Games like Pulse Citadel
If Pulse Citadel is your kind of game, the closest matches are Everhex, Emojis vs Zombies and BOYKISSER IS COMING — 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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Everhex
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Top pick for Pulse Citadel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Pulse Citadel.
Build one tower. Hold endless waves. Spend what each wave drops on damage, crit and six weapon mounts firing at once — then bank the run into a 453-node passive tree that carries into the next. A premium incremental tower defence: no ads, no timers, no energy bars.
Emojis vs Zombies
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Second-strongest match for Pulse Citadel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Pulse Citadel.
Emojis vs Zombies is an Idle Desktop Companion Zombie Defense Game! Open packs, Collect Emoji Defenders, Upgrade your squad or base and survive endless waves even while you're AFK or working!
BOYKISSER IS COMING
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Third-strongest match for Pulse Citadel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Pulse Citadel.
A simple tower defense game where you need to protect your house from Boykissers
Core Idle TD
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Ranked #4 for Pulse Citadel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Pulse Citadel.
Protect your base against endless waves. Collect cores from bosses, unlock permanent upgrades, and prestige resets to push further. Refine your setup, survive the swarms, and climb the global leaderboards.
Glorpnauts
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Ranked #5 for Pulse Citadel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Pulse Citadel.
Build it. Automate it. Watch it grow! Glorpnauts is a space incremental where you mine asteroids, expand your fleet, build an automated economy and defend it from pirates. Prestige for permanent upgrades, explore new star systems and turn a tiny base into a thriving space operation.
Barely Outnumbered
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Ranked #6 for Pulse Citadel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Pulse Citadel.
Start with one tower. Kill monsters, earn Scrap, and spend it on more towers and better upgrades. An incremental tower defense where your fortress survives between assaults. Pause whenever you need to plan, then see how far you can push it. Prestige when you're ready to start again, stronger.
Clickore Station
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Ranked #7 for Pulse Citadel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Pulse Citadel.
Defend your station with a click and survive as long as you can. Destroy the enemies, mine the deposit, then trade your ore for permanent upgrades. Every world has its own ore, its own enemies and its own rules.
Sir, We Have an Orc Problem
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Ranked #8 for Pulse Citadel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Pulse Citadel.
Sir, We Have an Orc Problem is an incremental-style tower defense game where you face an overwhelming number of orcs. Greet them with even more bullets, bombs and lasers!
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Magic Archery
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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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Disfigure
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The Lab
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Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
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An Arcade Full of Cats
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- 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 Everhex, Emojis vs Zombies, BOYKISSER IS COMING.
- Who developed Pulse Citadel?
- Pulse Citadel was developed by Blindsided Games.
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