Games like Hearthguard
If Hearthguard is your kind of game, the closest matches are Wandering Monolith: Rogue TD, Nightmare Invasion and Endless Defense — 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 Hearthguard: Hearthguard is a tactical tower defense game that rewards clever pathing and strategic placement. Build mazes, upgrade defenses, and hold the line against relentless waves of enemies.
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Wandering Monolith: Rogue TD
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Top pick for Hearthguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hearthguard.
You are the Wandering Monolith, falling from the sky. Summon towers, expand the board, defend your core, and build your deck of upgrades to conquer countless worlds.
Nightmare Invasion
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Second-strongest match for Hearthguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hearthguard.
Nightmare has set its sights on this world, and as the will of the world, you will rely on cards, tower defenses, and urban construction to destroy Nightmare's invasion in the dream
Endless Defense
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Third-strongest match for Hearthguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hearthguard.
Endless Defense is a roguelite sci-fi tower defense game where every run becomes a new build. Place turrets, choose traits, draw upgrade cards, use special tiles, and evolve your defense to survive endless waves of enemies, elites, and bosses.
The Merchant's Eden
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Ranked #4 for Hearthguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hearthguard.
Build a medieval town around a thriving market. Defend your citizens and traveling merchants against raiding bandits. A minimalist game blending cozy city-building and intense tower-defense as you grow and protect your town.
Blue Dynasty:Town Defense
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Ranked #5 for Hearthguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hearthguard.
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.
Underground Security Inc
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Ranked #6 for Hearthguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hearthguard.
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.
Solheim
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Ranked #7 for Hearthguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hearthguard.
Tower defence meets roguelite on a moving fortress. Craft towers from blueprints, stack powerful augments, and fight through escalating biomes in Solheim, a dark fantasy TD unlike any other.
MageGuard Tower
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Ranked #8 for Hearthguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hearthguard.
MageGuard Tower is a roguelike tower defense game where thousands of physics-driven monsters surge toward your crystal. Build, unlock, and adapt across procedurally generated maps in a relentless struggle for survival.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hearthguard.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hearthguard.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hearthguard.
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 Hearthguard.
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 with Hearthguard.
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 Hearthguard.
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.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hearthguard.
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 Hearthguard
- What games are most similar to Hearthguard?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hearthguard are Wandering Monolith: Rogue TD, Nightmare Invasion, Endless Defense.
- Who developed Hearthguard?
- Hearthguard was developed by Sleepy Creepy 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 Hearthguard.
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