Games like Tavern Defense
If Tavern Defense is your kind of game, the closest matches are Whispers of Elenrod, THORNSPELL and Grounds For Termination — 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 Tavern Defense: Tavern Defense is a Tower Defense + Roguelike Deckbuilder game where you build your deck of cards, carve your own paths for monsters, and create magnificent synergies to win the game.
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Steam players who put hours into Tavern 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.
Whispers of Elenrod
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Top pick for Tavern Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Tavern Defense.
Deck-building meets strategy map exploration. Craft powerful decks. Discover mysterious artifacts on procedurally generated maps. Defeat enemies in turn-based combat and gain experience to evolve your hero. Create your best build…and find all the Whispers of Elenrod!
THORNSPELL
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Second-strongest match for Tavern Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Tavern Defense.
Embody a magical florist by placing plants strategically in your garden, and watering them to score points. THORNSPELL is a garden-building roguelike where you will create and unleash chains of magical effects, dispelling the corruption spreading through your home.
Grounds For Termination
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Third-strongest match for Tavern Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Tavern Defense.
The coffee is terrible. The management is worse. A roguelike deckbuilder set in a corporate dystopia - fight through 10 floors of co-workers, managers, and bosses to find out how deep the bad decision making goes. Every run is different. Every termination is a lesson. End the bureaucracy.
RogueJack21
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Ranked #5 for Tavern Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Tavern Defense.
RogueJack21 is a Blackjack-inspired deckbuilder where you build and upgrade your deck to battle your opponents. Navigate through procedurally generated casinos and take revenge on The House, the ruthless mafia ruling Noir City that stole everything from you.
Archon Soul: Prologue
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Ranked #6 for Tavern Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Tavern Defense.
Archon Soul is a 2D roguelike dice-builder where you create powerful dice using swappable faces, runes, and bodies with unique effects. Draft spells, craft powerful synergies, defeat challenging enemies, and conquer the Archon's palace.
Spinny Dungeon
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Ranked #7 for Tavern Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Tavern Defense.
The slot machine roguelike. Each time you hit the SPIN button monsters creep closer. KILL 'em! LOOT 'em! EAT 'em! Focus on spells or synergies between symbols. Spin to DIE or spin to SURVIVE!
Slay the Spire 2
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Ranked #8 for Tavern Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Tavern Defense.
The iconic roguelike deckbuilder returns. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, and discover relics of immense power in Slay the Spire 2!
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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More from Evrac Studio
Other recommendable Steam games by Evrac Studio, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Mango's Fisharium
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Another title from Evrac Studio, the studio behind Tavern Defense. Shares Strategy with Tavern Defense.
Mango’s Fisharium is a short incremental game about catching unique fishes and displaying them in the Fish Aquarium. Designed to be completed in around 4 hours.
Office 29
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Another title from Evrac Studio, the studio behind Tavern Defense.
You overslept at work, and when you woke up, everyone was already gone. The office is eerily empty, and strange anomalies seem to have taken over. Explore the office, gather your 29 items, and go home.
Cozy Desktop Konbini
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Another title from Evrac Studio, the studio behind Tavern Defense.
Run your own Konbini in this Cozy and Relaxing Idle Game that stays at the bottom of your screen, accompanied by soothing lofi musics. Sort your selling products on the shelves. Decorate your Konbini, unlock new products and decorations—all while you work or relax.
Soba's Gunpaw
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Another title from Evrac Studio, the studio behind Tavern Defense.
Soba’s Gunpaw is a Short Incremental - Bullet Heaven game. Destroy everything, collect resources, then choose upgrades from a massive skill tree! Designed to be completed in around 4 hours.
Master Healer Kale with useless party
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Another title from Evrac Studio, the studio behind Tavern Defense. Shares Strategy with Tavern Defense.
A short incremental game where you play as a Healer in a party. Your main job is to keep your party alive. Upgrade 200+ skills in a skill tree, from healing to party damage. Designed to be completed in around 4 hours.
Frequently asked about Tavern Defense
- What games are most similar to Tavern Defense?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Tavern Defense are Whispers of Elenrod, THORNSPELL, Grounds For Termination.
- Who developed Tavern Defense?
- Tavern Defense was developed by Evrac Studio.
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 Tavern Defense.
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