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Games like Poker Defense

If Poker Defense is your kind of game, the closest matches are Astro Company, Von Neumann Project and Starfort — 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.

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About Poker Defense: Build your defenses with the towers you earn from playing cards and use your power ups to stop your enemies in this strategic card game tower defense!

StrategyCasualWindowsby 12 Mile Games
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Steam players who put hours into Poker Defense 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.

  1. Astro Company

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Poker Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Poker Defense.

    Build the path. Defend the Core. Combine towers, cards, and artifacts into broken synergies in an endless tower defense roguelike.

    2026StrategyEarly AccessSteam ↗
  2. Von Neumann Project

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Poker Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Poker Defense.

    Von Neumann Project is a space based RTS where you build, mine, and expand across the universe in an attempt to find your creator's equals. Play across 4 different sectors with 28 handcrafted missions, with each sector introducing unique enemies, buildings, and missions.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  3. Starfort

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Poker Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Poker Defense.

    Defend your empire in a sci-fi tower defense game. Build deadly combinations of railguns, lasers, gravity wells, drones, and cannons across three maps, 50 levels per map, and four difficulty modes.

    2026StrategyIndieCasualSteam ↗
  4. HEXHOLD: SIX FORMATIONS

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Poker Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Poker Defense.

    Hex grid, 30 waves of endless night. Build your Six Formations, summon Three Kingdoms heroes, and defend the last stronghold through deckbuilding synergy.

    StrategyIndieCasualSteam ↗
  5. Kill The Hero

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Poker Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Poker Defense.

    A Dungeon Builder, Autobattler and Deckbuilder in one. They call themselves “heroes”. You call them gold suppliers. Dig your domain, build deadly traps, place guards and play powerful cards as ever-stronger “heroes” invade your dungeon. Take their gold and build the World Domination Machine.

    StrategySteam ↗
  6. Rogue Realm: Guardian Grids

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Poker Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Poker Defense.

    Rogue Realm: Guardian Grids is a medieval fantasy blend of tower defense and roguelike progression. Build defenses on a grid, manage resources, and survive ever-evolving enemies.

    2026StrategyIndie10.39 USDSteam ↗
  7. Axom: Conquest

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Poker Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Poker Defense.

    Build and defend your fortress while expanding out in this hold-out tower defense roguelite. Battle across a procedural alien homeworld, fight back corrupted terrain, discover hundreds of structures and upgrades as physics-driven swarms threaten to wipe out humanity.

    2026StrategyIndie8.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Bagatto

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Poker Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Poker Defense.

    Bagatto is a pixel-art poker roguelike. Score with poker hands, multiply them with a growing arsenal of Jokers, and blow past every blind by absurd margins. Buy, sell and stack wild synergies through escalating antes and cunning boss battles — the best trick is the one you build yourself.

    2026StrategyIndieCasual11.99 USDSteam ↗

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  1. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Lab

    WHY THIS

    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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. DORONKO WANKO

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Poker Defense.

    『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.

    2024ActionSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Poker Defense.

    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!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  6. Aircar

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Poker Defense.

    A simple immersive flying game built for VR. Pilot an aircar through a futuristic cityscape.

    2019IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  7. Outpath: First Journey

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Poker Defense.

    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!

    2022IndieAdventureCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Die in the Dungeon: Origins

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Poker Defense.

    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!

    2023StrategyIndieRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Poker Defense

What games are most similar to Poker Defense?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Poker Defense are Astro Company, Von Neumann Project, Starfort.
Who developed Poker Defense?
Poker Defense was developed by 12 Mile Games.

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 Poker Defense.

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