Games like Rogue Drone
If Rogue Drone is your kind of game, the closest matches are Don’t Touch My Potato!, Polydangerous and Heart Of Machine — 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 Rogue Drone: A sci-fi mining and base-building game where efficient mining is the key to survival. Gather crystals, expand your colony, upgrade your defenses, and withstand increasingly dangerous nightly attacks.
Players who liked Rogue Drone also play
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Don’t Touch My Potato!
WHY THIS
Top pick for Rogue Drone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Rogue Drone.
Grow your farm by day, build your defenses in the evening, and protect the Potatron from zombie and alien attacks at night.
Polydangerous
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Rogue Drone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Build and defend a mining operation on a distant planet in this tower defense bullet heaven shooter. Build and upgrade defenses, fight off waves of enemies from a rival corporation, and earn enough credits to buy your body back and escape this deep space hellhole.
ActionSteam ↗Heart Of Machine
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Rogue Drone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Rogue Drone.
Heart of Machine blends top-down tower defense with light roguelite elements. Face an evolving mechanical swarm thousands strong, tailor defenses, upgrade towers with chips, and use real-time support weapons to turn the tide. Build an unbreakable line and save the core from destruction.
Crystalia
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Rogue Drone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Rogue Drone.
Crystalia is a first-person tower defense game mixing automation, management and exploration set in a utopian sci-fi world built on crystal extraction. Dig into caves, build autonomous defense zones and uncover the history of a civilization shaped around crystals.
Biletide
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Rogue Drone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Rogue Drone.
An atmospheric tower-defence strategy game about holding back an oozing toxic Tide. A distant mining colony has awakened a living flood that seeps from breaches in the ground. Dig for resources, raise defensive terrain, and burn your way to seal the breaches. Can you survive the Biletide?
Built the End
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Rogue Drone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Rogue Drone.
Harvest resources, build and upgrade towers, and defend your base against escalating waves of robotic enemies in this resource management focused tower defense. Use an arsenal of unique towers and their upgrades against the multitudes of different robots.
Little Kingdom RTS
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Rogue Drone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Rogue Drone.
Little Kingdom RTS is an indie real-time strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Gather resources, build settlements, raise walls, and grow your small kingdom. Command an army of knights, archers, and mages to fight off rival kingdoms, orcs, and undead.
LAST RITE TD
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Rogue Drone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Rogue Drone.
Command humanity’s last defenses in a cinematic sci-fi tower defense game. Build tactical towers, upgrade your arsenal, deploy soldiers, and survive waves of hostile AI forces led by VAELRA.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Rogue Drone at current Steam store prices.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Rogue Drone on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Rogue Drone.
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.
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Rogue Drone on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Rogue Drone.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Rogue Drone on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Rogue Drone.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Rogue Drone on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Rogue Drone.
Command or corrupt an entire galaxy in the definitive Star Wars strategy collection. It is a time of galactic civil war. Will you take up the reins of the Rebellion, assume control of the Empire, or rule the Star Wars Underworld?
Nubby's Number Factory
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Rogue Drone on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Rogue Drone.
A plinko-style roguelike where you work at a number factory. Launch your spherical friend, Nubby, down a pegboard to make bigger and bigger numbers! But beware, if you fail to meet your number quota, the sun will explode.
Monster Train
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Rogue Drone on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Rogue Drone.
Monster Train is a strategic roguelike deck building game with a twist. Set on a train to hell, you’ll use tactical decision making to defend multiple vertical battlegrounds. With real time competitive multiplayer and endless replayability, Monster Train is always on time.
Nodebuster
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Rogue Drone on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Rogue Drone.
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.
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Rogue Drone.
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.
DFHack - Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Rogue Drone.
Extensions for Dwarf Fortress, including bugfixes, interface improvements, automation agents, design blueprints, modding building blocks, and other tools.
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
《Shape of Dreams: Prologue》is a unique game that blends action roguelite with MOBA-style gameplay. Edit your character's Memories to create your own champion. Face all challenges alone or play with friends in up to 4-player co-op.
Wires And Whiskers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Wires and Whiskers is a local co-op action-puzzle game where two players control a lab-engineered gerbil and its magnetic exosuit. Work together to fight mutated enemies, solve magnetic puzzles, and survive in a ruined, post-apocalyptic trench world.
SCP – Containment Breach
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A procedural first-person horror adventure. You are on your own after something goes terribly wrong in this top-secret containment facility. Collect items to aid in your escape and try to uncover the truth, as horror lurks behind every door. Can you make it out alive?
Nazi Zombies
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Nazi Zombies is a cooperative survival game where players fend off escalating waves of Nazi zombies, earning points by killing zombies and repairing barriers to buy weapons, upgrades, perks, and unlock new map areas to maximize their survival.
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Frequently asked about Rogue Drone
- How much does Rogue Drone cost?
- Rogue Drone is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Rogue Drone?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Rogue Drone are Don’t Touch My Potato!, Polydangerous, Heart Of Machine.
- Who developed Rogue Drone?
- Rogue Drone was developed by KBGS.
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 Rogue Drone.
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