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.
Players who liked Pelikeeper also play
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
WHY THIS
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.
Kill The Hero
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Ranked #4 for Pelikeeper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Pelikeeper.
A Dungeon Builder, Autobattler and Deckbuilder in one. They call themselves “heroes”. You call them gold suppliers. Dig your domain, build deadly traps, place guards and play powerful cards as ever-stronger “heroes” invade your dungeon. Take their gold and build the World Domination Machine.
StrategySteam ↗Hex Tower Boogie
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Ranked #5 for Pelikeeper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pelikeeper.
A tower defense where towers don't make their own bullets. You build the factory that feeds them: harvest ammo, route it through belts, and stack effects until a single shot homes, pierces, splashes AND one-shots the whole screen.
The Hidden Evils Club
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Ranked #6 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 ↗Advancity
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Ranked #7 for Pelikeeper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Pelikeeper.
Run an empire in this simple and enjoyable city builder strategy management game. Build, research, train, battle, upgrade, expand, and sail, all while managing your citizens and resources. Advancity focuses on fun and progression.
Stormbridge
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Ranked #8 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.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pelikeeper.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
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.
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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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