Games like Pulse Citadel
If Pulse Citadel is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hex Core, Get Stoned and Cosmic Crusher — 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 Pulse Citadel: Pulse Citadel is a compact sci-fi defense game where automated combat powers a hand-built research grid. Route Charge into weapons, abilities, speed, and prestige upgrades until the dormant Citadel comes fully online.
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Steam players who put hours into Pulse Citadel 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.
Hex Core
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Top pick for Pulse Citadel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Pulse Citadel.
Hex Core is a short, incremental clicker-style defense game where you help PeteOS hold back waves of viruses until you can wipe them out for good. Spend resources to unlock a huge spread of upgrades, new mechanics, weapons, and research.
Get Stoned
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Second-strongest match for Pulse Citadel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Get Stoned is an incremental tower defense game where players design their own bullet loadouts. Gather resources, unlock unique boulders, and discover game-breaking synergies while defending your castle. It's time for everything to get stoned!
Cosmic Crusher
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Third-strongest match for Pulse Citadel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Pulse Citadel.
Incremental game about protecting solar system. Destroy asteroids with a huge arsenal of weapons, upgrade your skills through a massive skill tree, and defend the solar system from hostile alien fleets. How far can you go?
Protect the Pit
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Ranked #4 for Pulse Citadel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Pulse Citadel.
A short incremental clicker game that blends the strategy of tower defense with the depth of sprawling upgrade trees. Build your own winding mazes to repel the oncoming hordes!
The Echoes of Mars
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Ranked #5 for Pulse Citadel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Pulse Citadel.
The Echoes of Mars is a voxel-style tower defence game. Defend your research base on Mars from ancient creatures by strategically placing towers and using advanced tech.
Unearthing Invasions
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Ranked #6 for Pulse Citadel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Pulse Citadel.
A 3d tower defense game set in space. Protect the last resource outposts from the ongoing Alien attacks! Can you hold out in these ever increasing difficult waves of enemies and protect the last of your resources and Energy?
THE 4 DEFENDERS
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Ranked #7 for Pulse Citadel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Pulse Citadel.
A game where you will command 4 heroes (TD) in the defense of Earth from an army of AIs. Create cannons, place them in strategic locations, and level up. Each stage increases in difficulty progressively. You will also command the 4 heroes' ships and can even count on the help of a super robot.
Pixel Orbit
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Ranked #8 for Pulse Citadel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Pulse Citadel.
Incremental game about defending Earth from impending danger. Develop your Skill Tree to setup automatic turrets and various other defensive mechanisms.
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Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
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!
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
An Arcade Full of Cats
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
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Frequently asked about Pulse Citadel
- What games are most similar to Pulse Citadel?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Pulse Citadel are Hex Core, Get Stoned, Cosmic Crusher.
- Who developed Pulse Citadel?
- Pulse Citadel was developed by Blindsided Games.
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