Games like DRONES
If DRONES is your kind of game, the closest matches are Eldritch Tactics: Apocalypse Rising, Card Conquest and Auto Chess Souls-棋魂之弈 — 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 DRONES: DRONES is a run-based autobattler deckbuilder. Choose the enemies you want to engage, discard the ones you don't. Unlock and guide autonomous drones, and acquire components, munitions, hacks, and modulators to stop planetary invasions in daily seeded runs.
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Eldritch Tactics: Apocalypse Rising
WHY THIS
Top pick for DRONES fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with DRONES.
A PvE roguelike auto-battler where YOU are the villain. Scheme from your evil tower, summon adorable abominations, and race to trigger the apocalypse before the world kicks down your door.
Card Conquest
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for DRONES fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with DRONES.
Card Conquest is a Tower Defense game with Deckbuilding and Roguelite elements. Combine spells, towers and units to create a deck and defeat your enemies. Spend your resources wisely and find balance between offense and defense. Gather powerful relics that will enhance your cards.
Auto Chess Souls-棋魂之弈
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for DRONES fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with DRONES.
Auto Chess Souls is a casual strategy adventure game that combines auto-chess and roguelike elements. Through consecutive choices, your team grows increasingly stronger. Explore the unknown tower, collect powerful equipment, create unique powerful combinations. Embark on this exciting adventure now!
Guildrun
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for DRONES fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with DRONES.
Turn a simple team into an unstoppable force and crush waves of monsters in this PvE autobattler roguelike. No two runs feel the same as you bend heroes beyond their class roles and discover countless combinations and synergies. Seal the rifts at your own pace and uncover what tore them open.
Deadhold
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Ranked #5 for DRONES fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with DRONES.
Deadhold is a roguelite zombie survival/strategy game where your choices impact who lives and who dies. Rescue survivors, scavenge resources, fortify your base, and protect your community against stress, infection, and zombies! Can you find a sense of normalcy in this cruel new world?
ByteCrawler
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Ranked #6 for DRONES fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with DRONES.
Pick a hero, build your swarm, and hold off enemy waves. Place units, watch your energy, and level up to survive in this lane-defense strategy game!
Ironfront Express
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for DRONES fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with DRONES.
Upgrade your engine’s arsenal in this bullet hell, tower defense roguelite featuring the most heavily armored locomotive in existence. Engineer and command the Ironfront Express in a unique take on lane defense where you upgrade with specialized turrets, drones, and tactical abilities.
Rogue Cube Defense
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for DRONES fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with DRONES.
Rogue Cube Defense is a minimalist roguelite tower defense game with procedurally generated path that you gradually build up. Each run is different as the upgrades you get from leveling up are random. Pick your towers loadout and come up with the best strategy to beat the hordes of enemies.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with DRONES.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with DRONES.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with DRONES.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with DRONES.
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.
Electoral Carnage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with DRONES.
Electoral Carnage is an absurd 2D fighting game featuring America's most famous (and infamous) politicians. If you don't download it you hate America. Also JFK can assassinate himself. What more do you need to know?
Lily's Well
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with DRONES.
It is a rainy night in the Spring of 2005. Lily is left home alone after her Papa put her to bed. She is awoken by a cry for help outside her window. It is coming from the well. Help Lily gather rope to go down the well and save the poor soul trapped down there.
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with DRONES.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
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Frequently asked about DRONES
- What games are most similar to DRONES?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside DRONES are Eldritch Tactics: Apocalypse Rising, Card Conquest, Auto Chess Souls-棋魂之弈.
- Who developed DRONES?
- DRONES was developed by Dang Good Games.
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