. Build up and defend the settlement around your lighthouse, rescue lost animal neighbors, and return constellations to the cosmos.
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Steam players who put hours into Pelikeeper 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.
Malón
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Top pick for Pelikeeper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Pelikeeper.
From the plains in the Pampas to the most hostile places in the untamed Patagonia: Manage your own frontier outpost, build new structures, train soldiers, and survive relentless attacks from the enemy.
Hallway Defender
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Second-strongest match for Pelikeeper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Pelikeeper.
Hallway Defender is a roguelite tower defense where you defend your base from an endless wave of fellow classmates. With over 25 different towers and even more upgrades and effects there are infinite ways to set up your own defenses.
Ash & Adam's Existential Treads
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Third-strongest match for Pelikeeper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Pelikeeper.
A mini action city-builder in a post-post-apocalyptic world. Grow your settlement. Fend off waves of enemies. Restore nature.
Hex Tower Boogie
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Ranked #4 for Pelikeeper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pelikeeper.
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.
The Hidden Evils Club
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Ranked #5 for Pelikeeper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Pelikeeper.
When Weird Hill begins to fall, a strange school club becomes the town’s last line of defense. Build towers, manage resources, trade with survivors, command unusual heroes, and protect the heart of the town from escalating zombie waves.
StrategySteam ↗Stormbridge
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Ranked #6 for Pelikeeper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Pelikeeper.
Can you build the longest bridge before the storm catches up? Stormbridge is a roguelite city builder about growth, survival, and watching everything fall apart. Stay ahead of the danger, unlock upgrades between runs, and uncover the storm’s origin.
Monsters are Coming!
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Ranked #7 for Pelikeeper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Pelikeeper.
Beware, Monsters are Coming! In this Tower-Survivor rogue-lite, you protect an ever-moving city from unrelenting hordes. Gather resources, fortify defences, and survive for as long as you can. Will you reach the Ark?
Let Them Trade
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Ranked #8 for Pelikeeper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pelikeeper.
Build a network of cities that produce and trade resources, upgrade your castle, and protect the cities from cheeky bandits. Tinker with the economy at your own pace, and watch the charming wooden world grow into a lively and thriving kingdom.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pelikeeper.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Pelikeeper.
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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pelikeeper.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pelikeeper.
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.
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pelikeeper.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Pelikeeper.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pelikeeper.
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.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pelikeeper.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
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Frequently asked about Pelikeeper
- What games are most similar to Pelikeeper?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Pelikeeper are Malón, Hallway Defender, Ash & Adam's Existential Treads.
- Who developed Pelikeeper?
- Pelikeeper was developed by Merge Conflict Studio.
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 Pelikeeper.
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