Games like Hold the Core
If Hold the Core is your kind of game, the closest matches are X-Morph: Defense, Sanctum 2 and Infested Planet — 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 Hold the Core: Hold the Core is a roguelite tower defense game about trading safety for power. Draft Risk Cards, shape enemy routes, evolve towers, and survive deadly enemies and bosses.
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Steam players who put hours into Hold the Core 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.
X-Morph: Defense
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Top pick for Hold the Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Hold the Core.
Unique fusion of a top-down shooter and tower defense strategy. You are the invader! Use destructive weapons or lead your enemies into a maze of towers. Strategize in the build mode by carefully selecting various types of alien towers or throw yourself right into the heat of the battle.
Sanctum 2
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Second-strongest match for Hold the Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Hold the Core.
Sanctum 2 is the sequel to the world’s first Tower Defense/FPS hybrid game. Pick from four unique character classes and embark on a mission to protect the oxygen-producing Cores from hordes of deadly aliens who are threatened by their existence.
Infested Planet
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Third-strongest match for Hold the Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Hold the Core.
Command a team of 5 elite soldiers against an alien horde of 100,000. Surrounded on all sides, you must outmaneuver and outsmart the enemy.
Anomaly: Warzone Earth
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Ranked #4 for Hold the Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Hold the Core.
Lead an armored squad through the perils of this reversed tower defense action-strategy game!
Sanctum
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Ranked #5 for Hold the Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Hold the Core.
You think Tower Defense games are all about building? You thought wrong. Sanctum is not your average Tower Defense title. When the havoc starts, you get to join the fray! As one of the world’s first First Person Shooter - Tower Defense games, Sanctum has taken the best of both worlds to deliver an epic, one-of-a-kind experience.
Unstoppable Gorg
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Ranked #6 for Hold the Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Hold the Core.
Defend the solar system from fearsome aliens by sending satellites into orbit in revolutionary tower defense action!
Anomaly Defenders
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Ranked #7 for Hold the Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Hold the Core.
Anomaly Defenders is the closing installment of the Anomaly series. The original incarnation of the Tower Offense sub-genre had players controlling humans fighting alien invaders. Now, the tables have turned. The human counterattack is underway and the alien homeworld is under threat.
The Riftbreaker
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Ranked #8 for Hold the Core fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Hold the Core.
The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Hold the Core at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~83% under Hold the Core on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Hold the Core.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~50% under Hold the Core on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Hold the Core.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
The Test
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Priced ~66% under Hold the Core on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hold the Core.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~75% under Hold the Core on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hold the Core.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~83% under Hold the Core on Steam right now. Shares Action with Hold the Core.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
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Priced ~50% under Hold the Core on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Hold the Core.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Super Hexagon
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Priced ~50% under Hold the Core on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Hold the Core.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Nodebuster
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Priced ~50% under Hold the Core on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hold the Core.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Hold the Core.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hold the Core.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Hold the Core.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
SCP: Secret Laboratory
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Hold the Core.
Deep within a secure underground facility, a sudden containment breach allows many of the secured anomalies to escape from their chambers. Assist the Foundation in re-securing the facility, help the Insurgency in their goal to capture it, or wreak havoc as an SCP in a frantic bid to escape.
Splitgate
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Hold the Core.
Splitgate is a free-to-play, fast-paced multiplayer shooter that features player-controlled portals. This sci-fi shooter takes the FPS genre to a new dimension with its portal mechanics, delivering high-flying, multi-dimensional combat.
Limbus Company
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
As the Executive Manager of Limbus Company, lead your group of twelve Sinners, venture into the buried facilities of Lobotomy Corporation, and lay claim on the Golden Boughs.
Clicker Heroes
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hold the Core.
Click your way through hordes of monsters, earn gold, and recruit quirky heroes with powerful skills. Progress even while you're idle, and watch the numbers climb into the absurd. It’s a never-ending journey of clicks, crits, and colossal damage.
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Other recommendable Steam games by Faven Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Bitloop
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Another title from Faven Games, the studio behind Hold the Core. Shares Action and Indie with Hold the Core.
You steer a drone's orbit while it fires for you. Ride close to break the vault faster, ride wide to live longer. Strip the ring, crack the core, fall to the next vault. A one-stick roguelite about orbital mining.
Conquer for Glory
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Another title from Faven Games, the studio behind Hold the Core. Shares Action and Strategy with Hold the Core.
A side-on strategy game about raising armies and conquering a dark fantasy world. Lead one of eight races, break the enemy line with troops, monsters and unique abilities, and take the map kingdom by kingdom.
Roll and Die
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Another title from Faven Games, the studio behind Hold the Core. Shares Strategy with Hold the Core.
A push-your-luck dice roguelite. Greed gets you power. Greed gets you killed. Keep the rolls you like, push the rest, and pray you do not hit a skull. Climb the Pit to the god who runs it.
Unknown Contact
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Another title from Faven Games, the studio behind Hold the Core. Shares Indie with Hold the Core.
A short underwater horror game where you pilot a one-person submarine into a lightless trench, tracking a signal that has started answering back.
Frequently asked about Hold the Core
- How much does Hold the Core cost?
- Hold the Core is listed on Steam at 5.94 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Hold the Core?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hold the Core are X-Morph: Defense, Sanctum 2, Infested Planet.
- Who developed Hold the Core?
- Hold the Core was developed by Faven Games.
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 Hold the Core.
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