Games like Hearthguard
If Hearthguard is your kind of game, the closest matches are Wandering Monolith: Rogue TD, Endless Defense and Underground Security Inc — 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.
Endless Defense
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Second-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.
Underground Security Inc
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Third-strongest match 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.
Axom: Conquest
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Ranked #4 for Hearthguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hearthguard.
Build and defend your fortress while expanding out in this hold-out tower defense roguelite. Battle across a procedural alien homeworld, fight back corrupted terrain, discover hundreds of structures and upgrades as physics-driven swarms threaten to wipe out humanity.
Sushi Cat - Tower Defense
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Ranked #5 for Hearthguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hearthguard.
Battle back waves of rogue sushi in this cute-but-chaotic roguelite tower defense! Build, upgrade, and reshape the battlefield each run.
Sunbreak War
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Ranked #6 for Hearthguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hearthguard.
A light Rogue strategy game centered on building and defense. Build your territory, recruit soldiers to fend off enemies. 9 maps, 6 weapons (30 talents), 40 monsters, 30 units/buildings. Plan your pace, control soldiers, choose abilities—enjoy command and strategy.
Nordhold: Origins
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Ranked #7 for Hearthguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hearthguard.
Immerse yourself in Nordhold: Origins, a tower defense game with high replayability. Build a medieval Nordic village, develop its economy, and defend it with unique towers and upgrades. Choose heroes and relics, compete on leaderboards, and aim for the Valhalla rank!
Repel The Rifts
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Ranked #8 for Hearthguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hearthguard.
Repel the Rifts is a roguelite tower defense game where you lead a commander through an alien world, uncovering new terrain each wave, drafting powerful upgrades, and constructing defenses to hold back the chaos.
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, Endless Defense, Underground Security Inc.
- 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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