Games like NodalBastion
If NodalBastion is your kind of game, the closest matches are Loop Alchemist, Idle Casino Empire and Endless Void: Idle Tower Defence — 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 NodalBastion: Defend the last AI core in a minimalist incremental game as you manage resources, upgrade your network, and unleash powerful skills. Resist humanity’s onslaught!
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Loop Alchemist
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Top pick for NodalBastion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with NodalBastion.
You wake up in an unknown land. Again. Use the experience from every past life and your ever-growing knowledge of alchemy to extend each life through a robust alchemical system. Explore, break through and uncover all the world has to offer in this minimalist RPG distilled down to its purest form
Idle Casino Empire
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Second-strongest match for NodalBastion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with NodalBastion.
An idle casino tycoon where you build the floor, then rig it. Turn casino psychology into upgrades. Play blackjack, roulette, and slots in Owner Mode. Use the Owner's Edge to cheat: nudge reels, peek at hidden cards, read marked cards. Twelve games, eight venues, a prestige loop. The house is you.
Endless Void: Idle Tower Defence
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Third-strongest match for NodalBastion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with NodalBastion.
Shoot. Upgrade. Die. Repeat. Defend against endless swarms in this minimalist idle tower defense. Construct an impenetrable fortress, research game-breaking tech, craft legendary gear, and harness cosmic abilities like Black Holes and Orbital Strikes. How deep into the Void can you survive?
Gamblers Table
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Ranked #4 for NodalBastion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with NodalBastion.
Gamblers Table is an incremental game where you toss coins to earn money. Buy bigger and better coins, unlock upgrades and hire little helpers to automate the process and take care of all the busy flipping work for you. Simple. Satisfying. Strangely compelling...
Attrition Line
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Ranked #5 for NodalBastion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with NodalBastion.
A factory game about building an army. Mine, smelt, and manufacture soldiers on an assembly line, then send them to fight a swarm that grows every hour. The more you automate, the bigger your army. Fall behind and the line breaks.
ECHIDNA
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Ranked #6 for NodalBastion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with NodalBastion.
A dead god drifts in the dark. Build a salvage fleet that carves it apart cell by cell, and watch a colossal carcass melt into a storm of flying debris and climbing numbers. Strip it to the bone then evolve and start again on something bigger.
Immunica
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Ranked #7 for NodalBastion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with NodalBastion.
Become the immune system. Hover to kill. Weapons fire automatically. Manage your research lab, hire scientists, and develop a vaccine while fighting off endless pathogen hordes.
System Ascension: Idle Core
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Ranked #8 for NodalBastion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with NodalBastion.
Take control of The System. Master multiple interlocking power sources to build a singular, planetary engine in this narrative idle game. Features a fully voiced story, minimalist UI, and cross-platform play. The old world must fall for The System to rise.
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Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with NodalBastion.
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Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with NodalBastion.
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.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with NodalBastion.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with NodalBastion.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with NodalBastion.
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.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with NodalBastion.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with NodalBastion.
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.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with NodalBastion.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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- What games are most similar to NodalBastion?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside NodalBastion are Loop Alchemist, Idle Casino Empire, Endless Void: Idle Tower Defence.
- Who developed NodalBastion?
- NodalBastion was developed by BNStudio.
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