Games like Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns
If Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns is your kind of game, the closest matches are Chaos Rune : Heroes, Heroes And Calls and Hear My Cult — 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 Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns: The legendary medieval strategy adventure has returned – enhanced for a new generation of knights. Conquer provinces, raise armies, storm castles, and influence the balance of power through bold strategy and action moments.
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Chaos Rune : Heroes
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Top pick for Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns.
Chaos Rune Heroes is a lightweight roguelike game with fast-paced, turn-based + real-time mechanics. You must survive within a limited time and complete specific challenges to advance to the next round. Get ready for this chaotic brawl!
Heroes And Calls
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Second-strongest match for Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns.
On a fantasy continent ravaged by endless war, train heroes, collect powerful treasures, summon a variety of unique creatures, build multiple one-of-a-kind armies, defeat formidable enemies, battle other players, and become the supreme ruler of the land.
Hear My Cult
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Third-strongest match for Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns.
Build a Cult. Command an Army. Earn the Favor of Ancient Gods. Recruit followers, summon terrifying creatures, perform forbidden rituals, and forge a different army every run in this dark fantasy roguelite.
Balkanija
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Ranked #4 for Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns.
My name is Hanko, I am 14 years old. Because I'm already an adult, my parents married me to Zoya. They gave me a room in the house and a horse with a cart. Now I have to change this world.
Astral Arena
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Ranked #5 for Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns.
Monster Taming meets Rogue-Lite Real-Time Combat! Build your team of Astrals and customize their skills with the modular ability system!
Match In Peace
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Ranked #6 for Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns.
Match in Peace is a pair-matching real-time roguelike. Monster pairs are hiding inside cursed tombstones, match them to unleash their unique effects. Use special Stone cards, powerful Statues and magical Potions to defeat haunting enemies ahead.
Aestheta
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Ranked #7 for Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns.
A roguelike royalelike about warriors from across space and time, fighting to claim a wish from the Star of Aestheta. Strategize your tactics, enhance your troops, and outwit your opponents to rise to the top!
Night Vigil
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Ranked #8 for Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns.
Come and hunt the monsters of the night! Destroy waves of monsters and welcome the dawn of victory!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
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Priced ~41% under Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~41% under Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~71% under Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~56% under Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~63% under Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
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Priced ~53% under Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~71% under Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns.
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.
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!
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
Tails Noir: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
Moonring
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns.
A dark-fantasy, turn-based, retro-fusion of classic turn-based RPGs and roguelikes, all presented with a unique neon aesthetic.
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Frequently asked about Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns
- Does Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns run on Steam Deck?
- Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns cost?
- Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns is listed on Steam at 16.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns are Chaos Rune : Heroes, Heroes And Calls, Hear My Cult.
- Who developed Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns?
- Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns was developed by Black Tower Basement and published by Nordcurrent Labs.
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